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NEW YORK PRESS OF FLEMING, BREWSTER & ALLEY 1888 / / The f Republican Publishing The Republican Publishing Company. -J Company. 9 the The Republican Publishing Company is organized for publishmg, political purpose of preparing or selecting, and THESE two speeches have been accepted as the first value and interest on current politicalr themes. publication of this company because they were at hand literature of pubUca- were not published Company is not to distribute its to begin with at once ; because they The plan of the number of gentlemen of number of sample copies when delivered ; and because a tions gratis beyond a reasonable judgment and taste in such matters, who thought them too clubs, leagues, commit- to the press, and to Republican requested their publication. They good to be lost, have printed in large quanti- tees, etc. Its documents will be will be furnished to organizations or individuals at. $3.00 rate, and sold to clubs, leagues, ties at the lowest possible per lod copies, or $3.50 per 100 in envelopes, ready to at a price committees or individuals for local distribution, mail. Address By this plan it is THE R. P. CO., New York. barely covering the cost of pubUcation. attainable, believed both a large and effective circulation is for gratuitous while by either attempting to collect money neither is possible. circulation, or by selling at a high price, interested individ- Many clubs, leagues, committees and distribute a few hun- ual Republicans will buy and . if they can get them at dred, or a few thousand pamphlets ; : from three to five dollars per hundred, when they would not think of doing it at fifteen or twenty dollars per hundred to secure money enough for a large gratuitous circula- while Speech delivered by Hon. War- tion is not possible. It is believed, therefore, that by sale ner Miller, at the Republican at cost, is the only fcaablc plan of securing a large and Cooper Union, effective circulation. meeting at evening, The co-operation of the Republican press is relied upon New York, Saturday to bring the purpose of the Company and its publications October 22, 1887. to the public notice, as also that of all Republican organ- Gentlemen : izations, and earnest members of the party, to assist in the Mr, Chairman, Ladies and promotion of its work. An efficient system of distributing for this hearty greet- I thank you most sincerely well-chosen literature is unquestionably the most effective for the past four ing. If the State of New York, Republican party, means of. sound political education, and the purpose of this years, has been doubtful to the of New York. The over- Company is to fully and effectively occupy this field. It is it is all due to the city Democratic majorities with which you intended to bear the same relation to the political press and whelming of the have greeted our Republican majorities to political truth that the Bible and Tract Societies do to under from time to rural districts, have borne us the religious press and religious truth. as I have appeared time. During the past week, For sample publications, or for any further information, have asked before the people in the country, I " re- address " pontest ? and they have them : What of the THE R. P. CO., New York. - all right here : It is plied, without exception majority but we shall give our usual Republkan ; York? I what can you tell us of the city of New " from the rural have come here as an ambassador of this city to R€;pubhcans, to ask the Republicans if we, come send me back with the assurance that 6 SPEECH OF HON. WARNER MILLER, AT COOFER UNION, N. Y., OCT. 22, JS87. J down to the Harlem River with or even twenty an old-time Re- of this city. Twenty-five years ago, publican majority, they will city greet us with a like years ago, the great importing trade of this majonty. When, last night, in citizens. But to-day coming into your was itt ilie hands of American city, I crossed Spuyten imme- Duyvil Creek, I felt hke foreign manufacturer, through his own leavmg the behind me all city, by means my Republican hopes I agent or representative in this was diate not certain that the undervaluations, distinguished gentleman of fraudulent invoices, and by whose name has been given in this city to the creek, instead has driven out of the importing trade of being of Dutch ancestry, into the great was not of Democratic nearly every American citizen. Go ancestry. I hope to take defy back to the country the mercantile part of the city and look. I will assurance that the Republicans one- of New York will the average American citizen to pronounce do their full duty. I believe I the signs. Yet in may guarantee that half of the names he finds upon they will. of fraudulent spite of undervaluations; in spite decisions made in ; in spite of Treasury True Interests invoices of New York Ci^. Administration, the interest of free trade by this The interests of the city trade here of New York lie with the American people have met free the Republican party. It is true very threshold of- the that this is the in its stronghold, upon the pat centre and stronghold of free trade. This country, and won great victories. IS the great entiy port into which the manufac- turers of Europe Figures. pour their more than six hundred Instructive million dollars' worth of York goods annually, and from The last census shows that while New which they take out our three-quar- gold and our products. city is the entry port for more than Vast mterests here would be come into our glad to see broken ters of all the foreign goods that down the barriers which the the leading manu- Republican party has country, it is at the same time - builded up for the the protection of home industries facturing city of this continent Formerly I understand it all full well. its I know that foreign city of Philadelphia had that honor. By manufacturers are holding the great import trade thousands of shops, and in the happy hom« . 8 SPEECH Of HON. WARNER MILLER, AT COOPER UNION, N. Y., OCT. 2^, 1887. 9 of parties the party in oppo- of its hundreds of thousands of laboring men, it ours—a government — it itself it to the country to had made itself distinguished as the chief manu- sition owes to —owes — facturing city of the country. But in 1880 the be vigilai»t in its criticism, in its examination of census proved that New York had become the the acts of the party in power, and of all its foremost city of American industry; and when leaders. this great question was brought home to the peo- I do not propose, at this late hour, to undertake ple of this city in the national campaign of 1880, to go fully over the record of the Democratic party since it has been in power ; or to go over it was by arousing the skilled mechanics ; it was the by bringing home to the laboring men here the the pledges and promises which it made to importance of protection and the dangers that American people in the campaign of 1884 ; or to of it has failed to threatened it in DemocraitiG ascendency, that we show you half the evidence how pledges or it has utterly failed to gained the victory and elected Gar^ld President keep those ; how the of the United States.