The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-10-17

means the entire finances or the country
There are things about the tariff, he said
don't understand they bother me th
most can't understand how MAJ
who gets $40 per week gets richer By
paving e. a week to the Government.
can't understand how a country can ge
richer by having sixteen men supper
one, because there. are sixteen unprO
tected industries to one protected anC
the sixteen are taxed to support the one
can't understand why an army
Of tax collectors should exis
to collect money to pile up in the United
States Treasury | cant understand
why millions should be sent 20 Europe
to pay for the hire Of vessels to carry
our produce | can't understand why
we cannot have the markets OF The
world instead Of contining ourselves K
domestic markets. But | DO understand
that
THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY NINE DOL
LARS 4 MINUTE
goes into the United States Treasury tC
DO piled up there uselessy.
Do you think that when they reduced
the ear fare on the street cars Of Balti
more from six 10 i've cents that the
driver got any greater or less wages. Do
YOU think that if the car fares were raised
the driver would get more or less No
All this thing is regulated by the law OF
supply and demand.
lie explained that when the vast army
that besieged Richmond were disbandeC
and went home 10 work they found ths
women and children, at work there was
no demand for the work Of the mer, SO
they began to underbid each other to get
work. This led to trades unions in order
to get wages raised Trades unions were
never heard Of before Then cam,
strikes; they were never head OF before
the war.
TnEN CAME TRAMPs.
They were never heard Of before LOCAL.
ties where an amshouse had been un
known were established and filled to over
flowing. Years before the Democratic
party offered the world her open arms tC
all who loved liberty to come to oul
broad land and make it home as hon
ored citizens But when the Republican
party found the great trouble that poy
erty, lack Of work and vagrancy wa:
bringing on the country they found {
panacea. They established a bureau OF
immigration. Immigrants came no Longer
OF their free viii; they came because
they were induced TO come they came
under contract with railroads and Other
corporali0ns-a contract system full OF
horrors and misery. This party never
did govern with correct principles. Once
we had no children at work, now VT
have. under these erroneous principles
10000 little children earning liyings.
IRICE OF LABOR.
He read figures to show the fslsity Oi
the claim of the Republican party that il
had kept up the price OF labor. The ay
erage yearly earnings in 1850 was S44(
per year. In 1860 it had fallen to $4Ol
in 1870, to S374, and in 1880, 10 $346
/ hese figures are from the United States
census. He further showed that the re
duction of earnings from 1870 to 1885,
Ia suadry protected industries haC
fallen one-ihird. In the manufac
ture Of steel blooms in Pennsylvania
the workman got only 81 out Of the SlOt
he created and this a highly protected
industry. This Republican party stole
the earth and gave 1t to the railroads
They gave the railroads land sixteer
times the size Of the State Of Maryland
while in the last three and a half year
we have gotten enough back to provide
homes for thirty-fiye millions of people
THEY ACTUALLY STOLE THE PRESIDENCY
once and gave il to man who runs
chicken farm in Ohio.
What we want Is the increase Of pro
duction. so as 10 increase the number o.
Iaborers. With the increase 10 the mum
Der Of lab0rers you get the increase II
pay. What can the Republicans in GOdi
name give you but Harrison's hatg We
want Cleveland In the White House, an'
we are going 10 keep him there by you
votes next November. The days OF th'
Pepul lican party are past. 1t Is dead
and il will pass into history with th'
blackest record of any party that eve
dominated the free people OF the. Jnile'
States. You must not forget TO sent
Wise back so that we will have a Wis.,
In Congress under a wise Administra
ton
Mr. Weeks closed amid round aite
round Of applause, after speaking al
hour and half
HON. GEORGE d. WISE
was next introduced by Mayor Ellyson
He made an address mainly on the tarifi
He gave facts and figures argumenla
lively.
MR.. M'NULTY's SINGING.
During the meeting Mr. Thomas +
McNulty, Of Baltimore, the author OF
number of Cleveland and Thurman cam
paign songs, sang three of them. H'
has superb tenor voice and vas loud,
applauded.
Mr Conway r. Sands, candidate 70
State Senator, made few remarks, aiIe
which the meeting adjourned with th
band playing Maryland, my MARYLAND, T.,
"Old Folks at Home" and " Dixie"
City Democratic COMMITTEES.