Evening journal., 1910-04-01

vision. The tariff had beon revised
by its friends-to their own advantage.
The Republican party had betrayed It's
pledges. and had revised the tariff up
instead OF down. The cost OF living
had gone up and the standard OF liv-
ing down-thanks TO the Republican
party. The only object OF the high
tarif was TO permit the manufacturer
10 get more for an article than II
was worth.
The Presidents designation of the
new tariff law as the best ever formu-
lated by the Republican party was
ridiculed. The sugar schedule was re-
duced. IL was true, since every time
you ate ton Of sugar you saved n
dollar. Against that the duty on corn
had been increased from IS 20 20 cents
a bushel
The increasing volume OF gold had
actuated the increase IN prices Of COM
modities IN a degree, Il was true, but
how was It that meat sent from Chi
cago was cheaper IN London than IN
Chicago? Was that because OF tho
increasing volume OF gold7 Did the
volume OF gold raise prices IN this
country and fail to do Il IN England,
or In Canada2
They must put the low pedal on this
tariff question to. Less tariff would
mean more trade. The purpose OF the
tariff was TO obstruct trade, which was
blessing and not a curse. Our tarfff
/ walls to shield the trust must be torn
down He thought the humblest man
in Delaware entitled to more consider
alton from his government than all the
monarchies across the seas Make the
trusts meet the foreign competitor IN
honest competition. The Republican
party was not responsible for the pros
perity in this county, the American
laborer was the architect of his own
fortune. our merchant marine had
been driven from the seas not by
foreign fleets, but by Legislation at
home-our niggardly navigation laws
At one time American ships had car
ried 30 per cent. Of the countrys COM
merce; to-day they carried but Q per
cent. The ship subsidy was conceived
in greed and would be brought forth
/ in graft.
| Sees Victory again"
The next House would be overwhelm-
ingly Democratic. and let Delaware
swell the majority The Presidents
"blundering unwisdom" TO take regula-
ton of interstate traffic from State
control was denounced as a kow-tow to
/ the corporations. There were griev-
ances to be adjusted. but not by Civ
| ing the Federal Government omnipotent
power The central bank was an op-
portunity FOR the dominance of Wall
street.
It would require the Aosest organi-
zation by Democrats to contest the
continued concentrators Of power and
wealth, the speaker declared. Let
Delaware send Democrats TO the SEN
ate and the House. It would be idle
to attempt TO defeat "Uncle" Joe un-
less you defeated his nephews also. The
democracy was to have its inning
again. It had learned by experience.
The people had learned that the panic
of 1893 had not been caused by the adj
ministration Of Grover Cleveland, nor
had the panic OF recent years. Let
/ Democrats reconsecrate themselves TO
the Jeffersonian principles upon which
the country had fiourished. Senator
Gore sat down amid wild cheers.
Mr.. Stanley Speaks.
Congressman Stanley was introduced
as a valiant defender Of Democratic
principles. And was greeted enthusi-
astically. He at once drank a toast
to the triumphant democracy Of Del
aware After an eloquent eulogy Of
Deiaware's democracy and a forecast
of its speedy triumph, Congressman
Stanley described Delaware as pea
10 inspire its neighbors. Appeal to pas
sion and prejudice had brought about
the passing
There was no sectional Democracy
silver or gold Democrats; they were all
Democrats. They had returned TO the
house Of their fathers. Tho assault upon
Cannon was not to atone for the iniQuitics
, Of Republicans for Cannonism was the en-
. bodiment Of the party. not the failings Of
, a man. The speaker indeed, preferred
, Cannon to either Taft or Aldrich. Mr..
} Taft was the Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde Of
2 American politics. The causes OF the
fall of Cannon were three. the writ OF
Injunction the wood paper pulp question
and the protected interests"
Discussing Taft, the speaker said he had
all respect for his office. but was con-
vlnced he moved along the line OF least
resistance. Roosevelt was characterized
as "a daring innovator" and "a pract.sed
politician. There were only two policies
he hadn't stolen from tho Democratic
party-taking 'In God We Trust" from
, coins and simplihed spelling.
Taft's policy Of railroad regulation was
denounced as railroad protection. There
was but one thing the Republican party
could not do--reform. Cannon had called
the insurgents the slough" Of the Re.
publican party, but they we're not they
were a growth The thing Democrat.
should proclaim was not war uponCannon
Taft or Aldrich, but upon Republicanism
the doom Of which was at hand. No cry Of
dead issue would evade Il; the ono issu,
was the tariff. lie was as certain thai
\ Democracy would win as he was thai
God reigned.
Others as Speakers.
Mr.. Stayton, who is Hettie Green's law
YER and native of Smyrna. made a
witty address in which no told storle,