The record-union., 1896-08-27
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passion and prejudice are beneath the
Spirit and intelligence of a free people,
and should be met with stern rebuke
by those they are sought to influence,
and l believe they will be.
Every attempt to array class
against class, the classes against the
masses, section against section, labor
against capital, the poor against the
r1ch,' or interest against interest, in
the United States is in the highest de-
gree reprehensible. It is opposed to
the national instinct and interest, and
should be resisted by every citizen. We
are not nation of classes, but Of stur-
6y, free, independent and honorable
people. despising the demagogue, and
never capitulating to dishonor. This
ever recurring effort endangers popular
government and is a menace to our lib
critics. 1t is not q new campaign de-
vice or party appeal. 1t is as old as
government among men, but was never
more untimely and unfortunate than
now. Washington warned us against
it, Webster said in the Senate, in words
at this time: I admonish the people
against the object of outcries like these.
I admonish every Industrious laborer
OF this country to be on his guard
against such delusion. 1 tell him the
attempt is to play off his passion
against his interest and to prevail on
him in the name of liberty, to destroy
ali the fruits of liberty
PROTECTION OF SUPREME I'M
PORTANCE.
Another issue of supreme import
ance is that of protection. The spirit
of free silver is a menace to be feared.
We are already experiencing the effect
OF partial free trade. The one must be
averted; the other corrected. The Re
publican party is welded to the doctrine
of protection, and was never more
earnest in its support and advocacy
than now. If argument were needed
TO strengthen its devotion to the Amer
ian system, or increase the hold of
that system on the party and the peo-
PIE, it is found in the lesson and ex-
perience of the past three years.
Men realize in their own daily lives
what before was to many of them only
report, history or tradition. They have
had trial of both systems, and know
what each has done for them.
DEMANDED BY PUBLIC EXIGEN-
CIES.
''Washington in his farewell address,
September II, 1906, hundred years
ego, said: AS very important source
OF strength and security, cherish public
credit. One method of preserving it is
to use it as sparingly as possible, avoid
ing the accumulation of debt, not only
by stunning occasions of expense, but
by vigorous eXertiOns in time of peace
to discharge the debts which unavoid-
able wars may have occasioned, not un-
generously throwing upon pOsterity the
burden which we ourselves ought to
bear
ITO facilitate the enforcement, the
Iaaxims of which he announced, he de-
olared: 1t is essential that you should
practically bear in mind that towards
the payments of debts there must be
revenue; that to have revenue there
must be taxes; that no taxes can be de-
vised which are not more or less incon-
venient or unpleasant that the in
trinsic embarrassment inseparable from
the selection of the proper object (Which
is always a choice of difIiculues) ought
TO be a decisive motive for a candid
construction of the conduct of the Gov
ernment in making it; and for a spirit
CT acquiescence in the measures for OBJ
tanning revenue which the public ext
gencies may at any time dictate
Animated by like sentiments, the
people of the country must now face
the conditions which beset them. The
public exigencies' demand prompt pro-
tective legislation which will avoid the
,1o+ Of oh ht-
viding adequate revenues for the ex-
penses of the Government. This is
manifestly the requirement of duty.
IF elected President of the United States
it will be my aim to vigorously promote
this object. and give that ample encour-
agement of the occupations of the
American people, which above all else is
so imperatively demanded at this
Juncture of our national affairs.
CONDITION FOUR YEARS AGO.
In December, 1892 President Har-
rison sent his last message TO Congress.
Now an able and exhaustive review of
the condition and resources of the
country. 1t stated our situation so ac-
curately that 1 am sure it viii not be
amiss to recite his official and valuable
testimony:
There never has been a time in our
history said he, when work was so
abundant, or when wages We're so high,
whether measured by the currency in
which they are paid or by their power
TO supply the necessaries and comforts
of life. The general average of prices
has been such as to give agriculture a
participation in the general prosperity.
The new industrial plants established
since October 6, 1890 and up to October
%, 1892, number 345 and the extension
Of existing plants los. The new capi-
tai invested amounts to S40,446. .060. and
the number Of additional employees 81. -
% During the first six months of the
present calendar year, 135 new factories
were built, of which forty We're cotton
mills forty-eight knitting mills, twen-
ty-six woolen mills. fifteen silk mills.
four plush mills and two linen mills.
OF the forty cotton mills, twenty-one
have been built in the Southern States. ,
This fairly describes the happy con-
dition of the country in December, 1892.
What has 1t been since, and what is it
now?
OUR CONDITION EIGHT MONTHS
LATER.
1.-THE messages of President Cleveland
from the beginning of his second ad-
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