The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-29

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dice, and party rancor. and hate VIII nave
to give way to the peoples own inteies@
You are paying something for nothing:
something to enable monopolIst TO hate
all the trade without rivals in the trade 10
keep out competition; for when the man
from the outside does 60 into competitton.
and pays the tariff for the privilege OF doing
article before he sells it, and then the fellow
who has the American article can put IL In
for that price, and he cannot underseii him.
There is where it all is. That is the reason
all the wealth and the nabObs are on that
ought to be on the other side. There ought
not to be single vote given the Republican
party in Greene county; and il you vote
tor your own profit you, would would
sSs SOMETIMES Hoss that of way WY
amongst the women. The intelligent
women Of this country understand this
subject, and the time is not far distant
when the women will not marry, aud
her husband if he wants to pay two or
three prices for things Just for the sake OF
some lord of millions. / don't wish to dis
turb domestic life down here; don't WANT
to break up any families; but what would
you think of your husband. If he was
candid man and an honest man, and he
should come home in the evening and say
to his wife: II was in town to-day, aud
bought some lumber to build my barn. and
l paid about S165 for q hundred dollars
great big Republicans up here In Michi-
gan" think know what the wife would
say. His good wife would say: "Have you
lost your sensesf What is the matter with
youi What are you trying to give meT
That is just precisely what you are doing.
Now, when in furnishing your parlors III
your house you paw on carpets ana rugs
from 40 TO 81 per cent more than they are
u <.rl, 60. 4t,.. Bf
make carpets and rugs from having q rival
come in from other countries and sell You
carpet at 40 and 90 cents on the dollar
cheaper-now, which do yOu like best, to
pay for a carpet sl.67 or Sll The dollar
man votes the Democratic ticket; the
Sl.G7 man votes a crazy ticket lapplausel;
that is what he does. On all your house
furniture yOu pay 20 per cent An old fell
low comes home and says. Mother.
bought some bedsteads to-day the children
needed more, and just turned in and
bought some; the whole lot was worth about
500. but paid Sl35. just because
/ want to uphold the Republican party,
The old woman would look around for the
out of this neighborhood" She would say.
II can run this ranch better than both OF
thing abont fannels. You know sometimes
and gentlemen, flannel wraps the
world, from infancy to- old age;
from when the new born babe
PROSTATE mothers face until the old father
goes out with his thin and trembling
shanks, and his hands cold and clammy,
all the way along flannel Is the necessity
of human life, in all lands this side the
equator where civilization prevails. When
/ think of these robbers standing over the
cradle of infancy and at the grave Of the
father over eighty, keeping their clutch on
the covering on the old mother as she
wraps her flannel shawl around her in the
winter time, there is cause for such re-
sistance as comes only to those who intend
to demand their rights. The time will
come when the men who uphold such a
system as this will have it to answer for.
/ am not free. trader but am for get
ting as near there as can be done with due
regard to the revenues of the government.
and these men who are pressing their de-
mands upon fannels, upon salt. upon iron,
upon the supreme necessities of life, are
raising the people against them, and sooner
or later they Will be torn to pieces; they
will be confronted and destroyed. Tax
upon flannel! lApplause.l All, my fellow
will not read more. You have the whole
grasp Of the question. They told you last
fall that it was necessary for you to vote
the Republican ticket in order to continue
They said the reelection of Mr.. Cleveland
would indicate the downfall of your pros
perity. They lied to you by wholesale. re-
tail and entail. tLaughter.l Their false
hoods were stupendous, monumental stem,
Where is the prosperity that has come to
youi Gentlemen. / have been examining
and have the facts by the official reports.
The farmers of Ohio; Indiana, Michigan
and Illinois have looked up those things.
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to-day mortgaged. each one of them. to
farm loan associations for more than one
hundred millions in each one Of the States.
per cent of ali the land in
other farm Is mortgaged.
There is not State under the flag to-day
in which the cry is not heard for bread;
give us bread. and this is the protection
my Republican friends, go home and bend
your knee in prayer and ask Almighty
God to foKgive you fellows this time. and
you will % so no more forever. IApplause.l
The farmers loaded with debt for borrowed
money to get along with, the wage-laborer
gnawing the crust of charity; these are the
blessings of protection. Oh, the falsehoods
which were told last fall; they have come
back like scourges. with which to whip the
rascals naked out of the world, and while
am spared l propose to do my part of the
whipping.
The Senator then spoke of President Har-
rison's Indiana appointments. claiming
that the soldiers had been slighted, and
concluded with the following words:
But the great question with the men and
women of Greene county is whether you
want to pay, anybody elses taxes besides
your own. The great question is neither
you want to pay tribute: IT you
for that is what you are. A man
who willingly works. for another man
without pay, but gives his toll for nothing
whether the African sun has burned his
skin black, or whether Arctic regions have
bleached white, he is slave, and might as
well accept the name; bondage is on him.
The YOKE of bondage is on him, and the
yoke of bondage to-day, under the present
system of tariff is upon you all. upon all of
you; and you are asked, and you have yet
q chance to rise and shake it off.
My fellow-citizens. / will not trust my
self to talk to you abont my personal feel
ings toward you. Much has passed over
my head. Many labors, many anxieties
and bitter trials, but am thankful to Him
who rules in the households of nations that
we have been spared to look each other in
the face once more. | have tried In my
feeble way to lay before you those great
questions which are of Importance to you.
and explain to you where expect to stand
and be found battling until you hear of me
laid at rest in my old home at Terre Haute.
lApplause.
The Presidents Sunday at Deer Park.
DEER PARK, Md, July 2s.-At 10 o'clock