The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-26
A DEMOCRATIC DAY.
Judge Thurman and Speaker
Carlisle Crate.
THE OLD ROMAN TALKS SENSE
GAIL Men Are Created Free and
Equa1'-AnA Address Which Carries
Conviction With 1t.

OlHClNNATl, OCGOD6T IO.-4uS OouO-
cratic day at the exposition here was
a SUCCESS The weather is fine and the
crowd large. A great many visitors
called during the day, and were re :
ceived in Judge Thurman's parlor. At
2 o'clock the party was driven about
town and to the reviewing stands. The
streets were well filed with people, and
about the stand the streets were
packed. There were eight divisions,
composed of local visiting Democratic
clubs, all of whom shouted vigorously
as they passed the stand. 1t took ex-
actly one hour for the procession to
pass the stand. The exposition build
ings were crowded and filled with up
wards of 5000 people. When Judge
Thurman was introduced he was en-
Enthusiastically cheered. He said, in
substance: "Gentlemen, we are in the
midst OF an extraordinary campaign,
the most extraordinary campaign |
l have taken part in during my
life. We are in campaign in which
our adversaries have the boldness and
audacity to tell the people that the way
to make people rich is to make them
pay more taxes than their government
wants. (Applause). That the way to
benefit the condition of man is to tax
him and everything which is necessary
to his existence and comfort as an
American citize n: and that is called
protection to the laboring man. AS if
you could protect the laboring man by
robbing him of his earnings, and verify
ing the old saying of Robbing Peter to
pay PAUL. (Applause). This is a de-
ception and delusion." Here fol-
lowed a lengthy analysis of the relation
of labor to capital, and the relation of
both to the country, in which the
speaker said there could not be single
dollar added to the wealth of the world
except by labor. Judge Thurman
was then interrupted by applause,
when he produced his bandana. You
cheer that old bandana," said he, "buu
I would like to know how in the world
L ever would have gotten that bandana
for you to cheer, if it had not been for
labor, prolonged applause); labor
made it; my labor enabled me to obtain
money enough to buy it, and your
labor will MAKE you wealthy enough to
live in peace, in quiet and in comfort
if you will only understand what is to
your own best interests" He then
went on to say that the annual produc-
ton of wealth in this world is divided
into three or four parts. One part goes
to the capitalists, who furnish the
money-lends his money out at interest
and nobody begrudges him his in
terest, if he only charges reasonable
interest; another part goes to the
manufacturer, man who carries on the
business, and he makes his profit as
recompense for his labor, and his work
and his skill, and nobody objects to his
having reasonable compensation. The
remaining part goes to the laborer to
pay for his wages, and if he gets fair
wages, honest wages, then he does not
complain; but If he does not get his fair
share, If he is oppressed, if he is tram
exacted without due compensation.
then he is a defrauded man. and he
ought to complain" Some q nt'eman in
the audience: (Handing the speaker an
old horseshoe II picked it up during
the time the procession was passing
that means victory. 1t is horseshoe"
Judge Thurman: II thank you sir:
I Will take it home with me; l will nail
it on my door and keep these Republic
can witches that preach protection to
the ruin of the poor man from entering
my household. (Great cheers.) A
voice-'Nail it on the White House
door" daughter Thurman then said
the Republican orators had asserted tina t
the Democrats were the enemies of the
laboring man, and in this connection
reiterated the statement frequently
made by him that out of every 1000
votes in the Democratic Party $50 are
laboring men. Nearly all the happi-
ness they have on earth, said he, is
derived from Democratic principles,
which have shielded them in their
trouble ia life and made them con.
tented and happy and prosperous men.
CONTINUED apDlause.) Democratic
principles gave them the right to vote,
The Democracy sprang from the SEN
timent written by Thomas Jefferson,
GAIL men are created free and equal"
The speaker defied any man living to
point out one single amelioration
of the condition of the human
race In Christendom; one single
improvement of the condition
of the laboring men, that had not been
the result of Democratic principles.
Why, some one may say, there were
southern States that were Democratic
and they had negro slavery. Yes, but
that sentence of Thomas Jefferson,
.'All men are created free and equal"
sprouted up and grew up, and in the
end made slavery impossible in any
part of the territory of the United
States. More applause.) Our
Republican friends say to the negro
that they set him free. They set him
free? They would have been in slavery
for ten centuries to come if they had
depended on them to set them free.
(Great Cheering.) These words
tom Thomas Jefferson's mouth
and from his per, are the words
thai set them free in the end. 1t took
time to do it, but in the END it did do it
and, therefore, say 1t again, and l say
it without fear of successful contradic-
ton, that no improvement in the rights
or in the condition of the laboring men
in Christendom has ever been produced
except by the influence OF Democratic
principles prolonged applause). The
Democratic party contains the majority
OF the people of the United States. 1t
contains the majority of the vc-
tiers in the United States. If these men
are opposed to the interests OF the