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bus depot with the private car in which
Judge Thurman has been travelling for
the past two months, bound for
Jacksonville, O., where the Old
Roman was to deliver his last, address
in behalf of the Democratic party. The
speaking took place in the public square
in which was erected a speaking stand.
When the town was reached crowd of
several Thousand people, principally
miners, were in waiting. and they gave
the vice presidential candidate hearty
welcome. Judge Thurman was intro
duced by the chairman Of the Demo-
cratic executive committee. Judge
Thurman said:
Mr.. Chairman, My Fellow Citizens,
Ladies andGentlemen: / shall speak
to you briefly to-day because there are
five or six speakers here, and as am
not mOnopoliSt laughter and applausel
l will not take up time that honestly
belongs to them, nor will deprive you
of the pleasure of hearing them.
Therefore 1 will only speak to you
on one topic. have never been
hoarse during al, this III; cca:nnaisn; AL
though l have travelled over 5000 miles
and spoken over seventy times, and
yet fear that to-day | am going to be
hoarse. If had time | should have
something to say to you on the subject
of the tariff, but there are others here
better able to speak on that subject
than l am. All that | shall
say upon it to-day, Is that if all the alb
surd things that ever [ have heard, the
assertions of our political opponents
that a nation can be made wealthy by
taxing it far beyond any necessity OF its
government, and that a man can have
his condition bettered by
TAXING HIM ON EVERYTHING
he wears from the crown of his lIead to
the soles Of his feet, and on everything
that his wife wears, and that his chill
dren wear-the idea that that is theWay
to better mans condition. must say
is the most absurd thing that l ever,
heard from the mouth of mortal men.
LGreat applalse.] And yet that is the
argument of our political opponents,
and we are told that the way for us to
get rich is to run our hands into our
pockets, or rather let somebody elsetrun-
his hands in them daughter and'taket
our earnings, not for the wants of the
government. not to support the gov
ernment, but simply to pile / up
surplus in the vaults Il of
the national treasury or to add to the
accumulated wealth of men. to
whom our money will go. [Applause.l
Now, / want to speak to YOU OnG the;
subject OF capital and labor. [Great
applause.l want to say to you that |
am not here to breed discomfort among
the labOring man against the employer
am here simply to preach 80 I
JUSTICE on ALL SIDES +
and that every man shall have an
honest and fair reward for his labor.
[Cheers.l Now there is an annual aceu.
mutation of wealth in the world, but
that annual accumulation is wholly-I
repeat it and l emphasize it's
wholly the result of human
labor. [Great applause.] All, some
one will say. how can. that be?
Mr.. Thurman then went on saying that
the grasses in the prairies were not
wealth until man pastures his cattle on
them. fattens them, and gets them
ready for the market. He also stated
that the mines OF iron OF coal, etc, were
not wealth until man came with his
pick and shovel and dug them out.
He further went on: ''Why, the very
Bible itself tells us that the man who
received talents and buried them in the
earth and let them lie there and pro-
duce nothing, was condemned by the
Master as useless and worthless man.
Prolonged cheering.] He then went
on expounding upon the relative merits
of the capitalist, manufacturer and
employer. He said that if the capitalist
does only charge reasonable interest
for his money, nobody complains that
the employer was entitled to his profits
for the risk he runs, and that if he pays
fair wages, it was all right, and lastly
he spoke of the laboring man, and the
laboring man was entitled to fair re-
ward for his work and skill.
[Great applause.l He then went on:
'Our opponents are accustomed to sheer
at what they call political economy and
the teachings of political economists.
They do not like them. They sheer at
science and scientific men, as if science
was anything in the world but the truth
The very word means truth; it comes
from the Latin word ''scientia;" that
means ''truth," and true science is
truth. But if these men will sneer at
science, will they sheer at the words Of
the Almighty God himself? Is it not
the Almighty that has declared that the
labOrer is
WORTHY OF HIS HlREI
Where did that sentence come from?
From the mouth of the Almighty Him.
self, for, my friends, we read in the
good book that the Lord passed sen
tence on mankind, which some frivolous
thinkers, or men who do not think at
all, have considered very hard SEN
tence indeed, and that was, that ''In the
sweat Of thy face shalt thou earn thy
daily bread" But, my friends, instead
of being a hard sentence. cit was
the greatest benediction that was ever
conferred upon mankind. That SEN
tenee made labor honorable, and will be
honorable as long as this world shall
last. Continued applause.] That SEN
tence made him Intelligent, and instead
of being useless being on the face of
the earth, he has become so intelligent
that almost think he cannot be hui
man being after all. And all this came
because the Lord said to man
that he should labor and not be
an idler and cucumber the earth
for nothing. Mr.. Thurman further,said
that if the Lord would rain down mama
on the face OF the earth there would be
no invention, no education and no syir-.
tue, and he exempIified it by taking as.
an example the SavageS, saying that
where there was no labor they were
poor, miserable creatures, and it was
only where intelligent labor comes in
and makes itself master of the earth
itself that man becomes brave, seIfzre-
spected, self-sustaining and the afl
CONQUERoR OF THE EARTH 20.
on which he walks. "Why," said he,
81 was thinking of it to-day when I
came dewn here. Thought when 1 left
Columbus that | would be in Nelson
my boyhoad it took me from ten to
twelve hours to go the same distance
with the system of Iocomotion that we
had. And l said to myself: ''Why,
this is like giving me eight or ten
hours more life every day, for
it enables me to do in two hours