The Labor enquirer., 1884-10-04
WITH BUTLER.
outpeurins of the Masses -spsakingte
Ten Thousand Persons in
Two Halls.
No Bands Of Music Nor Glare Of
Torchlights Necessary to
Call them Out.

Call them Gut.
LYNN, Mass, Sept. 22.-General Butlel
received great ovation in this city to
night. There were no brass bands, M
torchlights, nothing Of the usual cheaE
expedients to draw crowd, but the
crowd came without them. The two
largest halls in the city, the Colliseun
and the Music hall. were crowded Ions
before the time announced for the speak
ing. General Butler and Mr.. Grady
arrived in town at about p, M, and
their carriage was received with cheers
as it drove through the streets. The
reception to General Butler wac one o.
the heartiest he has received during the
campaign. Mr.. Grady opened in the
coliseum and General Butler in the
Music hall at s o'clock, the two together
addressing 10000 people, saying:
Fellow CITIZENS, LADIES AND GENTLE
MEN: Ny first and most grateful duty
is to thank you for this kind and cordial
reception. / do not quite agree with the
chairman that it was the speaker that
called you together, but the deep Interest
that all men feel in the present political
and business condition of the country
We have come to a condition of things
which requires the thoughtful, calm
judicious action of every rightthinking
citizen. Now, 1 need not say to you,
because have addressed very frequently
my friends of Lynn, that came here
for no purpose of saying hard words
against any men or set of men. There
are good men-nay, the large majority
of the people Of both parties are good
honest men, desiring nothing but the
good of their country as they see it to be
obtained by their own political organiza-
ton. There are bad men in all parties,
and-I am going to be frank--there ap-
pears just now to be more bad men in
the republican party than in the demo-
cratic party, and for this reason, that
they nave> been in power a number Of
years and their bad men have been
found out. daughter and applause, ]
When the democratic party, If they
should ever happen to do so, have been
twenty years in power they will appear
to have the most bad men. -l...
Now what is the condition of the
country? The shops of all descriptions
where worklngmen and women obtain
their livelihood are either closed or
working short time, or at insufficient
remuneration either of the laborers or
the owners Of the shops, Hhsn our
warehouses are bursting with goods on
this coast, in this part of the country,
and every merchant and trader will tell
you that he cannot sell anything. Why
mot? Men are born naked, as usual, !
suppose, and want clothes, and are born
in want of shoes. Why can't they sell
them2 1t is because the multitude, the
mass of the people haven't money to
buy, and every trader will tell you that
he must look to the mass, to the many
for his customers, and not to the few
Therefore it effects every trader, every
merchant, every exchanger of goods
Every class of business is dull now.
have just returned from six or seven
thousand mile trip through the west
and there they have the most beautiful
crops that the Lord ever blessed His
| people with. 1t is wonderful. Yet they
were in such condition Of distress. O.
course, they always have enough to eat
The surplus is what they sell, and with
what they sell they buy our goods; bu
they cannot sell their crops for anything
For instance, in Cass county, Iowa-ant
1 speak of that county because it wa
the most beautiful country my eyes eve
rested upon, and / told them what / an
about to tell you-in their principa
town, Atlantic, their corn was selling a
1s cents bushel. Itcost 2 cents to hay,
it shelled, and they had to pay out
cents on the average to get it to the rail
road. [Laughter.] What was there lef
for the man who raised the corn2 81
was in the condition where the more b
raised the worse he was off, for he -ha'
| more to handle, more to send away ant
take care of and it brought him less
because it takes two bushels of corn t
get one to market [laughterl that is, t
our market. T. ,. "
And 80 with the financial condition o
the country. Some of them used t
think did not know much abou
finances. When l used to talk to yo
about the greenback they said I was
little crazy on the finances. told 20
that the greenback was the constitutions
currency of your country, and last yea
the supreme court of the United State
after solemn argument, every judge bt
| ing in his seat, decided that in peace 9
well as war the legal tender notes wer
the constitutional currency ofthe Unite
States. They decided it, my friend
eight to one, not eight to seven. [Laugl
ter and applause.1 True l had to wa
: fifteen years before my words were mad
good, but l always feel content to wal
I Great applause.l l have always b
$ Hieved in the German proyerb: "Whe
you are an anvil, bear; when you are tt
I hammer, strike" [Applause.) No'