The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-03

and sell upon our markets, equal to the
| difference between the well paid labor
Of American and the cheap labor Of the
| Old World While the man of enter
prise and the man of labor are thus
| engaged, they are consumers and not
producers, and hence they must call
upon the producer for the necessaries
Of life, and this affords a market for
the product of the farm. These great
manufacturing enterprises which you
have in this city, in which hundreds
and thousands of laboring men are en-
gagged. afford a market close at home
for the product of the farms Of Kansas
and Missouri
The doctrine Of the Republican par
~ is that there shall be placed a tariff
upon such articles as we can produce
in our own country, SO that we may
give employment to our own laboring
men and have avenues open for invest
ment Of our own capital for the manu-
facture of such articles as we can pro-
duce here. We also believe in the doc
trine of reciprocity. Such things as We
cannot produce in this country NAV be
admitted from other shores free Of du-
ty, on condition that the things which
they need, which We produce, and
which they cannot produce, find an OPP
en- market in their countries And in
encourage and to hold up the dignity
Of labor. The Republican party has
ever been the friend Of labor When
labor was enslaved il was the friend
Of labor and sought it's freedom. 1t
Is ever the purpose of the Republican
party, with it's principles correctly I'M
derstood and correctly applied TO the
affairs OF government, TO bring the
greatest good to the greatest number.
THE GROVER CLEVELAND POLICY
The Democratic party, by its legis-
lation through what is known as the
Wilson and German bill, reduced the
tariff TO such an extent that for the
first time since 1864 the receipts for the
internal revenue exceeded the receipts
from custom duties. In 1890 we receiv-
ed from custom duties S225, 000, 600; in
ternal revenue $142, DOC, 900, a balance in
favor of custom duties of So, 000, 900,
which was applied to the necessary run
ming expenses Of the government. Four
years later, in 1894, the receipts from the
internal revenue tax was S155, 000, 900,
and from custom duties S131 200, 900.
Thus the receipts from internal reve-
nue. exceeded by s24 600, 900 the receipts
from custom duties. In other words,
We are now collecting $24 900 900 more
per annum directly from our own peo-
pie, and $94 1000, 600 less from the i'm
porter of foreign goods seeking a mar
ket in the United States, than we did
under Republican administra ton. In
less than two years, under the fiscal
policy of the present administration,
we have been compelled to borrow S163,-
0OG,O 900; or SS1, SOC, 900 for every year, S6,1
100000 for every month, and 1925, 900
for every day since the inauguration of
President Cleveland in 1893
Every SchOOlbOy understands that
during period of twelve years, from
March 4, 1881, to Mach 4. 1893, the gov
eminent was paying off its indebtedness
During Mr.. Harrison's administration
he paid off 1896, 900, 900 of the public
debt and turned over TO Mr.. Cleveland
Sl24 600, 0O0
"A deficiency under the Democratic
administration soon occurred, and after
every shift and device had been resort
ed to possible, by taking from one fund
and paying the debts of another, and
every ingenious plan that could oc-
cur to the minds OF those having in
charge our affairs had failed to provide
for that deficiency. they turned to the
pensions of the old soldiers, and Mr..
Cleveland in one of his messages made
the statement that every neighborhood
mas its well known fraudulent pension
err, and il was resolved TO cut down
the pensions of the old soldiers To this
end an army of special examiners i'm
go about over the country, looking af-
ter the records and inquiring into the
personal histories of the veterans of the
late war; and a large sum was appro-
priated for that purpose. After this
army of clerks had industriously work.
ed, each receiving a salary of 81 800 a
year, there has been but thirty-nine
convictions of men charged with draw
ing fraudulent pensions, and a large
per cent of the thirty-nine convictions
were OF men who were never soldiers.
The expense of maintaining this army
of special examiners has been grea ter
TO the government than the entire
amount would have been if the thirty
nine persons convicted had drawn PEN
sions to the end of their natural lives.
ASSAULT ON THE SOLDIERS.
"An assault was thus made upon the
men who, in the strength of their young
manhood. stood up in the holly con-
tested field of Corinth and there upheld
the banner of our Union; against the
men who in the face of laundering bat
teries swept up the heights of Lookout
mountain, there planted their flag and
fought the battle above the clouds;
aginst the men who marched with Sher-
man from Atlanta to the sea; against
the men stood upon the field of Cettys-
burg. when the tide of rebellion had
reached high water mark and kilograms
were pouring in from Washington. to
the commanding officers, that the fate
OF the nation depended upon the result
of that battle; against the men that
stood as firm as the everlasting hills
against the assault of Pickett's battal-
ions, the most terrible assault recorded
in all military history.
1T is sought by this administration
that these men. who were once young
and vigorous and gave the best years
e t.A.,- . 4 IS q AAs,-
country and TO the perpetuity of our
Union shall now, with their garments
brushing the dew from the banks Of
the river of death be permitted 10 die
in want and in perjury.
''The history of the Democratic party
upon the financial affairs of this gov
eminent is no more satisfactory. The
sense enough to run this government,
and especially when dominated by the
southern wing Of the party.
THE MONEY QUESTION.
''Now we are face to face at this time
with the most tremendous question, in
my judgment. which has confronted the
American people since the days Of 1860,
when the destruction Of this Union wa.
threatened; and that is the financial
question. l have said that am a BIZ
metallist, and 1 mean by that that both
gold and silver shall have equal rights
in the minis Of our government, and
have equal legal tender qualities. And
when / state that proposition, l believe
I state a proposition which is a correct
one, and that gold and silver coin is
the money OF the constitution. And be-
fore proceeding further ] want TO say
that all the money that has ever been
Of any account or Of any duration in
this world has been the money based
upon the labor performed. The golden
eagle coined in the days OF Julius Gaze