The San Francisco call., 1896-10-29
Eloquent Address of the Jersey
=. man Delivered at the
Auditorium.
: BIG MEETING AT THE CHUTEs.
Republican Enthusiasm Is on the
= Increase as Election Day
Draws Near.

anism and illustrated the beneficial work
ings of the protective tariff system. The
Auditorium was filled to overf1owing with
enthusiastic Republicans and their wives
and" sweethearts, fully one-third of the
audience being of the eentler sex.
4 Ex-senator Charles n. FELTON,, who pre-
lsided at the meeting, introduced Mr..
Schoonmaker, and in doing so, gained
great applause by stating that he consid-
.ered McKinley's election next month to
be certainty.
. Mr.. Schoonmaker prefaced his remarks
by saying that an eIronious idea has OBJ
tanned in California that he is ex-Con-
gressman Sehoonmaker OF New Jersey.
He denied that such is the fact, and said
that, being newspaper man, he has
never sought nor obtained a political
office. He said in part:
thank you for this real California well
come. AS some sort of compensation for it I
would like to make great effort which would
gain me reputation on this coast an ora
tor. And now I'll tell you why l am here.
an here IN the interest OF +. Y. Schoonmaker.
wouldn't give one snap OF my finger for the
Republican party as party or for the Demo-
cratic party as party. l am looking out for
my own interests and putting butter upon my
own bread.
If Mr. Bryan and the Democrats could con-
Syince me that it would be for my best interests
TO vote with them.you would find me lined up
with the Bryan shouters; but they have
failed TO do that, and am with the Republi-
cans, for am convinced thatmy best interests
lie with their success We are ali sharehold-
eEs in great stock company, of which we all
have one share and in which nobody can have
lwo
We. have an election OF officers once every
fouryears, and at those periods the officials
who have been serving must give an account
TO the shareholders as ta what they have been
dong. Four years ago there was an officer at
the head OF this company and his name was
Harrison. His policy was good and the coun-
try was PROSPEROUS. Then came the election.
A number of people wanted it changed.
Why? Because, although the country was
prosperous under the protective policy which
they had obtained, they were told that if free
trade was made the policy of the country its
prosperity would be increased. Well, you
have had that free trade in q measure. and
ilowI want to ask you how you like it? Since
the'time OF that election things have changed.
The great leaders OF labor in the United
States say that during the last four years there
have been discharged in the United States be-
tween 4 oo0 900 and 5000, 600 killed lsborers.
When the factories ale closed other men are
thrown out of work. The railroads do not
employso many. And in hundred different
= ways the employment of laborers is affected.
50 that in ali 2 600 600 of men who had
worked before 1892 have during the last four
Years lost their.means OF livelihood.
What does the discharge of these 100000
OF men mean? Every one OF these men sup
ported five other people. Thus in the last four
years So 900 600 of Americans have lost their
means OF livelihood.
The Government reports show that during
that period 1S0, 900, 600 bushels of wheat less
were CONSUMED than during the next four
years before.
East thank God if they can get dry crust OF
bread to eat. They are so poor that they have
not had the money to buy the bread which
should have been produced by that 100000,
900 bushels of wheat and the non-consump-
ton of that quantity of wheat means the loss
. TO its producers, the Western farmers.
Now what is g. protective tariff? 1t is Eoth-
ing more nor less than license fee which we
collect from foreigners who bring to this coun-
try goods to sell which Americans raise or
make themselves. This makes the foreigner
tsxpayer. If foreigner brings thing that
Americans need, but do not raise nor make
we let him in free with 1t.
1t seems strange to me that proposition so
clear as that can be discussed and give rise to
asdifference Of opinion among people.
Mr. Schoonmaker then gave practical
demonstration of the benefits which
accrue to American trade and tradesmen
because of protective tariff; he went into
the history Of the effort to establish the
glove business in his State, and told how,
despite the fact that there is duty of 80
per cent on gloves, gloves are to-day
cheaper by half than they were during
the days of free trade. The establishment
of the American industry of watch-mak-
ing was also gone into.
He showed how, although there is a
duty of 30 per cent on watches, we can
now buy better watch for So so than you
could during the free-trade days for ten
times'tha amount. All this, the speaker
contended, is due to the competition ex-
cited by the growth of protectIon-fostered
industry and imprayed methods of manu-
facture resulting upon the fostering of
that business. Then he went on:
John Bull is the tramp peddler of the world.
He has Australian wool and Canadian lumber
Sto sell to you Then why not make him pay
the burdens of government tc provide mar
ket for him in which he may freely and with
out stint share al our prosperity? Why not
make him pay his license at the Custom-house?
In the last year OF Hsrrison's dministration
there was. collected 100000, 900 in customs
which was turned into the National Treasury
and the Taxpayers Of the country had Just that
much less burden TO bear. That is the whole
protection argument ina nutshell and it seems
10 me that it should be easy for any man 10 de-
eide on which side.he would array himself
The silver man claims that the cause OF the
hard times was the decentralization OF silver,in
1873. Let us look into the matter. Up to
1873 the business of the world was conducted
OF eight billion dollars OF metallic money,
four billions. of silver and four billions OF
gold. "Then," he says, "a conspiracy OF hnan-
cfers.took place and silver was demonet1zed.
That gave gold twice as mucn work to do,
made it grow twice as dear, be twice as mGch
in demand, and that eventually gold dollar
became tWO-QOlldT uOlietI.
But was silver demonetized in 1872 Was
the coinage of the silver dollar stopped in
1872. 1t was not peing coined in 1873 10 any
great extent. The coinage OF the silver dollar
was.stopped in 1906 by Thomas Jefferson, and
he, l have heard. was pretty good Democrat.
Only 5000 900 silver dollars were coined from
1892 10 1873, and in 1873 the Republicans re-
Eumed the coinage of the silver dollar which
Jefferson stopped in 1906.
Since 1873 we have coined 30, ,OOO,OOO trade
dollars, 430, 600 900 Bland dollars, and 1885,
600, 900 Sherman dollars, a total OF 634, ,O0O,-
600. Now remember, silver was knocked out
in 1873, and we have done all this since
silver was knocked out.
'since we have stopped coming it we have
coined 1854, 900, 600. This very year 13,0OO.-
600 OF these silver dollars have been coined, |
but despite all this, the Populists say we have
stopped coming silver. II seems to me thai
VI I. have succeeded in mailing campaign lie
hey say the gold dollar is a two-dollar dol |
]GN Ihaye here 100 pennies. The time never
wdN IN the United States when 100 OF these
pennies wouldn't buy gold dollar. 1t has
never taken 10l pennies to buy one and one
never could be bought for 80. One hundred |
pennies have always bought the gold and the |
gold dollar.
If this be true, is not the statement that the |
gold dollar Is two-dollar dollar lie nu mber 2?
Once silver dollar could not be bought for |
less than 1O4 pennies. To-day so pennies will |