Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-05
CLEvELAND'S SPEECH
Tariff the Topic Of Second
Campaign Address
NEWARK LAST NIGHT
ARRANGEMENT OF PROJECTION
DENUNCIATIoN OF TRUSTS.
Declared Real Prosperity Lies Only in
the Free Trade Of the
Worlds Markets.
NEWARK LAST NIGHT

N j., last night He waited ten minutes
for the cessation of the cheering and noise
that his appearance brought forth. and then
addressed 5000 persons who crowded to-
gether on the tanbark of riding academy
The occasion was the closing democratic
rally of the campaign, rally under the
auspices of club of first voters"
During his speech Mr.. Cleveland was in
terrupted by remarks of approval from
enthusiastic listeners, and on several oc-
casions when he departed from his text
to impress upon his hearers some point
upon state issues the demonstration broke
out afresh and continued for several min
utes.
Mr. Cleveland said:
1T was twenty years ago, almost to a
day that / appeared before a Newark audi
ence charged with the responsibility of my
party's presidential candidacy. The demo-
cratic platform in that campaign denounced
the republican party for having failed to
relieve the people from crushing war taxes
and declared that unnecessary taxation was
unjust taxation. This platform also prom
ised that. if intrusted with the control of
the government. the democracy would
purity the administration from corruption,
restore economy, revive respect Tor law
and revise tire tariff in a spirit of fairness
to all Interests
1T was in support of such a platform
and in obedience 40 the promptings of
democra tic Impulse that said on that oc-
casion:
The righ; OF the government TIC exact
tribute from the citizen Is limited by It's
actual necessities, aad every cent taken
from the people beyond that required for
their protection by the government is no
better than robbery.
Tariff No Better Than Robbery.
at was under tie operation of disgrace
full outcome of :. &C gs.ve show of tariff
reforma lion by its trends that the battle
of 1881 was fought. The average rate of
duty on impoF.s ,Lea prevailing was some
thing over IL per cent; and this rate the
people, by Their verdict at the polls, con-
demned as unnecessary and unjust. and de-
nounced its eXactions as no better than
robbery.
II have ventured to remind you of these
incidents for an especial purpose. | de-
sire to direct your attention to the fact
that in the contest of twenty years ago
the tariff then existing was condemned be-
cause in and of itself without accom-
plces OF vicious associates, 1t was guilty
of deSpoiling people in their homes.
Trusts and combinations did not then APP
pear as its confederates. If they existed
at all they were infant industries, too few
and too young to be mentioned in the plat
form OF either of the great political parties.
and too newly born to be the companions
of such other infant industries as, though
still unweaned. had actually grown gray at
the breasts of sinfully indulgent tariff pro-
lection
Though it Is sometimes now said that
the tariff has nothing to do with trusts, Mr..
Havemeyer, the most competent of all men
to give expert testimony on the subject,
has declared, The tariff is the mother of
trusts, and the trusts themselves were pre-
cocious enough to know this at the begin
ming of their nfantile existence.
They knew that tariff protection builds
a high wall around American industries,
which guards them against competition or
disturbance from abroad. and they know
that nothing prevents the ra sing of prices
to the full height of this wall, except COM
petition among these industries themselves,
resulting in the underselling of each other
at home and within the fortified area of
their operations.
Means Less Work and Lower Wages.
Nor is 1t alone in this direct and palpa-
BILE way that high protection is an essential
factor in industrial combination. Those
who manage these affairs take into ac-
count and consider as an asset of their
undertaking the increased profits which
must result when tariff protection is
coupled with the suppression of home COM
petition and, counting this money in
hand they are enabled TO venture conf
IDENTIFY upon the purchase of similar indie
pendent enterprises at high valuations,
paid in watered stock, TO force their CO.
operation by threats of runous attack
Schemes of this sort, secured against
foreign interference by a protective tariff
and shielded from domestic disturbance by
covenants Of joint participation and de-
Tense, when contaminated and fully under
way. enhance their profits by what is called
economy in administration. which is an
other phrase for consolidation of manage
ment but which really means less work for
many employees and laborers and the reduc-
uon of wages 10 the lowest possible limit.
Protection Demands Tribute.
II ought not to fatigue your intelligence
by detailing further facts showing that the
protective policy which the republican
party has imposed upon the country. and
which that party I'm the pending campaign
noisily defends. not only has something to
do with trusts. but that by its very nature,
well as 10y its natural results, il is the
parent and accessory Of the ro0bing ma
rauders which VeX and aftlict our peoples
life and demand tribute in every home of
our land.
They dictate the prices we shall pay for
the food we eat, the clothes We wear and
the habitations In which we live We are
within their shadow from the cradle to the
grave. Even beyond the grave they follow
us We hear OF tombstone trust, pro-
tected by tariff duty of from 33 to 60 per
cent; and the newspapers informed us
only a few days ago that a convention of
associated undertdkers was thrown into
CONSERVATION by the non-appearance of its
treasurer
"Glamor of Unsound Prosperity"
Have our people been so misled by the
glamor of unsound prosperity and so de-
celved by the pretense that an exorbitant
protective tariff in some mysterious way
assures their happiness and easy exist
ence that they are willing to accept blind
faith in a prosperity which the masses of
our countrymen neither nor feel as
against the tangible evidence supplied by
increased cost of every necessary of life, en-
forced self-denial In every home and every
curtaied opportunity for remunerative en-
ployment?
H,or Of fTftG md
lies become so familiar and have their
pretense of benevolent purposes so deluded
our people that they are willing abjectly to
surrender their claim to equality before the
law, and to support policy which to their
undoing makes these aggregations of riches
and power more rich and more powerful?
Have the plain people of our land-inde-
pendent proud Americans-so degenerated
that they do not resent the humiliating sug-
gestion that those made rich through I'M