New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-09-08


wrong The whole wrong lies in this, that we are get
ting too little for products, and those who handle
them getting too much
Col. Coleman has shown you what IL costs 10 get
bushel OF wheat market from where he lives
in Missouri, and we all know what 1t costs here,
and that we pay threefourths Of the pro-
duct OF our labor to get the other fourth to
market. II this is 10, who fixes the price upon
labori What have you in regard to its price
than did the slave Of the South in the days OF
his worst estate We in fact in condition OF
slavery unless control the price OF our own labor
II you fix the price Of my labor you cireumscribe
my actions and fix me TO plan for my fetime, with
out opportunity for rest recreation How do the
monoposts get these prices Take the powmen OF this
State; all have their annual conventions. They
come together and agree that they will have just
for pows during that year, matter what we
may get for products and for the last two years
they have asked 100 per cent the cost Of pro
duction. Thus that combination makes
monopoly OF the plOw business. No mat
ter what agent or manufacturer you buy Of
you have TO pay tue same per cent. There are my
friends the pork packers from all the principal cities in
this Union, who last year met and combined to Tx the
price Of pork - yous know this as well as l.
ST. Louis Milwaukee, Chicago Louisville, and
Cincinnati together just they going TO con-
next at Cincinnati and fixed the price of our
pork for the coming year just cooy the master
sold the slave the products OF his labor. Last
year they fixed the price upon your pork at 81
a hundred live weight, and they would buy all
there is West at the rate. or course they
got it, and If they had fixed the price at S. they would
have had it. only got s. rs Probably the high price
for freight the difference in your WHAT right
had they TO do this
Certain people denounce me because fuse strong lam
guage. Col Coleman called these pork scoundres,
and believe Its good word, for the man who robs me
is a scoundrel. They combined to rob u.s. The
seoundrels came together and fixed their price,
and the pork began coming in. The men who were
IN debt and for these and mowers
had matured sold first and when they through the
stream stopped IL costs a. much to run packing
house on half time as 1t does for whole time,
and as the pork did not come in they put the
price up hundred and that started the stream
again and the set OF men whose notes for reapers
and corn.planters had matured sent in another lot
When that was worked up the porkpackers pat up the
price another 40 cents, and another lot came along
admit that there are very many rich farmers
country, but the rich ones the
exception and the poor the rule That Is the diner
But did your rich men, who do not owe dollar
the world and who have their farms stocked and paid
stop to think who fixed the price on your pork
Why, the men who owned the first notes for
reapers and sold the first lot OF hogs fixed
the price OF yours! The price OF your
products what it may, is determined by the figure
which those who must sell dispose oil theirs Those
who must sell fix the price for those who need not Is
IT then worth while 20 have union OF all interests
TO come together and be brothers in fact as III
name. We can protect each other, and while we
protect our poor neShbor and assist him over tight
place we are protecting ourselves, because If he must
sell al 20 cents that likes the price upon our
corn. Combination will beat combination IL IL TO
your interest TO come together in these farmers
clubs. oranges organizations, and combinations,
for purpose, which is the mutual
selEprotecon of the whole people. Did you ever stop
to think my fren, that single locomotive nor car
be run over these prares OF ours without the Oil
manufactured from the hog and with which they
grease their wheesi Shut down on your polk for
season. and you dry every locomotive IN the STATE
They cannot run day without you, nor can people do
without pork article OF food without lard, or your
other products. The wheels OF the world Will not go
unless you grease with the products Of your toll
When you come together and enter into
combination OF this sort by your State, county,
township or precinct associations, one aux
Hilary to the others all the way up, ana
when the machinery is perfect, say You have COM
bnation that is irresistible, for the reason that you
hold in your hands the breadstufs which feed the
world. and when you look at your corn-crios aud
granares and refuse open Them you bring the wOrld
to your feet at once because it cannot exist one day
without you.
Increase in taxation then, is another wrong which
We have brough; upon ourselves, and we might as well
look il souarey in the face aud right it, When went
on the farm II years ago took $40 gold piece TO pay
the taxes and 1t takes seven ana
half Of them, which IS an advance Oh ht'c
over 700 per cent what corresponding benent have
l. in Gods name for that increase of taxesf Is It not
time for us TO look into it, and inquire Of public
servap, how II bappens that taxes increase, aud
what they give us in exchange for themi Dld you
know that they are multiplying officers aud expenses,
and voting away thousands upon thousands
OF dollars with perfect disregard OF the interest OF the
taxpayersl | am told that county not hundred
miles from here used to be run for 500 year. ana now
1t costs $500 Did you stop to think that takes
the product OF whole township TO ieeu Judee our
Circuit Judge eats up all III township in year
Is not ne monsrous eatert Is IL not ume We treu 10
look into this matter and see II could not get some
man who would eat less IL costs 100 much 10 ooaiu
that KIND of cattle Think OF what you are getting for
your ,products and OF what you are paying Tor his
service any justice or right IN all TINS
Mr. Smith then touched upon the salary grab, when
he roundly denounced OF President Grant he said
The President who signed that bill winch
put 100000 In his pocket IS not one DIT pet
ter IN my estimation than the men VINO voted
for il and took the steal You will pardon me Tor using
such harsh expressions that when L tell YOU
have been a Republican since the party star'ed,
aud went right straight along with H. But thank pou'
did not vote for Gen Grant the last time. nave not
that sin 10 answer for, at any rate. But let
me say do not feel bit Detter
about IL, aud do not think degraded
myself bit more voting for him the first time than any
Democrat who voted for James Buchanan.
should think there ia but very little TO choose