The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-10-23

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Chairman Republican Committee.
that the rich and the well-to-do and
the man that is prosperous will con-
tinue to prosper more: but we answer
the other proposition that the dollar
has been advanced, eXhalted; and the
man debased, by fair and square
denial. | have a good old friend here
on the platform who will remember
when man was wealthy if he was
worth $4,000; when man thought he
could leaYe $4,000 to his wife he would
leave her Independent and she need
not do any more labor; that would
make her independent. Not so now.
He can remember when a man could
live from the income, handsomely, of
$4,000. Not so now. There never
was time in your life or mine when
money, as such, would yield so little
as now. But he remembers not the
time when man with nothing but
his hands could go out and win for
himself and his children as much of
life's comforts and luxuries as he can
now. (Applause.) l say that the man
who utters those things libels the civ
ilization to which he belongs. He
does not understand it. say to you
that money, as such, was never worth
as little as it is now, and manhood, as
such, was never worth as much as it
is. (Applause.)
In 1892 do you remember how YOUR
opponents sympathized with the plain
common people because they were so
wonderfully taxed? Why they said it
was a robber tariff, that it was build
ing up great surplus in the treasury
and it was an outrage to tax the peo-
pie in this way and build up sur
plus. Why should we not have a tar
if for revenue only, they claiming
and declaring in their platform of
1892 that it was not only unwise in
policy but unconstitutional as a prin-
ciple to furnish protection. We went
to the country on that issue But
when the verdict was turned in behold
you we lost the presidency, lost Con-
gress, lost the Senate, and for the first
time within the recollection of men
40 years of age the country was turn
ed over to the opposing party. NV
Democratic friend, will you pardon
me if | suggest that the result was
not Just what you promised? laugh
ter and applause.) | don't say that
unkindly. | just suggest it by way
of history, and l want to say this, by
way of history carry the evidence
with Inc to establish the faci-I don't
say it unkindly-I can prove it, that
tariff for revenue only has been
tried eight or ten times. That is not
to be cheered; an historical fact don't
need to be cheered. daughter But
it is true or | would not say it. ZAP
plause.)
SAVED BY SENATOR GORMAN.
Now, | say to you, the last time it
was tried it didn't turn out as prom
ised. You said you would give us an
old fashioned Democratic administra-
ton. Well, you came very near it..
Qaughter), but you didn't give us an
old fashioned Democratic administra-
ton; and do you know why? Because
that magnificent man-permit me to
say, Mr.. German, Senator German, a
bright, intelligent man, a good friend
of mine, a man entitled to anybody's
respects something of a protection
list, although Democrat, and he woye
into the Wilson-Gorman bill very
many items of protection; and a man
equally good and entitled to your re-
spect, Grover Cleveland, then Presi-
dent of the United States, refused to
sign that bill because it had protec-
ton in it. He said, 81 was nominal
ed upon a platform declaring that
protection was unconstitutional and
he was an out-and- out ee-trader, be-
lieved in no other purpose for tariff
than to furnish revenue; and he saws,
You can pass that kind of a bill if
you want to; it may become a law,
but Grover CleYeland will never stul-
tify his name by appending it to such
a bill;'' and he allowed the bill to be-
come law, saying it was full of per-
fidy and dishonor. Why? Because
Senator German had put protection
into the bill here and there-but not
all along the line-and for that reason
the great disaster was saved.
Now, my Democratic friend, | am
going to deliver criticism it is the
only one | ever indulge. If you hear
of me making any other speeches you
may know that indulge this criti-
cism, for whatever changes | make,
and whatever else | say, always put
this in, for it is the text around which
link every argument make. The
criticism is this, it seems to me, my
good Democratic friends, that your
political leaders evinced greater anx-
iety to discover an issue on which
they may win a campaign than they
have to formulate a policy for the
wise management of the Government
after they have won their campaign.
(Applause.)
You are not the first people that
have cheered that proposition. 1 have
had Democrat-one over here and