Show THE TARIFF AND constitution HON T the he ordinary democrat la 13 nothing it II he in 11 riot not if t one of them were to get to heaven by mistake lie would not ho he there il a week until he would call it a convention if he could find two more of the same class claps and dently denounce nef the government because it had violated the constitution we lve have a 1 neighbor of that kind that can call establish thirty seven times a day that Is no where in tile constitution a reserved right to protect any industry in the united states by laying a tariff upon the article there Is xio no place a in that constitution which says that the ex of the constitution i hould have the privilege of breathing the air or drinking the water that runs down city creek or of taking the chances of being pol poisoned by drinking it when it 11 runs down parleys c canyon a nyon and yet men do breathe the ai air r and they drink the water sometimes that thai constitution does docs however distinctly say that the government earl can raise all the money it needs by different and there Is no BO place in that con constitution if aution which forbids that revenue from being raised by taxing certain classes of property properly so that it becomes a protection to the american producer the theory p great britain Is that thai no industry in that country con can have any krotec protection lion that what revenue the government has to have it can raise on those at ai tides on II 11 which aich revenue can best beat be collected vance hence it taxes sugar tea coffee and other things which are not produced in great britain the theory of 0 this country from the first has been that the government can call so levy its ha taxes that it can protect infant industries and other industries which are arc competing directly with pauper labor of 0 other lands that was formerly a universally ver sally conceded throughout the united states but when under it tile the new england states having no protection for their shipping which they had bad relied upon principally began to build manufactories manu factories and then the south took look up the quibble that rev revenue enkie must not be raised that way that made the real tire breach itch between calhoun and jackson that matter was waa all fought out by the great guns of sixty years ago at that time through the invention of oc the cotton gln eln cotton had bo be como come kins king in tho the united states and men 1 who I ho before had apologized for tho the institution of slavery saying it had been forced upon them went crazy and declared there could be no perfect civilization without slavery the effect was to degrade labor and from that day on the contest of the democracy which pretended to be the friend of tho the workingman has been for lower and lower wages trages all the th time lima not directly but by such adjustment of the laws as would compel the lower wages no one ona pretends that a a man of massachusetts chu Betts can run a factory and pay its ills laborers tu twice lee the wages that the englishman pays three union times the wages that the austrian pays pay his employees plo and maintain his big business unless what lie produces has iome alime protection against the same article artl cle produced by pauper r labor in other coun ideal when tho the democrats put out their platform in ISN and nominated mr cleveland on it sir mr cleveland snapped that plank lit in too the platform squarely in splinters in his letter of acceptance and distinctly stilted stated that no leading industry ought to be tampered with and made but since he became president he has fallen more and moro more into the ilia lands hands of oc the southern wins wing of the democracy and insists on freo free wool although he knows that aie hundreds of millions of of dollars invested in sheep in the united states slates and tho the same borne spirit attacks all raw material A little bit of a tariff tarl was saved on oil lead and copper Iti because senator vest senator jones of arkansas and 1 two 10 0 or throe three other democratic senators decided bcd lcd that oil as we the wilton wilson bill had conto conic up from tho the house the passage sage of it mould make ill an insurrection ditl in P pia land aid d so n ahk th hip th chaa liaa passed while slashing raw materials generally NIt without hout mercy anil and without sense I 1 eaves the heavy manufacturers fairly well protected and all the credit that Is due tho the democracy in that respect to la that it did as usual went squarely back on its promises and ana there to la no democratic paper that can take lake credit tor for the wilson bill na as it stands cupida without at the same earna time talc ing ine credit for tho the tact fact that its ita own party foiled failed to keep its lt promises to the people ot of the united states stater |