The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-11-03

| toihCs 1dt 10 lIl6 REeAl
trouble in this tariff system of ours
lhat while the profits of the business
may be 30, 40 or so per cent. the
laborer does not get more than 8 or 4
or per cent. of that profit. [ say 10
you, therefore, laboring men within
the sound OF my voice, that it is right
III You to look to your interests-not to
resort to vlolect, not to make unreason.
aole demands, but to protect your
interests by all fair, upright and honor.
aOle means that a man can use to
protect his welfare and that of his wife
and children. lApplause.] That is
the truth OF the business and whoever
says to you: "You shall not earn your
daily bread, you shall not feed your
wiie and children, you ought not to
have comfortable home i'm which to
dwell; YOU shall have nothing to give
TO the education of your little BOYS and
your little girls, unless you will give
up your own judgment, unless You
VIII surrender your own freedom,
nniess you will cease to be independent
American citizens and will vote as
dictate" Is DO good citizen of the United
States. lGreat appleuse.]
MANY THINGS TO BE THANKFUL FOR.
Now, my friends, let me tell you, you
have many things for which to thank
the Almighty. You have to thank Him
that you live lin country in so boun-
teous, so plentiful, as this; you have to
thank Him that you live in an age of
civilization and progress, and You
have especially to thank Him that you
i've In country of free institutions,
where every man stands, in law, the
equal of every other man. Where YOU
can walk with head erect, as high as
the proudest man in the land, and as
much entitled to respect if you behave
yourselves well and live virtuous and
upright life. You have a good deal,
therefore, to be thankful for; but you
have nothing to be more thankful for
than you have the rights of an inde-
pendent American citizen. rA voice:
"Thank God!"l Whenever you allow
those rights to be trampled upon;
whenever you surrender your indie
pendence; whenever you give up that
God-bestowed right which makes YOU
the equal of all men and entities yon to
receive the fair rewards of your own
thinking and your own voting; when-
ever you give that up, you will no
longer be free American citizens, but
you will be the slaves of so many die
tators, who will ride you booted and
spurred for their own interests and not
for yours. [Applause and cries of
"Yesl' "Yesl" "That's the thing.n
and "That is right"1
Now, my friend, when we say Gre
duce taxation what do our republican
orators tell us? What do they tell you?
Why, they have the audacity to come
before you and say that the democratic
party are the enemies of the laboring
man; that all the republicans want
high tariff for is for the benefit of the
laboring man. A wonderful way of
benefiting the laboring man, of bene-
fitting a man by taxing him from the
crown of his head to the soles of his
feet on every thing he wears. Laughter
and applause.l A pretty way of ben
| efiting the laboring man by taxing him
on every foot of lumber that goes into
his modest dwelling; that taxes him ON
every foot of lumber that goes into his
barn or into his fence; that taxes him
on all the tools he uses in his trade and
the utensils which 60 into his kitchen;
that taxes everything that can be found
to levy a tax upon, That is a pretty
way of aiding the laboring man.
But, my friends, did you ever hear
anything more absurd than the talk of
| democracy being the enemies of the
laboring men OF the country2 Why,
you may collect together 1000 voters
OF the democratic party anywhere in
the United States from The Atlantic to
the Pacific, and $50 will be laboring
men. Applause.l 1t is so to-day; il
always has been SO. 1t necessarily ever
must be 30, for the democratic party is
founded on a principle that makes 1t of
necessity the friend OF the man who
fulfils the scriptural Injunction to earn
his bread by the sweat OF his face
[Great applause.] defy any man to
point out one single great measure for
the amelioration of l.ie laboring men
i'll this land or in any other land that
was not the result of the democratic
principles which lie at the foundation
OF our party. [Applause. What gave
you the right to vote? Democratic
principles did it. What makes you the
equal OF any ether manY Democratic
principles did it. What gives your
children as much chance for promotion
as any other mans children? What
makes it possible for any one oil the
little boys within the sound my voice
TO become president OF the United
states? What does that but democratic
principles? [Applau>e and a voice,
"Ihat Is So" And yet to talk about |
the democrats being opposed to the |
laboring man! Why, if that is SO, the |
democrats are their own worst enemies, |
that is all. For if man is opposed to |
himself, then he is his own worst |
enemy, and, if that is the case, the |
democratic party, which is a majority |
OF the voters in the United States, are |
their own worst enemies. Why, then
the Inference these men would draw
upon it is that they ale unfit to be
voters at all. There are plenty of our
opponents that would like very well TO
have that view adopted. [Applause
and laughter Now, my friends, the
democratic party, composed as it is
mainly OF laboring men, are not a set
of idiots. They have succeeded enough,
have learned enough, have Information
enough to find out what is for their
Interest and to pursue it. And think
IN the early days of next November
they will prove to our republican
opponents that the democratic laboring
men are wise enough to vote the right
Kind of ticket and for the right kind
'f principles. [Applause.1
IN CONCLUSION.
One word more and l will bring nv {
to close. want to say one '
word more to the laboring mon in this J
audience. hope that they never will j
orget the considerations l am about g
o present to them. You have certain b
lights. 1t is your duty to uphold them. o
'ut i'll upholding them it is also your d
uty not to resort TO violence where Il
here is no necessity st ell for it. Nv {
rlends, the cause of labor is the cause L
lstice and right. We are told in the
ood book that 1.-THE laborer is worthy N
his hire" 1t is Gods own revela- ~
on to you that you are worthy of your
ire, and that principle, that doctrine s
INST prevail. [Applause.] 1t is not L
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