The herald., 1894-10-13

years, and L am much mistaken II ne
has not beon talking effectively.
The Democrats have not been able to
put in law their views until within the
last two years. Before that time they
exercised themselves in platform decla-
rations and in oratorv. But now We
have come to time when the country
has endowed the Democratic party with
power to deal with this question. For
the frat time there has been regponsi-
bilty in the utterancea ard doinge OF
the Democratic. There came q time
when the Democratic party must stop
msking,pl ,platforms and begin making laws.
Just before this radical change in our
responsible government, the country
was in the highest etate of prosperity.
Our foreign trade was larger than 1t had
ever been in the history Of this country,
and the beauty of it was that it was
something like 5000. 900, ,000larger in ex-
ports than in imports. You all realize
what that means it menns that we were
solling abroad more than we wore buy
ing from abroad. There is not pingle
farmer here who does not know that he
tests the question as to whether he has
prospered on mis- farm by casting the
balance between the value OF what he
what he buys in town and takes homo.
That is not all. EVERYBODY knows
that, every body was busy. Every body
knows that every mill was running. The
comforts of life as distributed among our
people were greater than ever before.
But wheat was low and some of our
farmers became discontented. Now
wheat has gone lower than ever before
in the memory of any farmer who hears
me. 1t has been hard to get enough of
it in the shape OF -four in the home OF
the workingman. but it has been 30
cheap that it has in some places
gone into the hog trough. said
some years ago that the Ameri-
can workingman had the most favored
lot Of any workingman in the world and
that this was evidenced by the fact that
the gates OF Castle Garden always swung
inward to the workingmen seeking our
shore. The workingmen knows the land
of promise as we'll as the ewallow knows
the land of summer. | could not say
that today, because the gates OF CASTLE
Garden have been swinging outward.
Nov, why came the present condi-
tion about? 1t is Important to know,
because the party policy that brought
1t about carries a fearful weight OF re-
sponsihility. In August, year ago,
congress- assembled and. after dealing
with the Sherman bill, organized
the committee of ways and
means OF the house OF representatives
and charged it with the duty of having
tariff bill ready for action at the regu-
lar eession. Instead OF getting a bill
speedily through, the condition OF uncer-
tainty and distress was prolonged
through whole year, and August of
1894 came around before our Democratic
friends had passed a bill; and then they
passed bill, which. according TO the
Judgment of Mr. Cleveland, was 40 nne-
qual in its provisions, so unlike Demo-
cratic promises, so full OF party per6dy
and diehonor, chat he would not attach
his name to it. II the country could
have known what tho Democratic party
would likely do. oil this uncertainty
would have been diminished, but the
trouble about it all was that there was
no coherence OF belief among them, and
nobody could tell what they might do.
These gentlemen now tell you they
want to break down tho fences; that is
what Mr.. Wilson .old his English friends
the other day. Now fences Gro for two
purposes. / was raised on farm, and
have had some experience. They are to
ksep things out or keep them in--one or
the othor. The fence around the corn
fisld is to keep etock out; the fence
around the pasture field 10 to keep stock
in. What does tearing them down i'm
ply? That all of the stock out
side will get in TO our cattle
and will share the range with them.
1 start out with this proposition.
that there is not enough grass on the
range for the cattle that are out there
already. l make this proposition that
the grass inside cur fences must have
been better, and the cattle sllcker and
better in bone and richer In condition,
than those from this range. II We
equalze these things and let this Wild
horned and hungry stock from the range
into our fields We will not have ne much
grass for our own stock as we had be-
fore.
"They talk to US about wanting that
foreign market. In the tariff bill OF 1890
we introduced reciprocity policy secur-
ing markets OF enormous value to the
farmers and manufacturers Of this coun-
try. The Democratic party in ito mad
desire for tariff reform and for what it
calls incresaed foreign trade. has struck
down every one OF these reciprocity
treaties. What ia the result?
"Spsin has done 40 we might have ex-
pectsd i'm posed the old duty ON flour to
Cuba. When LoganBport firm here in
Indiana sent $1,000 barrels of -four to
New York the other day for Cuba the
commission merchants in Now York
sent back word that they could not send
it and that it would have TO be sold in
New York at loss. Minneapolis millers
also sent their -four with the came re-
suit.
'Aiter years OF hard fighting, and
great credit 10 due to tho gallant soldier
and statesman, General Ruak OF Wis
conein, who, ss secretary OF agriculture
assisted in the work, we succeeded in
breaking down the prohibition in Ger
many sgainat our hog products. Now
all that is gone. venture to predict
that II we continue our present policy Of
discriminating against German eugar,
Germany will find trichir@ in American
pork in less than Six months and shut
it out again. A great and patriotic Of
fort was made to make markets for our
products, but all this work 10 10 go for
nothing in this wild crusade for tarif
reform"
New York k-pubiIcan..
New YoRK, Oct. l2.-An adjourned
aessinn Of the Republican county con-