Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-24

that OF the rich. Then il there are any
legal ineq ialities against the poor ana iu
favor OF the rich in business, the govern
ment should seek these out and remedy the
evil. There are such legal inequalities.
Prior to 1860 there were no labor uElons
known. Prior to 1860 no such thing as
strike lad taken place. Bread riots were
unheard of in the country To-day labor
goes off the pay roll and on the panper list
tomorrow. This is not nnrnal ST ite OF
things. These legal Inequalities cause this.
In a free land there should be a margin be-
tween the daily wage paid to labor. and the
&C. / OF a days bread. IL should be in favor
of labor La Dor should be able to aceuniu
late bread Tor q few days ahead. In nor
mai cond ton OF affairs the laboring man
before he grows old should be able 70 save
the price of the tools he works with, OF a
little home to shelter his family, and this
saving should increase until he mad the sur
plus OF his labor out at interest earning
more surplus. If this is impossible
is the business of the government TO find
out what this IL and to remove 1t. when
this remedy is found and applied hen free
labor will be happy. 1t will build up its
be found. That this is not SO now is the
fault of he party SO long in power. That is
why the people got tired of that party and
called in others to take its place-to seek
out these curses and apply the remedy.
they will find the remedy, bee 'use they
proceed on the right principles. That
is why for TWEEN y five years the Democra $
bore defeat and survived. They believe in
tuis principle OF local government IL is so
strong in their hearts it will not suffer the
paternal idea to rule"
BARTLETT AND SWIFT
Were next taken up aut their merits dis
cussed. Attention was called to the fact
that the former was wei trained in exeou-
tive duties. and the latter lac king in all
such experience fhe speaker made some
excellent hits on this point, saying: The
Democrats have great partiality ior sue
cessful mayors Some years ego there was
in Buffalo plodding lawyer, large-feaded.
broad-shouldered. big handed and big
footed. Ii the Hancock campaign he pa
raded the streets in the rear ranks OF a
Democratic procession. He was not
ashamed to shoulder his quart of kerosene
and pound the ptyements by the hour.
The people made him Mayor, then Governor
of the Empire State, and last OF all, Presi-
dent. This is a precedent foc that we are do
ing. San Fraocisco is the greatest triumph
of modern civilization, OF American enter
prise For four years Mr.. Bartlett has been
the chief executive officer OF that great city.
H c took up that ofic when the city was
SOC, 900 in deb. There was no money to
sweep the streets, to light the city. to pay
teachers salaries, or the police force. |
make a mistake-there was II cents II! the
school fund-some one had overlooked that
Men like Wm. r. Coleman and all the best
business men of the city thought bonds
must be issued Mr.. Bartlett, he thorough
man of business the able tnancier, said it
need not be so" Here Barilett's course in
the city. which IS given elsewhere in the
HERALD to-day, ana has appeared in these
columns several times before, was glowing
ly described
"Now the Republicans have given you
John F. Swift Swift is genius. Heaven
help commonwealth governed by a
genins. Genius writes novels, genius
writes spring poetry. But genius
has no common sense. 1t does
not make a good Governor. When genius
goes out to plow it takes either plow and
no horse, or horse and now plow. When
genius goes to hoe corn it either has no
corn to hoe. or no hoe to hoe with. Genius
puts the milkmaid on the wrong side OF the
COW. Genius dreams. Swift is genius,
He shows 1t in all he does. Genius lifts it,
breechss. 1t does not make a good Gov
ernor. 1t takes good, plaiu, cOrn-fed COM
mon sense to govern state. Common
sense always has 10 be called In to rescue a
State which genius has brought to the brink
of ruin Swift is genius. He showed it
when he made his first speech at the Wig
wam he said he had gone into the Dolly
Warden movement; so had Bartlett. Bart.
lett said then and says now the politics of
the State at hat time were corrupt 1t was
meant to get affairs out OF lad hands. He
Joined ii for that purpose. The good of the
public was what he had in mind.
% said Swift then. But in his
wigwam speech he says. 1 organized
| put up their ticket. did it to elect Booth
Senator and to cheat the Democrats out OF
six years il the Senate. | am SO smart so
sharp
Wen now (says the speaker) do not wsnt
so smart, so sharp a man. lie might fall
on his own edge and hash him, elf all to
pieces. Swift confesses he went there un.
der false pretenses, not for the public good.
but for q political trick This Confession OF
insinccrity marks him as an unfit man to
be Governor of this great State. When he
made that confession, the Republicans
turned their faces to the wall in shame, and
vowe they never would vote for man
who made such an unblushing acknowledg-
ment. Swift is genius, and like genius
he has sawed of the limb next the tree and
let himself down.
But he says he is not enough, OF
genius to. to frame ahi1a an irrigation law; law
can do that. He is waiting for some
one to be born to grow up and learn TO fran c
this law. This may not be such burning
question here, but Itell you in Fresno women
their rights from officers with an injunction
to stop the water. There it is a burning
question. But genius would sit and dream
until the bitches were dried up, and the trees
withered at the roots. and the sands of the
de ut covered the homes of the people.
Swift Is a genius. Genius when 1t goes
accounting takes the girls finger to stir up
the fire in the pipe 1t Is smo sing, Practical
Bartlett promises to do all in his power at
once to solve this problem and not wait for
genius of the next generation to come and
do it.
few blocks below me my friend Estee Is
tearing his throat to pieces while l am
shredding mine here, and freezing you.
He is overhauling the Federal administra-
tion on the silver question. He talks about
the dollar of our daddies that all the chill.
dren cut their teeth on. Now what does he
know about his matter of silver. He says
Cleveland demonetized silver. Why up to
the yer 1878 the total coinage OF silver dol
lars did not amount to IS 100000. Yet in all
the previous time coinage was free. How
did the 40,c0O.O00 babies cut their teeth on
$8.000 900. There was an overissue OF ba-
bies, or an underissue OF dollars. In 1878
gress remonetized silver and made Its
coinage compulsory. Jackson knew the
law OF currency. He issued his specie cir
cuIar, and all the country was up
great flow of currency into the coun-
try from al parts OF the world, and laid the
foundation for the financial policy OF the
Union on which all her after success has
depended. Cleveland knows this law and
is creating as fast rs he can n demand for
silver"
Lack of space prevents following Col
IRISH through this discussion, through the
pension question ana through glowing
tribute which he paid to Joseph ID. Lynch,
urging all Angelelos to vote for their
neighbor, who would be their friend in
Congress.
After he had finished Mr.. w. X Jacobs, OF
Tulare. spoke to the crowd. The address
was very able, touching on many matters of
national and local interests. To the last the
people ood in the cold to hear the last
that might be said. A great success was
the meeting In every way
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