Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-10-25

| fruits of his own industry, be they great
or small, and that he shall pay to the
government under which he lives only
SO much of his earnings as is his fair
and adequate share in maintenance of
the law.
In the Notwithstanding that it
was all important for a man to be
allowed to dispose of that which lie
owned, and which he had made or
produced--they provided distinctly, in
order that tue American farmer, in
order that the American manufacturer,
in order that the American producer
and the industrious man in any pursuit,
should have no export tax laid upon
him. There it stands. Congress cannot
lay an export duty. Why? Because
it was intended that whenever man
had made something of value in this
country he should not be confined
to the markets of this country in order
to sell il but over the world he
should go sailing his ship carrying
the fruits of his own ingenuity
and Of his fyiluw cDuutrymcn, to DIS
pose of them wherever he could dispose
of them most to his own advantage. Ii
he could sell at home, there he it; If
abroad, there he Wis - 30. Bat there
stood that bul%arS Uf safety, the Con
stituliOn. That gave to every man in
this rom who has ever scrlyen to pro-
duce anything opportunity Tor its cX-
changeabiaty, ami provided he should
not be taxed ut ali when he sought to
dispose of 1t. Taus, you see, my friends,
this was to secure the advantage Of the
foreign markets to the American pro-
ducers. Thus it stands IN the plain
language OF the Constitution. And
wish you to consider il cause while L
say that, say that the whole tenor, the
whole trend and purpose Of Republican
legislation upon the tariff is 10 deprive
an American citizen of the liberty which
the Constitution OF his forefathers was
intended to secure. Applause.
What is the use OF a thing 10 you if
you cannot sell it2 What is the use of a
thing to you If you cannot exchange 1T ?
Is it your crops !? They rot in your gram
aries. Is it your cattles Tney eat their
heads off, as you know, if you cannot
dispose OF them. Is it something that
you have made and put money into
The money lies idle, unless you ex-
change it for something you want more.
This was what the forefathers wrote
there in the Constitution, not the gov
J ernment of selishness, but the govern
ment of craftsmanship and morality.
: And here do arraign the Republican
party, and put it that you may take il
| and put it in any form you please to
I your Republican fellow citizens-and
J say that they have been at war from
+ first to last, and are at war to-day, and
5 threatened war tomorrow with and
upon the very principle that would
enable the American farmer or the
: American producer of anything to get
the highest price he could for his goods
! in foreign countries. Applause.
! Gentlemen, their protection is spe-
i cious. 1t protects the laborer and the
: producer in every foreign market, and
: it protects all labor except our own
: And when they have, as | said before
cooped our labor up in our own limits
then they control it by combinations
! which place under their control the
g limit of production, and when the
! market threatens to be glutted, labor
pays the consequences with its idlt
4 hands and its empty stomachs. And
this is the party-Gou save the mark
+ that stands as the advocate of American
industry. [Applausa.l
Why, gentlemen, to-day they are
y allowing, they tell you, drawbacks upon
e articles that enter into the building oi
: ships, (and l want to come to thai
y Directly. Ought not tax laws to have
y a principle upon which they are laid
9 and what ought that principle to be
! Why, the public necessities. The law;
!, of taxation have no limit as to theil
u amount, except that which is imposed
" by the discretion of the law maker. lii
J alone can determine whether that duty
shall be-as many duties have been
four hundred per cent ad valorem, o
IS whether it shall be forty per cent, o
G whether it shall be four per cent, D
/? whether the thing shall be free.
Il Now, into u ship there comes almos
i every conceivable thing.
j. Every cline, every soil shall bring it
If tribute great and small,
. And help to build the wooden wall.
G A great ship lays almost the whol
Q world under contribution TO furnish al
G its parts. The average duty upon thing
I, that go into ships is very high--unde
/; tho Mckinley bill, enormously high
d But they said, 1--WE have allowed draw
IS backs, provided you use this rope o
that other article in the building of
le ship. PRAY why2 Is not a man VIII
Il
Z? much protection as the man who build
d one to go to sea in? Is there specia
is virtue in one trade over another2 be
you to consider when you answer thu
10 question, and answer it not on the basis y
If your interest, but answer it by the rigti
le of an everything principle of equalit
j. and fair play among men. Why shoul
l. one trade or one occupation pay Gel
ID tain tax upon one article, and anothe
trade and occupation pay none at all
e. What is that, my friends, but injustic
ct and ineoualIty;the spirit that has topple
e kingdoms to the dust, and would toppl
IT America to the dust should it be con
u tinued. Applause
" Even now, | have crossed and II
l. crossed the ocean in safety, in comfor
It, nay IN luxury, on board fine ship fly
/. ing at last, the American flag. Blu
er friends, the ship was not built
n America. 1t was built in Scotland b
Of skilful mechanics and naval architect
n- there, and it came to this country
IS special act of Congress permitting it I
al come in, but permitting no other man
ly ship to come in. For my own part al
e. glad to see it here. | am glad to see I'll
n, beginning, because it is an illustration
~ and my friends, because it is confc
is sion, that after thirty years of prohib
ST. ton, OF excessive taxes that prevente
N their coming in, the only vessels the
rs, have got TO carry their flag, are thos
to that come in through the breach the
Id have made in their protective system
,f, Applause.
ct WHERE is DIR NAyIG ALTON I?