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30 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1902 DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS OF REPUBLICAN PARTY ADDRESS VOTERS OF SAN FRANCISCO AT BIG RALLY - Knight Dwells on Nation’s Advance and Shows How Protection Fosters It. Popular Orator Pours, Hot Shot Into the Camp of the Democrats. Continued From Page 29, Column 7. birth or creed, was entitied to & just and a Zair day’s pay for an honest day's work. The Republican party has never sold on the muction block & man that earned his living by honmest toill. The Republican party hos pever sold @ child in the markets overt, or separated & mother from family ties for the debasement of labor and to the aggrandizement of the rich. And there is mot & Democrat within the sound of my voice to-night, neitner is there one, that can say so much of the or- ganization that he boasts so much of to-day. Hed it not been for the oppression of labor. had it not been for the dexradation put upon honest by the aristocratic and proud of the South, the Repubiican party mever would have existed. The Republican party came as & necessity to defend the weak and to perpetu- ate that doctrine of the Declaration of Inde- pendence that all men, irrespective of color, were created equal, and were Shdowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, and the right to make a living not under the com- mand of & master was one of the inalienable rights that the Republican party has ever fought 1o maintain. DEMOCRACY IS FOE OF ALL WHO OBTAIN BREAD BY TOILING The irrepressible conflict came. The fight for existence between the black men and the oppressive rich threatened the very founda- tion of our Government, and at one time it looked dark and gloomy for the United States. We were threatened with the dissolution of cur Union, and when the champjon of human rights, our illustrious Lincoln, Was elected to the Presidency this same Democratic party fired upon our, flag, left the sisterhood Of States and proposed to bring about conse- quences so disastrous that human tongue could ngt @epict them. ‘We went through a cruel, unjust and gigan- tic war. Billions @f dollars were spent to smaintain this nation in the grandeur that na- ture had endowed it with. The credit of our country was at stake and resources had to be resorted to to maintain our national honor among the mations of the earth that were at times considered questionable under our writ- ten constitution. Men were in the fieldz—sol- diers—fig! g for our flag and for the su- premecy and dignity of labor. They bad to be clot They had to be fed. They had t> be quartered, and not a dollar in our treasury be bill t was that we issued the Government's e promissory note of this na- we would foot the bills ncurred in defense of our in- maintain the honor of hon- to from the time of the 1861 up to the present party has been the con- of every man in the United States his bread by honest toll. The party ecan be nothing else but the labor. It was born in the home of at. It was cherihed by the hearth- sectional feeling. It rebelled when it bave its own way. that Democratic party ruled this Gov for fifty vears and its main support w: the frui an unpald slave @lbor. There has been no legislation-ever promul- gated by Democratic party which has been in the int of labor, and in the earlier d ©f our republic’s history, when Democratic ma- rities were the largest, they had but one in- dustry, and that was the growing of -cotton The rich pianter could look over his thousands id black man. He toiled d he spin, but he was fed and sustained by the unpaid labor of toil of an w ther an P PROTECTION TWIN SISTER TO DOCTRINE OF STATE'S RIGHTS cked to us from the Ol e situation, they could When em World and ook in cres of cotton fields and see them tilled by | the han | not go to the sunny South and work side by side witk om their masters had de- ded kept themselves to the and began with the ides tell t , to dig in tic determina- 1l uninhabited by our ban- | drove _th their Their ore was useless unless put into steel and iron The Wool on the sheep was of no avail unless manufactured intc garments. And all of the ndustries and npatural productions of the North and West, where the hardy son of toil made his home to be manufactured be- fore his lab d avail him anything. He left the Old d to better his condition. He came here for better surroundings. He moved here for wages. He left the country of poorly or, he had escaped from the paup he Oid World, and had come here with the ic determination of being &n_American in spirit and in truth. When he turned his eyes to manufactures, he found that there was no wall of protection between him and the poorly paid labor of Euroj e spirit of the pation was awak- ened and alive to the interests of God's labor- ing poor, and began with a system of law, known as the protection law of the nation, 10 erect a barrier between this and the Old World that would keep out goods that were nufactured by the poorly paid 1d. The South, seifish in no labor to pay, no families romulgated the doctrine that 1« the planter ha ight to sell his cotton where he could seil dearest, and buy in the markete of the world where he could buy the cheapest. He encouraged no factorfes. He set in motion mo looms. He did nothing for the country but to live upon the products of bis unpaid serfs The conflict began as to which of the two doctrines would have supremacy— protection to American and home industries, or free trade that would bring the products of other lands in competition with those of our own Then gradually grew up the doctrine of State’s Rights, & twin sister of the principle of protection.’ At mo time did they believe that this confederation of States was a Union capable of defending itself against assaults from abrosd and mainteining itself from crueler attempts to dissolve it within, Then the mighty conflict of the civil war came, based upon the theory that ome man might own the body, soul and labor of an- Other, and had the Tight in such property even ‘to the extent of sale on e the ~auction It 18 not ‘my purpose to go throt h al kh? hllslor)' h()! that conflict .hl! md‘:ma‘l]o:: lag from the taint that s 1 by, the mational Democracy. EA e Incle Sem gave his promissor n the bill, and aaaing insult o tajary the Deme cratic party Government | nifies. — face of the earth. Nowhere has God been so beneficent in everything that would inure to the comfort of man as He has with us; and the policy of the Republican party has been to keep inviolate these gracious gifts that have been o kindly bestowed by the Omnipotent Hand. We knew what pauper labor meant and what its fruits would do and in the interests of the common country and tne common people and for the protection of ourselves in the fu- ture, we have by law undertaken to keep com- petition away from our people that. would be ruinous to them if aliowed its natural way. The laboring men of the Unitea States to. sre better paid that any men in the world. The women of the United States of to-day are happier, have better homes than any nation on the face of the earth. There are children in Burope to-day who have been born in the coal mines underground that have never seen the light of God's sun. There are women in Europe to-day packing coal upon their heads ike beasts of burden who never knew what & smile was in a home. There are millions to- day in Burope who are treated like beasts of burdened, harnessed with dogs, and drawing their loads as if belonging to the brute crea- tion. And they are poorly fed, poorly paid, poorly nurtured and poorly housed. *The out- put of their hand labor, if coming in competi- tion with our own people, would be disastrous in the extreme; and for that reason, and from necessity itself, the Repubiican party, and the great protective principle eof that party, had been inculcated to take care of and sustain our people in that station of American citizenship that was designed by the founders of our Gov- ernment. WANT AND MISERY ALWAYS ATTENDANT" UPON FREE TRADE . Under protection the country has arrived at the condition that I depicted in my opening statement. Under protection we have fared so well that it would be an abuse of the goodness that has been given to us to ever depart from a principle that has been so well tried and found to_be so successful in its results. There has never been a time that the Demo- cratic party has had full sway and proclaimed its pernicious doctrine of free trade that want and misery have not been the handmaidens of those who advocated- the doctrine. There has never been a time in the history of the Government when the Democritic party | has banished from the statute book the protec- tive Jaws but what the conditions of '83, ‘0% and 95 have been the result. At the close of the Revolutionary War our people started out to be a self-sustaining na- tion, and to be recognized among the nations of the earth as one that purposed to endure for all time. It was then that Great Britain be- gan her assault upon our helpless condition, As early as 169D It was enacted by the Brit- n Parlioment that no wool, irgn or woolen anufactures of the American plantations should be shipped to them, or even laden on any pretense whatever, Parllament de- clared the erecting of manufactories in the colonies tended to lessen their dependence upon Great Britain. In 1742 the British Board of Trade reported to Parliament the Americans had begun to manufacture paper, which they sald “interferes with the profits made by the Pritish merchants.” And from the earliest pe- riod of time that kingdom looked with disfavor upon any and ail efforts on behalf of the United States of America to engage in manufacturing of eny kind, and from the earliest perfod of our nation’s life it was the policy of Great Britain to furnish us with everything we need- ed that came from the labor of their underpaid workmen. On the other hand, the first Congress of ‘the United States, looking into the future and see- & the possibilities of America’s labor, began at once to pass laws for the protection of our home industries, and adopted protection as the only safe guidé to bring our ‘Government to the proud position that she occuples to-day among the mations of the earth. Protection means exactly what the word sig- It is the nation’s law of self-defense. It was the nation’s way of avolding the condi- tions that existed in the Governments that tyranny and oppression had driven them from; and under this idea, and with the Declaration of Independence as their guide, they began the superstructure of the Government that to-day is the best known to civilized man. Protection was advocated Dby Franklin, Hamilton, Clay, Madison, -Adams, Webster ‘and all of the statesmen of their day and time, an t possession of the Government the free trade doctrines of Democ- v, the condition of the white man in the Scuth was simply appalling, and in the main thelr condition socially, morally and politically was far below that of the biack men in the chains of bondage. ADVANCEMENT SLOW UNDER FIFTY YEARS OF BOURBON POWER The people of this Government endured the Democratic rule and supremacy for a periol of fifty years, amd we made no advancement commensurate with what our cpportunities of- fered, and in the fuliness of time the Gov- ernment was given over to freedom and protec- tion to American labor, and a new life took possession of her, and with but one excep- tion she has been under the rule and control of the party that believes in a free and an bon- est labor and a development of the wonderful resources of hcr magnificent domain. Possibly it Was God’s ail wise providence for the purposes of teaching the peogle of this na- tion what was for their best that a Democratic President, ‘with both houses of Congress Dem- ocratic, took fuil possession of the Govern- | ment, and they had their opportunity of demon- strating exactly what their principles would do. ver before had they questioned the consti- tutionality of the tariff law, but in 1892 they denounced protection as a fraud and robbery of the American people and said the federal Gov- | ernment had no constitutional power to im- pose and collect duties except for purposes of revenue only, although before that time the | platform upon which General Hancock ran ! wanted to repudiate it and send | him out among