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CONVINCING ARGU MENT. (Continued From Second Page) pool, it rises s cent in New York, if it falls a cent loaay in uiverpooi, it falls a cent in New xoric, ana that the price both in Liverpool and New York is nxea almost wnouy oj the supply and demand. Is the laboring man in North Carolina helped by the tariff? His wages have increased since 1890 about fourteen per cent, but seventy- five per cent of the wages of the la' boring man goes for living expenses and the cost of living nas increased since 1890 forty-seven pjr cent. In his struggle for riches he is like the frog in the well in his ef forts to escape from tne well, tne frog jumped up one foot during th Republican! For Tariff Dlacuaatona. Republicans dare not openly de fend the trusts. They dare not openly advocate monopolies, al though they are children of the tariff. They cannot deny the fact that protected trusts, while claim ing they cannot compete against the foieigner iu the home market, are selling every year milhous of dol lars worth of the;r products in foreign markets in competition with the cheapest products or the world They cannot deny the fact that they nvc selling any or tnese pro ducts at from thirty to forty per cent less than they sell them in the homeZmarket. They cannot deny the fact that many trust products aie protected by duties greater than the entire cost of the product. In this dilemma that party has practically stopped discussing the tariff, except to assert in general terms that the country is niarve lously prosperous and that protec tion is the caus of this prosperity. In defiance of all the facts of history, they assert and re-assert, that we have always had prosperity under protection and adversity un der low tariff. That Democratic tariffs are panic breeders and that Republican tariffs are panic proof . T" ? Chu of Panto. Now, we have had three great panics in this country, and all three occurred when the country was working under high protective tariff. Probably the greatest panic of history was in 1873; It was not a panic, it was a wreck. It was the blackest period of all our his tory. Disaster and distress stalked abroad on the land and yet the country was under a protective tariff and had been for more than ten years. The next panic was iu 1890, while Harrison was president, and while the McKinley tariff was in full operation. The banks failed, railroads went into the hands of receivers, corn was so cheap is the West that it was burned for fuel, the price of cotton went down, our foreign trade fell off. In a short time the Populists organized and marched to the music of hard times and tight money. In 1892 the Populist party poll ed in this country a million votes it voted forty-seven thousand in this State, and every one of those votes was a protest against the hard times that had come about under Harrison. This fierce panic reach ed its culmination in the summer of 1893, nearly a year before the Wil son tariff bill became a law. Although this fierce panic began two years before Cleveland was elected and reached its culmination a year before the Democratic tariff bill was passed, Republicans have said that it was due to the election of Cleveland and the adoption of the Democratic tariff in 1894. At the time of this great panic, nobody, neither Democrat, Republi can, or Populist, attributed it to the tariff. Democrats and Popu lists attributed it to the demonetiza tion of silver, while the Republicans attributed it to the loss of confi dence beginning by the issuance of silver dollars under the Sherman Law. Nation Proaperoaa Under Democratic Tariff Iieglalatlon. The country is prosperous today, but the greatest era of prosperity we have ever had in this country was from 1850 to 1860, when the Walker tariff bill, passed by the Democrats, was in force. The percentage of -increase in agricul ture and commerce and manufactur ing during that decade was eighty five per cent, while the percentage of increase in agriculture, com merce and manufacturing was only thirty-uine percent from 1890 to 1900. IftheDingly high tariff is the cause of the present prosperity, the Walker low tariff was the cause of thu greater prospeiity which wo enjoyed from 1850 to iwo. The truth is that 111? groat pns perityof both periods was no, iluc to a difforent oaa-io, hut t t r snn.' cause: That from. lH5o to 1m;i.i was due to the great dif-ovrit-s ot gold in California and in Australia, resulting in an immense increase in the volume of money by which prices were inflated and business stimulated, and that of today is due to the immense discoveries of gold in Alaska and in the Klondike, by which the volume of currency has enormously increased, the per capi ta in the country and in the city, having risen from $20 to $32 per head. The cause from 1850 to 1860 was world wide and the prosperity was world wide. The cause dur ing the last decade has been world wide and the prosperity has been world wide. If the cause from 1850 to 1860 had been tariff, prosperity would have been found only in spots throughout ihe world. If the pros perity was due to protection it would only be found in spots throughout the world. As a mat ter of ff.ct, we are enjoying in this country today no greater prosperity than the other industrial nations of the world are enjoying. We are no more prosperous than free trade England. A gentleman, who had just re turned from Canada a few days ago said that Canada was more prosper ous than we. We o netimes boast of our foreign export trade and point to it as a conclusive evidence