Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-08-14

confidence about these things, and
when tell it to you as a secret
you will think no more about it.
However, if you should forget it
and give the secret away, it won't
hurt, but remember it yourselves.
Remember what I tell you-that
your crop of last year ought to
have brought you fifteen hundred
and seventy million dollars
throughout the United States more
than it did. It would have brought
you that if you had got the price
for 1t you did eight years ago.
These are pretty bad figures. If
these figures don't ie-and they
tell me they never do-they tell
you a most deplorable story. They
give most repulsive condition of
the agricultural affairs of this
country.
Who is to blame for this? The
soil isn't to blame. There is some-
body to blame. Thank God, it
isn't the old Democratic party that
is to blame.
l remember in Texas when we
did't have any banks. When men
wanted to borrow money they went
to the farmer.
They had the money then.
Who has it now?
Farmers, feel down in your
pockets and see how much money
you have now. Laughter The
soil produces as much as it ever
did-what is the matter?
The farmer sells his produce too
low and pays too much for what he
has to buy. There is the trouble
with the asriculturist.
When you could buy hat for 81
you could buy it for one days Ia
Dor; but with 100 per cent. tariff on
the hat, it takes two days. labor to
buy that hat. This is tribute to
the Republican party.
How much wooden goods are
manufactured in the United Statesi
Foreign wooden goods that cost
500 have a tax of $50 on them
Then s1OO worth of these goods
cost the American buyer $3.50. L
is nearly the same with cottor
goods. But Mr.. Mckinley says i
they don't want to pay this tariff
they can 60 naked. This Is a fret
country. [Applause.]
A Democrat believes that yol
can't increase q mans wealth BY
taking money out of his pocket
The Republicans say protection
benefits everybody. I can see hov
this tariff benefits the manufacture
but how does it benefit the labor
ing man? He gets it-in his mind
eye. How does it benefit the far
}, mer? He gets it in his neck.
The Republican policy is tt
make things at the highest cost
No trade. We want to trade witt
: other nations that raise product
we can't raise. They want ou
D products and we want theirs. 1t
D the surplus he sells that make
, the farmer money. 1t isn't whs
4 he eats or what is locked up in hi
d granery. Suppose the State tell
the farmer he can't sell what b
raises outside; only trade w1thi
o the State. How would your mari
9 ct be without a demand? Cor
r gress, with their protective tari
i principle, says just that thint
# The Republican says you mus
It sell only to your home marke
/. The Democrat says let's have th
q home market and all the othe
r markets we can get. The Demo
l. cratic party is organized again'
}, legislation for classes and in fave
Q of the masses. I owe my seat ft
8 1S years to the unterrified demo'
q racy of my district, and the dew
}. can't drive them away from m
o (great applause.) If you Reput
y llcans want TO join the processio
# Just fall in behind the band wagol
j. The chief of the wealth of th
= country is agriculture. We 81
:, ported last year over $500, ,00O,O ,O
= after every want is supplied
If home. Do you want to pour tn
d immense surplus right on Il
,s home market where there is Z
% demand7 Heretofore the tarm'
% has been getting the mortgages an
n the manufacturer the money.
y Comparing the prices of 1Ss
D with the prices of 1889, we ha,
N fifteen hundred and seventy mi
lions in favor of 1881 in the Uni
t. ed States. Isn't that right nj,
B. pocket change? Our Republics
10 friends want to consolidate tn
IN immense wealth in the hands Of