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HILL HITS HARD. THE NEW YORK SENATOR’S MASTERLY ADDRESS AT BUFFALO—DENOUNC¬ ING PROTECTION AND THE FORCE BILL. Senator David B. Hill spoke as fol¬ lows to an immense assemblage at Buf¬ falo, N. Y. i I am here to-night to aid ic tire pro¬ motion of Democratic principle* and to advocate the election of Grover Cleve¬ land and Adlai E. Stevenson. No apology or explanation is needed for my course. For over ten years it has been my custom at each annual election to appear before my fcllow-citisnns and contribute my share towards the discus¬ sion of tiie political questions of the hour. You did not believe that this campaign would prove an exception to the usual rule and you are not disappointed. Among honorable men the loyal dis¬ charge of political duty outweighs all minor considerations; and in this crisis of our country’s history and in this great emergency in our party’s affairs individ¬ ual disappointments or even alleged per¬ sonal injustice should be subordinated in the faithful performance of political ob ligations, not as a mere matter of ex¬ pediency but from a high and stern sense of duty. 'Permit me to suggest that tve 'nave all of us now a mission to fulfil. Petty jeai ousiea must be dismissed; regular organi¬ zations must lie respectedi party disci¬ pline must be enforced; dissensions must be healed and apathy must give way to enthusiasm, in order that tho grand okl party to which we are proud to belong may secure the triumph of right princb pies and work out the noble destiny which ought surely to await it. Tho control of this Government for many years to come by one or the other of the two great political parties is the prize at hazard in the pending contest, in which all other considerations should sink into insignificance. I 'These are not merely formal words, in¬ tended to arouse the lethargy or to soothe tho wounded feelings of earnest friends, but are a tit supplement to the senti¬ ments which I had the honor of expres¬ sing before the Democratic State Con¬ vention at Albany in February last, im¬ mediately uftec rts action unanimously instructing the delegates from my native State to present my name ns its first choice to the approaching National Con¬ ventton. I then said: | “And now you must pardon nie while 1 run counter to your leelinga to say that the choice of your next stand¬ ard bearer is a matter of the very least importance, being strictly subordinate to that supreme object—a Democratic Na¬ tional victory next November.” I meant what 1 said on that occasion and 1 reiterate it now. The test of truo Democracy is the support of regular tions party nominations, irrespective of ques¬ of personal pride, one’s own am¬ bition or individual preferences, FEDERAL TAXATION. The two great political parties of the country are divided upon tho all-iin portant subject of Federal taxation. Uu just taxation is the essence of tyranny. It unnov* tho rich, it robs the poor, it interrupt* business uctivlty and fosters public discontent. The American Revo¬ lution wus largely produced by a little tax upon tea which our forefathers re¬ fused to pay. They incurred the perils of rebellion and tho pains of outlawry rather tlinu submit to unreasonable tax¬ ation. The best thought of tho Ameri¬ can people may well be engaged in de¬ vising the most equitable and compre¬ hensive scheme for the proper distribu¬ tion of tho burdens of government. Tho subject becomes yearly more important as tho expenses of administration an¬ nually increase. How shall the enormous expenditures of tho Government be provided for! How shall its necessary revenue* bo raisedf it is conceded by both parties that tho best and easiest method ol real¬ izing the needed revenue is by taxation upon foreign imports. It is also ad¬ mitted that a few internal taxes should be permitted to exist, but that the main and principal revenues should be de¬ rived from the imposition of tariff duties. Upon this point there is no substantial division of seutiment. It is truo ttiat there aro some extreme mou, uow ostensibly acting with the Demo¬ cratic 1’arty, hut who do not control its couucils or policy, who aro opposed to uli tariff taxation and favor direct tax¬ ation as the best means of meetiug our National expenditures, in substantially tho same manner that our State taxes are raised. f There can be no reasonable doubt that tariff taxation will continue to be the permanent policy of the Government, notwithstanding the opinions of these sincere but impracticable theorists who advise its abandonment. t THE PRECISE ISSUE. The dispute between the two parties arises over the exteut, effect aud objects of our taxation. Shall tariff taxation be imposed for revenue only or shall it be used for the purpose of tostering private industries? This is stating the questiou as nearly as 1 am capable of doing it. The