of our great prosperity. It is true we have a larger portion ot the foreign trade than Great Britiau, but we have a very much larger population than Great Britian. It is larger than that of France or Germany, but we have a very much larger population that either. Our export trade per capita h far less than that of many other nations. Even the Dominion of Canada which has been regarded as a backward country, has a larger export trade per capita than we have. Ihe little republic ot Ar- gintine has a larger per capita ex port businessa than we have. 1 have talked to you Ion. enough about national matters. I wish to speak to you briefly about State af fairs. State Republican Rule Without Back Ing. In State matters I am a Democrat not only because I believe in the frinciples of that party, but because Know, as every intelligent man in the State knows, that the masses and leaders who compose the Democratic party in this State are more capable of giving our people good govern, ment than are tne masses and leaders who compose the Republican party. 1 am a Democrat in btate matters because I know, as every intelligent man in the State knows, that both times when the Republican party was in power in North Carolina, it has given the people bad and cor rupt and extravagant government and proved itself unworthy of pub lic confidence. I am a Democrat in State matters, because I know as every intelligent man in the State knows, that both times since the war when the Demo crats have been in power they have given the people not only good gov ernment, but as good government as any people here or elsewhere have ever enjoyed. I have never neurd a man or eith er party defend the government which the Itepublican party gave this State when it was in power during the reconstruction period. I have nevir heard a man of eith er party attempt to defend the ini quities and infamies of the Holden- Kirk regime. I have never heard a man attempt to defend the suspension in those days of the great writ of habeas cor pus and the substitution of trial by court martial for trial by jury. I have never heard a man attempt to defend the manner in which the Republican party in those diys squandered and divided among themselves the school funds of the State, and while levying and collect ing taxes for schools, built no school houses and taught no schools. I have never heard a man attempt to defend the manner in which that party in those days issued millions of dollars of bonds against the State for the construe: ion of railroads, without building a single mile of railroad. I have never heard a man attempt to defend the manner in which that party in those days increased the State debt to the extent of millions of dollars without erecting a single public building, without adding one dollar to the tangible property of the State, and leaving, when it de parted from power, an empty treas ury. It is a record which has no de- Jtate of Ohio, City of Toledo, 1 Lucas County Fnink J. Cheney makes oath that he Is senior partner of the tlnn nf F. .1. I'lieney Co. rtoiuir business In the City of Toledo, ( ounty aud Stat" n(oreald. and that aid tlnn will pay the sum of uNK HTNHKKU HOLLAKS for each and every ease o( Catarrh that cnunnt iiuvil hy the 11-" ni llall" Gitarih Cure, KI1ANK' .1. LHKM.Y sworn to licforemc aud suliscrllxjd in my res- em-e. tm .tli day of lieeeiu'ier. A. n. 1 A. W l.KA-nN. Not.iry fuhlie. Cure l taken lute F. J. CHUNKY & Co., Hold bv all IruitB;ii. ". ". lu.. lull's Kauiuy i'lUs iar tons! fenders and so far as I know, no apologists. Driven From Power for Incompetency When the people of North Caro lina drove that party lrom power in the early seventies, it was because it had proved itself utterly incompe tent. Because it had been extravt gant. Because it had been dishon est. Because it had beeu corrupt. Because it had destroyed the credit of the State and brought itself aud the State into disrepute and dishon or. bemocrats removed from power in 1894. In 1894 the Democratic party in North Carolina was defeated and removed from power in the State, but it was not because it bad not given the State wise laws, good aud honest government No one then made the charge that there had been any corruption, ;extrava gauce, dishonesty or mismanagement during the whole of the twentv three years that party had been In power in North Carolina. Even Marion Butler, who was the leader and forefront of the move ment which led to Democratic de feat in that year, had early in the campaign of 1892, placed the Dame of Elias Carr, the Democratic can didate for Governor, at the mast head of his paper, the "Caucasian", and while denouncing the National Democracy, declared that the Dem ocratic party had given the State exceptionally good government, and that there was no reason why the Democratic party should not be re tained in control in the State. The Democratic party was defeat ed iu North Carolina in 1894 not on account of any charge or claim that it had not during the whole twenty three jears it had been in power, given the people good and honest government, but because of the op position of the Populists in ihis State to Mr. Cleveland on account of his position on the silver ques tion and because of scarce money aud resulting low prices, which they ascribed and justly ascribed to the contraction of the currency through the denionitizitiou of silver by the Republican party. KCNION KEfOllll OK THE HKPUILICAN I'ARTY. The record which the Republican party made during the era of fusion control in North Carolina was not so extravagant and corrupt as that during