Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-18
CHARACTERISTIC REPUBLICAN
 SPEECH.

TO the Age-H efalQ:
 A few days ago John Sherman, Honest John Sherman, who became millionaire in a few years on his S50OO salary as United States Congressman, made speech at Akron, O., on the two leading political issues of the day, the tariff and silver, and it would be difficult indeed to crowd @ greater number of more palpable, unadul- terated, conscious, gigantic untruths in the same quantity of breath and space of time than did he on that occasion. In his cold, metallic, insinuating way he poured them out by the wholesale and never blushed. Of course it wss characteristic Republican speech.
 Life is too short and space in the AaE- HERALD too valuable to give more than a few specimens of his Mulhattonisms.
 Among other things he said:
 stNo measure has ever been more un- justly denounced than the Mckinley tariff taxes. On the contrary, 1t largely reduced taxes. It so declared in it's title and it did what it declared it would do.''
 Now the facts are, and every intelligent unprejudiced person will so admit, that no measurs of the kind has ever been more justly denounced; that it did largely and extortionately increase taxes; that it did not declare in its title that 1t was for the purpose of reducing TAXES, but did declare in it's title that it was for the purpose of re. ducing REVENUES; and the only way by which that end could be reached was by paying bounties from the peoples money in the treasury to it's specially favored creatures and increasing tariff taxes, thereby largely excluding revenue paying imports. sf
 sslt was," said he, ssthe best tariff law ever enacted in the United States" SSen- ator Sherman has never been considered a fool, and yet no one but a tool, very in- sincere person or special and direct bene- ficiary of high protection would make such statement.
 Especially careful was the Mckinley act of the interests of labor and laboring men in all the departments of industry. n Yes, experience has taught labor and laboring men in all departments of in- sdnstry throughout this broad land that the tender care they received from Mo- Kinleyism and its pets was like unto that given the lamb by the wolf.
 ssThere was not provision in it that justified the reduction of wages,' said John, and he was right. Enacted under
 
 wages of the laboring men - we find that during the two years, October 1, 1890, to October 1, 1892, inclusive, of high protec- tion's most bsneicent operation there were officially reported, 1900 cases of wage re- auctions and lock- outs-in every instance in tariff subsidized industry; that during that period there was no increase of wages anywhere, and that in the one year after Harrison's election, . year of general prospsrity-simply the impetus of the splendid condition in which Mir. Cleve- lands administration left the country-the conflicts between labor and capital, inaug- urated by attempts of capital to reduce wages, lock out labor. etc., were almost exclusively in the protected industries. Of course, there was no provision in the Mckinley law that justified the reduction of wages, if the wage earners share to any extent the benefits ofhigh protection, for