Chairman. is the shield and buckler of the poor laboring man. and if we purpose to continue in power as a party let us never forget the friends who filled our ranks in the day of battle and uttered the battlecry as we rushed upon our political foes and achieved the victory of 1884. The protection to the capitalist is wholly incidental. and intended to be so. for the duties are to be collected under our platform for revenue purposes. and are to be so laid as to "cover any increased cost of production which may exist in consequence of higher rate of wages prevailing in this country.II "But. in making reduction in taxes. it is not proposed to injure any domestic industries. but rather to promote their healthy growth."I is the language of the platforma strange way of taxing for their benefit by reducing the rate of duty. And if further evidence were needed that our platform upon the tariff was framed in the interest of the workingman. we repeat one of its charges against the Republican party: "It has subjected American workingmen to the competition of convict and imported contract labor." In my examination of the subject I pass now to the consideration of the platform of the Republican party. It is a matter of profound surprise that any intelligent man should declare there was little or no difference on the subject of the tariff between the two great political parties. How reads the tariff plank of the Republican party?
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