The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-10-16
GEN. BUTLER.
He Continues to Arraign Both
Old Parties for Their Neg
lect Of Labor,
And Plainly Shows that Relief I
Only to Be Found in q
New Party.
His indianapolis speech Delivered to an
Audience OF Fifteen Thousand
People.

Fellow-cttfzcns, ladies' and gentlemen, have
business that II given to men In no other
country In the world. In no other country have
citizens tho right to meet together to consult as
lege Of law making is usurpcd by cmperors,
kings. princes and mobiles Here. In free and
happy America, we are soycreigns In our own
right. and all men should be enlightened as to
what is right to be done. What great over
whelming matter has brought this vast as
semblage here to night2 What is there In the
such meetings twenty -five years ago. when
sumter fell, and all the people came together to
know what should be done to save the country
and the flag. What brings us here! Has the
good God been unkind TO this country Has
lie sent pestilcncet upon usg No; on the other
hand, His gifts are richer than those given to
any other land on earth. All over this country
are the most bcncncent crops ICom!notion in
audiencel Now what's the matter! A man
never makes himself distinguished by dis
turbng a public meeting. Josh Billings said
that hornet could disturb 4 whole camp
mtcting.
In the East there are thousands Of men out OF
employment. and in the West the mortgages arc
eating up the farms. and tic crops won't sell for
enough 10 ray for the cultivation. We have .
man. now and then, who gives an $4,000 ball.
but we have not been % extrayagant - as people.
weeks, they have madc $2,5oo,o0o spccnlatlng in
pork. That Is. busing 1t cheap OF the producer
and selling 1t at rate that will enhance the
that they are to be 50 much blamed. We are to
be blamed for leaving the law SO they can do It,
IL a poor man undertakes to save his family from
starving, and should steal a pig, we put him In
tho pcnitentiary. What shall be done with a
who steals ~, 500 900 worth OF pigs all ut once
from the necessities OF the people,! He becomes
your millionaire, and you have no law to stop It.
To-day corn Is IS cents a bushel In Chicago
and ~ cents In the farmers hands In Kansas.
Why, Because there Is speculation in corn
that there are starving men in the East
and there are farmers losing their farms In the
West? With these laws. these things done by
law. these things are done by monopoly un-
checked.
II had my way would have law enacted
so that whoever sneculated for his gain aud
profit In the neceSsarics Of life, thus leaving the
people to starvation. he should he hung without
the benefit of clergy. and would execute the
law do not Say anything about specuating
In stocks although that ought to be checked,
and III for no other reason. for this: II they get
together and cheat each other, do not care for
that; but we have large number OF men In
this country who have other peoples funds.
almost, OF men stealing these funds and run
ming away with them. There are fifteen bank
officers In the Penitentiary OF New Jersey, and
Therefore, as q prcscrvative to those having
trust funds from temptation would abolish
every stock and produce exchange and every
other deveish invention by which men cheat
IHe here spoke OF subsidies granted to rail-
roads, which, under them had become the most
tyTHuulcAl 0uu Oppressive Vi u1OuOIhucs. 11c
next spoke Of the scarcity Of money. that we
have no more money In circulation now than In
1879, when we had but is.ooo,ooo OF people. and
that no change In national banks and other mat
ters had taken place for the reason that both
parties were controlled by monopolists.l
The emoeratic National Convention Of ours
lanrhterI y'tW Who 20 was At the Chairman man, don't
believe there IL a man here that can remember
Yes. Villas, / am glad YOU remember 1t. You re-
member him because he Is the most competent
railway attorney In the United States. mean
to say he Is a servant of monopolies There are
ls3 electoral votes Of the South standing with
monopoly--the monopoly Of labor. Ii gives
them control OF over /. 900 workingmen and
women in the South. There have bone to
pick with my Republican friends. The Repub-
nn IL ear cn
women who prayed to God to take care OF their
cause.-the relieving from bondage OF four
millions OF slaves. They threw away their votes
year after year. men said, but they. were tri-
umphant Mt last IL you will look back you
will see the hand of Divine Providence in 1t all
nars in
The negro as the safeguard Of freeman. But
ii that ballot cannot be freely cast and honestly
counted wa, W ,h no ha, @ proks h 1ne WORD
For twenty years the Republican party has
held almost unlimited power, so far AZ govern
mental power can be unlimited. and there has
not been honesty of purpose enough or energy
enough To make that ballot which II gave To the
negro free ballot and fair count. II they
can't do that In twenty years. why. in Gods
twenty years longer. i shall not be here. They
come every four wears and tell Won there has
been massacre Of negroes down south. and
there IL nobody punished for the killing Of these
citizens. Why should We keep party IN power
that cannot protect our citizens in our land. or
| any piece Of land on earth? The Democrats an
| swcr back not so: tho negroes have been muir
| dering the white men. and neither gets pun
| ished. / am no respecter of color In that re-
| gard, and had the power there would be a lot
hs.fh
| fChecrs. How else does the question OF the
! negro affect you? Why his wages are only half
the wages of the laborcr OF the North, and your
Wages will he cut down under this competition.