the nations of the earth a | bankrupt and pieader of the wtatute - tions and a dishonest borrower, O{Ir}mlo(:e breath they condemned the Republican policy of issuing paper money, and within a short time thereafter made it a national issue when the necessity of the case had passed, that it was & good thing for Uncle Sam fo be in debt, whether of necessity or not. TVER MAXES APPEAL TO PREJUDICE AND TRIES TO INFLAME The Democratic Greenback party is a thing ©f the past. The Demoeratic party that de- clared our Civil War a failure is a thing of the past. The Democratic Silver of ‘the past. In fact, there bas mot been Log iesue or principle that they have advocated since 1860 up to the present time that has been accepted by the people of this nation as sound &nd good policy for the government of our peo- ple. While, on the other hand, there has not been @ principle advocated by the Republican party since 1861 up tc the present time but has been molded into statutory law, or found in the mendments to the constitution of the United It has eve" been the party that to tke prejudices of the people and bllwloll‘hp‘ut to inflame class against class, even to the extent of personsl violence. The Democratic party has not & mame of any public man who has ever identified himself closely with labor. While we have Lincoln the railsplitter, Grant the tanner, Garfield, the canal-boat boy, Wilson the cobbler, and in fact all of the men promi- nent in Republican councils have been those who have come from the rank and file of the faboring people of this country and from the farmhouse and the village. From the wonderful resources of this Gov- ernment, it was natural to that we all should fare better than any People on the for President made no mention of the fact, and he addressed himself to the people of the nation, stating that the tariff was a local issue and should be dealt with by the localities that ‘were affected by it. But it is hard to state exactly what the Democratic party has advocated since 1860. They have been actuated more by the princl- ple of “anything to beat Grant” than theye| have by any desire to benefit their fellow man, Office seemed to be their creed, irre- spective of what it cost to their own honor, or what disaster it brought to our people. They have nominated their bitterest ene- mies to hold office, simply for the purpose of defeating Republican nominees. Can you re- member with what wry faces they swallowed poor old Horace Greeley and his platform? Can you remember of their nominating-a Union general who had shot liberty into them and some hell out of them in the shape of Han- cock? Can you remember how they have nom. inated for their standard bearer a candidate in the shape of Willlam J. Bryan, who was also loaded down with Populism, middle of the road, side of the road, in the gutter, and any other place where they thought they might get a vote, with perfect abandonment of principle simply for the purpose of getting political power? Some of their candidates for Presi- ent of the United States and other national | offices reminds me very much of a camp jack- &ss returning from a mountain trip laden with everything on his beck from a cooking stove to & plece of lc:& They have hud no policy that they dare advocate in all sections of the country. and they haye had no political honor In Jedling with the people of the common- wealth, Here in Callfornia we are very much inter- ested In protecting the natural products of our soil. Let us look for & few moments at what we have. Tre California Fruit Grower has complled some figures, that do not represent all of our natural products. In 1900 the orange and lemon ciop was 24,000 cars. The cured fruits, not including prunes, amounted to 04,- 500,000 pounds. The prune_crop alone amount- ed to 174,000,000 pounds. The yield of ralsins was very small, but the crop amounted to 94,- 000,000 pounds. ' The pack of canned frults and vegetables was 8,579,613 cases, exclusive of tomatoes. The fresh fruit shipments amounted to 152,874,000 pounds, and the fresh vegetables added to this millions of pounds. We shi to tbe centers of culture in the East 33,084,000 pounds of beans. The of salmon on the Pacific Coast was 12,995,542 cases. We made & total of 60,538,000 pounds of beet sugar. The yleld of English walnuts, or. more properly Speaking, Madera nuts, was 10,860,000 pounds, and of almonds, 5,480,000 pounds. 2 ol Pkt Guae o O R tion of hops was 36,000 bales, were made 23,677,000 gallons of dry and sweet wines, and alm.m ng?.m Wheat crop for export was 20; 8. ool clip ‘was 13,362,000 ponds, andthe- cng Tashington. | never. could more goods be bought it was not until the slave-hold- | LITTLEFIELD OF MAINE TALKS TO THOUSANDS OF FRESNOANS Eloquence of the New England Statesman Warms a Crowd ‘That at First Shivered in the Chill of an Open-Air Meeting, and His Arguments for Republicanism Are Enthusiastically Received i a3 RESNO, Oct. 4—Hon. Charles 1 E. Littlefield of Maine ad- dressed a crowd of nearly 8000 persons_in the Courthouse Park in this city to-night. His speech lasted more than two hours and was listened ‘to with great attention throughout. Littlefield arrived here early in the day and was. taken on a drive through' the colonies. This was his first visit here and he expressed himself aé being . greatly impressed with the resources of the San Joaquin Valley, the like of which he had never before dreamed of. Later he was taken to the races and he was enter- tained at dinner in the. evening. The evening was a little cool for an open- air meeting, and at first the crowd was just a little cool, too, but when Little- fileld got down to work it warmed up considerably and applause and cheers were frequent. Chairman M. B. Harris of the Republi- can County Central Committee called the meeting to order, introducing Hon. W. F. Chandler as chairman of the evening. Chandler's address was short, but to the point. “Under Republican prosperity,” he said, “one man in each eleven in this county has $400 in the savings bank, while mever was labor worth more than now and o i . o+ 4 for a dollar than under this Republican ad- ministration.” TRIBUTE TO NEEDHAM. He then introduced the speaker of