, 1888-11-04
The Old Roman,

Inc OlQ
NELsoNvILLE, o., Nov. 3.-This min
ing city with 5000 inhabitants gave
Judge Thurman an enthusiastic welcome,
and to its population was added a great
number of people from other places in the
vicinity. When Judge Thurman mounted
the stand at . o'clock probably 5000 peo-
pie were massed in the vicinity, and he
was greeted with great applause. He
spoke briefly upon the subject of the tar
if, and then turned to the subject of cap
ital and labor. He said in part:
First | want to say | am not here to
breed discomfort. l am not here to set
the employer against the laboring man, or
the laboring man against the employer.
l am here simply to preach Justice to all
hands, n that every man shall have an
honest and fair reward for his labor.
There is annual accumulation of wealth
in the world, and that accumulation is
wholly repeat it, and emphasize the
words wholly the result of human
labor. There is not a writer on political
economy who ever wrote a line on this
subject that was worth reading that has
not affirmed this to be the truth, and we
know it to perfection that the difficulty
about the production of wealth is easily
solved. But there is another question
that is more difficult by far, and thai is
the question of the distribution of wealth.
This is the great problem that agitates
society all over the Christian world.
This annual product of wealth is dis
tributed between three classes of men.
First, the capitalist who lends money to
carry on business, and if he charges a rea-
sonable rate nobody complains. Next
comes the manufacturer or employer, who
is also entitled to a fair reward if he is
content with fair and honest profits. No
body in the length and breadth of the
land begrudges him those profits. Lastly,
we come to the laboring man, the man
whose brawny arms. level head and skill
enables him to pile up the wealth, and
that man is entitled to his reward or the
scriptures are a lie. Our opponents are
accustomed to sneer at what they call
political economy. They sheer at science
and scientific men as if science was any
thing in the world but the truth. If
these men will sneer at science they will
sneer at the words of Almighty God him
self, who has declared that the laborer is
worthy OF his hire.
The speaker said the sentence that
In the sweat of thy face shall thou earn
thy daily bread" was the greatest bene-
diction ever conferred upon mankind, as
it made man industrious and intelligent
and saved him from being a poor misera-
Bile loafer. [ say, therefore, that the
laboring man is entitled to his reasonable
hire, and if he does not receive it he is a
wronged and defrauded man. Our oppo-
nents are preaching to you that the way
tor you to get good wages is to have high
protective tariff, to tax you on everything |
you earn, for that is what 1t to. 1
do not believe | am the friend of violent
means, but | tell you laboring
mems organizations, when properly
conducted and rightly managed, have
done more to secure good wages to labor
ing men than all the tariff laws that have
ever been or ever will be passed. Your
way, then, to get good wages is not get
ng down on your knees to congress and
praying for high tariff. Your way to get
good wages is to maintain your manhood.
Other people can make combinations, can
form trusts-that word which has become
Sd odious; other people can do that.
produce all the wealth in this world can.
hOI OLSaulAO ii IlCI Ohu pIOGeCIlOu'
Great applause.
Judge Thurman then spoke of the
charge made by political opponents that
the Democratic party is the enemy OF the
~workingman, and went on at some length
to deny that imputation, as he has in
other speeches. AS he was closing his
remarks some one in the crowd called out
for him to say something about Minister
Vests letter, to which the Judge replied
All | can say about the West letter is
that if had a boy and he was such a fool
disown him. fCheers. Whether Mr..
West is a knave or fool [ do not know,
but he is one OF the other, too much so to
represent the British government at the
city OF Washington, and Grover Cleve
land has told him so and given him his
walking papers. At 4:30 Judge Thur
man and party left for Columbus.