The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-21
COL0RED VOTERS RALLY
HON. N. D. SHERRY ADDRESSES THE
 N. D. SPERRY LEGION.

Campaign Questions Tellingiy Discussed
 Protection and Sound Money the
 Country's Need-Clear Exposition of
 the Present Political Situation-speaker
 Enthusiastically Applauded.
 The N. D. Sperry legion, composed of colored republican voters, held a suc- cessful and largely attended rally last evening in Masonic hall on Webster street. The legion has done efficient service in the coming campaign for sound money thus far. by assisting at the various republican meetings in the city, but last nights meeting was the first public meeting held under the auspices of the legion. The speaker of the evening was Hon. N. D. Sperry, who was introduced by the president of the legion, MT. Willis M. Bonner, in a few appropriate words.
 Congressman Sperry gave one of his clear and practical talks on the lead ing questions of the campaign, back ing up all his arguments with practical examples from daily life. The telling points in his speech were heartily ap- plauded. He said in part: Tt took England 600 years before she came to the conclusion that she wanted free trade. She did everything in her pow CT to assist her own industries. Her shipping she assists by subsidies and other protective measures.
 The republican party enacted pro- tective tariff in 1860 with the most ben ef1cial results to this country. We found after the tariff had been enacted and we began to make our own goods that England had been making 300 or 400 per cent. on the goods which were sodl to us. I made personal investi- gation of the practical results of that tariff few years ago. A list of ques- tions put to prominent business men of the city, including such well known democrats as Messrs. Nicely and John D. Bassett, elicited the following in- formation:
 Tn 1857, before the tariff law was enacted, only per cent. of the goods sold in our stores were of American make, the remaining 95 per cent. being of foreign manufacture. About five or six years ago the proportion was re- versed and there were 95 per cent. of home manufacture and only per cent of foreign. The price of goods to-day is 40 to 75 per cent. less than it was In 1857, and the quality of the home made goods is far superior to that of the for eigner.
 But now we are having hard times. The Wilson tariff bill, which President Cleveland refused to sign, made wool and lumber free, entailing loss of $45,- 000. 900. with no apparent gain to the consumers.
 According to a we'll known statis- tician there has been a loss of two billion dollars to this country in cut wages and cut time, and it is this cut wages and cut hours which have pro- duced these hard times. We will have good times again when those two bill lion dollars are paid out to American working men for their labor.
 And now they want to pay the workingmen with 53 cent dollars. There is one firmly established princi- pie that you can't get something out of nothing, and I assert, without fear of contradiction by anyone, that you can't get as much with a 53-cent dollar as you can with 100 cent dollar"
 Congressman Sperry closed his ad- dress with historical discussion of the use of the two metals by the United States, and an appeal to the voters present to vote for sound money and honesty, and against repudiation and dishonor
 Short addresses were made by others present, after Congressman Sperry had finished.