evening. Littlefield, as he stepped to front was greeted with cheers. It afforded him peculiar pleasure, the the hHe < * said, to stand before the citizens of a dis- trict represented in Congress by a gentle- man of whom he was glad to be a col- league—one who was now a nominee for re-election. “From my personal knowledge of him,” said Littlefield, ‘‘gained by assoclation vith him, I can testify to his high char- cter, his ability, his honesty and his ef- ficlency. .Hop J. C. Needham (tremen- dous applause) is entitled to and. un- doubtedly will receive a handsome en- dorsement from the people of ‘this dis- trict, who will continue to be represented — by a man of character, ablility, integrity and influence in the national House of Representatives.” Continuing, he said: “In 1360 there was one man, I am told, in this county who v8ted for Abraham Lincoln for President. I feel honored to.say that his name was Littlefleld and he was from Maine. I understand that now there will be some more who will vote the Republican ticket. The time has come, after thirty-five years, when not only Republicans, but Democrats, recognize as the ideal Ameri- can citizen Abraham Lincoln. The Re- publicans always did recognize him as such—always have and always will. “I have been very much interested, in traveling about your city, in noting its ‘utilities and its industries, so dependent on the principles and policles which the Republican party represents. This is a land of unclouded skies and undimmed sunshine. No tongue can describe its magnificence. I have been asked to de- scribe its possibilities, but I would have to begin by describing what it could not produce and that would leave me noth- ing to say, for there is nothing you can- not produce. There is no limit to your possibilities, providing the policy of pro- tection for the industries of the United States, as maintained by the Republican party, shall be continued. “No- city, no community, requires the continuance of such a policy as does this. % REPRESENTATIVECHARLES E. LIT- TLEFIELD EXPOUNDING DOC- TRINES OF REPUBLICANISM. o5 The questions that concern you in this campaign are the same that the State of Maine is Interested in and we should all see that every one shall vote in such a way as will conserve his interests, his own welfare and the welfare of the whole republic.” The remainder of the speech Littlefield devoted to discussing the tariff, with par- ticular reference to its effect upon the ralsin industry. His remarks on the Wil- son bill were full of sarcasm and much to the point. He pointed out the incon- sistency of the Democrats, shown in” their platform where in one plank free trade is favored and in another the proposed Cuban reciprocity measure, recommending a reduction in the tariff on beet sugar 20 per cent, is condemned. A number of questions were put to Littlefield by local Democrats early in the evening and these he answered with telling logic. produced in our mines in 1900 was $15,863,- 856, This is a list of only twenty articles, yet it brought in cash enough to make a long and imposing array of figures. WOULD JEOPARDIZE FARMING INTERESTS OF GOLDEN STATE Every one of thess articles is protected by the policy of the Republican party. Now let us see what the Democrats in Sacramento have done and what they purpose to do it they stand by their plank of the platform in this gubernatorial contest. In that plank they say: ““We denounce the present unjust protective imposed upon the people by the Repub- party, and demand such a reduction of our tarifft laws as will result in the re- moval of the unjust burden and the placing of trust made goods and the necessities of life upon the free list. We believe in a tariff for revenue only.” Among the protected articles in California we find hewed timber, lumber, telegraph poles, sugar, animals, wool, grains and preparations made from them, beans, honey, butter, cheese, hLops, eggs, potatoes, onions, hay cabbage, peas, . nursery stock, sbeds, fish, apples, peaches; quinces, pears, figs, prunes, grapes, 1aisins, oranges, lemons_limes, walnuts, ba- con, hams, poultry, tallow, chicory, lard, wine, brandy, flax, hides, leather and many ther articles. O Now, for instance, ask your Congressman who represents Santa Clara district: Are you In favor of taking the duty off prunes? Are the grape-growers willing to have the duty of 40 cents a gallon on still wines cut off? ~Are our raisin-growers ready to give up the protec- tion of 2% cents & pound, or the prune and fig growers the duty of 2 cents? Or the citrus fruit growers of 1 cent? Or the lemon growe of 4 cents? Or the wool growers of 11 cents? Or the sugar beet producers of 1 cent a pound and upward on sugar? Doour cabbage growers desire to Invite Canadian competition by cut- ting off the duty of 3 cents on cabbages? And will youa Congresemen go up into Tehama and Mendocino counties and tell them there - that they are willing to put wool upon the free list? In those counties they build,around their sheep a fence 8 to 10 feet in height, with a barbed wire on. the top, for the purposé of keeping out coyotes that kill and make depredations upon their sheep, and private individuals interested in sheep growing give §5 a scalp to the hunter who kills off any of the vermin that is destroy- ing the flocks. Let a Democratic Congressman advocate the principles of his party in either of these two counties, and, while they may not offer $5 a scalp for any ‘man who thus pro- claims it, if they have their own Interest at heart they awill at least feel like driving from the country the man who is making-the aseault upon an interest that is vital to them, California cannot affcrd at this time to send any Congressman to Congress who 1s not in accord with the protective policy that has done 50 much for this State and developed her won- derful natural resources. FUNERAL SUPPLIES SOME STRONG OBJECT LESSONS TO GRADY These facts and figures, gentlemen, are the truth, and you ought not to be borne away by the excitement of the hour or by any appeal to your passions or your prejudices. 1 don't like a candidate for Congress who has not the courage to state before his constitu- ents exactly what his party will 1t It is elected to power. 