The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-10-04
The Peoples CANDIDATE.

ONO. 16 was announced delegation /
would come from Fountain county.
Indiana, but it was discovered that a |
mistake had been made in fixing to-
day for their visit. The Ohio delega-
tons were from Hancock |
and Allen counties and num-
bered several hundred. They |
brought six bands with them. |
Fifty Tippecanoe veterans accompan-
led the delegations, also 100 uniformed |
members of the Harrison and Morton |
battalion Of Lima. A company of boys |
in zouaYe uniform headed the column |
was cold and chilly, the thermometer |
having fallen to 46 at daybreak this
morning, and oVercoatS were comfort
able through the entire day. General
Harrison mounted the platform mid
hearty cheering. The presentation
address were made by R. II. Holiday,
of Findlay, Ohio. president of the vet
eran club, and 8. NJ. Jones, of Lima,
president of the republican club.
General Harrison was looking re-
freShed and spoke with his accustomed
vigOr, touching upon wages, the tariff
and pauper labor. He said:
GENTLEMEN AND MY OHIO FRIENDS.
The state of my nativity has again
placed me under obligations by this
new evidence of the respect
of her people. / am glad to meet you
and notice in the kind and interested
faces into which / look, a confirmation
of the cordial words which have been
addressed to me on your behalf. You
each feel personal interest and, l
trust, q personal responsibility in this
campaign. The interest which ex-
presses itself only in public demon
STATIONS is not of the highest value.
The citizen who really believes that
this election will either give fresh
impulse to the career of prosperity and
honor in which our nation has walked
since the war or will clog or retard the
progress, comes far short of his duty,
if he does not in his own place, as a
citizen, make his influence felt for the
truth upon those who are near Linn.
(Applause.)
| You come from the community Til at
was recently awakened to the fact
that beneath the soil, which has long
| yielded bounteouS harveSts to your
farmers, there was stored by nature ii
| great and new source of wealth. You.
| in common with neighboring commu-
mites in Ohio, and with other commu-
mites in our own state have very par
italy realized as yet the increase in
wealth that oil and natural gas will
bring to them, If it is not checked by
destructive changes in our tariff policy
This fact should quicken and intensity
the interest of these communities in
this contest for the preservation eff the
American system of protection. Ap-
plause.l
1t is said by some of our opponents
that a protective tariff has no in
f1uence upon wages, that labor In the
United States has nothing to fear from
the competition OF pauper labor that In
the contest between pauper labor ano
high priced labor, pauTAer labor was al
ways driven ont. Do such statements
as these fall into line with the expert
ence of these wOrkingmen who are be
fore me? Cries of mo, no." and no
ut all.''l If that is true, then why the
legislative precautions we have wisely
taken against the coming OF paupel
labor to our shores? 1t is because you
know, every one of you, that in con
test between two rival establishments
here or between two rival countries
that that shop or that country that pays
the lowest wages and so produces
most cheaply can command the market
If the products of foreign mills that
pay low wages are admitted here with
out discriminating duties, you know
there is only one way to meet such
competition and that is by reducing
wages in our mills. EApplausel.
They seek to entice by the suggestion
that you can wear cheaper clothing
when free access is given To the pro
duets of foreign wooden mills, and ye
they mention also that now, in some o
our cities the men, and especially TIL
. women, who are manufacturing the
, garments we wear are not getting AIDE
. quate wages, and that among some o
them there is suffering. Do they hop
! that when the coat is made cheape
the wages of the mau or woman Wht
makes it will be Increased? Tn
power of Your lab,r organizations +
i. secure increased wages is creates
when there is large demand for tn
, product of your making at fair prices
) You do not strike for better wages o.
: a falling market. When the mills ar
4 running full time. when there is ful
demand at good prices for the produc
i of your toll. and when warehouses ar
empty, then your organization may Ell
= fectually insist upon increased wages
a Did any of you ever see one of these OF
ganized efforts for better wages sue
coed when the mill was runnin
? on half time, and there was a small de
S mand at falling prices in the marke
4 for the product? lApplause.)
= The protective system work
WlGn your
g secure and maintain just cOmpenss
v ton for labor. Whenever it become
K true here as 1t is in some other coun
: tries that the workingman spends tC
: day what he will earn tomorrow, the
s your labor organizations will lose thei
u power Then the workingman bt
Y comes in every fact part of the ma
Y chine he operates; he cannot leave
1 for he has eaten to-day bread that h
= is to earn tomorrow. But when h
e eats to-day bread that he earned las
9 week, or last year, then he may suC
, cessfully resist unfair eXacti ms
s [Great applause. L do not say tina
r we have here an ideal cor
t dition. / do not deny tina
n in connection with some of our employ
f ments the conditions of life are .har
|. but the practical question is this:
t not the condition of our working pei
s great deal better than that of any othe
e country? Applause and cries c
Good, good.'I If it is then you wi
carefully scan all the suggestions b'
fore you consent that the work of TO
+ eign workingmen shall supply our MAJ
ket now supplied by the products {
!, the hands of American workmen.
thank you again.
}, The day is threatening and cool. an
@ beg you to excuse a further publ
o speech. Applause.
d The general then shook hands wit
j. the visitors. Tonight a number {
s Pennsylvania gas men, who are in tn
q city on business, accompanied by de
j. egation of local gas men and gas filter
Ell caHed on General Harrison at his res
g dence.
J; The Yellow Fever.
= JACKSONVILLE, Sept, 27.-TO-da
o there are comparatively few inhabite