Middletown transcript., 1896-09-05

section against section. labor against
capital, 7 the poor against the rich, or
interest against interest in the United
States, is in the highest degree repre-
hensible. 1t is opposed to the national
instinct and interest, and should be
resisted by every citizen. We are not
. a nation of classes, but 1T sturdy, free,
independent, and ianolable people. de-
spising the demagogue, and never cap
itulating TO dishoilor.
This ever-recurring effort endangers
popular government and is menace
to our liberties. 1t is not q new cam
pal n device or party appeal. 1t is as
old as government among men, but
was never more untimely and unf0r-
tunate than now. Washington warned
us against 1t, and Webster said in the
SeEate, in words which / feel are sing
urarly appropriate at this time: II
admonish the people against the OBJ
ject of outcries like these. I admon-
ish every industrious laborer of this
country to be on his guard against
such delusion. tell him the attempt
is to play off his passion against his in
terest, and to prevail on him, in the
name of liberty, to destroy all the
fruits OF liberty"
PROTECTION OF SUPREME IMPORT
ANCE.
Another issue of supreme import
ance is that Of protection. The peril
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
Republican Party is welded to the
doctrine of protection, and was never
more earnest in its support and advo-
cacy than now. If argument were
needed to strengthen its devotion to
"the American SYSTEM" or increase
the hold of that system upon the party
and people, it is found in the lesson
and experience 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 THE PUBLIC EXIGEN-
CIES.
Washington, in his farewell address,
September II, 1876, hundred years
ago, said: GAS a very important
source of strength and security, cher
ish public credit. One method of pre-
serving it is to use it as sparingly as
possible; avoiding the accumulation of
debt, not only by stunning occasions
of expense, but by vigorous exertions
in time of peace to discharge the debts
which unavoidable wars may have
occas:oned, not ungenerously throw
ing upon posterity the burden which
we ourselves ought to BEAR"
To facilitate the enforcement of the
maxim which he announced, he de-
clared: sit is essential That you should
practically bear in mind that towards
the payment of debts there must be
revenue; that to have revenue there
must be taxes; that no taxes can be
devised which are not more or less in
convenient or unpleasant; that the in
trinsic embarrassment inseparable
from the selection of the proper objects
(which is always choice of dificulties)
ought to be a decisive motive for a
candid construction of the conduct of
the government in making it; and for
a spirit of acquiescence in the measures
for obtaining revenue which the pub
lie exigencies may at any time dictate. F"
Animated by like sentiments, the
people of the country must now face
the conditions which beset them. ssThe
public exigencies'' demand prompt pro-
tective legislation which will avoid the
of further debt by pro-
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 ample en-
to the occupations Of the
American people, which, above all else,
is SO imperatively demanded at this
juncture of our national affairs.
OUR CONDITION IN DECEMBER, 1892.
In December, 1892, President Har-
rison sent his last message to Congress.
1t was an able and exhaustive review
of the condition and resources Of the
country. II stated our situation SO ac-
curately that I am sure it will not be
amiss to recite his official and valuable
testimony. "There has never been a
time in our history" said he, "when
work was so abundant or when wages
were 80 highs whether measured by the
currency in which they are paid or by1
their power to supply the necessaries
and comforts of life. The general aver
age Of prices has been such as to give
to agriculture fair participation in
the general prosperity. The new in
dustrial plants es ablished since Octo-
Der 6, 1890, and up to October 20, 1892, |
number 345 and the extensions of ex-
isting plants 10S. The new capital in
vested amounts TO $40. 446, ,060 and the |
number Of additional employees 81, ,2S5.
During the first six months of the pres
ent calendar year 135 new factories |