The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-03-29

Andrews OF Brown University. The idea
is always to patronize other countries and
to boycott home industries. The Repub-
lican idea is different inasmuch as Ii is In
the direct reverse.
"The Democrats claim that the Republic
can manner of building mp industries is
defrauding the working man OF his
rights. How can il defraud labor?
Now we are getting down To solid facts.
IL Is certain that the protective tariff has
created the level on which the people of
this country live. Thirty years ago the
efforts of the Republican party IL was
lifted up until I'm 1884 days work was
paid for with n sum sufficient to supply
all the wants Of the family more literally
than ever before"
Protection and Wages.
The speaker paused and inquired what
the general wages were in 1864 and was
answered from all parts of the hall. Some
one shouted s1.25 a day, while another
cried 60 cents day for shoveling sand
on the Cove" This was greeted with
great applause, whereupon the speaker
said, "Well, what do you get now for
hustling sand?" "Anythingp was the
answer; and theaudience applauded again.
The tariff question:" continued the
speaker, a" is question OF facts and not
of law, theory or philosophy. Ii has
a.
day i'm times OF prosperity. The protec-
tive tariff has contributed TO this result
and the man who lets go of what he has
needs a new baptism of good American
common sense.
"Ihe Democrats say that the consumers
have been burdened all these years by the
high prices brought about by protection.
This is not SO. Every article in the house
hold has steadily fallen In
price and cost OF produc-
tion until the compensation
for a days work goes twice as far now as
it did 80 years ago. This industrial mira
Gle has been wrought by the Republican
"The tariff alone did not do this. The
improved machinery assisted. The
American people are the great
est inventors because they are
progressive, but this inventive genius
has been too long monopolized in Rhode
Island and Connecticut. Let it spread
throughout the country. In 1892 the
effect of the Repu biican policy had pro-
duced the best housed, best clothed
and best fed people in the world
that was the elimination of the work OF
years. Today the American people are
looking at the future with uncertainty
and despair. In one month they had dis
covered that the promises of the
| Demoratic party led, not TO
| increased prosperity but to ruin.
NOW 10 prevent the OVERWHELMING uishster
which threatens the country the Republi-
cans must awake Little can be done just
at present, but much is TO be accom-
plished in the future. See to it
| that your State goes for the
right party next Wednesday. Though
small, the State has, by the wise provisions
of the constitution OF the United States, an
equal voice in the Senate with any other
| State. Roll up in this State at
the coming election Republican
majority in order that. you may contri-
butte your share in the freeing OF the
country from the bondage of Democracy,
| and to the development of American in
| dustry and business"
| In inviting Hon. Jonathan p. Dolliver
to speak at last nights meeting the Re-
| publican State central committee afforded
a Providence audience the opportunity TO
| listen to a man whose abilities as an
orator are OF a high quality. His address
was at all times eloquent, not for mo-
ment did the interest OF his hearers flag,
! and the address was characterized
by happy blending OF wit,
anecdote and seriousness, effectively
presenting the doctrines of patriotic gov
ernment and with telling illustrations for
every argument advanced.
| General Shcridan's Speech.
General George ii. Sheridan OF NewYork,
! was the closing speaker. He opened with
himself by saying that he was not
| General Phil Sheridan, nor his
| brother as his Democratic friends
| would have it, so that didn't kill him.
He was at one time an Adjutant General
and that is how he received his title.
He then entered into a comparison
of the conditions which existed un-
der the Democratic administrations
in the years 1887 and 1857 when the Demo-
cratic policy was tariff for revenue only, and
gloom, disaster and distress pervaded the
country. 1t was free trade policy which
punctuated every industry and brought
ruin to the American people. He then
proceeded to the condemnation of the
Buchanan administration and the disas-
trous results of the free trade policy from
the years 1916 To 1861. From that
time until March, 1885, a Republican