Evening journal., 1897-03-17
TILLMlN ON FINANCE.
The South Carolina Senator
Tells Some Plain Truths.
AND HE DBNOUNCEs MONOPOLIEs.
ABOUT SIX HUNDRED PEOPLE
HEARD HIS ADDRESS IN THE
AUDITORIUM LAST NIGHT.


lima, delivered a lecture on FIJI
mace was disappointing to the Demo-
cratic League, which had persuaded
the distinguished Southerner to come
here 10 speak. There were about coo
people present.
But the audience was wholly in SYM
pathy with the speaker, and quickly
perceived and heartily applauded each
point that he made. Mr.. Tillman is an
emphatic and magnetic speaker, and
his address received the closest atten-
tion.
On the stage Of the Auditorium were
seated a number Of prominent Demo-
Gratis, including John f. Salisbury,
Senator John Pyle, Congressman L.
Irving Handy, Josiah Marvel, e. R.
Cochran, Jr., George c. Morton, Senator
Samuel Meredith Representatives
Charles NJ. Adams, Charles G.. Dempsey,
John B. Taylor, W. r. Davis,
Woodward w. Cheairs, Mattford
Short, Clerk G. w. Spicer, Jr.. Chaplain
H. G. G. Vincent, ergeant-at-Arms w
b. HAZEL, ex-Secretary of State John
A. Hawkins and the members of the
Democratic League. Mr.. Morton, who
is president of the league, introduced
Mr.. Handy as chairman of the meeting.
Mr.. Handy said in part
CONGRESSMAN HANDY'S REMARKS
1.-The business situation in our coun-
try is, to say the least, unsatisfactory.
, Our new president thought it so extra
: ordinarily unsatisfactory that he
r. promptly called an extraordinary ses-
sion Of Congress to pass remedial leg
islation. All of us agree with the presi-
dent in the opinion that the business
! situation is unsatisfactory, and we are
! ready to agree to the proposition that
it is in the power of the general gov
ernmcnt to bring some measure of re-
lief if it will do the wise thing.
But what is the wise thing? The
president, in his brief message sent to
e Congress yesterday, ignores all else and
bids us lay a heavier burden Of taxa
. tion on the people. Although four (not
p appropriation bills. extravagantly
p framed, failed of passage in the closing
q hours of the last Congress, and they
: might now be revised and cut down to
the point Of economy, we hear naught
= of cutting down expenditures to meet
= the reduced revenue of a people in re-
i duced circumstances. The ,cry is fOl
o higher taxes and we are warned to be
| very QuiNh Ubohl lAlpOhlnS lucln upon
r the people. In response to this demand
r Mr.. Dingley, chairman of the Ways anC
Means Committee, in the House, intro
: duced yesterday the new tariff bill
h IL notice among the provisions con
: tanned therein that it empowers th'
president to impose. by proclamation
a tariff tax of 112 cents a pound OF
such skins and hides as Wilmington
morocco factories need for raw ma
I terial. What will such tax do to ou
i important morocco industry? Thil
:. question is worthy of careful consider
4 alton by our manufacturers and theil
y employees, and by every man who has
e the welfare of Wilmington at heart"
{, He then proceeded to introduce Mr.
l. Tillman as a distinguished Statesman
d who knew of what ne was talking, anC
who in plain language would tell sOml
home truths about the current pOlitica
+ situation.
II Mr.. Tillman was greeted with tn
Is heartiest applause which continues
several minutes. When it had subside,
he said:
u MR.. TILLMAN'S ADDRESS.
y when was invited to come to VIII
H. mington I was surprised that such al
invitation should be extended whe
politics had grown stale and when tn
y battle had been fought and lost by on
d side and won by the other But tn
a. gentlemen explained to me that / coul
o. very likely do some good. Therefore
). have come to talk to you of the situa-
tion as | see it.
Last Summer and Fall. when tn
political parties had made their nom
= nations and their platforms. we were tOl
by those who control most of the news
n papers that if the man who received tn
/. most votes of the Chicago conventio
Il were elected. great harm would be don
to the country. Business would stae
e J nate, banks would break and gener;
ruin would confront us.
"On the other hand. if the candidai
49, nominated at ST. Louis were elected, W
were told that an era of unparallele
prosperity would be ushered in. Mil
and factories would resume and bus
ness would revive at once.
1T is fortunate, perhaps, for NJ
Bryan, and the platform on which t
stood, that he was not elected, for
would surely have been blamed for a
Of the broken banks and closed mil
and business stagnation which no
affect us.
Aud the president who was to giN
US all the prosperity is only hurryin
Congress to make haste and bring in
tariff bill to lay more taxation on Il
people so that times may be made be
ter.
Last November the American peop
only did not eject a president. None
elected him. And you have given you
selves not a chief magistrate, but kin
If you will consider the vast patroi
age at the disposal of the president, yc
will see that no ruler Of Europe exec
the car is his equal in the power
wields. Therefore you know that yol
bed Is made for four years more, al
- you rAust lie on IT,
we are the American people, all
us. And while there is now absolute
" no feeling between the North and q
'ly South, there is constantly increasiI
'ae feeling between the East and the Wes
ia that will some day come to head.
'ei continues to grow stronger and we,
patriots, must look for the reason of