propo- with such industries. The Republicans believe that the question of revenue should be a minor consideration in the forming of a tariff bill, and that the fost¬ ering of some industries should be the primary one. They shut their eyes to the fact thattbej are unnecessarily inter¬ fering with th( natural laws of trade. They ign or* ihe value of foreign trade or assume to believe that foreign countries will tradr with us although we purchase nothing from them. They for,et that reciprocity cannot be one sided. They appeal to the selfishness of the people and to their natural jealousies Of aud animosities against foreign Countries. The arguments of the Republicans in support of this system are inconsistent with each other, they in one breath alleg¬ ing that a high protective ta :e; prices and in another breath duces them. “You pay your money and take your choice.” Our opponents ire as versatile aud accommodating in their argument in this respect as was tho ignorant village schoolmaster who had made application to teach a country school and when exam¬ ined by tlie local committee as to his qualifications was asked the question “whether the world was round or flat?” replied that it made no difference to him —that he would tsaeli “that the world was round or flat just as the committee preferred.” do that American i not believe our manufacturers require the protection which the Republican Party seems to be so anxious to foist upon them, especially if they were provided with free raw ma¬ terials as the Democratic Party proposes to do. We are already underselling for¬ eign manufacturers in most or many of the markets of the world, aud if we can compete with them abroad, especially in their own markets, there would seem to he no real necessity of taxing our people longer in order to enable our own ma ,u facturers to compete with foreign ones at our very doors. All that America needs is a free field and a fair fight in the race of life and she will prove invincible in nearly every department of human activity. It is a narrow aud contracted view, however, that seeks to keep our country from con¬ tact with the commerce of the world. The Republican orator who boastingly asserts that the United States can raise and manufacture everything we need, that foreign commerce should not be sought after or foreign markets consid¬ ered, and that our American farmers should be content with homo markets anti home prices, and that we can and should be independent of nil the rest of the world, may gratify tho selfish and false pride of his hearers, but he only ex¬ hibits his ignorance of history and his lack of comprehension of the true sources of genuine prosperity. THE DAVENPORT FORCE lULL. The last step which the Republican Party took in the direction of central¬ ized government was in the attempted enactment ot I he oneusive ana iniquitous measure now known as the Davenport Force bill. Wlieu this bill was pending in Congress iu the summer of 181)0 I had the honor of speaking in reference to its provisions as follows: “If tiie people aro thoroughly aroused to the nature and iniquities of the bill, tho party which has conceived it and is now.-hastening to enact it will be buried under an avalanche of remonstrauce at the next election.” The election of ttiat fall showed that tho people were intensely aroused aud that the bill was most emphatically cou deinued by an indignant people. Yet immediately after that election tlio Re¬ publicans attempted to pass the bill, but thanks to the bold stand of our Demo¬ cratic Senators in Congress, aided by a few independent and fearless Republi¬ cans, its enactment was prevented and the country was saved from its disgrace. I have read in detail tho prolix and preposterous provisions of the Davenport bill, and I speak not as a partisan, hut as an American citizen, jealous of the lib¬ erty which my countiy’s institutions secure for me, aud devoted to the preser¬ vation ot the simplicity of her govern¬ mental system,when I denounce this meas¬ ure as a dangerous exercise of constitu¬ tional authority, a menace to our theory ol government and an insult to the people ol the States. It is an arbitary uct of despot¬ ism, justified by no precedent, made necessary by no political conditions, but put forward solely to insure Republican control of Congress. Like many ocher partisan conspiracies tiie Davenport bill is proposed in the name of reform, and its defenders pre¬ tend to tiud warrant for it in that pro¬ vision of the Constitution which de¬ clares: “The times,places and manner of hold¬ ing elections for Senators and Repre-'en tatives shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Con¬ gress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing Senators.” For a hundred years this provision has remained iu our organic law, aud no Congress lias bceu bold enough to exer¬ cise the undoubted right