The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-14
AT THE BURTON CAR WORKS
GEN. CALDWELL MEETS WITH AN
ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION.
A Number Of the Candidates Present
and Respond to Calls--North Town
All Right This Year.

There was large crowd presen
who was quite anxious to hear one of tn,
Z leading speakers in the state, Gen. Cald
. well. The meeting was called to order By
q Capt. Swope and Mr.. A. NJ Sturdevant
was announced as chairman. Gen. Cald
5 well was received with enthusiastic cheer.
and In responding said the men who repre-
! sent the people are not the government
The people receive commands from nc
one and give commands to everybody.
Your decision when you have voted
makes representatives; makes laws" BY
law the laborer has his homestead; his
wages can't be taken from him, and in his
assessment the full value of his property is
not assessed. The rights of married women
are better protected than in any other
state
The Alliance makes the mistake to say
J chat no man labors, but farmers, but the
| 100000 rail road men labor The
miners, the mechanics are laborers. This
land is a land of toll: and the only land on
earth where the toilers receive reason
able COMPENSATION for their labor, not
possible what they ought to receive. The
farms have increased more than the popu-
Iatlon. I'VE raise more wheat and corn
imam we can consume with the people we
have; last year we raised corn enough for
| 2,OO0,OOO,OOO and we only had only 65,00O,-
OOOO00 of people. We have touched bot
tom and from this time on the people will
gam upon the farm and in three years we
| VIII consume at home evary grain of
wheat or corn, and all our stock. We are
a ,wasteful people, and glad we have been
able to be so"
The men who came to Kansas were not
the pOmpered meu of the world, but poor
men and had to borrow money. This is
not an evidence of poor state, but this
sometimes brings a stress of hard times.
The Alliance propose as remedy that
the government shall make money, print
money at very small per cent, at l per
cent and although Uncle Sam is the rich
| est man on earth and vet he has to paw (
! per cent for money and lend it at / per
cent. This would require change of the
constitution, a very difficult thing to do
! The other remedy is to turn this govern
ment into one vast pawnshOp, put their
grain into vast ware house and get
money out. Now, to be fair, the govern
ment has to allow all class of persons to
do the same thing, the cotton the coal and
the manufactures must be allowed to de-
post and wait for better prices. This again
Is unconstitutional, but even if the CON
stitutiOn could be changed It is wholly
Impractical If the corn crop of Kansas
last year would fill train of cars the
locomotive would be whistling in Ban
gOr, Me, and the cabooSe would be Just
leaving Denver, Col. When could its
sheds be built to hold the crops, if you
would add the other crops and the manu-
features. But if you could find the sheds.
still, the whole matter would destroy pro
greSs; 1t would paralyZe labor We are
hungry; we work to get food. We are
cold; we work to get warm We realize
that it is through the roof to the stars
and when the government comes in to re-
of all ha tpil md lah
effort.
The other remedy is that the government |
Is 10 make money. Now, how are we to /
get il? But, some way or other, it will get |
into our pockets. There is only one way
TO get money. Labor and toll, alone, get /
money. No one suffers more when money |
Is plenty Don't make the mistake that !
the banker will suffer. No, it will be the
laborer who will suffer.
There is nothing more difficult to under
stand than this matter of circulation, and
those who talk most about it seem to
know least about it. The eastern man
is more conservative They don't
circulating medium necessary TO transact
the business of the west. We are broad as
the prairie and are bold III business. We
are not afraid.
All the foreign commerce Of Great
Britten is not so large as the tonnage
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the city of Wichita. The free trade of the
states is a vast volume of business our
people are the richest people on the globe,
no other nation can afford such a volume
of trade If the laboring of England,
Germany, and other counties stood on the
same level with our own, we could afford
free trade-but until these labOrerS are as
well paid as our own, we can't afford TO
level down, but whenever we can level
these laborors up TO our own laborers, we
are ready TO level up.
The Democratic party is like the dog
which turns round two or three times to /
find a bed to lie down in, the dog follows
the habits of its ancestor the calf, which
contracted this habit in making its bed in
the grass and the dog still keeps up the
habit. After the grass is all gone, so the I
Democratic party which opposed free labor :
because it is the opponent of slave labor {
ana though the cause is gone 1t still hunts :
for its bed in slavery, and so it has always :
opposed the protection idea which has !
made the working man an important fac
or in this country. ! appeal to your mem J
Dry If the labOrlng mans wages have not !
gone up and the price of articles you pur- ,
,hase has gone steadily down. ! can re-
member when a pound of good butter
would not buy yard of cotton cloth or I
pound of nails. Now you can buy pound e
VI nails with a quart of skinned milk.
Md so with every article of clothing,
very article in your nome and in the con- /
truction of your house. For a series of
hirty years the price of things You use are
,oing down and the price of labor in {
reaSes, is going up. The laborer does not
,et his share but labor Is going in the g
light direction year by year; 1t is progress .
ing. Statistics show that if you take the
nen who fail with those who succeed you n
will find tat the manufacturer
makes no more than the farmer. a
But one man of the sixty 4
ich men of Americans has made 4
nd he is so mixed up in railroads it is :,
ard to tell whether he has made his .
money out of railroads or manufacturing.
'ou are the government, and when you
o TO vote you are traitor TO your best y
interest if you vote for the man who rep II
esents a policy which progresses, even If
our brother should ask you for your vote;
Is not a question of men but question a.
+ principle. p
We are a more moral people. a soberer
eople, than we were thirty years ago. IL Is
tramp comes along and wants you to h
lScharge an old servant and employ him
on say no, l don't want you. q.
The Republican party is the only party /
no burned, with interest in the uoiler. Ii
lrned aside from the courtly Seward and N
nose the poor man from the prairies of Il
nolS, IN the war the tanner boy and the A
Dor boy from the towpath, Is the great N
vii ruler. ID
At the close of Gen. Caldwell's speech =.
ne chair called attention to the fact that VI
lie candidates were present, and as soon
the names of George l.. Douglass, Judge
Charles II. Luling, W. : Nor
5 and J. +. Henley were mentioned the to
ldience called, Hear theml Hear Fl.
.emw Mr.. Henley was called for. He of