The San Francisco call., 1896-08-14

watchword of the Democratic party, and
he answered the question by saying that ii
was free silver, free trade and free SOUP.
William ]. Brvan said in the campaign OF
1892 that the Republican tariff OF protec-
ton to home industry was unconstitu-
tional and that if we could tear down this
American system of protection and if we
could lnaugurate another era of free trade
the people of this country would cease
from suffering.
He did not say q word about the free
coinage OF silver at the ratio of 16 to 1.
Since that time the Democratic party,
through its President, had hawked the
bonds of this Nation around the markets
of the world to borrow 1852, ,000 900 to help
run this Government in a time OF pro-
found peace.
In the streets of the cities and villages
of this country are hundreds of thousands
of honest and honorable laboring men and
women, starving and insufficiently clad,
and begging for an opportunity of labor
ing for their daily bread. Such scenes
were never witnessed when the Repub-
Iican party had the management of the
affairs of the country.
The speaker explained the difference be-
tween tariff for revenue only or free
trade tariff and tariff that protected the
industries of the country. The Democrats
declared that they would introduce sys-
TEN of tariff that would not leave any sur
plus in the United States treasury, and
there never has been any surplus there
since they went into power.
"The smokestacks from which the smoke
of industry is no longer seen to curl" he
said, "and the motionless wheels of indus
try are the living witnesses of the destruc-
tive policy of the Democratic party.
democrats have always taken occasion
to speak of free trade as a Jeffersonian
principle, whereas the fact was that
Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson
were protectionists, and among the strong
est protectionists that this world ever saw.
Thomas Jefferson in 1909 wrote letter
to a friend that he believed the manufac-
turing and agricultural interests of this
country should travel side by side and
that he believed protection was necessary
in order that that might be brought
about.
"These were Jefferson's words, and they
are found in volume 5, page 4l6 of the
complete works of Thomas Jefferson: MY
idea is that we should encourage home in
dustries to the extent of our own con-
sumption of everything of which we raise
the raw MATERIAL and in another place he
says: i have lately inculcated the en-
couragement of manufactures, to the ex-
tent of home consumption at least, of all
articles of which we raise the raw mate
rials.
I'm another place Jefferson says: we
must now place the manufacturer by the
side of the agriculturist. The question
assumes new form: Shall we make oui
own comforts or go without them at the
will of a foreign nation? He, therefore
who is now against domestic manufactures
must be for reducing us either to de-
pendenee on that foreign nation or to be
clothed in skins and live Like beasts in
! Gems ana caverns.
Experience has taught me that manu-.
( factures are now as necessary to our inde.
| pendence as to our comfort, and if those
who quote me as of a different opinion
will keep pace with me in purchasing moth
| ing foreign without regard to difference in
! price, 1t will not be my fault if we do not
Wrest that weapon of distress from the
hand that has welded it.
Andrew Jackson, when Senator from
Tennessee in 1923, declared that a pro
| tective tariff was absolutely neces
sary and essential to the welfare
OF the American people. 1t was
| Jackson also, who declared that he would
hang every man in South Carolina
if necessary, if they still persisted in 1t.
attempt to nullify the protective tariff"
The speaker ended with a reference tc
the silver question, closing with q chal
lenge to any Democratic orator to declare
how any of the silver of the world wher
coined in the United States minis can gel
into the possession of the poor man.
The meeting adjourned with cheers fol
Mckinley and the ticket.