The San Francisco call., 1904-11-05

NEWARK, N. j., Nov. A. tn a tri-
butte to the strength and eI usiasm Of
the first voter. former Presi lant Grover
Cleveland in Newark to-night began
his second speech of the present can
paign. He waited ten minutes for q
cessation of the cheering ano noise thst
his appearance brought FORT, and Tor
thirty-five minutes after he began his
address 5000 persons. crowded together
on the tanbark of a riding academy,
alternately listened and cheered The
occasion was the closing Democratic
rally of the campaign, rally under
the auspices of club Of first voters.
Mr.. Cleveland was the permanent
chairman.
On Mr.. Cleveland's appearance on the
platform cheer after cheer rolled from
one end of the armory to the other.
Men stood on chairs twirling hats on
canes, women waved handkerchiefs and
clapped their hands, while patriotic
airs from band could not be heard.
For ten minutes the former President
stood bowling and smiling in acknoWl-
edgment and repeatedly attempted to
address the crowd A halfway quiet
was then restored and the speech was
begun, only to be interrupted by an
other outburst that lasted for three
minutes more. 1t was only when the
audience was drowned into silence by
the Kisses of those desirous of hearing
the former President that Mr.. Cleve-
land could go on.
This was Mr.. Cleveland's first public
appearance in this campaign in his own
State.
During his speech Mr.. Cleveland was
interrupted by remarks of approval
from enthusiastic listeners and on sew
eral occasions when he departed from
his text to impress upon his hearers
some point upon State issues. the dem
onstration broke out afresh and con-
tinued for several minutes.
The remarks of the speaker upon the
needs of a conservative Government
were received with an outburst almost
equal to that at Mr.. Cleveland's en-
trance into the hall. and when he con-
cluded with this appeal that the
American people may be aroused to
their sense of justice by these senti-
ments,' the audience was on it's feet,
while at the last words of the speaker
rallying his hearers to the support of
that noble, that manly standard
siasm seemed to gain renewed strength.
Mr. Cleveland's speech follows.
CONDEMNS HIGH TARIFF.
1t was twenty years ago almost to day that
l appeared before Newark audience charged
tfal candidacy. The Democratic platform in
that campaign denounced the Republican party
for having failed to relieve the people from
hat
sary taxation was unjust taxation. 1his plat
form also promised that, IL entrusted with the
control of the Government, 1.-The Democracy
would purify the administration from corrup-
ton. restore economy, revive respect for law
interests
In the contest of twenty years ago the tariff
then existing was condemned because in and of
itself, without accomplices or vicious asso-
ciates, ii was guilty of despoiing our people in
their homes. Trusts and combinations did not
then appear as its confederates If they ex-
listed 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 protection.
The multiplication of this new race OF infant
industries soon grew to be wonderfully in ex-
cess of all other birth rate records. In 1855
they had attracted attention enough to be de-
nounced on both party platforms. The pre-
cocity of these infant prodigies ran far ahead
of the most exaggerated imagination of parent
recognized in the policy of high protection the
way to growth and strength and wealth.
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 precocious enough to know
this at the beginning of their infantile exist
ence.
They know that tariff protection builds a
high wall around American industries which
guards them against competition dis
turbances from abroad and they know that
nothing prevents the raising of prices to the
full height Of this wall except competition
among these industries themselves, resulting in
the underselling of each other at home and
within the fortified of their operations
They know that this barrier standing between
our consumers and the exaction of prices as
high the wall of tariff protection must be re-
moved and the margin between prices modi-
fed by home competition and the prices attain
able without such competition be under the con-
troll of these industries If they were to enjoy
to the fullest extent the fruits of Government
favoritism. They know that home competition
could be eliminated by such agreements among
the industries interested as would regulate
prices and production and concentrate manage
ment; but above all things they know that all
devices would entirely fail to accomplish the
result desired IL any breach in the wall OF
protection against foreign interference was
permitted: and they know that the higher
this wall was raised the greater would be the
scope Of their extortionate Vaccinations.