The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1894-10-24

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wise republican legislation. over
400, 900 silver dollars had been
coined. Grover Cleveland in an
open letter characterized the dem
ocratic party as incompetent to
restore prosperity; he even refused
to father the democratic tariff bill,
which stood parentless to-day. AS
soon as the Mckinley bill passed
the price of wool went up to go
cents; now, when the democratic
party had put American wool into
competition with the cheap wool
of Austria the farmer could only
get Io1 cents. The London news
papers congratulated the merchants
of London on being again able to
secure their great trade in this
country. We had better muzzle a
lot of these free trade democratic
congressman and save the sheep.
But wool was not the only industry
ruined in the south. There was
lumber,
which Had Been Badly Treated
The only way to get cheaper
materials was to get cheaper men.
If men wanted prosperity restored
they had better lay aside their par
tisanship and vote for men who
can restore prosperity. The people
everywhere were ready for another
change. They were tired of cleo
ton laws that disfranchised them.
Every law on the statute books
abridging the peoples rights was
of democratic origin; every law
that enlarged the liberties of the
people was the product of republic
can brains and of republican states
manship. The ladies of Memphis
had joined in a league pledged to
support home manufacturers and
home industries. The policies of
the democratic party were un-
patriotic and un-American.
Mr.. Evans closed by thanking
his vast audience for their atten-
ton, referring to the disappoint.
ment at the non-arrival of Gov.
Mckinley. He asked them to con-
slider his claims for the governshlp
and not to believe what machine
politicians said about him, but to
investigate his character in the
city where he had lived for thirty
years. If they found him to be in.
temperate, dishonest or untruthtul
he did not ask their votes.
MIR. Pettibone speaks,
Hon. A. H. Pettibone was loud
ly called on and responded briefly.
Behind every honest dollar in the
universe was an honest days work
which was required to make it..
If man in England worked a day
on an article sold in this country
he received dollar which should
go to some American workman.
The only thing Mr.. Evans had not
touched on was sugar. The beet
sugar industry in France and Ger
many and Austria and Italy and
Spain was started by the system
adopted by the great Napoleon of
paying a bounty of two sous a
pound on sugar made from beets.
Sugar was cheaper under the Nc
Kinley bill than had ever been
known in history. Had the
bounty continued for the length
of time provided for in the
Mckinley bill, the Unit
ed States would not only have made
all her own sugar, but sugar for
other parts of the world. If any
section could stand free trade it
was New England, where the fac.
tories were already established.
The south could not stand it.
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Shall We Import steel Rails
from Europe and let our own
workmen stand idle? We could
only have prosperity when the
wheels turn again, when full days
pay was given for full days labor.
Mr.. Evans was born in Pennsylva-
mia, but that was no crime; other
states had furnished governors for
Tennessee before, and Penn
sylvania had furnished McMinn
and Carroll. Sons of Tennessee
had gone out and become governors,
senators and congressman for other
states. Elect Mr.. Evans governor
and show that northern men were
welcome to Tennessee. This cleo
ton, this tariff question was too
serious to be made joke of. No
such cataclysm had ever come on
this country as came with the cleo.
ton of Grover Cleveland. Mr.
|. Cleveland knew if he did not sigr
that tariff bill it would take effect
in ten days, and that every pound
of sugar that was received II
that time would pay no duty. The
ocean fairly swarmed with sugar
ships sailing to America, and mil
, lions of pounds came in, benefting
the sugar trust and defrauding the
country of many thousands of rev
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