Show DISSECTS HIS VICTIMS ARE SENATOR HILL AND MR WILSON the of in A in A addrena llenore tho the philadelphia hann manufacturers facto rera club exposes democratic inconsistencies tho tile following is a portion of governor mckinless McKin leys recent philadelphia speech taken from a verbatim report published N in the times of that city senator hill of new now york in III his recent speech in brooklyn rejects the tariff plank of tho the national platform and announces ono one for himself ilia his is a tariff for revenue only with incidental or accidental protection but that I 1 may do him no injustice I 1 will read you the exact words of his speech wo we believe in revenue with incidental protection and not in protection with incidental revenue in ili so far a aa the tariff is necessary to meet the necessities of the government it may bo be I 1 imposed M and any other benefits which may be legitimately derived from its imposition may and do necessarily accompany it if the burden opposed would wo aid onerato to prevent foreign competition tho tile benefit is indirect and unobjectionable that is if it comes by accident it is unobjectionable tio reading further from mr hills speech he be says president harrison arrison II ii in his ingenious letter of acceptance en deavors to place air our party in a false attitude by calling attention to the fact that while our platform in 1881 re adopted in IM 1888 contains an express plank upon this question of the equalize equa liza tion of wages yet et it was omitted in 1802 1892 and asserts that is tho the president does that we have changed our position mr hill hi II 11 says 1 I beg to differ with him thero thera has been no change cl iange it is not always practicable to place in a platform tho the details of proposed legislation tf on whenever you require a bill of his particulars then you have got 11 democrat Demo cratl I 1 the platforms of 1884 1684 and IW 1888 this ia Is still from mr hill were elaborate and lengthy and it was desirable to simplify them general principles plea wore were stated in 1892 rather than particulars as in 1884 wo we stand not only upon our platform of 1802 1602 but upon the mills wills bill 01 the mills bull bill I 1 they stood on that in 1888 1883 until after the election and thia is the first suggestion of a revival of it that I 1 havo have heard since for yon you will remember that the house of representatives of the fifty second congress which was democratic by majority rejected the author of tho the mills bill and refused to make him speaker and when they camo came to make tariff legislation rejected tho the whole principle of tho the mills bill wo we stand not only upon our own platform of 1802 1892 but upon tho the mills bill which was the latest general democratic legislation upon tariff subjects I 1 am glad that senator hill count what was done bythe by the fifty sec ond congress ho he count that aa as amounting to anything for ho he calls the legislation of four yeara years ago tho the last legislation of tho the democratic party then be he says if I 1 were asked to define as concisely as possible the whole democratic policy I 1 should state it in substantially these words we favor a 0 tariff for revenue only limited to the necessities of tho the government eco administered and so adjusted in its application as to encourage productive industries dus tries at homo and afford just asom cam sensation pensa tion to labor but not to create or foster monopolies these aro are the cardinal principles upon which the details of all tariff legislation should be based that is the platform of 1881 and of 1888 now this explanation of tho the position of the democratic party might go without question as it has gone in many campaigns of tho the past but for the fact that the tha very thing that sir mr hill says in his new platform that very thin was rejected by the national democratic convention af 0 f 1892 it was stricken oil out qt by the vote veto of to the very thing ho employs end and this explanation of the democratic position might go unchallenged even from froin senator hill but for the fact that grover cleveland in liis his madison square garden speech approved of the platform ut chicago and accepted nomination on it hill would mako make a platform for the democratic party ho he in a position to do it I 1 speak of him with great respect and without meaning any discourtesy and hoping that it will be justified in honorable debate I 1 want to suggest to him that not only was his platform rejected but lie himself was rejected the ipso dixit might be accepted but for the utter utterance atice of the lion hon william L wilson of west virginia who wile presided over the tile deliberations of the national convention of 1892 and he who is one of the best informed and the tile most cultivated of tho tile tariff reformers of the tile united states calls the langu language ago employed by air mr mil hill as a makeshift and a straddle iu ill his article in ili the september number of the north american review that of this month mouth listen to what mr wilson says when the recent convention met at chicago tho the representatives of the democratic party were united and zealous in their devotion to tariff reform and full fall of the confidence born of many victories freshly won under its banner they expected IL clear and courageous statement of fundamental party principle and of the bartys attitude to existing e is ting law the resolutions says mr air wilson as reported to the committee left nothing to be desired on the latter licad head that means its indignation at the tile new now tariff law but instead of tho the former contained it 11 preliminary paragraph or two in which avith much that was wils admirable appeared some of tho the familiar but now unsatisfactory phrases of the makeshift of IBS I 1 but mr hill says there is nai no essential difference between the platforms of ibl and 1893 1892 tho the convention says mr wilann with very slight protest f from rent tharom cittee on platform took the risk ot striking oat out these phrases and theia setting and of inserting in place of them a clear declaration of f fundamental party part doctrine the inserted words are these wo we denounce republican protection a al a fraud a robbery of the majority 0 of I 1 the american people for the benefit ot of the few then if protection is a fraud inci dental protection is an incidental fraud we declare it to bo be a fundamental fundamental fundament ai principle of the democratic party that thal the federal government has no cons titu dional power to impose and collect tariff duties except for the purpose of revenue only do yon you know aliat that reads like it reads like the nullification resolutions of south carol ina the very langua 1 language geem employed was that congress bad had no powei to lay and collect duties for other than revenue purposes and if there is any difference between the resolutions of nullification and this resolution it is bebau tho the trainers framers of this resolution were mon mort I 1 familiar ia familiar with the confederate constitution 1 than those nullification resolution bial ill of sixty years eare ago says mr wilson tins this is no new doo doc trine it is a return to the frank and explicit declarations of 1870 and 1880 showing that the party is 19 now ready tc to avow in the tile thick of battle what it then avowed before the combat ope opened ned there is little need for comment u upon t the lie paragraphs of the report r t of the coin m matteo atteo which was astric stricken n out in cal con bention ven tion they were no longer aids ant encumbrances in the fight the and courage of tho the party aro are mightily different in 1892 from what they were ir 1884 what was necessary prudence then would be cowardice now that is the declaration of the president of the national democratic convention that nominated grover cleveland will senator hill please observe this scorch ing rebuke administered to him in ad vance of bis his brooklyn speech spee cli the convention says mr wilson responded fully and heartily to the feeling of the party it represented it showed its confidence in tariff reform as I 1 the he great and winning issue by its nominating mr cleveland in the face of warning that would bavo driven it from a man who did not stand for a cause it 11 meant that thit there should bo be nothing am about the bartys attitude to the tile cause and that the statement of it principles should not bo be overlaid with cumulative limitations in all this the convention was right we have passed that stage in the great tariff controversy where it is necessary or proper to encumber party platforms with limits eions promises and protests they had reached tho the stage in in the fight in the opinion of tho the majority when they could speak the truth and announce without quibbling the party doctrine and they did it and it ia is their party platform upon which you must pass freo trade simple and puro pure ag as simple and puro pure as tho the british frei fre trade for england although she is called a free trade country collects more than every year from custom services but she does it by putting her bariff upon foreign products that do not come into competition with her own products |