which its terms give under certain extraordinary circum¬ stances to annul State election laws and place virtually the entire control of elec¬ tions of Representatives iu the hands of Federal supervisors. No Congress has yet been bold enough to exercise it be¬ cause no great emergency for which- it who does not bebeve such a bill as this to bn a hostile blow at our form and theory of government, and I pity the partisan prejudices which prevents pa¬ triotic men front joining in the denun¬ ciation which they must feel for such an uncalled-for usurpation of power; but I am surprised at the hypocrisy of states¬ men who urge and defend it upon the ground of pure elections, and I am amazed at the audacity of politicians who have devised it as a scheme of party policy-. REPUBLICAN CORRUPTION. The country has not forgotten the scandalous corruption of four years ago. by which the Republican Party came into power. It has not forgotten the enormous sums collected from manufac¬ turers doubtful for the bribery of voters in the States. It ha3 not forgotten those two epistolary incidents of the campaign—the Foster “fat-frying” cir¬ cular and Dudley's “blocks-of-five” letter, And it is yet not ready to believe that the chief participants in those outrageous performances and the principal benefi¬ ciaries of this wholesale corruption are other than hypocrites and betrayers of the country’s welfare. The Davenport bill, instead of being in the interest of pure elections, is a direGt thrust at them. To prevent such scenes as characterized the election 1888 several States have recently F'*- reform laws which, it is believed, will make bribery and intimidation almost impossible. New York has such a law. In Indiana there is one. Connecticut and New Jersey each have one. Numerous other States now have them. But the Davenport bill, if enforced, would practically render those laws useless, although its provisions are carefully worded to produce an opposite impres¬ sion. 1 will not charge that the framers of that bill deliberately intended to prevent the operation of those laws in Federal elections, but when we now know that a notoriously versatile supervisor of elec¬ tions in New Y T ork is the author of this bill, and when I hear men who sit in high places by virtue of corrupted suf frages talk loudest in their advocacy of this measure, I feel justified in the sus- ! picion that the party which debased thousands of voters in 1888 is not averse to removing the obstacles to a similar I | carnival of corruption in future elee tions. I the country understands the plot# The features of this iniquitous bill I need not describe to you. The mero recital of them is sufficient to make them execrable. Under their enforcement there would he danger of riot at every poll. The inquisitoral and arbitray powers con¬ ferred upon the supervisors of election would not ho tolerated at times of po¬ litical excitement. The country would practically bo paying for a house-to liouse canvass iu every election district for the information and advantage of the Republican Party. The sacred right of representation would depend upon the iutegrity of a few partisan officers. The conflict between the State and Federal authority would be radical and violent. Respect for law would be broken down among the ignorant. Free expression of the popular will would be gagged by a horde cf unscrupulous partisans. Race prejudice would be engendered at the South—fierce party feeling, if not open rebellion, everywhere, Govern ment would be a sham; it would be government by an oligarchy of office¬ holders. If the Republicans should carry the coming election there is no moral doubt that this measure will be pressed again. The party which lias so firmly in¬ trenched itself in power; the party which set at defiance the will of the people by arbitrarily overturning popu¬ lar majorities in the last Congress; which has obtained the means of pro¬ fuse expenditure by legislative favorit¬ ism; which has created States to in¬ crease its political strength and which proposed in the Davenport Force bill to make itself the arbiter of every Fed¬ eral election—that party will not hesi¬ tate to revive this bill at the very first opportunity, if a Republican President and a Republican Congress shall be the result of this election. We must diligently exert ourselves to oppose this great issue of centralization which certainly confronts us. It pre¬ sents a more serious problem than any commercial, industrial or financial ques¬ tion, more vital to our country’s future welfare, more essential to tin preserva¬ tion of our institutions. THE CASHIER WAS SHOT Because He Refused to Throw Up His Hands as Ordered. Great excitement was caused in Erie, Penn., Monday fc 7 a daring attempt to rob the Krastone national bank. It was about 12:30 o’clock in the afternoon and no customers were in the bank. Assistant Cashier