The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-10-21
New Yorker Deals SIedge Ham
mer Blows at Chicago.
DISCUSSES THE TARIFF
HE SAYS PROTECTION BREEDS
STRIkES-REPUB CUES
TONER souELcHED BY
FINE REToRT.
BY the Associated Press.

Chicago, Oct. 20. - Congressman
William Bourke Cochran Of New York
addressed an immense audience in
the auditorium here tonight. The
auditorium was crowded to its capaci
ty and many people were unable to
gain admittance The meeting was
presided over by Major Edgar b. Tol
man, corporation counsel of Chicago
Talks on the Tariff.
Mr.. Cochran confined his address to
a discussion of the tariff question as
applied to industrial conditions. A
decided feature of the meeting occur.
red while Mr. Cochran was denounc.
ing the protective tariff policy of the
republican party as inevitably tending
to a rise in the price OF commodities
and fall in wages. A man in one OF
the galleries shouted. Didn't you
support Mckinley" Considerable
cheering followed this question.
An Effective Reply.
MIR. Cochran waited until the ap.
plause had subsidized, paused for an.
other moment, and then said:
Il supported Mckinley in 1896 be
cause on another great question he
took such a position that it was Deces.
sary for me 10 support him, in spite
of his views On the tariff. But after
that contest was decided. Mckinley
and his associates sought to betray
the gold standard by sending com.
mission 20 Europe TO establish bimet-
alism. because they thought there
was as much prefit in treason as there
was in loyalty"
Tremendous applause followed Mr.
Cockran's retort.
The speaker further charged that
the gold standard was not fully es.
tablished until the British cabinet had
refused to accede to the proposals OF
the bimetallic commission to open the
mints of India to the coinage of silver.
Mr.. Cochran based his tariff argu
ment upon a portion of the report OF
the committee on labor and strikes
presented to the Episcopal convention
In Boston, which stated that 'thc
causes of violence of the last three
years In Pennsylvania, Colorado and
Illinois are not SO much economical |
AS moral"
Protection Breeds Strikes.
He charged that the strikes were a |
iirect result of the protective tariff
lystem, which, he said. inevitably |
breeds distrust between employer and |
,mploye. by Increasing the price of
commodities and lowering the. rate Of
wages
by this system" he said, relations |
u men are wholly changed from wha;
hey should be. II is a system which
lerverts the natural law of provi-
lence and substitutes for II a policy
# plunder. upon which the republican
'arty thrives and by which is exists
Nowadays. sometimes great wealth
$ regarded as a reproach. Let the
government take its hands out of pri-
ate industry. and then every fortune,
owever great, will be a tribute to
he results of industry. and not mon
ment OF depravity Eliminate this
system Of protection. which
ives one man profit from another. and
hen you will find all men living In
,eace and prosperity"
Denounccs Colorado MiIitsrisnn.
Mr.. Cochran denounced the system
4 military rule established for
ime in Colorado. IF order is TO
e maintained" he said. "by methods
{ force and violence. then republican
has perished. That Is or
cr such is maintained in Warsaw.
either the system of Warsaw is TO be
established throughout the Union. or
he system of Washington must in
expel the system of War
aw But in the last analysis II
ONES down To this-we must restore
aspect for law by making the law
rorthy-of respect"