reconstruction, hut it was equally odious to the iieople of North Carolina. In 181(8 and 1900 as in reconstruction days the people without much regard to past party affiliation aroue aud in wrath drove that party from power liecause it had again show j itself incompetent and unfit. Because it had again given the State extravagant government, bad government, c irrupt gov ernment. Since that time but few men have arisen in North Carolina bold enough to defend the record which that party made tinder liussell bold enough to defend the South Dakota Bond Suit treachery; bold enough to defend the infamous geremander of our eastern cities, by whic.i iu many places a minority of negroes were put in power over'a major ity of white people. There have lieen but few men bold enough to defend the corruption and looting that took place in those days in the penitentiary, and the downright stealing in the Treasury Department. Since those days no white mau whose name is worthy to lie mentioned, has arisen in North Carolina and openly defended the record of that party in turning a thousand white men out of office and putting a thou sand negrces in the ollices which they held. REPUBLICAN PA KIT OK TODAY. They tell us that the Republican par'y is better now than it. was in recoustructicn days. That it is better now than it was in the days of fusion. That i,t is more respecta ble and better able to give the people good and honest government. I deny itf. I say to you what the older men here know, that iu the old days of reconstruction just after the war, when that party was iu power in this State, there were more strong men, more representative men, in the le- publiean party than there is in it today. .Many of the leaders of that party in those days were men who had teen prominent iu the Whig party aud who cast their lot with the Itepublican party under the mistaken belief that that party more nearly than difl the Democratic party, represent the prin ciples of Whigism. Such men as Settle and Bynutn and Rodman and Read and Cald well and Brogden and the Elder Dockery. I say to you what you already know, that in the days of fusion on account of the accession which that party, through the temporary defection of twenty-live or thirty thousand Democrats on the silver question three-fourths of whom have since abandoned it and returned to the Democratic party, the leaders of that party in those days were stronger men, more patriotic men, more representative men, than are the lea lers of that party today. I dare the Republican party in North Carolina to openly and above board defend the record which that party made when i: was in power either duiJH the rec iKi.-ic-tioti period or under Iinell and Butler I i!a: 'hem to ay to the pen; ! of North Carolina that if 'hey are restore ! to power :! (!! S,- i! p.-pV of iV the lie appeal to the people for support upon their reconstruction or fusion records; they have too much sense to do that. They have too much respect for your intelligence and patriotism to do that. They ask you to try thorn a third time, not upan their record, but upon the ground that their party has repented, reformed and become reBpectab'e. They say tliat the llemoeriilH have freed them from tho negro and, having scoured and cleuned themselves, they are now us white as we Democrats ore. I do not wish to hurt the feelings of our lily white friend, and beg theii p.irdoo for suggesting th.it there is still enough negro left in their party to give it a yellow ish tinge. Their skins may lie clean and their faces may lie white, but are they capable aud by training, experience, education, knowl edge or patriotism lit to govern this great State and its two millions of people? We want none but white men at the helm of government in North Carolina, but they must bo capable men. We want leaders and rulers whose hearts and minds beat in sympathy with the dom inant race, and in purpose, capacity and aspiration, measure up to the exalted stand ards it has established and maintained in the past. I ask you, do the Republican leaders in North Carolina today measure up to these standards? Who are the Republican lead ers in North Carolina? They are Adams and Butler, Russell and Grant, Duncan and Hancock, Blackburn and Rollins, Bradshaw and Jake Newell, Jleekins and Treacher Rabb, with whom may lie counted the Hon Jno. R. Smith. Holton was once a leader of that party and one of its bright particulai stars, but since he has developed a propen sity for seuding Republican officials to the penitentiary he has fallen from his former high estate and no longer ranks with its leaders. Think my friends of this aggre- gationof discredited statesmen standing at the gate of State appealing to the white people of North Carolina to forget and forgive their past sins, turn the Democrats off and employ them to oversee and manage their public affairs. The sight of it, the thought of its enough te make a horse laugh and a man sick. Upon what grounds do these incompe tents, these unfaithful stewards, ask you to nut them in charue of vour business? Do they ask it upon the ground that the Demo crats have lieen extravagant? No. Do they charge that Aycock amllileun's management of your affairs has lieen unclean and dis honest? No. Upon what ground then do they ask the removal of the Democrats? Fortunately, Judge Adams, the official head and spokesman of the Republican party speaking for his party, essayed to give the reasons why they would have you turn off the Democrats and put them in charge of yaur public affairs. 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