Nevada County picayune., 1890-08-14
MIR. MILLS SPEAKS.

occasion of Representative Bland s rc-nomination to Congress:
 Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends and Fellow-Citizens-It is pleasure to stand before this large audience and respond to your invitation to speak upon public questions. l con graduate you this day upon the work you have this day accomplished in nominating for the tenth time your brave, faithful, incorruptible servant, k. F. Bland. As MT. Bland has already told you, we have been intimately associated for eighteen years. When we first became ac- quainted l had suit of very black hair, but now l am gray, and almost bald-headed. If we have ever diff fercd upon any question during that time, l do not recall it. For IS years we have stood together in Con- gress and done what we could for the emancipation of the people. The people of Missouri ought to be proud of her Democratic delegation in Con- grcss. It is the peer of any State in the Union, its representation in the United States Senate rising almost to the peerless There are many people in this country who would like to beat Bland; still more who would like to beat Vest. You owe it to yourselves, 10 your own sense of jus tice, to stand by them in their mas terful contention for the right. and to see that the poisoned shafts fal harmless at their feet. Applause.
 Now, young men of Missouri. how much tax do you pay to support your State government: Thirty cents on SlOO. How much do you suppose the government of the United States is demanding for its own support: :: Forty-five and SjO on the SlOO. What for: Why to protect the in- fant American indus rics. And whose industry i, it that is being protected: Why it is the fellow who owncs the goods and not the work man who makes them. The manu- facturcr is in terrible distress and he asks you to pay him $40 on the S1O0 to protect him from the pauper labor of Europe. Of course it is perfectly charming in you to pay this, when there is not a farmer before me who makes , per cent. on his labor. In Texas and Missouri there are farmers who don't make anything. Now, gentlemen, l am going to make a statement which want you to re- member, and if there are any Rcpub- licans here as l believe there are, 1 want them to pay special attention. want it understood that am here to call sinners, not the righteous, to repentance. l was not sent to the City of Samaria, bat to the cities of the plains, and therefore, want you Republicans to hear me, for the reforms of this country must come from some of you helping Us. The statement l want to make is this The crop of 1889 was Sl0O, 1000, ,0OO less in value than that of 1879, though in quantity it was almost double. Prices are going down wheat has gone down, cotton has gone down. pork, beef, lard and corn have gone down and are still going. Agriculture is the founda- ton of all industries, there can be no cotton spun until the planter has grown it, no wheat can be ground until the farmer has raised it. It is the farmer who strikes the first blow. When he is not prosperous, nobody else is. When agriculture is pros- perons, it throws the light of it's prosperity upon everything. l have made little calculation, comparing the prices of 1889, with those of 1881. You will remember that it was in 1881 that we had the best prices, by reason of large imports and exports l have taken the 10 leading products of agriculture, and l find that if the crop of 1889 had received the prices of 1881, the far mers would have just sl ,570, ,0OO, 900 more in their pockets. You haven't got that money; you have got liar rlson and the Republican party they ain't the Sl ,57O,00O ,O0O. If you had for President such a man as k. r. Bland and a Democratic ma jority in Congress you would have it, though CApplause.] Suppose you had that S1,570, ,0OO, 1000. You