The Portland daily press., 1894-09-10

country below its level of general, good.
sound sense. (Applause.) And he gets
his control in such fashion that really this
country is governed by its minority and not
by its majority. 1t is not governed by the
whole people, but by few of them. When
the Democratic caucus. meets, and its one
hundred and twenty-six members step into
the hall, they carry in their pockets their
one hundred and twenty-six votes and the
forty to seventy other votes that have to go
with them. Has not the history of this
country been full of examples of the fact
which state? Did we not have represent
tative from this very state, this very dis
trict, years ago who, in defiance of the sem
timent of his constituency, went with the
Southern men and was rewarded therefore,
Those men are not dead yet. Those men
never die. They are as immortal as sin,
until the millennium. daughter and APP
plause)
But will some of you say: 'Why should
not the Southerner govern US as we'll as
anybody" Well, if he were up to our rank
rof knowledge of the business of this
country, or higher, yes. BIT Is he? Take
his condition today. He is surrounded by
mass of people, the average of whose in
telligence is not high, for the former slaves
have to be included, and. above all things.
he has none of those surroundings which
make him learned in the industries of this
country. Of that one hundred and twenty
six Southern men, there are not ten that
have any conception of Northern industrial
community. Not one of them have any idea
of the ruin which they work whenever they
attempt to dabhle with the tariff with an
unc omprehending hand. They cannot learn
this out of books. They cannot learn it by
mere reading. They must learn it by living
with it, and no Northern Democrat, or any
other citizen, would dream of striking down
our magnificent Industries which have made
the North SO wealthy and SO strong, and
which will make the south wealthy and
strong If she does not block her path to
g Tory and wealth and civilization. ZAP
plause)
Yet. in their little way they recognize
some of these facts. So far as the industries
right among themselves are concerned, they
recognize it. They want hig! tariff on rice.
They were willing to consent to what
seemed almost a decent tariff. except as to
its height, upon cotton. They have rice.
| they have cotton manufactures in their own
vicinity, and having an opportunity to
| learn about them even they realize that, in
! those particulars the tariff is not robbery,
| but sound sense. But they have the feeling
| that the North is getting too wealthy. They
| want to bring us down to theirslevel, while
| we, on our part would be proud and glad
| TO lift them up to ours. tApplause.) To-
wards them we have been more than just;
we have always been generous. Today We
are spending millions and millions of dollars
I for the so-called navigation of the Mississ-
| fippi river. and it only means the reolama-
| tion of Southern land and the distribution
| of Northern money along both sides of that
| mighty river. Nay, we stood ready when it
was necessary, to give to the people of this
/ country free sugar: we stood ready, rather
| than that injustice should be done to the
| Southern state of Louisiana, to assume, and
| did assume, the burden of new system of
| protection, system of bounties, which
| every Democratic statesman den ounoed,
! from one end of the country to the other. ]
| say. that there never has been such an in
| stance of Justice by one political party to
| state belonging to the other political
| party as was shown by the bounty placed
upon Louisiana sugar. fApplause.)
| We have earned the right to tell the
| South The truth. and the truth is they are
| endeavoring to foist upon the country in
| 1894 system which they might have justi-
| fed themselves in applying to the South be-
low Mason and Dixon's line in the old days
of slavery. Their free trade notions were
rooted in them in those days. Then they
| produced nothing but corn and cotton. and
| all that they did was to use the cheapest
| labor, lifted and ill-clad. They destroyed
| the value of the richest lands passing from