1 have no faith in these little-boy-blues-come-blow-your-horn-nice, blow hell out of mutton, but don't touch rice, About as strong an argument as I ever read in favor of protection and the development of the natur * resources of the try came from the lips of William Grady of Georgia, who in 1858 delivered his famous speech on the New ith before the New England Soclety. He ‘as & young man, whose early taking was a great detriment to that section of our beloved country. He died of pn-umonia in New York City, a short time after delivering the speech, from a cold he contracted in New England. In that speech he was speaking of the New South and ‘her natural resources, and what wonder- ful strides she had made in the development of her iron and caal and timber, and of the capi- tal that was being invested there for the de- velopment of such resources, and he gave an illustration that told the whole story, and was such an illustration that left its impression with me as being one of the best arguments in favor of the protective policy that I bad ever eard. He said that just before coming to that dinner Le attended the funeral of a very dear friend and after he was buried he went oyt to the cemetery to look at his grave. He sa'd\the cemetery was within two- miles of one of the st marble ' quarries there is in the Unmited States, and yet a tombstcre from Vermont marked his last resting place. He was within a few days' ride of the finest pine’ forest that grew out of the ground, and yet a coffin made in Chicago was his bed.. He was within ten iniles of the finest iron mine in the United States, and yet a Pittsburg pick and shovel dug his grave. ' He was within sight of the cotton fields so famous in his land, and a Massachusetts shroud was his garb. The Learse that carried him to the graveyard was built by a buggy company It Ohio. And Grady stopped in that solemn presence and began to reason why those things were true e summed it all up and he said that the only thing that the South had in that grave was the corpse. And he recommended to his fel- low-citizens of the South a development of at least those industries that could kindly and carefully care for the dead. Now look at the New South to-day, under the protecticn laws of the Republican party. Go into Alabama; Georgia, Loulsiana, and Alabama “particularly. ‘The manufacturing of iron‘and steel and of the other things natural to the South makes Alabama . to-night an industrial bonfire, the greatest witness that we have of the benefits of this system to that section of the“country. Under the slave power and slave oligarchy it would have remained exactly where It was sevenfy years ago. ALL ARE LABORING MEN, AND DEPENDENT UPON ONE ANOTHER Ard who is interested directly in this kind of legislation? * Simply the laboring men of California more than any other class of peaple. 1 don’t like the way the word “laborlng man'’ used in this campaign by the Democratic orators. Are we not all latoring men? And 18 it not true that we are all dependent one on_the other? And the mlionaire cuts but & very poor figure in helping along the great mass of people who do not have a bank ac- count that is represented by four figures. But what is the condition of the laboring men in California to-day? There is one bar- Cmeter that may tell the story, and that s the tanks of California. Between August 17, 1901, and August 23, ncreased in the astonishing sum cf §55,400,051. This is a l-r; in one year of mearly 18 per cent, .and of more than $37 for every man, woman and child in the State, equal to about $185 per family. Is that not prosperity? Is not (hat an index as to what protection can and will do for our own State? There never has beeu a time in the history of California wken lator was in so much demand and the laborer had shorter hours and better pay than ncw. And When they appeal to you laboring men of California as if you were on the ragged edfc ‘of despair, that you were !l paid and not in every sense true American citizens, they are throwing an insuit in your face that is not warranted by the facts and an insuit that should be resented by you at the ballot box. A Very striking lesson and one that cannot and will not be forgotten by the people of this State 1s your last Labor day parade. No mt’a‘tfn {his Unlon ever witnessed a ' finer of men, better dressed, more intelligent and better caparisoned as American citizens than the 40,000 that turned out on Labor day in California. Penury and want had no place at their hearthstones. Well-filled larders, money in your pocket, labor plenty and God’ sunshine upon you. 'ft seems to Z. that you could account for these blessings at. least in some measure under the munificent and ben- eficent laws under which you live, I will not dwell any longer upon the labor proposition. History does not bear out the Democratic party in their assumption of facts and the record that speaks a language that cannot be misunderstood is what the Repub- lican party relies upon to show that it always has been, is now, and ever will be, the l;l,end of those men who toil and earn their; 1fving by the sweat of their brow. LABOR WANTS SHOW TO WORK AND PAY FOR WORK IT DOES ‘What could labor unions do in the South in the time of slavery? A man from Massachusetts during the time of slavery applied to a rich planter for work as a carpenter. He was told by the rich planter that he had just bought two car- renters and did not need any more. The rights and obligations of labor and capital are mutual. What labor wants is an opportunity to work and pay for such work. Labor unions would find no place in the desert of Sahara or the jungles of Africa. There is no demand for labor there, Capital needs labor to perfect its possibilities, All the millions piled up In the Government vaults could not build a mile of railroad or put a spade in the Panama canal without labor. And without the amicable union of both e stop on the highway of natlonal progress. If you havé no work to do you cannot ask in- crease of pay, nor shorter hours, nor who shall be your fellow workmen, The strength of labor unions lles in the fact that there is work to do demanding Intelligent