Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1881-05-03

for public schools in Colorado, 1921, ,674
in Florida, slS3, 900. Expenditures an
nually in Colorado, S243,s50; in Flori.
da, sl34,SS0, and so on.
Mr.. President, | make these points in
order that the country may understand
this: The complaint made by the gentle
men on that side is that in the North we
put an educational qualification on the
ballot and that restricts it; but gentlemen
| wish to show you at the same time that
we open the school house doors every
where. While you raise a dollar pei
capita for the education Of your voters,
we raise all the way from SO to SlS pei
capita in the States of New England and
in other States of the North If we re-
quire education we furnish the opportu-
nifty for every man to acquire it.
The Senator from Florida also had the
courage to call the laboIing men Of the
Moth, especially of New England,
"serfs," "hungry, starving employees OF
our mills, working out weary existence
under the cruel hand of the hard hearted
task. Well, Mr.. President,
live in one of the New England States ;
| live in a manufacturing city, city
which manufactures the cotton raised in
the South; know something about the
manufacturing employees of New England,
more, evidently, than the distinguished
Senator from Florida knows. Why, Mr..
President. the South doesn't know any
thing about the labor of the North.
There is no more comparison between the
laboring men Of the North and the labor
ing men Of the South than there Is be-
tween black and white. On the one hand
labor has been disgraced by hundred
years of slavery: on the other hand 1t
has been honored. made free, made indie.
pendent. made digni6ed, made proud !;
and when the gentlemen Of the South
talk about the serfs in New England
manufactures, they do not know what
they are talking about.
saw to the Senator from Florida ! can
take n factory in my own city with q
thousand adult employees. men and wo-
men. aud he may select the best village
in the State of Florida, having 1000
adults, men and women, as its inhablt-
ants, and he may exclude every colored
person from that number, and then will
take those mill operatives, commencing
with the agen, and going down through,
and will compare them man to man
and woman to woman, and IN dignity OF
character. in intelligence, in education,
in every manly and womanly virtue, in
property. in prosperity, the employees OF
,ha. mill can discount the 1000 selected
from in Florida.
Serfs: Men to be bulldozed and intim-
idated All, if the Senator from Lou
isiana had had the operatives of Massa-
chusett down there during the bloody
history of that State and the conserva-
,ives had undertaken to intimidate and
bulldoze them by the methods then pre-
vailing in Louisiana, there would not
have been enough conservatives left today
to form the decent nucleus of party.
All, it is easy to shoot labor when it has
been ground down for hundred years by
slavery; it is different thing to point
the pistol and look at the eye of free
white man and bulldoze such an employe. !.
Starving and hungry employees Let me
tell the Senator from Florida that the fac
tory operatives and mechanics Of Massa-
chusetts today have laid by in the saw
ings banks of that commonwealth money
enough to purchase the whole State Of
Florida, real estate and personal prop
erty, five times over and then have $780,
600 900 left. Laughter and applause
in the galleries. The valuation Of Flor
ida is only about thirty million dollars,
real estate and personal property; and
the laboring men and women of Massa-
chusetts have today on deposit in that
State in the savings banks over two hun
dred million dollars. Starving and hum
CRY employees Oh, it required courage
to say it.
live in a city of 10000 inhabitants.
| speak within bounds when say that
the men and women at work in the mills
of my city have more money on deposit
in the savings banks today than all the
laboring men and laboring women of
Florida have anywhere! Starving and
hungry serfs
The gentlemen on that side show cour-
age when at once they attack gentlemen
on this side by charging that we had
forgotten all the principles of our lives
and had joined with repudiators and
adopted the infamous doctrine of repudi-
alton. One by one we have declared that
we have adopted no such doctrine. Re-
pudiation finds no sitting place in New
England, let me tell the gentleman from
the South; but it was charged upon US,
and Senators on this side thought they
had made reply enough when they charged
back upon them that every Senator who
urged it represented State which had
repudiated all the way from $4,000, 900
to 800, O,OO0,O 900, and then the boldness
and courage was shown again by Senator
after Senator rising in his place and de-
claring that in his State there had been
no reputation, not dollar of repudia-
ton. Oh, the infinite courage of the
distinguished Senator from North Caro-
lima, Mr.. Vance. No repudiation in
North Carolina
Then the distinguished Senator stated
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