Show dib HILLS hil L S SERMON addressing a buffalo audience ADMITTING A disappointment he e declares it must be subordinated to party I 1 PAINTING A DOLEFUL PICTURE of wago reduction low prices business and bankruptcy as a result of protection I 1 BUFFALO U 11 1 1 A lo 10 sept e p t 21 A vast audience con congregated gr g ablat at the music hall tonight to list listen to se tor 1 lieutenant governor sheehan and other democrats senator hill was received with tremendous applause 11 iio 0 said I 1 am ant here tonight in promotion of democratic principles plea and to advocate the election of grover cleve and 1 nt and adlai stevenson Steve ixon NO 0 o apology or explanation la is needed for my course among honorable men met the discharge ofa of a political politic dl duty outweighs all 1 minor c considerations ons de rations and in in this crisis olour of our count rys history and the great emergency of our party af fairo tu individual disappointments point ments or even alleged personal injustice should be subordinated subordinate t to faithful performance anco of cf political obligations we all have a mission now to fulfill petty jealousies must be dismissed regular organizations respected party discipline enforced enlo reed and apathy give way to enthusiasm thusia sm fhe the control of f this government for many years to come by one or the other of the great parties is is the prize at stake in the pending contest in which all other considerations should sink into insignificance pe irgon the tariff the senator said alere anere can aai be no reasonable doubt that tariff taxation will continue to be permanently the policy of the government notwithstanding the opinions of sincere but in practicable theorists who advise its abandon abandonment lit en t the tile dispute between the two parties art arises es over the extent effect and 0 objects of taxation the conclusive and a sufficient bent objection to the protective tart tariff ris is that it is an abuse of the taxing power compels the tile whole people to pay tribute to a left it Is a system based upon injustice and unfair discrimination and tends to build up monopolies the democratic position is so plain and reasonable that ho lie who reads u understands ider bands it it believes fo liev es the true and constitutional purpose of the tariff la is the rat raiding sing of the necessary revenue for tile support of the government and that is all the tile belie believe the question of revenue should be the in the tariff and the fostering of comein some industries dus tries the primary one i am ant willing 1 to concede said i illy the lie a senator that 1 the a first or immediate effect of the high tariff upon a now industry la is usually to toi nerease prices price and sand stimulate business but this effect ia ill generally ganen Uly followed od by undue corn com petition occasioned by the vary very incident to the ilia favoritism shown them overproduction results then ata agnation gnA tIon in business ensues and ili in the end there comes a reduction of wages a fall in ili prices and bankruptcy to many industries fills this is a faithful picture of the tile evil evils of protection drawn from front the business history ot of this country for over seventy years 1 I dont believe our american manufacturers require the protect protection in the republican parly party seems beems BO so anxious to thrust upon them especially if they were provided aroll v dod with free raw materials as the democratic parly party proposes to do all that america needs is a free field and a lair fair light fight in ili the race of life and site shotwill will prove it in nearly every department of oc brove human uman activity the senator also devoted some time to the question of the federal elections bill lieutenant governor sheehan spoke briefly saying in part democratic tion and democratic manhood alike domand demand prompt and hearty acquiescence in the jud judgment rilent of the democratic contention convention ven tion work vork unselfishly and intelligently for the tile election of grover cleveland and I 1 adlai stevenson |