brains and hands. At the time of the Civil War there was shipped to San Francisco around the Horn, packed In gunnysacks, to be refitted together after arrival, what was then an up-to-date warship. I refer to the old Camanche. What & sorry spectacle she prefented years after, Iying at anchor In the waters of our bay alongside of the Olympia, the San Francisco and the world-historic Oregon! And as 3500 skilled mechanics from the blazing furnaces of the Union Iron Works looked out on_the primitive ocean flag defender they smiled at e T e lazy sea-dog con o ne; of discarded ships. The union men of the Union Iron Works builded better than thuy knew. And had not our Republican party, under S ry Chand- ler, begun the rehabilitation of our navy, the world would never have had the opportunity of cheering their labors, which they so richly deserved. b Take this, for example, fellow citizens: Let us look at the United States—for the sake of argument—as_a large farm, as productive feres as the United States proper itself would be; and In one corner of that farm suppose a placer mine. Opposite that farm is a Chi- nese garden, and next to the Chinese garden is a penitentiary engaged in the manufactur- ing of prison-made articles. If Uncie Sam refuses to cultivate his farm and develop the resources on it, and kept drawi placer mine to b':_{, from the table vender and goods made by a felon hand, how long-would it be before the con- vict and the Chinaman would own the farm? It needs mo argument to better illustrate the relative position of conflicting Intercsts than this, It Uncle Sam raises a, family of children, isn’t it better for him to them $4 a day for making hay and attending to the other :R“mn that the farm s capable of producing, to buy of the Chinese or the conviet? What he spends with his own flesh and blood s kept upon the farm. as Uncle Sam has many farms within his wide the argument that applies to one certainly would be consistent when applied to e must make no mistake on necesst of ing back to every Rewhlh?l Congressman ’ nominated. by ‘our conyention. They are alive to our interests on the of protection. They have guarded f our well In reference to Chinese immigra- ‘tion. m%nuim party has no 1t Jatorm In the Unliea Staigs i i caver of our flag. The Louisana Democrat is in fl'g,t | Pardee Returns From Southland With Tidings of Great Success. Feels Conf dent That the Entire State Ticket Will Be Elected. fo—— Continued From Page 29; Column 4. dies and gentlemen, if you will pardon mb and forget my sore throat, I will close by | simply saying this, that if I am elected Gov- ernor, and in strict confidence let me tell you that I am going to be elected (applause) Gov- | e el ernor—that it T am elected Governor of Call- fornia, I shall give the peopls of this State as good, as economical, as honest, as straightfor- ward an administration as it is possible for me to give them. (Applause.) And that pledse 1 shall keep @s surely as I am elected and will have to fill the position made vacant by my friend Governor Gage. (Great applause and cheering.) e e el of free trade for everything but rice and sugar. The Carolina Democrat is in favor of free trade for everything but that that protects his interests. The Alabama Democrat is in favor of free trade for everything but iron. And so on we find a conglomerate mass of selfish- ness and no uniform purpose to protect all American - industries alike. This crazy-quilt that has been manufactured by Democracy | from 1860 until the present hour is ome that no true American should sleep under, and is such an article that no one should purchase. There was a time when it was bard to dis- tinguish whether it was conversion on the part | of the Democratic party to some of our princi- ples or rank hypocrisy. But no Intelligent per- s0n of late years has concluded otherwise than that hypocrisy and lust for power is the con- trolling spirit that moves them to national ac- tion. The record of our Congressmen on the Chi- nese question has been all that could be asked by the Republicans of this State. CONGRESSMAN EKAHN MAKES BILL PROOF AGAINST CHINESE Mr. Livernash seems to.be and is one of the ! most intelligent men I have come in contact with that seeks political preferment from the | Democratic party. And during the last Con gress, when the Chinese bill was under consi eration, and the question of Chinese or Asfat scamen being employed upon Pacific Mall steamers, Mr. Livernash before the committee distinctly stated that if Chinese were not per- mitted to have employment on our steamers, | | they could rot compete with the ocean carriers without a subsidy from the general Govern- ment. Furthermore, the bill which Mr. Livernash drew and gave his indorsement and work to— | the original bill, I mean—contained a provision | that the wholesale houses of China be permit- | ted to send flve representatives from every | wholesale house in China. If this bill had passed In its original form as advocated by Mr. Livernash, the lowest estimate that could pos- sibly be made would be that 100,000 Chinese | would come to our shores under that guise, and the maximum would be that a million and 2 half could creep in under the bill as he origi- nally drafted it. Mr. Livernash wrote to Julius Kahn a lettar commending him upon the good work that he had done and lold him in language that cangot be misunderstood of . his indorsement, y | dear Kahn, you are strictly all right.”” This letter was written by Mr. B. J. Livernash to Congressman Kahn and the original copy can te produced at any time. It is the same old trick and the same old Democratic device, and if we want effective work done in har- mony and in consonance with the principles of the Republican party and in the interests of the Labor party, not only of California, but of the United States, see to it that you vote for our Conzressmen and send every one of them back to take up and finish' the geod work they haye already bezun. The national Republican party is the great- est labor union party éver organized by man. It knows no locality, it favors no. section, Its interest is in- no particular individual, but everywhere and under all circumstances favors God's laboring poor. I hear nothing about the Philippines and imperialism in this campaign. The old argu- ment that they made in 164 that the war was a failure for the Union was so amusing in the Presidential campaign that it has been laughed out of existence. But the spirit Is in Congress among the Democratic leaders to thwart the noble efforts of the Republican party and its policy to keep and maintain the new gifts that came to us by the result of the war with Spain. 