"them Steers" Now Republican

At the close of the Republican oounty convention, Tuesday, a large audience met n the rink to hear Solon Chase, of Maine, he man who in the palmy days of the Greenback party, made a great hit telling about "them steers," which are now pullng for Harrison snd protection. Solon hase is an uncouth Yankee farmer, but a jower on the stump. The first vote, he said, he ever cast was 'or Henry Clay and protection. When he bund that the Greenback party had eüpped rom under him he was not certain how he Republicans would act on the tariff question. He hd worked ten years with the Greenback party - a party that had done good, and when it couldn't do any more good, it had the sense to die. That's more than can be said of some other party. [ don't koow na the Democratie party is fit ;o die. The Greenback party had fulfilled t8 mission, and now the question is the tariff. The Republicans in 1883 reduced the tariff, and prices feil. He didn't know till 1884 just how they would act. Then ;hey nominated James G. Blaine, and there was no longer any doubt. He knew what Blaine was - American way down through. He would say for Cleveland's credit that ie has courage - something new in tie Democratie party. Cleveland issued hisfree trade message; Blaine, although in Barope, locked horns with him, and now we jave a live critter in politie,0. Tbe Democrats are coming into the Republican par:y, and there is a perfect landslide towards Ëarrison and Morton. Although they say they don't, exclaitned Solon Chasethe Demócrata mean free trade. They have started that way. The Republicans at one time claimed that they meant only restriction of elavery, but they really meant abolition. He wasn't afraid of a surplus. We need internal improvements, and all the soldiers should be sioned. We want a protective tariff to protect labor. It gives an inducement to capital to keep our markets tor them. If we buy thiug3 cheap, it will be done by cheap labor, and when things are cheap you will have cheap people and a cheap country. When prices are high everybody is employed ; when priees are low, tramps are abroad. Solón illustrated his point by the hog business, in which he is engaged. When hís hogs sell Lor 5 cent por pound, the huyere want few and small hogs; but when the price is 10 cents, he buya the largest hogs. What we want is high wages, not low wages. But if you throw open the ports and buy the produots of pauper labor, you will have pauper labor here. Labor is about all there is of the article produced, and henee high prices mean high wages. He wanted the free trader to keep out of his corn field. There was no difference in effect between stealing his corn and lowering the price he could get for it.