Kepler and Clerk Chicles Li 'bel were busy balancin'; th ir b >oks and counting money and checks, when suddenly a quartette of t ugh look¬ ing strangers burst into the room, revolv¬ ers in hand. The strangers took posi¬ tions a' each of the windows around the desks within, and pointing their revol- tub harvest of the sea. The deep sea lies dreaming by the shore, And up the nigged grassy steep The flsher-folk bring home once more Their harvest gathered from the deep. Like ripened plains at summer-tide, Their oornfields are the waters wide. For wife and home and nestling child, They travail on the trackless sea. The smile that is at parting smiled May be a life’s last memory— The accents of the fare well word May ba the latest ever heard. When on the sea of life I sail, With weary longings and regret, It all my countless efforts fai', I must not fail to cast my net; Waiting till One perchance comes nigh To show mo where the fishes lie. —Arthur L. Salmon, in Good Words. A Fie&t With. Dahomeyans. S far back as 1858 Captain Frank C. Bon¬ neau, now of Charles¬ ton, S. C-, having completed a cruise in t- the United States Navy as secretary to Commodore Ingraham, and being desirous of , ,________ some active work, ob C^ii§§S5|£8S- tamed °f handsome the command brig, 3 “'■"v' the Jehosse of Charles ton, S. 0., and under instructions from the brig’s owner made a run for the African coast. Bontteau’s account of his experience on the Dahomeyan 'to coast is best given as told by him the New York ^Times’s correspondent. .“It was in 1858,” said Bonneau, “while Castle,’that lyino- with, the Jehosse at Cape Coast 1 formed the idea of running down for a look at the south west coast, as that part of Africa known as Dahomey is styled. I was worried about approaching Porto Novo, the place the French have just bombarded, be eause of the warlike tribes that infested the whole country iu and around that p 0rt _ j was told that establish repeated efforts' had been made to a palm oil station at Porto Novo, but that Iuaco q had’ us t he head tribesman of the country, prohibited all nations from even making a landing. wa^the This Iuaco Dua, I was informed, most bloodthirsty aavage on the coast. It had long been his practice annually to celebrate his “Yam Feast” bv an inauguration of the most horrible and bloody tragedies in honor of the occasion. His throne was built upon the skulls of hundreds of pris oners, all murdered in his presence, and dispatched in a cruel and fiendish man ner known so well to the brute. “Despite the stories I heard of the Dahomeyans I determined to run down their coast, and so on one hot morning at about 10 o'clock I was standing in on the starboard tack with Porto Novo close aboard. The coast in the vicinity was rough and high, broken here aud there by deep ravines and marked along its entire stretch by high crags. In the in¬ terior high mountain ranges could be seen stretching far away to the south¬ ward and eastward. The wind at the time I was standing in was extremely light. I made a grave mistake’ in ap¬ proaching a suspicious coast have under such j conditions. It would been wiser had I waited for the strong sea breeze which regulutjy sprang up later in the day, coming always from the south¬ west. “As I continued to head in on the starboard tack I shortly made out ahead three canoes putting out from the laud, each canoe containing twelve or thirteen men. Fearing nothing from these few craft, I allowed them to approach the brig’s side and began to question them about the country. I had an interpreter aboard whom I secured before making the present cruise. “While engaged in questioning the canoes alongside, my attention was called by my people to several larger canoes seen to be approaching from the shore, each containing no less than twenty-five men, and in one boat in par¬ ticular appeared to be some officer of rank. “The first boats that had approached made no signs of a desire to board the brig, the fellows in the cauoes apparent¬ ly contented to keep close up to me for a look only. _But now on the approach of the larger canoes just observed the boats near by pulled right alongside, aud without further ado every roan that, could climbed up over my rail and jumped on deck. The manner in which these fellows landed themselves looked suspicious. I did not fancy it at all. No sooner had they planted ttieir teet upon deck than they began asking as to what we had to sell and what we wished to buy, and then soon followed up their in¬ quiries by demands for rum, and this they did without auy attempt • at asking for it. “The sudden, suspicious actions of these fellows caused me quietly to pass a word among my crew, aud at the same time I saw to it that each man had his i pistol and cutlass ready at hand. I at once ordered the brig’s wheel put down, aud passed the word to take stations for tacking ship. To my