The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-04
THE GOLD ROMAN"
He Hits Straight From the
Shoulder.
HE EXPLAINs THEPROTECTION
Judge Thurman In q Common Sense
Speech to q Large Audience
Rough on West.

| NELSON, O., November 3.-This min
ing city, with 5000 inhabitants, gave
Judge Thurman an enthusiastic vel
come, and to its population was added
q great number froM outside the place.
When the judge mounted the stand at
2 O'Clock, probably 5000 people were
massed in the vicinity, and he was
greeted with great applause. He spoke
briefly upon the subject of the tariff,
and then turned to the subject of capt.
tai and labor. He said, in part: First
i am not here to breed discomfort;
am not here to set the employer against
the laborer, or the laboring man against
the EMPLOYER; I ami here simply to
preach justice on all . hands,
and that every man shall
have an honest and fair reward
for his labor. There is an annual acsu-
mutation of the wealth of the world and
that accumulation is wholly repeat
it and emphasize the words wholly
the result of human labor. There is
/ not
/ A WRITER OF POLITICAL ECONOMY,
| whatsoever wrote line on this subject
that was worth reading, that has not
affirmed this truth. We know it to
perfection. When the difficulty about
| the production of wealth is solved,
there is anothers question, that is more
difficult by far, and that is the question
of the distribution of wealth. This is
the great problem that agitates society
all over the Christian world. This an
nual product of wealth is distributed
between three classes of men. First,
the capitalist who lends the money to
carry on the business, and if he charges
q reasonable rate nobody complains.
Next comes the manufacturer or en-
ployer, who is also entitled to fair re-
ward. If he is contented with fair
and honest profit no one begrudges
him these profits. Lastly, we come to
the laboring mantle man whose
brawny arms, level head and skill
enables him to
PILE Up THE WEALTH,
land the man is entitled to his reward,
or the scriptures are q lie. Our OPP
ponents are accustomed TO sneer at
what they call political economy. They
sneer at science and scientific men as
| but the truth. If these men will sheer
at science, will they sneer at the
words of the Almighty God Himself,
who has declared that the laborer is
worthy of his hire? The speaker said
the sentence that "in the sweat of thy
! face shalt thou earn thy daily bread"
was the greatest benediction ever con-
| ferred upon mankind, as it made men
| industrious, intelligent and saved him
from being a poor miserable loafer,
therefcSe say that the laboring man is
emit ed to his reasonable hire and If he
! does not receive it he is wronged and
! defrauded man. Our opponents are
preaching to you that the way for you
to get good wages is
TO HAVE A PROTECTIVE TARIFF
to tax you on everything you earn. for
that is what it comes to. do not be-
lieYe, l am no friend ofviolent means,
but tell you the laboring men organ
izations, when properly conducted and
rightly managed, have done more to
secure good wages to laborlng men than
all the tariff laws that have ever been or
ever will be passed. Your way, then,
! to get good wages is not getting down
on your knees to Congress and praying
for high tariff. Your way to get good
Wsges is to
MAINTAIN YOUR MANHOOD.
Other paople can form trusts, that
word which has become so odious.
o her people can do that. would liketo
know why the men who produce all the
wealth in this world cannot organize for
their own protection. (Great applause.)
Judge Thurman then spoke of the
charge made by his political opponents
that the Democratic Party is the enemy
of the laboring man, and went on. at
some length, to deny that imputati0G
as he has done in other speeches. AS
he was closing his remarks, some one
in the crowd called out for him
TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT VESTS
letter, to which the Judge replied; All
l can say about the West letter is that
if l had boy and he was such fool
as to be entrapped, as West was, 1
would disown him. Whether West is
knaVe or fool 1 don't know, but he
is one or the other, too much to be
British representative at the City of
Washington, and Grover Cleveland has
told him so, and given him his walking
papers. At 5 80 Judge Thurman and
party left for Columbus.