The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-04-01

had been reduced to less than 81 .00O.-
000. 600 when he went out Of office at the
close of his first term. One Democratic
president In four years of this period
OF thirty years has increased the public
debt $l00, 100000 for each year he has
been president.
To the people Democracy under Mr.,
Cleveland has been a very expensive
Institution. Under Mr.. Cleveland's last
term. and the Democrotic legislation on
the tariff, the Wilson bill, what has
happened in comparison with the
twelve years. or any term of four years
of the twelve. that preceded 1892? Dur
ing the present administration OF Mr..
Cleveland the government interest
bearing debt has been increased $780,
100000. The ordinary debt Of the gov
ernment has been increased about SilO.-
100000. making the legacy that he will
turn over to the Republican president
who succeeds him an increase in the
debt of the country during his term of
about $400. .O00, 900, and not a dollar of
reduction made on the interest bearing
debt Of the nation. What a record!
What incompetency!
November. 1896. will complete the So
luton Of our affairs. which started in
November, 1S94-5. Those who wish to
continue the situation we have. and the
conducting OF our public affairs as they
are now. should vote the Democratic
ticket. Those who want that which we
formerly had-prosperity-s vote
the Republican ticket.
DECREASE IN EXPORTS.
Under the Wilson tariff We captured
$20S. .000. 900 less of the worlds trade than
under the Mckinley tariff in 1892. In
1895 We imported $l00.000.000 more for
eign goods than under the Mckinley
law in 1892. Every dollars worth of
these imported goods that same in
competition with our manufacturers
should have been made by our own
manufacturers and our own labor.
When labor Is unemployed or poorly.
paid In any country, stagnation and
loss, of business comes to all except
those who live upon the interest of
loaned money, and even that class must
suffer, In a degree. The amount of
wages paid for labor Of all kinds in this
country In 1890 amounted to $2.2S2. S2S.-
265. In 1894 these same wages had
shrunk to $l.255. .552,796. This statement.
gives the underlying cause for the pres
ent unparalleled depression In all kinds
Of business in the country. What or
our country? Democratic free trade
legislation on the tariff question-his
tory repeating itself-bringing ruin and
disaster by the free trade legislation of
the Democratic party. as was brought
by free trade Legislation in 1919. 1897 and
1867. %
II the manufactures, the farmer and
the wage-earner of every class and kind
desire the present state Of affairs to
continue, they should vote the Dem
ocratic Wilson bill ticket. If they wish
for bright days. they should vote the
Republican ticket. The Wilson bill has.
caused this great country of our more
material loss and decrease In wealth
than the civil war. 1t is hard to find a
place to cease talking when one looks
around at the evils brought on the peo-
pie by the unwise, unjust theoretical
legislation since the advent OF, a DEM
ocratic'f free trade congress. -
HOW TO LEVY DUTIES.
I ask your further indulgence that ]
may Illustrate my firm conviction upon
the tariff by one example, and IN doing
this / believe that l state what 80 per
cent. of our people believe inf you
will relieve them from party considera-
tions. 1t is stated that 1000, 900 bicycles
will be manufactured in. this country
and sold during 1896 at an average price
Of $50 each. making sl20, ,000, 900 worth of
these articles made by our own labor.
All the profits and wages entering into
their construction remain In the hands
of our own people. An, Englishman
comes here and calls on the bicycle
dealers and says: II can furnish you
these 100000 bicycles so that you
may sell them at $40 each and make the
same profit you would in selling the
American wheel" Under the case. as
l have stated 1t, I would not permit a
single bicycle to come into the country
that would undersell our own manu-
facturers. In other words, would put
tariff Of $40 on each imported bi-
cycle. What / should do with bicycles
l should do with everything that Is i'm
ported into this country-everything
that comes in competition with our own
productions.
There is no place for classes in this
country. Capital should not invade the
rights of labor, and labor should not in
wade the right Of capital. Their inter-
ests are mutual and they should be
friends and not enemies. I believe
represent all the people who live upon
the farm, who work in the shops and
manufactures, and who follow all the
NOCatlOnS WHEREBY tney earn tHei
bread by the sweat Of their brow. when
/ say that 80 per cent. of that class of
people will agree with me in my views
when stripped Of party considerations
or political bias. The people l refer to
believe that America should be for
Americans. I do not mean by this that
foreigner has not as much right under
our flag as q native-born; but do be-
lieve that when a foreigner comes here
and becomes a citizen he is an Ameri-
can and not q foreigner.
The party that will keep itself in
close contact with the people who labor,
with those who create the wealth of
this land-that party can and will sue
ceed. The party that does not will die,
as 1t ought to. The question of slavery
is dead-the question Of labor will new
er die. The protection of the classes I
refer to, by such legislation as will
keep them from coming in competition
with the cheap labor Of Japan, China,
Germany, Italy, England or France, Is
the legislation the people believe in,
and this great question is the founda-
ton upon which 1 stand before you.
believing in the principle as the Repub-
lican party believes in it.
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