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ternoon. They were greeted by large
concourse Of democrats from all over this
region. This mining city with 5000 in
habitants, gave Judge Thurman an en-
thusiastic welcome, and to its population
was added great number of people from
other places in the vicinity. When Judge
Thurman mounted The stand ut o'clock,
probably 5000 people were massed in the
vicinity, and he was greeted with great
applause. He spoke briefly upon the sub.
ject of the tariff and then turned to the
subject of capital and labor.
THURMANs ADDRESS.
He said in part; First I want to say
that am not here to breed discomfort;
am not here to set the employer against
against the employer am here simply
to preach justice on all hands, and that
every man shall have honest and fair re-
ward for his labor. There Is an annual
accumulation of wealth in the world,
and that accumulation ia wholly-I
repeat il, and emphasize the Words
is wholly the result Of human labor.
There Is not writer on political economy
who ever wrote one line on this subject
| tirmed this to be the truth and we know
it to perfection. The difficulty about the
production of wealth is easily solved, but
there is another question that Is more diff
fcult than this. and that Is the question
of the distribution of wealth. This IL
the great problem that agitates society all
over tho Christian world. This annual
product of wealth is distributed between
three classes of men. First, the capitalist.
who lends money to carry on business and
If he charges q reasonable rate nobody
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or employer, who is also entitled to fair
reward. IL he is content with fair and
honest profits nobody begrudges him his
profits
THE LoBoRING MAN.
Lastly. we come to the laborinQ man
the man whose brawny arms. level head
and skill enables the piing up of wealth,
aad that man is entitled to his reward or
tho scriptures are lie. Our opponents
are accustomed to sneer at what they call
political ecouomy. They sneer at science
and scientific men as If science was any
thing in the world but truth If these
men will sneer ut science, will they speer at
the words of the Almighty God Himself.
who has declared that the laborer is worthy
of his hire. The sentence, that 'in the
sweat of thy face shall thou earn thy daily
bread" is the greatest Uenediction ever
conferred upon mankind, as it made man
industrious and intelligent, and saved him
from being poor. miserable loafer. !
say, therefore, the laborinR man is enti-
tied to mis- reasonable hire. and If he does
not receive it, he is a wronged and
defrauded man. Our opponents are
preaching to you that the way for
you to get wages, is to have high pro-
tective tariff; to tax you on everything
you earn. for that is what it comes to. |
am no friend of violent means, but tell
you that laboring organizations, when
properly conducted and rightly managed,
have done more to secure good wages to
the laboring man than all the tariff laws
that ever have 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 wages is TO maintain your man.
hood. Other people can make comoina-
tions, can form trusts-that word which
has become so odious--other peo-
pie can do that. would
who produce all the wealth in the world
cannot organize for their own protection"
Great applause
Judge Thurman then spoke of the charge
made by political opponents that the dem
ocratic party was the enemy of the labor
ing man. and went on at some length to
deny that imputation as he has in other
speeches.
MINISTER VESTS LETTER.
As he was closing his remarks. some one
in the crowd called out for him to say
something about Minister Vests letter. Ia
which the Judge replied: "All can say
about Vests letters is, IL had boy, and
he was such fool as to be entrapped as
West was. would disown him. Whether
Mr.. West is knave or fool, don't know,
but he is one or the other, too much to
represent the British government at the
city of Washington, and Grover Cleveland
has told him so and given him his walking
papers," At $50 Judge Thurman and
party left for Columbus.
THURMAN's CAMPAIoN WORK.
COLUMBUS, Ohio Nov. 3.--Judee Thur.
man closed the campaign at Nelsonville
to-day, and a review of his work makes an
interesting showing. 1t is eleven weeks
since he started out, and during that time
has travelled nearly 500 miles. He has
made eighty.nine speeches OF all kinds.
sxty.fve of them being from
the rear platform of the train,
which the Judge called his movable
stump" He has addressed not less than
10000 people, while through the medium
of the Associated Press he reached hun
dreds of thousands more. In view of the
near approach of the judges seventy-iiftb
birthday this is remarkable record, es.
pecially 80 since he Ia really in better con-
dition than when he started out on the
campaign. In all his travels the judge
has been accompanied by his son, Allan
w. Thurman, and an Associated Press
representative.