The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-10-01

account OF their predispositions in that
matter, and their votes, they have made
it this year as difficult as ever for them
and their fellow-Republicans to get their
taxes paid We believe with them, that
however they might vote on the tariff.
they would never desert their party in
this vital struggle that we have been max
ing for thirty years for a chance for
fair and honest vote.
My fellow-citizens, 1t takes men, who
feel that, unfortunately, they must con-
fess themselves to be getting old, to re-
member Democratic times, but the young
est Of you now are familiar with them.
Qaughter.)
They haven't quite got 1t in the coun-
try yet Wages are almost as high yet
on the farms as they ever We're. The gen.
eral rule is that wages are the last to go
up and the first to come down. This is
SO still In the country. Why, when 1 was
boy customary wages on the farm were
Sc month for nine months In the year
for a common hand. and IS for leading
man; and during the other three months,
If they worked at all, they worked for
their board and lodglngs-and that was
the time of Tree trade before the war. 1t
was time while Wilmington had but
from 5000 to 10000 or 5000 people.
You have been told that you were
robbed. That your fel1ow-citiZens who
took hold of these shpyards, kept alive
by the protective tariff which says that no
foreign vessels shall carry pound of
American freight along our seaboard-
these shipyards on which was built up
our commerce, and which gave employ
ment. to large numbers OF people-and the
carriage shops, where the making of car
riages. which could not be made every
where, kept many employed-and Will
mington grew soinewhat-have been rob-
bling you; but these later day prophets,
these Wilmington lawyers QaughteD who
never struck blow with hammer, never
drove jack plane, never held plow for
five minutes in their lives, stood up here
and told you that there was something
better in The future than what you had
had daughter and npplause), that in that
lovely tine ahead there were two or three
Jobs waiting for one man Qoud laughter,
not one job for two or three men; and in
WILMINGTON -four was to be $4 barrel
and wheat was to be $l,5o bushel Qaugh-
tefl "hy' gentlemen, you can tear down
your iactorles III the pilhu eholI 70 maze
poor men VINO nave prosperea IN tneir
iaiast as thelr uocUinalreS anu lhdnasers,
anu through Mhose aiu Sou ha'e iounu
employment olteh uihes' anu seherahy
pFoit"pis' you cah go oh anu tear thelh
uo"h anu nave 'hat Nisioh feallzeu Oh our
democratic irlehus' that Woutu nave all
our iactotles closeu anu All the rest oi you
pack on the ialins "here you useu 10 De-
Ihat Is not gong 10 De the future OF the
american people. 1ou are not Fouhs no"
on "hat the democrats PROMISED You
are voting upon thelr performance; ana
venture 10 say that eais people a'teiui as
mas peeh the distress tneg nave expert
oneed IN days gone by nave never IN all
thelr history passed thfooeh sucn an
agony as they nave anu are passing
throush now IL Is easy 10 go up out 1t
IS nara TO come down. II is nara 10 go TO
lower scale OF living; TO do as the for-
eisher does win meat one DAY IN tne
week, or no day In the Week. 10 double
| up IN the houses ana i've tosether ike
the lower order OF animals Instead OF hav-
ing your own houses' ana either owning
them or having the chance OF owning
them.
EFFECT OF PROTECTION.
have not time on this occasion to un-
dertake to elaborate all this; but we know
that thirty-two years of experience have
given to the American people as an object
| lesson by which they may know the effect
of protective policy. That is the standard
that they have maintained and that you
have experienced, while no other people
Or nation upon earth have experienced It,
You know now what Democratic times are
Just what they were beforehand you
can make and will make your selection
between the two (yoice: fright you
area
| do not wish to detafn you longer
| Voice: GO on. 20 on'). but d. Demo-
cratic PARTY has demonstrated itself to be
absolutely and perfectly incompetent to
| rule f6ppIause1 II does not know its
own mind tApplause, and IL cannot d.
rect the mind of ANYBODY else. a,aughterl
It's own President Ats own hero lis own
Moses. stood for ten days in chronic
state of sick stomach, uaughterl with
his people shivering In uncertainty and
agony. waiting for a tariff bill to mature
| into a law which he refused to sign after
he had denounced It as combination of
perflay and dishonor. (Applause)
| When the whole Democratic Senate
marched into a commfttee-room and nut
their names To A compromise of the silver
! repeal bill until David b. Hill came along
and said he would not sign IL. then that
comhromise constructed and signed with
the knowledge of Mr. CleyeIand,s secre-
| farv nf the Treasurv and of necessity with
his kn9wlaaea and consent afterwar3 re-
ceiyed his nnnositjon and he dnmned the
wbola crowd out of the tall of his cart
| daughtara And finally thev came To
| auoiher comnron,ise wbirb means for vou
and far mo only This. ,rbat there ia M
| nIacs in Tho Demncratir marty for any
| Democrat who is mot n free trader Tbny
have declared war to Tho knife and the
! knife to tbe hill against Mr.. German and
arain4t al conservatives Democrats az
| fbry are called WIN did not feel free In
send tbetr inlpstries aud tho homes or the
neonIe who livpd unon Them in tbeir