Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-10-22

New York, Oct 16.-Everybody is
talking about the election. One starts
out for monthful of fresh air, STUN
bles over large crowd, brass band,
Drawing forth, 'Just Tell Her That
You Saw Me- land not mentioning the
awful sounds that you are forced to
hear), with spellbinder at the back.
Sometimes we stand still and listen
sometimes we are spellbound-more
frequently we are not But it starts,
doea a political campaign. a certain
nmount Of questioning, to which the |
feminine voice, unless it be given over |
to the upholding of missions, finds
pleasure in answering. -
Says the masculine inquirer: what
do you know about protection?"
Says !, representing the feminine
voice: swell, not very much; but this
is what believe; l think there should
be high tariff, a very high tariff.
+ Several years ago had an opportunity
to compare our manufactures with
those of England and FRANCE, and when
say our manufactures, l mean our
cloths especially. Now, my friend,
half of the cheviots, broadcloths,
rough or smooth goods in wool, that
you buy stamped with the English or
French hall mark, are made in this
country. We can make as good piece
of cloth as ever was designed, or made
across the water, consequently, there
ought to be high tariff on wool ma
terials. Americans ought to buy the
home made stuffs, keep the mills
+ going, and by putting an enormous
tariff, an outrageously big one, on all
woods, force the imported article out
of the market. When we have good
thing we ought to recognize it. In
the finest of silks and yelvets we cannot
compare with France, but for that
reason fabrics should be introduced at
a high tariff, kept al high price, so
that the American manufacturer will
grow ambitious, be eager to make his
silks as fine as the, imported ones and,
in time, achieve what he desires, SO
that no further importations will be
II necessary.
A Japanese importer told me that
more than one-half of the printed silks
sold as coming from China or Japan
were made in Paterson, N. j. We've
got the mon who can work we'll and
who have the brains; we've got the
money to pay the men, and we want to
introduce little iingoism, which is,
after all, the slang word for recognizing
the possibilities of ones own country.
Why can't the man who sells American
silks hang q piece of the American
silk beside "a piece of the Japanese sill
and let the customer take her choice
having to pay for the Chinese elk al
extravagRnt price, and for the Ameri
can Just price. Let the tariff be lov
on pictures, on books, on anything
that will educate the people. Let tn
tariff be high on jewels, on anything
that lie bought by the rich people simpl
as luxury.
DO want the suffrage extendsdf Nc
I want Ii restricted. II / we're tn,
person in power I should have eac
voter 25 years Of age, free, and adde'
to this freedom there should be th
knowledge OF reading and writing an
the owning OF q home. Then vot
would be worth something. 1t woul
represent something. Men woul
strive for II, and dollars would be save
to buy the home for the women an
children that would, in addition, max
the father voter. What does Antoni {
or Francois. or Heinrich or Patric
or Tommy Atkins know of this countr
after living here few yearss Whetht
he is from Italy, or Germany, France
or Ireland, Russia, or England, Sweder
or Scotland, how can he realize in ON
five, ten or fifteen years, the needs
those men and women who have mac
& this country2 Let American birth
the very first necessity of the right
claim vote. Then let all the rest fc
low.
And about the gold and silver. III
best that can say about that was to
me by the honest, little Irish maid blu
in my kitchen. She wondered If t
gentlemen got in who were going
give silver away, if the five dolla
that she was in the habit of sendil
home on special occasions, would recei
no welcome. Because" she we
on to say, 'if it only stands for hi
or quarter as much as it calls for on t
face of IL, how can they be pleased
me. so to say, writin' one thing, q
meanin' anotherf 1t will be fun
government, Miss, that'll write out
order on it's own paper for certa
sum of money, and then only give y
little bit of it; and how, Miss, d.
that differ from stealing?" That's
feminine voice from the kitchen.
the parlor the feminine voice saye: :
the people get in who are going
make our notes of no value or of
little value that it amounts to nothil
the unhappy days in Richmond duri
the war will return, and I'll 60
market with my basket filed W
money and I'll come home, carry
my purchase. wrapped up in paper,
one hand. "
l wonder what Mr.. George Washii
ton would have thought of repud
tion2 1 wonder what Mr.. Thor
Jefferson would have thought at
deliberately making ourselves
laughing stock of the world? VI
other country makes its money lie
the face of it2 Remember, l do
pretend to be politician, but th
are things that / was forced to tn
when listened to the spell binder v
talked. and talked, and talked, 1
never convinced. / did conclude til
and then that speech was silver ;
silence was gold, and | realized
never before, how delightful gold "
\ And by the-by, if | made the laws
n this country, the business world sho
not be in state of excitement I
was bad for it every four years, bu
good man, once found, he should 8
whore be was placed by the vote OF
intelligent nation for at least ei
years.
And the achools. would have
say about them if we're ruling. III
public schools should give go
thorough education, such an edu
ton as Tom, who is going to