1t Instead of the Farallones lying thirty odd miles from our Golden Gate we should put there the island of Cuba and people it with savages, and England, France, Russia, Ger- many, China and Japan should make a move to reduce the island to their possession and hoist upon it their flag, what would the people | of the United States, and particularly Califor- | nia, say about such an invasion? Would they | want the island? Would they say no foreign flag should float over it? Would they say, ““We need it as our own?’ And then suppos- ing that some Democrat should say, ‘“The mo- ment that you hoist the flag there the const!- jutfon follows it,”" would yoy at once make the savages American citizel and each one entiled to a vote? But that doctrine has been exploded years ago by the acquisition of Loulsiana and all the territory purchased since 1803 and the law so carefully laid down and clearly defined that even the Examiner called it an exploded theory and dismissed it as unworthy of serious comment. The _constitution does not follow the flag, but all the territory ac- quired in that manner shall rest in abeyance and shall be subject to Congressional legisla- tion and lexislative control. We fought the war with Spain. It brought glory and renown to our soidiers and added possessions to our nation that are incalculable ;t‘ the present time and the future alone can ure, Opposition to thelr acquisition came from a portion of the Democratic party, and the half- breed Chinaman, Aguinaldo, was heralded as a patriot, and his-name coupled with Washing- ton, to the disgrace of the tongue that made the cothparison, The Philippinie question is no longer an is- sce. The cry that was raised of imperialism has spent its force. The American flag and American teachers and American law and American statesmen are dealing le‘tlhdll?. prob- lem, and time. will bear out the clous ac- tion, of the Republican party in this behalf, as it has in times that are gone. Without the assistance of the Northern Democracy our civil war would not have last- ed elghteen months. Without the assistance ot that same organization there never would have been resistance to our sovereignty in the Philippines. History repeats itself, and in this instance most vividly. While our soldiers were fighting for the perpetuity of ol Class of Democrats was passing resolutions. making speeches and declaring in party plat- forms that the war was & fallure and that it should be abandoned and our Union dissolved, and in later years the same class of peop) sought to encourage rebellion with the Ig- norant inhabitants of the Philippines, who never knew what liberty was, who never knew ‘what was in store for them in the way of rec- ognition of their rights, and were more guilty in the eyes of the civilized world than the ignorant Filipinos whom they encouraged in their acts of murder. ‘Well might General Lawton say that he bet- ter be shot in the back By one of hig own men than by a Filipino en to do the act by those who ought to know better, The subject of trusts seems to be agitating the Democratic mind, and I have not heard one Democrat who has yet had the courage to de- fire what a trust is. mtlcoghlnlthl:' ‘ot capital are being made. n Europe and in America, for the prosecution of business en- terprises. and that they are a menace When unlawfully conducted to the commonwealth cannot be doubted. And it can further be stated that the only attempt at legislation to hold them In check was made by the Sherman Dbill, fathered and passed by Republicans, and now being enforced by Republican officers throughout the land. An amendment to the constitution, whose avowed purpose was to curb and control these organizations that the Democrats say are un- holy in themselves, falled to pass the House, and the Democrats as a party voted solidly against the measure—for what reason no one but themselves can tell. LEGISLATION UPO: TRUSTS SHOULD NOT INJURE WORKINGMEN In dealing with legislation affecting trusts, great care should be taken that no law should be passed that would interfere with organized labor. Union labor organizations are formed for purposes of raising the price pald for their labor, dictating the hours that they are to labor, and furthermore, s to who shall be their_companions at work: and while - the Deraocra professes abhorrence trusts and coMbinations of this character, thes do not dare to put themselves upon record as being antagonistic to labor in this behalf. The Republican party has dealt with all great questions in a epirit of fairness, and" in harmony with the spirit of the hour, and thesa subjects will be dealt with in the future in :::‘—‘n.a -spirit of M“l:- and consideration characterized record of this in_the past. st President Roosevelt has done ali that the nation could ask toward a settlement of the { coal strike, and arbitration has been rejected by those misnamed captains of industry Therefore It seems to me legal to condemn their property to provide for the general wel- fare of the United States under the constitution and the act of Congress of August 1, 1888, ai- lowing taking by the Government of private property for public uses. e soldiers of our country are deserving of more than pessing mention. I do not mean the Grover Cleveland kind of a soldier, who, in the dark days of the civil war, employed a substitute to take his place and stead, under the flag, and for pay possibly encounter the dangers incldent to war, and may be yield up his life on the battlefleld. Neither do I refer to the Bryan kind of a soldler, who masqueraded in & colonel’s uni- form for a tew brief moments on his wooden horse and with his tin sword, & libel upon the name of our army and a reproach to the man who had thus