Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-10-31
MR.. CLEVELAND SPEAKS.

MR.. CLEVELAND SfEAhc.
Former President Grover Cleveland
spoke at Morrstown, n. j., last night.
His visit to Morristown was in the in
terest of DR.. w. c. Flanagan, who is
running against Representative Charlie:
w. Fowler in the Fifth Congressional
district.
In his speech Mr.. Cleveland turned
to the tariff and quoted long extracts
from message of his, advocating re-
duction of tariff taxation. After deal
ing with the tariff at some length he
fell to a consideration of the trusts.
He said
as it not true then that the encroach-
ment of the doctrines of high protection
have been constantly progressive? Is 1t
not true that the heedlessncss of its
expestant beneficiaries and their disre-
gard for the welfare of the great mass Of
consumers is more and more impu-
IDENTIFY exhibited, and is it moi true that
t. all other reasons for reform in our
tariff laws there is added the birth and
growth of their cruel and unmerciiul
progeny of trusts and combinations
which stand guard against all attempts
to seek relief in the field Of competition?
"The last exploit of the so-called
friends of the tariff in its revision should
amply satisfy any citizen that the spirit
of a high protective tariff grows by in
diligence and mocks what it feeds upon,
I'd that its progressive greed and ruth
lessness is becoming more and more a
menace to the welfare and happiness OF
our people.
GLOW long has it been thought safe
to cheat consumers of coal by putting it
on the free list, but honestly providing
for its customs taxation in another cum
ningly constructed provision of the law?
How recently have friends of the tariff
had the boldness to perpetrate such
trick and taking the chances of facing the
people when, in the painful stress of a
threatened coal famine, it should be ex-
posed.
ga high protective tariff defends the
trusts against foreign competition, and,
by confederacy in production and price,
they defend themselves against COMPETE
ton at home. Under the broad wings
of high protection and fattened by un-
earned accumulation they complacently
close their ears to the troublesome cry
for easier living from the everyday con-
sumner.
III need hardly refer to the prevalence
Just at this time among the supporters of
high protection of declarations and pro-
LESSONS in favor OF readjustment. They
see the handwriting on the wall as they
have never seen itbeiore. Does it mean
that they are sincerely willing TO do
something for the people as against old
comrades who have heretofore paid well
for the neglect Of the people?
'How can we believe this when we
see still paraded up and down before our
sight the hoary-headed, bloated and NAL
odorous old fraud and pretense that the
tariff should be revised by its friendsY
What have these friends of the tariff
done that they should again be trusted ?
They have quoted the peoples fears
and protested soIicitude for their welfare
and promised to lead them to pleasant
places, and now that shoals and rocks
have been struck they seek, by another
promise, to amend the whole affair and
retain the confidence and trust Of those
they have deluded'
He closed as follows: 'If you be-
lieve in giving the consumers of the land
a better chance, if you believe in remoy-
ing the letters of trusts and combinations
from the limbs of Americans, giving
freedom to individual endeavor, and if
you desire to enforce in public life more
more fairness, more equali-
ty and a more sensitive regard for the
peoples we'll being, you can be well and
ably represented in all these things by
the election to Congress Of the young,
vigorous, and intelligent nominee of the
democracy of the district" "