The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-30

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and % 8 n ninety out Of every 100 fail utter
" S' q successes you hear Of, but
| the link away into obscurity and your
sonss1s no are gone into the city find their place
at last IN the poor-house where history doesn't
deal with them to any considerable extent And
1t IS as much worse for the girl as you can think
speak like an old man to young men and
women, and to mothers and fathers, and say
n. ma good, honest farmer or mechanic in your
neigh6orhood marry the girl to him, and let
tnem De the happy parents of fine children, who
| will again marry with that class. on which the
very foundation OF government rests
| NOW, say farm iife is hard life but whv
| is it a hard lifel Because you don't get a fair
share OF the profits of what you produce. Look
| at the agricultural implements see here How
| much has the power of the farmer been increased
/ by this improved machinery More than two
hundred fold You can produce two hundred
| told as much In the same time Now why Is
not the condition of the farmer two hundred fold
better now than it was before the good gifts of
| God to him in the shape Of machinery were
| given him to increase production? He rather
| ought to be two hundred times richer ought
to do his work two hundred times easier
and ought to work two hundred
5lmss SaI:s u, less than formerly; but he
has got itl Voice in the crowd, The monopo-
list. Not always the monopolist but he gets
most OF it. The farmer hasn't got it. He has
got ms land little better or little worse: but
all this great production has gone somewhere.
1t has not been eaten up; it has not been burned;
IT has not taken wings and flown away You
VIII see 1t In these immense fortunes which have
beer acquired. am not here to say one word
against those men that acquired them am
here to arraign the laws of the coun-
try which allow them SO to
accumulate the wages of honest labor and honest
production lApplause am here to say that
laws and legislators that can be SO manipulated
to make the rich richer and the poor poorer
ought to be changed. OF the fifty billion dollars
OF property In the country, the farmers own more
than one quarter Well, why have they not got
RIGHT Because, first their riches don't flow in
piles to them. 1t is a steady stream; aud then,
you pay all the taxes substantially. Why do
say thatl Why, if could get all this fifty bill
ION dollars Of property taxed the taxes
,TouM would De De- nothing at all; they
Mr., Vanderbilt says that under the law he is
not taxable at all for any personal property, and
yet by your laws, he had at that time $52, 2,OO0,
900 of national and other securities and
the law would allow him to escape taxation. Do
you say a word about these lawsG Oh, no; you
get up all mannep of quarrels over States rights
and old matters of any kind that were matters Of
Importance long ago, and while one calls him
self Republican, and anothera Democrat and
get vexed and angry and make great row, yet
you are bled every day while you are
quarreling, nothing more nor nothing less.
Why does the farmer pay so much2 1t is because
all his property lies where it can be seen, and
the tax-gatherer can't miss it; whereas my
bonds, if have got any, my stock and my notes
and my securities, lie away in my safe and the
assessor can't find them. The farmer is worse
on than the workingman because he has got
something to be taxed that can be seen. The
workingman has got his capital which is his
capability of doing days work-that is not
taxed; but the farmer having onefourth of the
property OF tins country, pays three-fourths of
the taxes"
The General then considered the subject Of
transportation, and said: s'The railroad com
papies league together and make discriminating
tAnsn fKkaR
this matter at length, let me sketch you one
thing: Chicago beef, is and has been cheaper
| in Liverpool, England than in Boston, and that
beef has been taken through Boston. You say
that is very remarkable. Not at all 1t is
effected by discrimination in rates against the
Boston purchaser. only want to call that
one thing to your mind to show
you how those great corporations Of necessity
act toward you. The corporation leaves the in
dividual manager entirely relieved from all re-
sponsibility You go to railroad corporation
and complain to the manager. Oh says he,
I'd relieve you if could, but the company have
And who is the company You can't
find them The company has no con-
science, and the individual is relieved
from his responsibility, and that is the worst
thing have against corporations. Corporations
are necessary, but what are theyl They are
agents of the people, created by the law of the
people, to be restrained by the people, and they
are to act only for the good of the people. They
are allowed to take tolls on fares and freight
for the purpose of just and fair remuneration,
and if they do that, and that alone, they
become the friend of the workingman and
the friend Of the farmer as means
of communication and Interchange of freights
and passengers. But if they transcend these
limits then your Legislature should have full
power. 1t has in theory constitutional right to
restrain them, but now, how is it in Pennsylva-
MAI Do you believe honestly that there is
power enough in any Democratic or Republican
LEG in tn fho
sylvania Central railroad2 There is not man
of you believes this. Tried every year, it
missed fire every time
The General then addressed himself to his
Democratic hearers saying
who has been throwing away his vote, and,
Ito his Republican hearers] who has been doing
worse sustaining the party that has brought
about these things? 1t doesn't make a bit of diff
ference which party wins-the Pennsylvania
Railroad controls them always, just as you
would if you were the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Men are pretty much alike in this world The
great majority of men are all right; the mass of
the people are always right, and they are always
intelligent, for everybody knows more than
anybody"
The General considered the low prices rul-
ing, and gave his reason therefor. I'm
der consumption, not overproduction,
and between them, he said, lis avery wide and
vital difference, Over production is when there
is more of anything produced than all the world
could consume if they could get it, under-con-
SutnptloIl lS Wueu bH0rS Is LuOf6 prOQucou Jndn
those that want it. and can't get it can consume
The trouble is because the means Of transporta-
ton are so high that it keeps you poor tt dis
elimination, and that you want to remedy
Now, won't you vote for yourself
awhile2 We have got to start new party, a
peoples party. The people must come up and
stand together, and renovate the old parties
You can do it, you men, if you will stand to-
gether Now don't let anybody 60 away and say
Gen Butler wants us to vote for him. am not
anxious on that subject at all. You can do me
no good by your votes. If you should elect me
President, however, next November YOU
would do me the greatest possible harm
An old man, to be driven from pillar to post for
four years by continual scramble for Office
by all sorts and conditions of men, without
power unless you would give me Congress
without power todo any good, and only to be an