great relief t ^ e former light breeze was now freshening. No sooner, though, had I given the order to tack then there was a uecuiiar move- knocked in than I saw that pandemo¬ nium was about to reign supreme. Im¬ mediately they went at the rum, pouring it down their throats like water, and, in some instances, one man pouring the en¬ tire contents of a demijohn down the throat of one of his felloW3. Once they got hold of rum they refused to talk trade of any kind, and their game be came apparent if it had not been before. • ‘At this stage one of my crew came aft with the word that the boats coming up were loaded with spears, and that it looked as if the spears were about to be passed on board-. Without further ado, I myself took the wheel, telling the steward, who was close by, to stand by to relieve me, .and gave the word to my men to fill away the head yards, The crowd on deck was by this time too much engrossed in getting drunk to notice my movement. In a twinkle I had the head stalls drawing. In another moment the brig was keel'ng over under her canvas to the tune of an eight-knot breeze, and the boats alongside were at the same time cut adrift. I ordered every man in the crew to be prepared to jump in with his pistol and cutlass. For by this time the veils of the inmates of the canoes we " behind had attracted the were leaving deck, and the latter attention of those on were just beginning to realize their situ¬ ation. “I now turned the wheel over to the steward in order to have my hands free, for, as they felt and saw the brig fairly skimming over the water, fear and anger w T as at once depicted on their faces, Seme drew knives, others vaguely looked about for the arms they expected, ah of which latter had been capsized by the brig as she bore down on the canoe containing them. t had “I saw that the time to ac come, and, giving the word, one of the men forward turned loose the bulldog. With one leap Bull seized the nearest native, who, as he felt the dogs teetu, gave one of the most urearthly, piercing yells ! had ever heard, ‘Go in, mem I shouted to the crew, aud my brave fel lows, a mere handful, flung themselves, cutlass and pistol in hand, into the native mass. The yells of the man first seized by the dog started the entire cro wd, and, as native after native went down before the cutlass strokes of ray me n, the yells, the slashing, the terrible blood-curdling scene was something horrible, “At almost the first assault of the crew the natives made a rush for me as I stood alt. As they came along I filed into the mass, and then cleared myself lor the use of the blade. As I did so the frenzy of the brutes seemed to reach its height, for man after man ot them who was unhurt sprang upon the rail and leaped into the sea. In the distance far behind could be seen the outlines of the canoes still pulling toward the brig, and toward these canoes those who sprang overboard struck out. "With the bulldog in the lead, we never stopped the work of the blade until the last brute had leaped over the side, and then we cleaned up the decks by helping what remained of the affair with a sea toss over the side. “A3 the iast remnants of our visitors were cleared off the decks I let the brig come up into the wind, iust to see what they proposed doing now that we had shown fight, but there had evidently been too much scare—too much drown¬ ing and too many missing—to give them an appetite for further fight, for as the big cstnoes approached the scene, with the evident intention of picking up whom they could, the canoemen gave a great shout, and then, holding up for a moment their paddles and crossing them in pairs in a figure X shape, they let fall and slanted in for the beach. “On the brig’s deck everybody, in¬ cluding the dog, was ready for a further tussel, the latter, in particular, being by no means satisfied by the punishment he had inflicted. I think, though, that as we began to cool down, all hands were glad of the end. We doubtless failed to afford thoseDahomeyans the feast they had fully expected in having off us that day, for, as I was afterward told by an English Captain at Widdah, when relat¬ ing to him our experience, we had a most lucky escape. As it was, a good dog , a fine crew, and a stiff breeze alone saved a smart American brig on that oc¬ casion from being lost.” Escorted by a Friendly Puma. “I once ha 1 an adventure in New Mexico that made a terrible draft on my nervous system,” said Walter Phelps. “Tliad set out to walk from the station to the ranch oi an old friend, some four miles out, and when I had covered about half the distance a gigantic mountain Hon came sidling up to me. I had not even a pocket knife. When a few feet distant he stopped and looked me over, and I thought he was trying to make up iiis mind what portion he preferred for breakfast. 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