The record-union., 1896-10-07

Not only that, it had become so worn
that it no longer had consistency. 1t
would no longer hold together. The
Democratic party had found itself
grasping the air, and was Obliged TO
grope around for something else to wave
and found it in the Populistic cry Of
free silver. SO it happened that the two
questions most prominent before the
people to-day was protection ana
finance, and he proposed to take up the
question of protection first. Then fol-
lowed the most logical discussion Of
the tariff heard in the city for many
days.
1t was not strange he continued, that
Americans should be filled with British
ideas, because the literature of the CEN
tury was distinctly British. Tennyson,
the great poet of the day, was British
throughout, and wrote for royalty
wrote to catch the ear of the ar1Stocracy,
and caught it, and the text book on
political economy used in our colleges
was Adam Smiths Wealth OF Nations,
which had been written to bring wealth
to Britain and the crown. 1t had an
sWered it's purpose. Smith, too, caught
the ear of royalty and was raised to the
peerage The speaker had studied
Smiths Wealth of Nations" at college,
and was, in his youth. the most pro
nounced Of free traders A relative had
told him that he would know more as he
grew older but, being free trader, he
had deemed that impossible. (Ap-
plause.) But one day he learned more
in five minutes than he had ever learned
before. He entered a rolling mill in
Pittsburg, and commenced airing his
1-,o &c f-an fy~a1 do fn q k
men. A big fellow with a great hairy
breast said to him:
Young fellow, may I ask you a ques-
tion?''
"Oh, yes; a dozen.''
mo; one will be enough. Are you
lover of music and singing?"
"Oh, yes
did you ever hear a tune which
hummed through your head, and which
you could not Danish, but which you
could neither sing or whistle, though if
anyone else whistled the tune you could
at once detect every false note?"
Yes; I've had just such an experience
as that
well, I'm just like you were; you're a
better whistler than L am, but l know
the tune a blamed sight better than you
do" Great applause.)
The speaker took uD the history of
tariff for revenue, and followed it from
its inception to its natural conclusion.
AS an object lesson, he took wool,
showed how years ago 60 per cent. Of
the wool produced in this country was
sold in a raw state to England, where
ii was manufactured and sent back and
as England had a. monopoly on manu-
factured WoOlens she poured on the
price under the idea that we are all the
children of God, and should do business
on a Christian basis. But the people
grew tirsd of paying the Englishman
double price for their own material,
and upon presentation of the matter to
Congress a tariff of 90 per cent. was
placed on wool, to allow Americans to
compete at the market price with Eng
land, and at the same time keep up
American wages. Then came prosper
ity, and it remained until Grover Cleve-
land got the stage, and once more
Smiths wealth of Nations was the
law Of the land. The glove industry
was built up in America as had been the
woolen manufactories-by imposing a
tariff Of 81 per cent. on imported arti-
cles. Even that figure did not break
the French monopoly, and Yankee in
vention had come to the front with the
glOve-cutter and the sewing machine.
Cleveland said that a protective tariff
raised the price on the article protected,
but under a protective tariff the young
man could cover his best girls arms to
the shoulders for less money than he
could cover her fingers in the days
when Adam Smiths Wealth Of Ma
tions" ruled America, and prosperity
had not yet come in with protection.
| Tariff made things cheap. A Swiss
watch which cost $50 when the free
traders were in power went begging for
purchasers to-day at So 30. Woolen
goods that cost $50 under a system of
free trade were worth under a prOtec-
tive tariff SO, and broadcloth had be-
come so common that gentlemen would
not wear it because every waiter who
dished up their hash could afford, and
| did afford it. 1t was no longer a lux
ury.
| Then the speaker introduced a nov
| city when he asked the band to play
| before he took up the silver end Of his
argument The band accordingly played
Rally Round the Flag" and the crowd
| cheered.
Then the speaker drew the bag Of
| Doodle he had brought from the East
In it were a 50, SO and $50 gold piece
200 American pennies, 20 silver Mexican
dollars, 10 American dollars and a silver
spoon. He declared that silver was not
demonetized in 1873 and that the coin
| age of the dollarwas not stopped at that
time. 1t had been stopped in 1906 by
Thomas jefferson, the patron saint of
the Democratic party. Silver was de-
monetized at that time, but twenty
later IL rlmnnPtiZp6 Sin0a
| rs, the year when it was claimed sill
yer was demonetized, 100000, 900 silver
dollars had been coined-sixty times as
Silver was not demonetized in '13 That
| statement was ''lie No. II
| Then the speaker took up the ten sill
yer dollars which had been coined in
| 1896. The silver dollar was not yet
| demonetized. Any American citizen
could get silver from the Government,
and the Government was willing to pay
the cost Of transportation. The Gov
ernment wouldn't do that with gold
gold didn't need that stimulus. The peo-
pie wanted it--they didn't want the sill
ver. The Democratic Populist said the
| gold dollar was a. two-dollar dollar, and
yet these 100 pennies will buy the gold
which goes into the gold dollar. Then.
said the speaker, isn't that ''lie No.
%" They say the silver dollar is a
| 1UO-cent dollar. Is it? To-day you can
buy this dollar for fifty of these PEN
nies; then is 1t a 10O-cent dollar? Isn't
this 'lie No. 3?''
The speaker here picked up the spoon.
the silver in which was worth 80 cents.
Bryan said take this spoon for dollar.
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