Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1888 — THURMAN AND BISMARCK. [ARTICLE]

THURMAN AND BISMARCK.

A Passage from a Recent Speech of Each of These Aged Men. Judge Thurman is now a very old man, anil so is Prince Bismarck. The Inter Ocean will reproduce a passage from a recent speech of each of these old men. Says tiro judge: - "No my friends, of ail the humbugs by which men were attempted be deceived, the humbug of the laboring man l>eing benefited by a high protective tarill is the gretest I ever heard of. Ah. but says someone, it enables the manufacturer in this country to pay higher wages to his laboring men, and therefore is a benefit to them. My friends, did you ever know any manufacturer that jraiil higher wages to his hands because of an... increase of the tariff? If you did yon have met with something I have never seen. There is a man named Barnuni in this country, a great showman, a man who has gathered together in his showmore curiosities tlian perhaps can lie found in any other single place on the face of the earth, but among ajl his curiosities he has never found such a curiosity as the manufacturer whu pm ill higher wages to his hands because of a raise in the tariff.” • It ia submitted, in all courtesy, that, this passage is in a vein of senility or buffoonery. Let us hear Prince Bismarck speak: 'Z.- . - “The success of the United States in material development is the most illustrious of .modern time. The American nation has riot only successfully borne arid suppressed the most gigantic and expensive war of all history, but immediately afterward disbanded its army, found work for all its soldiers and marines, paid off most erf it debt, given labor and homes to all the unemployed of Europe as fast as they could arrive within the territory, anil still by a system of taxation so indirect as not to be perceived, much less felt. Because it is inv deliberate judgment that the prosI>i iitv ofLAmerica is m;uniy Mue to its -system-of protective jaws, I urge that Germany has now reached that point where it j.is necessary to imitate the tariff system of the United states.” Mark how the German statesman apjieals to fact, to "history teaching by exjierience," and how the American * who lays, claim to statesmanship appeals. 1 as au anarchist might, to the instincts of a mob. But Judge Thurman was not speaking to a uioh; lie was speaking directly to a gathering of thoughtful citizens of Ohio, and indirectly to the people of the United State's. It is moro charitable to suppose that he was ignorant of his subject than that he indulged ’in maliyious or senile demagogy.—Chicago Inter Ocean.