The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-09-22

, hypocrisy Let the truth flash apo
: every intellect in the nation tha
. this species OF legislation is based Oh
the idea that capital and not labo
is entitled to legislative encourage
! ment and protection; the idea tha
the money power ought to be, ant
of right is. supreme. and that there
fore every department Office, and
agency Of the Government should be
must be. operated in it's interest and
for its aggrandizement.
Is this true? Let the act demon.
etizing silver and making gold the
only metallic basis and lawful coin
answer Let all the legislation de-
preciating the values OF land and la.
Dor products, and to the same ex-
tent approaching money, answer
Let the fifty thousand business
houses which have been crushed
answer! Let the hundred thousand
business men who have been hurled
from opulence to penury, with blight
ed hopes aud broken hearts, answer !!
Let all the financial legislation for
the past fifteen years answer
But, sir, l would not bo under
stood as waging war wautonly upon
capital as such, for as all capital is
bat the product Of labor, and is or
ought to be the reward Of the labor
er's toll; if strike capital without
qualification, the blow wounds the
worlds greatest benefactor, in the
the person of the laborer, t0hono to
wound l would be but treacherous
Judas. l weuld pierce the vitals, if
| possible, of that conscienceless, soul
less monster which, under the forms
of law as well as without law, has
through all time by fraud and vio>
lence grasped and appropriated to
it's own exchequer all the products
of honest labor save only the uiser-
able pittance that keeps soul and
bodystogether, and proposes here
even in this New World, hid for cen
turies by God himself from the sOld
Worlds rapacity as his last best
boon and heritage to liberty and la
| Dor, to subjugate all labor to itself,
it's heirs and assigns, forever. 1t is
against capital SO acquired and
welded, and such capitalists who
consolidate their ill.gotten riches out
Of the plundered earnings wrung
from other mems honest toll, that /
raise my voice and Will ever cast my
vote.
Let me cay in conclusion, sir, Ia
Dor is the creator of all values, as
values are the measures of all wealth
material. intellectual, political, So
cial-and agriculture is the creator
of the blood, the bone, the muscle,
the brain, and all the activities Of
labor. Agriculture is the great lab
oratory in which nature through the
cooperation of divine lsw and hu-
man effort combines the elements
which constitute the psbulum upon
which all humanity subsists. In the
proportion in which these elements
are combined must be the enlarge
ment or dimipution ST population,
and in proportion to population will
be the achievements oflabor and the
advance of civilization; agriculture
is the substratum upon which rests
the whole fabric of our civilization
If agriculture prosper, fresh vital
ity with electric velocity and poweE
flashes through every nerve Rnc
muscle of humanity civilization ad
vances and develops on every line
of thought and endeAvoT; trade
f1ourishes, manufactures enlarge anC
multiply, commerce spreads he
wings to every breeze and lands he
rich argosies on every shore; eartl
yields her ingots of gold to the ca
reeses of the grimy miner; scisnc
delves deeper into the cavsrnou
labyrinths of nature, and plumes he
pinions for loftier flights after knew
edge among astral suns and Aebu
GUS systems while art with rekin
died ardor utilizes the discoveries O
science and ministers the creation
Of inventive genius. to the estheti
as we'll as the natural want OF tn
, world; religion herself, replenisheu
with all the material agencies an
/ instrumentalities Of her grand mi'
eieu, with renewed energy presse
forward her invincibIe armies pre-
r pairing with song aud shout to crow
| with imperishable and eternal glor
J, 1.-The Bozrah Conqueror."
:. But. sir, if agriculture ralters,
J. drouths wither, if the frest kir
: blight, if floods destroy, or if unWii
t and vicious legislation oyer-burdC
}. the fruits Of the fields. st once !
n progress stops, and, the prepslliI
# power reversed. rolls backward Il
: entire machinery Of civilization Il
le ward the yawnipg chasm Of newt
,r HE ruin. Tr ade langnishes fir