| There will hc no tariff to save You there.
lconld yet no resolution through the Demo-
cratic convention that looked to the relief of la
| hor, because my resolution looked to the relief
| Of all laboring men-white. black, or gray. Our
/ platform il all expressed In four sentences, the
one ] have sailed under and the ore / have
/ fought under for more than six years. The
platform Of thu Peoples party Is equality oi
| rights, equality Of power. equality OF burdens
and equality Of privileges to all men under the
! law. Now. then when asked them. Will you
| put a plank in your platform which shall de.
| clare that labor ought to have the power by law
to combine for its own protection. a. capital
does by law IL would not be heard for mo-
| mcnt. That would not do The negro must no,
have the right to combine.
| When | asked them to declare that labor Il
| entitled to a just share of the profits OF its owr
| production, they said no. the laborcr cannot
have any such right a. that. When asked then
to say in the platform that there should be fail
| division Of the profits, told them what meant
said that statistics showed that in the last
| thirty years there has been produced in this
country by the iaborins men in the increase o
| that the same statistics showed that the laborer
| has received in wages only s4oa year. Ont o
| that 5000 who has got the other SIX. and how
did they come by II, and what did they pa,
for it, The other 5000 has been swal
lowed mp by capital in its various forms
Now, l am willing that capital shall b,
H. al
labor one-third. II is one-thrd robbery certain
ly. suppose We call fair division half, then
Tor the last thirty years. Your laborng mel
would hsye got siao wear and the lAhore
wonld be enabled To have comfortable hom,
for his wife and little ones. The Democratic
convention would not promise half. Did / ~,
halfy They would not promise to give Jus
division They wouldn't agree to anything
You can't get Democratic convention ruled b,
the Southerners who control II gro labor 10 hav
Democrats. Oh. God. wish jefferson coul,
look down on them Tor about i've minutes an,
give them his opinion on that kind Of Democra
cy. Great laughIer.i How many laboring men
voters. do You think there are-s.4a',ooo agri
cultural workers. there are I, 900 mining an,
manufacturing iaborers and 2,ooo.ooo of freigh
and transportation laborers, altogether ther
are Is, ,uoo. .0io OF men all OF whose interests ar
exactly alike on this question, aud who. b.
! their votes, are able TO control their own inter
! ests and crush party opposed to them out un
der their heels. And they want You TO vote tn
| old Democratic ticket,
You Republicans do worse thaa that. No
| ret Your men cut. ana II they Won't come on
| in any other way You eahe them IN a ualforI
that il a cross between All organ monkey and
plamed knight. and they march you about tn
street. anu prepare To vote for the grand oil
Republican party that for twenty years there
not a man of you can tell that IL has ever don
single thing tor the laboring man In the ton
gress Of the nited States Oh. YES. the Repah
liean party passed the tariff What for L
c,Try on the Mar. and They put IL ON as heay
A. they could 10 gct ~ much a. they conle
That was right. they had 10 pass II. and the
have never corrected IL since. They know how
hut the Democrats don't. The Democrats ha
atwo-thlrds majority IN the present Congress,
I hey cot together and cleeted a fTes-tIad
| Speaker, and great thrill ot JOY ran throug
the bosom uf every british manuiac urer whe
that news cot 10 England With that power
Congress, having IL all their own way. the
| eh4 se committee on Nass AMI means, an
| they worked four months - see how the tari
| could he amended, Thy said they wanted. !
tie Tst place, To cut oil great deal Of the rev.
/ and sa paf 10 fIa A sha,