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

Attorney-general w. U. Hensel of
Pennsylvania, addressed large Demo-
cratic audience at the Opera House last
night week. His train did not arrive
until 9.15 O'Clock. During the interim
the Opera House orchestra discourscd
pleasant strains. General Theodore +.
Armstrong nominated Willard Hall
Porter as chairman of the evening.
Among those on the platform were:
Peter ]. Ford, Probate Judge Ezekiel II.
Cooper of Kent county, Victor B.
W6olley, Caleb p. johnson, Horace
johnson, ]. Harvey Whiteman, William
]. Gibbons, United States Marshal
Hewson Il. Lannan, John Banning,
Edmund B. Frazer, Justice Lewis Sasse,
Jesse X, Baylis, Justice ]. +. Daley,
Charles B. Evans, James Carmichael,
candidate for sheriff, Frederick Kienlc,
Justice John P. Fighter Of Brandywine,
Alexander b. Cooper, George b. Ward,
Thomas Davis, Daniel McKenny,
Martin Keogh, Howell s. England, Dr..
Joseph p. Pyle.
In his address Chairman Porter briefly
referred to the great importance of the
campaign now on hand. He reminded
his listeners of the cardinal principles
of Democratic government Endorsed In
the recent State platform of honest and
free government, and of individual
liberty. They are the principles that
have enabled the party to live through
30 years of Republican nisrule.
The speaker had been on his feet but
few minutes when the orator of the
evening, Mr.. Hensel. arrived and MIR.
Porter introduced him to the audience.
Mr.. Hensel was greeted with the
heartiest applause. This was renewed
again and again, and it was some APP.
probable time before the speaker had
opportunity to commence.
Pennsylvania has no Democrat, he
said, Of whom she is prouder than the
distinguished son of Delaware, who is
the present Ambassador to the Court of
ST. James. When read this morning
the patriotic, touching, impassioned, yet
dignitied words he spoke on this plat
form last night, felt that any Ameri-
can might be proud of such a fellow
citizen representing this country among
the English people. Cheers. am
here tonight to protest against the i'm
potence and unprofltableness of the
sentiment which forbids us to approve
of that good we find in others, and |
hold myself none the less an American
that am ready to take up all the les
sons of profit that lie in my path.
[Cheers.
In my State of Pennsylvania, your
next neighbor, the Republican candi.
date for Governor is making his canvass
tonight on two points. One is that
any article that cannot be produced In
this country should be admitted free of
duty. And that the articles that can be
produced here should be saddled with a
protective duty. This country, the
speaker said, needs $500,0000O0 of
revenue annually.
In 1910 the Wings carried the country
without any doctrine of protection. In
1874 there was no such doctrine in the
Wing platform. In 1913 there were no
such theories as those expounded by
Mckinley and Reed. Nor was 1t found
in the Fremont platform of 1856. Lin
coin was elected and reelected without
a protection policy. Afterwards. it was
heard of only as an exigency of extreme
demand. In 1868 when Grant was
elected it was on the distinct under
standing that the tax be repealed. The
pledge was that it is due TO the "labor
of the nation" that taxation shall BIZ re-
duced as rapidly as can be. In 1879
when Grant was elected it was more of
the character of a tariff for revenue
only. Garfield said that the only tariff
he considered 10 the one that leads ulti.
mately to free trade. Through all
those years and their platforms there
was no tariff policy as it is understood
to-day. The system of protection is not
Republican except during the moments
of cxigency referred to. Present Re.
publican protectionism is spurious
Republicanism. Now when the war is
over there is party coming to the
front and putting into the platform
what is new. 1t is now coming to the
front with what its followers call the
American System of Protection to Labor.
1t is not American. It's system that
history shows us great European
manufacturing nation has cast off. 1t is
the system of a party, which with the
folding of the bloody shirt has lost its
shibboleth.
They do this on two pretensions.
First, that they shall protect infant in
dustfies-prop them up until they are
able to stand-when the people of this
country, before the adoption of the con
stitution, before the Declaration, and
before the colonial wars, were making
iron and wooden goods with such sue
cess, that the British parliament had to
pass laws to suppress them. These
manufactures were fiourishing before the
beginning of the century. They needed
no soothing syrup from Mckinley,
Reed, Quay or Higgins. Laughter.
These industries had their origin, and
were successfully competing with Eng
land over lao years ago. Let me tell the
manufacturers that with the Democratic
tariff of Robert H. Walker in 1876 the