Show DEYOCR1TIC CLUB The Meeting Held at the Courtroom Last Night i There was the usual large turnout of members the Democratic Club at the meeting held in the Federal courtroom last evening A G Norrell presided and in the absence of Acting Secretary Howe his position was filed by Clarance W Hall The speaker of the evening was MR CASADY and he commenced by comparing the platform of the Democratic party with that of the Republicans The former was for the protection of the workingmen working-men and the people while the latter was for the benefit of monopolists and trusts A proper reductloaoi the existing exist-ing tariff would not reduce the wages of the working man and the 7 per cent reduction proposed by the Mills bill would not have such an effect The speaker called attention to the fact under the free trade policy of England one class of workingmen received over 3 per week more than the same class were paid in Germany under a protective protec-tive tariff Wages were regulated largely by population and the consequent conse-quent competition This was shown by the great difference paid workingmen New York and Chicago and the difference differ-ence was more strongly marked further west The millions of dollars which were being taken from the I channels of business and piled up in the Treasury was little less than a crime and President Cleveland was so I deeply impressed by this evil that ia his last annual message he urgaed upon Congress the necessity of prompt action upon it Some men in the west I said that the Democrats were working against silver In 18723 a Republican Congress had demonetized it and it was placed upon its former standard by the Democrats The gentleman returned re-turned to the tariff question and said that when the Republican had control con-trol of Congress and were legislating in regard to the Union Pacific Rail way they had placed round logs hewn ties and steel rails on the free list but when the poor farmers and pioneers of Minnesota Minne-sota Kansas and Nebraska needed lumber to build houses so that they would not have to live in dugouts on the praries like wolves they were compelled com-pelled to pay a tariff upon the materials Such facts as these showed what a great friend to the poor the Republican party had been The trusts and monopolies of today had been given their power and prestage by Republican prestage and Elaine said that they were private affairs and government had no right to interfere with them They had been bolstered up by a Republican Senate railroad kings and corporation lawyers The Democratic party had shown that these trusts were merely gigantic schemes to rob the people P L Williams was to have addressed the audience bat had been called out of town on business so the meeting adjourned |