The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-09-07

Wider markets arc open TO us and we can
command the world 20 the enormous profit of our
whole people. Labor particularly would be in
clover, for the increased export OF mnnhfac-
| turod goods would create an enlarged demand
| for labor to make them, which would be follow
| ed by much higher wages, accompanied by de-
creased living expenses But might go on by
| the hour, day and week to produce argument
md proof: the real miracle being that any set
| of men any where in an enlightened age like
| this should need to have II demonstrated that
low taxes and light burdens are hotter than
| high and heavy ones, or that abundance IS
| moro to be desired than scarcity, or tnat the
| world is round instead of fat
The time Is now here for action. We see
| that labor is depressed, degraded robbed and
enslaved by this system; we find our foreign
commerce crippled, our greatest industries
| hampered, ninety-nvo TO ninety-seven OF
our people deprived of large share of their
rights in order that the other three or five may
enjoy special privileges, the final result being
the injury of our common country and the re-
tarding OF American progress.
TRUSTS
On every side we see the growth OF monopoly.
Huge trusts have sprung up on every hand, so
private in their operation dear Mr.. Blaine, that
they invade every mans home and deprive all
of part of life's blessings They CLOSE facto-
ries, drive out the laborer into enforced idle
ness while they extort the last dollar from the
consumer Every body sees the evil OF these
blood-sucllng, labor-crushing monsters, and II
is the opportunity of this convention to provide
o cure. Demand of the next Congress that
every article the manufacture or sale of which
is controlled by trust or combination shall be
placed upon the free list, and you Will emanci-
pate the people and draw the fangs of the
beast, for with the people free to buy in any
market in the world they will have ample pro-
lection from trust, monopoly and exaction, and
III ,t,o hnr
erangs, which the international Copper Trust
has proven, for the world is too large field
for continued monopoly and the lesson quickly
spreads.
CONCLUSION.
Your patience, my friends, is very great, but
shall not abuse 1t much longer. To-day is the
opportunity of your lives The Democratic
party of Ohio has the chance of its history. We
can to-day, with n sound platform and consist
ent nominations, make it the leader in n move
ment more important and more far-reaching
than the free soil abolition revolution which
emancipated three millions OF slaves, for we
can strike the chains from fifty millions of
Americans white and black This cause is both
that of God and man. We can deliver our peo-
pie from n bondage more unjusiifiable than that
OF Egypt was for the sons Of jacob Let us not
be found wanting. Let us dcnounce the evil,
the crime the iniquity. Do not weigh your
words too carefully, but speak in way so plain
that all the people will hear and gather hope.
Say to this pestiential influence: $50 far hast
thou come but no farther shalt thou go. 'and NOV
ing inch by inch. foot by foothere reduction and
there another, we shall finally lift the burdens
from an oppressed people, and rs the load is
lghtened they will bless us and when we have
lifted the last pound from their poor backs the
people will remember their delivercr, and will
place proud gallant glorious Democracy
in permanent charge of the peoples Govern
ment, and then, indeed, will it become in fact,
rs well as in name, Government Of the people,
by the people and for the whole people.