The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-30
BUTLER'S BAz0O
Sounding Through the Hills and Val.
leys in Pennsylvania.
HIS SYMPATHY FOR THE FARMER.
He Gives Them Tafry by the Ton and Ad.
vice by the Acre, the Great Point
Being to Vote for Ben
jamin for President.
Il. Butler Blows.

HARRISBURG, PA Aug. @.--B, Il.
Butler arrived this morning on his way
70 Williams Grove, where he speaks
this afternoon.
WILLIAMS GRoVE, PA, Aug. @.--Gen.
Butler arrived here at noon. He was
met by 5000 people and escorted TO the
Grange headquarters, where he held n
snort reception. Every available seat
near the grand stand was occupied.
ma hPr ling.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. @.-At o con-
terence of the National Greenbark Labor
leaders, with Gen. Butler, at William !,
grove to-day, an aggressive campaign
was decided on. Gen. Butler will make
our more speeches IN this State. at Phil
adelphia, Pittsburgh two other places
vet to be determined. From now till the
state convention on September 18th, al
1elletontes, will be devoted to pei ifecting
ne organization and filling up loca
1lckets: At that time the speaking can
Iass VIII begin. A red rose on n green
leaf was decided as the Butler badge.
AT O'Clock Gen. Butler was escorted
10 the grand stand. a large number OF
people were present, with music, and a
squad OF nifty police. AS he assembled
ne platform he was introduced by
worthy Master Leonard II. Howe, OF
Ihe state Grange. Gen. Butler, in his
speech, said:
Usually speech to the farmers com
inenceS in telling them how happy they
lro, and how nnrh ~ go lot is to be de-
sired to Ill others, and how excel ent a
.hlnR IL Is 10 H.uN 81 tAe ground and
drive cows and milk them and make
butter and have other people eat 1t. |
am not gong to begin my speech in that
way. A farmer boy, also brought up in
my early youth on farm,
not like these, but 30 rocky
that when they sent me after the cows
could jump mile from stone to stone
ana never touch the ground; | know
somethingot farm lite; II il hard life
4 well followed; it is asr N life If well
well followed; the farmer as
a rule, does not get rich
hut he always has comfortable sub
Sistence aud il he is industrious ami
frugal he lays upa competence for h .
children. And If he has taught them to
work with him, and not let them get the
foolish idea that the highest vocation
man can have Is to measure off calico
with yard stick behind a counter
Never do that, stay at home, bows, on the
larm. Let me tell you one or two
Jhlngs and this is politics, and YOU do
not know il SO out of every ln0 men thai
go in the city and 10 N business Go
not succeed IN high degrce, and moro
than 30 out of 100 fail utterly. Successes
you hear of, but failures sink away
into obscurity. and your sons
VINO are gone INTO the city lind thei
place Mt last in the poor-house, where
history does not deal with them TO any
considerable extent, and 1t is as mucn
worse for girls, as you can think. |
speak like an old man to young men
and women, and mothers and fathers
ind good, honest farmer or n, nhanic
in you" neighhOrhoOd and marx tb,
girlsto them and let them be the 6llppy
parents OF fine children. Agaiu, marry
with that class upon which the very
foundation of the Government rests
Now, | say, farm life is hard life, bul
why Is II so? Because you don't gel
\ fair share Of the profits OF
what you produce. Look ut the
agricultural Implements see here.
How much has the power of the farmer
been increased by this improved ma
chinery? More than 2O0-fold. You car
produce 2OO-fOld as much in the same
time now. Why is not the condition @,
the farmer 2OO-lold better now than II
was before the good gifts Of God TO him
in the shape of machinery were
given him to make production. He
either ought To get 200 times
richer or he ought TO do work 200 times
less than formerly, but he doesn't
Where has this money gone to? Who
has got 1t? Voice in the crowd, "Mo
nopolists 1t is not always the mo
mopolist. hut he gets most of It,
'Ihn ftFnlnr huG .f ID
He has got his land a
little better or little worse, but all this
great production has gone somewhere.
IL has not been eaten up. II has not
been burned. IL has not taken wings
and flown away. You will see II IN
these immense fortunes which have
been acquired. am not here 10 say one
word against these men who have ac-
quircd them. | am hero 10
atra.sn the laws uf the country, which
allow them so TO accumulate tnG wage,
pt the honest labor and honest produc
ton. Cheering and applause. an
here to say the laws and Legislators that
can be so manipulated to make the ric
richer and tho poor poorer, ought to be
changed. There Is 50,00O,0O0,000 of prop
erty in the county. The farmers
own more than one-quarter, well why
have they not got rich? Because, first
.hoir riches don't How in piles To theu.
II is a steady stream, and then YOU pay
all the taxes, Substantially. Why DO j
yet all this $50,OOO,O ,OOO,O0O worth of prnp.
rrty taxed taxes would be nothing M ali
They would be tlea-bitc, hu,
Mr.. Va. de 'bilt says that III :
Ier the law he In nOttaxaD.r at nil
ior any personal property and Yet, by
Your laws, he had ut that time $1,000
400 of National debt, aud other seruri-
lies, and the law would allow him to es-
rape taxation. DO you say awOrd about
thoso lawsy On no, you get into al
manner of quarrels over State rightb
aud old matters of any kind that were
matters of Importance long ago, and one
will call himself Republican, and
another Democrat, and yet
ycXpd and angry and mnk.
row and are bled evely
LAY WHile YOU were quurreling-n -notnins
more or nothing less. Why does th
.rner pay so much2 Ii Is because All
Ms property lies where IL can be seen.
and the taX-gatheror can't miss III;
whereas, my bonds, II | have got any .
and my stock and notes and my securi
tics lie away In my saIe an
tllt hHStShOI thnl InN tnCll. III
srner is worse of than th
working man, because no has got some
thing To bc taxed that eau be seen. Thc
workingman has got his capital, whicA
his capahility of doing days work
This Is not taxed, hut The farmer, hay
ing One-iOurth the prui orty OF this
country, pays three. .fOurths OF tho taxes
The General then considore,
he subject of transportation
aud said the railroad coinpanies
raguo together, mako discrlminatinl
rntOs OF freight and now, without goin
Htr this matter ~ l"ngth, lot me sketcl
you one thing: Chicago beef IL and ha .
been cheaper in Liverpool, England,
than In Boston, aud this beef has been
taken through Boston. You say that
IL very remarkable. only wrnt tO
call that one thing TO your mind to
nov you now those great corpora
i1ns act against tho farmer. Tho cor
Orntion leaves the individual manager
utirely relieved from responsibility