disgraced an Institution that is one of the mainstays of our Government. Lawrence and Paul Jones and Dewey and Grant and Sheridan, and all these names who are enrciled uponsthat branch of our Govern- It was the soldier who fought at Bunker Hill, at Saratoga and victorious Yorktown, Antie- tam, Gettysburg and the Wilderness. It was the navy soldler of Farragut, lashed in the rig- ging of the old Hartford, his gray locks waving defiance to death and danger, and encouraging his men to deeds of valor and action. It wis ment that we to-night give tribute and re- spect to, and whose names we homor and re- vere. And the accusation against their honor has come from a Democrat, because no other voice could be found that would ascribe anything to them but patriotism, valor, courage and obe- dience to duty. The attacks upon our soldiers in_the Philip- pines have simply been infamous. We boast of Uncle Sam and what he can do. What could he ~ do without the soldier? He has carried.our flag to the Philippines. He has defended our homor. not only in China, but vindicated the unrighteous attack upon those representing for- eign Governments: and wherever the soldier has carried the American flag he has carried with | it an intelligence and a patriotism that have been the marvel of the nations of the earth. Your boy has been fighting in the Philippines. He has been subjected to climatic conditions and inconveniences that frontler life always entails that canmot be described. The Gov- ernment of the United States sent him there, and with the spirit of a soldler he has done our bidding and won renown in his calling. I have no patience for .any member of either branch ot Congress, seated In a cozy office in front of a warm fire, preparing the messages of a demagogue that will attack a branch of our Government without which we could not main- taln ourselves among the nations of the earth. Politics s politics, and anything possibly may be fair in a political warfare, but to at- tack the soldler who represents the homor and dignity of our nation is too infamous for any cne holding official place in the capital of this great nation. My time is short and I cannot afford to close this evening without some word for the retiring Govergor of this State. The adminis- tration of Henty T. Gage has been able, fear- less, and time will show to the citizens of this State that he has been such a Governor to them as will endear him to the people as long as the honest history of this State will be read. His defense of this city against the infamous charge of the bubonic Board of Hoalth, wherein they undertook to prove to the people of the world that this was a plague-stricken city, was one of the most remarkable instances of courage that 1 have ever known or read of in any public official. Seattle and the northern portion of the Pacific Slope were anxious to have the trans- ports of the Government, and all of the husi- ness connected therewith, transferred up to their sections. The papers of Seattle were alive to their own Interests and were printing &nd sending broadeast, page after page, “‘Be- ware of the plague-stricken city of San Fran cisco,” and in sonnection with the great rafl- road corperations of the north, came very near wresting from San Fraccisco the military commerce of the Pacific and sending it up to their section. Day after day, and night after night, Gov- ernor Gage battled manfully, single-handed and alone, with the Secretary of the Treasury, the Medical Department of the United States and the bubonic Board of Health in this eity. No one held up his hands, and at last he was about to weaken and he called to his aid John P. Young of \the Chronicle, Fremont Older of the Bulletin and T. T. Willlams of the Examiner. He lald before them the corre- spondence between himself and Secretary of the Treasury Gage, and the record was so voluminous and so Infamous in its character as to amaze them at the proportions to which the conspiracy had grown. He sent those three sentlemen to Washington, and over the great real of the State of California, they, in har- mony and in consonance and under his direc- tion, saved San Francisco and California from the effects of the charge that had been made by this Democratic bubenic Board of Health, ONLY THE SKIRMISH OF NATIONAL BATTLE TWO YEARS FROM NOW There can be no evidence produced but what he, as Governor of this Stale, hias been clean, able, efficlent and aggressive, The State Institutions dition and there has \5‘.. B = ation under his known for years. Franklin K. Lane {2, other nigne that th hool books” free 10" the chlldren: Boer Ber p o Tl e a administration. And we don't want California to be a false position among the other States in the President in two years from now. We are go- ing to adhere to the policy of as' dictated and laid down o Wwhether Cailfornia goes Republican or not, she Will only have the shame and chagrin that comes to an erring sister If she is not trus xn;hommolungnlsmlrow. ow, in closing, fellow citizens, let us louk at the future. The past is behind fll:ltlz tull ‘of all the glorlous acts that have been chronicled in the name of the Republican party, and we want no shadow to come scrosy the future that will discount what we have done up to date. The new Mediterranean-.t mean the unharvestcd sea of the Pacific—is Waiting for the ships of commerce to plow it with American keels and sow the seed that will insure the fruitage glheh-t commerce that commerce as he sits within her portals directs bls conquests for thy, ocean rattic ot inopportune. for orrme. nopportune for party platf is the time of action twmxphtom& brace the opportunities that are now await- ing a grasp of their friendly hand to make all this Pacific slope what G’od Intended it to be—an n x 'II!MII commerce and an Eden of At the conclusion of his ad Knight was accorded cheers :.r:.- -hoo‘ri the Pavillion. Many hundreds up on the platform to shake the abi, orator's hand. "The bands played na- tional airs and to the musie of “Amer- ica” the vast throng made its ‘way out into the night and the greatest meeting of the Republican party of San Fran- cisco, in this campalgn, passed into the ?difietl history of the State.