The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-10-06

! price had come down nearly hair IN
every instance since the new tarln bill
IL looked into the Richmond Times
! yesterday" said the speaker. land saw
/ one OF the finest treatises on the tarn
/ hill | have ever read. There was 40
/ attempt at rhetorical argument. Tne
/ traatisc was simply list OF prices show
| ing That goods for which you paid GER
! tain amount3 thrse months ago can
/ now ne purchased at half that amount.
| The Democrats did this They fixed
/ matters so that you can buy the COM
! modities for half OF what you formerly
! pald TOT them. II you want to continue
| To- Buy goods at these prices, write Taz.
! Elleits name on your ballots in Novcm-
! Der and there Won are"
senator Daniel then went into y more
detaiied discussion Of the tariff question,
explained the immcasureable advantages
OF the new tariff law, under which the
purchaser could avoid about 30 por cent
OF the EXPENSE and illustrated his argu-
mehts with number Of practical eX-
amples. which showed how the farmers
or virginia would derive great financial
benehts Under the last year of Nc
kinl"yism cotton reached the lowest price
IN this country for twenty years. while
many other American products Jared
similarly. Under the Mckinley bill TIE
people i'm New England were rolling in
wealth, while the people Of virginia
North Carolina. end the other southern
/ states were getting poorer every year.
we required twice as much wool as we
produced. The surplus had to come from
other countries. The competition with the
European manufacturers could not be
/ raced by the American manufacturing on
account Of the high tariff. Foreign wool.
with which the American wool is mixed,
has gone down 30 per cent. under the
new Tariff law. American wool has gone
uD 10 per cent. In price and wooucn
goods were from p to so per cent. cheaper.
Now new wooll.en monufacturers had
opened up and the Americans dealing IN
that commodity were 20 per cent. better
off in finances
= caMrbrrs,r.
"If you compare the work Of the Demo-
Gratis with that of the Republicans before
/ them said the speaker. I'VE made TIC
very best time on record We put our
( problem under the whip and lash. and
we pushed through the great measure
| more quickly by a whole length than our
! only connection. We did the work. and
| d.d IL quicker than IL was ever done be
fore. How, then. have you any right to
speak Of the Democrats being slow In
their work. 30 great thing ever grew
up suddenly in this world. Democracy
stands like a giant oak Of the forest. II
takes IL q long time to grow, hut when
it does il rules the whole forest Pros
perity and adversely come gradually. The
Democrats are rot angels in this world.
/ believe however that good Democrats
Will he angels in the next world
The Democratic party. said he. had
taken hold Of a poor piece Of rocky land,
had -lOWcd and weeded II. fortified il.
and as soon as the seed had time TO spring
up and bring forth fruit there would be a
season Of great prosperity
Senator Daniel then stood up straight,
looked his hearers straight I'm the eye, and
said firmly: Whenever question arises
10 vote upon ! always ask myself these
three questions.
"first Is il constitutional?
Second. Is it just and moral towards
my fcllOW-man?
y,gtf 1,
IF [ can answer these three questions
/ do not hesitate 20 vote for 1t; other
wise / oppose IT, ! believed that "n"h
voted for the passage Of the new tariff
bill last summer ] believed it to be in the
interests of the great masses of the peo-
pie. / am a friend Of the labor man
STATE BA>K,.
in discussing the question o, state bank
issue the speaker said that the old state
bank system had done a great deal TO-
wards developing Wsliua, the CdIoIilaS'
Arkansas and the Otner southern states.
The argument against 10 was that such a
plan would establish wildcat money. Not
SO. Tn" various countries III Europe hab
their domestic money, why not the states
of the Union? Take your gold and SEM
il to England and other foreign markets
bat by all means have your domestic
money. il your local banks are run ~
men who have manhood and character the
money they circulate Will also have its
lace value ! believe the people of Viz
giuia should have their domestic money
and l believe Ia taxing the tax OF OF me
State bank issues The wild ROpuilsic
hcrcsies called Tor plenty Of money sald
he, bat didn't want state bank issues lie
pleaded that the people should not be
Influenced by the wildcat schemes of the
Populists, whose platform changed an
nually, and could not be kept up with.
They hOWled for free tickets on summer
steamboats, 10 Utopia.
Senator Daniel shattered into fragments
q
advocates OF that party with Tittlebat
TitmOuse, who proposed in the British
Parliament to give everybody everything,
and showed how the POpulists wanted To
own all the valuable railroad property
and other great enterprises, though they
had no money with which to purchase ana
we're DESTROYS OF borrowing immense
amounts Of money, I'm spite Of the fact
that they had no means with which 70
pay it back, and their credit wasn't worth |
a snap Of your finger.
Senator Daniels explosion Of the Popu- !
lists theories OF government, the insanity !
If the railroads, telegrapnS ana the like !
being owned by the Government, and the |
stupidity of raising the revenues by tax |
only the hair and hide of that wild pO- |
itical sect as a souvenir of the annihila- |
ton.
In. paving his respects to the Pro- |
he disposed Of that helpless !
organization in short order. A personal |
experience or two, in which II was shown |
how stupid and fruitless the efforts Of |
the PrOhibitlOnists were, expressed his |
views of the cold water people. He was
opposed TO prohibition. said he, because
{ wouldn't prohibit; protection, because
L would not protect, and POpulism, be-
cause 1t was stale fiat senseiess and !
Improbable, and wouldn't pop. None Of
hem would do.
RRvIEwRD DEMOCRACY.
Major Daniel reviewed the course Of
Democracy from its birth showed how
[ had stood against all varieties and
ypes of Republicanism, Populism, Pro
know-NOth ingism, Abolition
SIN, and all the "isms" that one could
conceive of.
Senator Daniel, in closing. reached
lights Of elOQuence rarely heard in this
district. His periods were beautifully
Ounded, and each of his sentences strik-
ngly rhetorical and effective. His, voice
ose and fell with a peculiar skill and
he speaker caught and held the close
attention of every man and woman in the
arge gathering His appeal to the voters
o stand by the old reliable Democratic
,arty was as eloquent as II was powerful
DO not consider the money or the honor
hat you are TO get; think Of only the
principles involved and the duty YOU
we to this grand old American Repub-
ic," said he.
The speaker compared the motives that
hould prompt the Democrats to rally in
he ranks with those that inspired the
-nglishmen at Waterloo, and the Confed-
rates at Sharpsburg and Chancellors-
we're the greatest ever fought in mod
IN times, and dwelt upon the duty of
very Democrat in the district 10 do
in his power to uphold the
principles OF that party and work for its
success during the campaign, and es-
'ecally on the day of election.
hen i see young man give up So !
Iety,' said he, put aside the usual