Evening journal., 1894-10-18
TARIFF FOR REVENUE.
Attorney-General Hensel, OF
Pennsylvania, Speaks on 1t
TO AN ENTHUSIASTIC AUDIENCE

He Proposes Several Interesting and Puz-
zling Questions to Senators Frye and
Higgins-Protection which Does Not
Protect, and Tariff which ia Tax.
Coming as it did on the heel of the
reception to Ambassador Baysrd, the
meeting last evening in the Opera House
was an unusually large one, and the
spacious auditorium and gallery were
well filed by representative Wilmington
De mocrats. There were q number of
women in the audience. The sssemblage
was an enthusiastic one, and the speaker
was frequently interrupted BY rounds Of
applause On the stage were seatt
many of the most prominent of the local
Democracy, among them Secretary of
the State Board of Health Frazer, Victor
B. Woolley, Senator Pyle, United States
District Attorney L. O. Vandegrift, ex
Attorney General Thomas Davis, Will
lard Hall Porter, Peter j. Ford United
States Marshal Hewson 4 Lannan.
Justice of the Peace Lewis Sasse, Will
liam ]. Gibbons, gJesse X Baylis. Horace
Johnson, John Mealey, Howell S. Eng
land, Artemas Smith, Charles B. Evans,
Peter L. Cooper, General Theodore .
Armstrong, Robert C0tting ham, Josiah
Marvel, Fred Kienle, George Ward, James
w. Ponder, Robert s. Taylor, Alexander
b Cooper, -of New Castle, aud others
Hyatt's Band played couple of selec-
tions after which General Armstrong
stated that the speaker of the evening,
Attorney General w. U. Hensel, Of
Pennsylvanis, would arrive at 8 80 and
eraved the indulgence of the audience for
time. He introduced as chairman,
Willard Hall Porter, who made a brief
address ia which he commented on the
Importance of the campaign and urged
the voters of the state TO see that the
State of Delaware be kept true to the
party, the cardinal principle of which
was honesty, free government and free
dom Of individual liberty.
When Attorney General Hensel ar
rived he was greeted with burst OF
applause, which continued for several
minutes Mr.. Hensel spoke for about an
hoar IN an eloquent manner and was
given the closest attention throughout
his masterly address. He said:
Attorney-GeneraI Hensel Speaks.
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen: II
had been allowed to consult my own
pleasure, should much have preferred
have mads my visit to your city last
evening on the occasion of the royal
reception rendered your distinguished
townsman and Delaware's noted son.
Pennsylvania has no Democrat Of whom
we ar prouder than he who has repre-
sented this country with ability, dignity
and credit as ambassador to the Court d
1T. James, and when | read the touching,
tender and patriotic sentences which fel
from his lips ! thought no American
need blush at owning a man to whom
thirty millions OF people across the water
paid unstinted honor
am here tonight from Pennsylvania
TO speak on tariff for revenue only as
against protection for projections 5 sake
In Pennsylvania the Republican
his canvass on the issue that every
article not produced in this
country shall be admitted free ol
duty, while sll articles which are on can
be Iroduced here shall be excluded by
fixing tariff SO high as to make 1t i'm
possible for it TO be brought here. Their
having stated that one class should bc
admitted free aud the other excluded ht
goes on to say that the country needs
some million Of dollars annually anc
leaves us in quandary how this shall b,
raised under his system.
Let US taks brief retrospect into this
so called Republican system of protection
And be 1t understood that the time has
come when Democrats dare to lift theil
voices in behalf of the workingman and
lift the mark OF hypocrisy, which ha.
so long veiled the faces of our friend, th,
enemy In 1910, and no man will claim
that the ancestry of the Republican
party reaches back of that time, the
Wings carried the country without hsv
ing given any pledge looking towards
policy OF protection. In 1914, when Clal
was defeated by Democrat, there wal
no plank In the platform Of this nature
In lS4S no such q doctrine IS the on
expounded by Mckinley, Reed, Quay en-,
Higgins was in existence la 1852 tn
Wing convention WAS silent on tina
question. In 1856 not 8 word was sal
about 1t in the Fremont platform. Lin
coin was elected and was re-electe,
without a single reference being made 4
protection and
No Pledges Were Made
That a tariff, which was recogniz ID a
war measure, born Of the exigencies 0
the time, should be con tinued In 1S6
Grant was elected president on a pledg
that the taxes should be lowered Hea
me, my Republican friends, who at
about the party of Lincoln, and Fire.
mont and Grant when / read from th
platform of 1868 1t ia due to the me
who use woolen clothing, use salt an
coal and other necessities, that th
taxation shall be reduced as rapidly q
possible But these promises made b
party were broken by Congress. In 1877.
when the wave of Rspublicauism was !
its highest. and threatened to submerc
even the Blue Hens chickens, this polio
Of protection was not an issue In 1877
and even 1880 the platform of IL
Republican party was revenue tariff
II Mr.. Higgins is honest in his clail
that he belongs to the party Of Clay an
Fremont and Lincoln and Grant al
Garfield, is he in favor OF the tariff I
advocated by that party from 1914 1
1888 or that of the later day Republt
cans, evolved years after the leaders wi
have given lustre to that party, ha'
passed away2
We find. prior to this system of prC
lection which is not even Republican, L
such an issue. England had tried pr
tection and cast it aside. China, vii
her wall built around her to keep tho