Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-10-31
ONl FOR THE PEOPLE
Housing Meeting IN ths Opera
House Last Night.
HU1CHIys AND NORTON SPEAK
o. the Qaestisas Of the Hear Stsw cd
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baI-a .agAcrsd IA iOs ers opera hoa sc
last IEent. 1he olAt llsnIlls oa the
opera House, the inuslc oI the band,
ami the dismal pictures palated Dy
tne orators east a gloom over the
place, wulch Will take weeks 20 clspei.
After the Dand had played and the
crowd had yelled, the Chairman OF
the neet.ns Stepped foswar1 and INT. o.
duced E4~ ara hutcA4ns, who said
among O1Aer things: There are two
GLASSES in this country. one class is
prosperous. Two hundred and fifty
thousand OF them have stolen over
one.fourth OF the wealth OF the coun-
Try. It i 10 correct these evils that
tne peoples party Is IN existence
1T 10 essential that labor should
BE- employed and che laborers pro-
ylded with homes oi their own. Very
few laboring people own homes and
the percentage has decreased from
S-o 10 3-S u the past twenty-five
years. Probably $40 oi the people
of this country own their homes. The
farms OF thls country are largely
mortgaged. No landlord or tax
gathercr dare enter the tent OF the
savage. but now = it here? l should
like 10 see every one own a home
where they might pass their days,
unterriiied Dy years OF eviction"
Col. l.. ;. Norton was introduced,
and the statement that he didn't speak
for money, DuJ solely for the good OF
ahe cause. produced great applause.
Mr.. Norton said: Il know you are
Assembled here 10 hear questions dis
eu---I "a hk.
cliy or the state or even The United
States. and 1 ana confident that ii we
can be tet alOle Tor ten years we can
settle these questions, peacably and
senslbly IT the ballot box. We have
been governed for twenty-five years
oy statesmen, and now we should ike
TO send men 10 govern Us who have
a little good common sense. We ex-
peet you 10 help begin this right here
IN the Fifth district. Mr.. Hutchins
has sounded the key note. We want
10 see every $1,000 Or $500 home free
from taxation. We don't care TO be
hard on the man who lives in S25,-
600 house. We would deduct $1,000
from his assessment, and II he didn't
like that he could come over and 1--we
In our neighborhood in a simple home.
IL every man owned a home, you
could live year after year without
locking your door. Iou couldn't get
up a riot, because every man would
b. right I his own home. For the man
who lives in a little home Is just as
anxious TO protect that as the mill
iionaire Is his place. We demand the
restoration of all the public land that
has been glvea away. l don't care
anything about II for your own sakes,
but for the homeless, houseless gener-
alton that l. going up. l hope the
time IL coming wher the government
viii furnish every man farm, a small
house. transportation TO the farm,
A span OF horses and some seed corn.
We aren't going TO give him this, but
take a mortgage on every farm and
Charge 3 per cent interest. III this
were adopted. 100000 would take
advantages OF Ii in year, and In ten
years every one OF them would own
their own homes free OF ali debt. Why
can she government loan a railroad
500. .000. 900 and not loan to n poor
farmer? Suppose the government
should say next Monday morning: I'VE
will loan money directly TO the people
on real estate security at per cent.
for ten years time. In sums not ex-
&c, ting $1,000. preference being given
10 men IN debt" Let us take a
workingman who has n mortgage on
his home with which he has been
struggling for years. BY this arrange
nsent he can save $40 year With
this he can add TO the wardrobe of
himself and wife. can clothe the chill
dren. and after a time save a little
money. Then he won't need 10 sell
his wheat below It's value"
H.. coz refuse 20 work II MS wages
are docked below a leg itimate price.
Thr only man whose toes you are
going to tread on - the professional
money lcaner who lives off the inter
fst. For twcnty-three years the gov
eminent las loaned the banks rs much
a. $3.50 900 900 year and not charg-
sd them more than one per cent.
Bankers would deny that they borrow
ell it OF the government. They would
say the government issaes Il TO them.
and charges them one per cent. on the
circulation. Way can't ths govern
ment issue mOaey 70 VS. and let us
pay three per cent. on the circulation?
II the government can borrow money
government can loan money.
But somebody asks Where are you
20. az 20 get the money! Where did
Uncle sam get the money 10 carry
the natin through the war when
wold aud silver sluuk out OF sight?
A currency that can plant the z. :.
nag on every outpost. that can break
she shsckles from the limbs of p
GOO. 600 slaves can help n poor farmer
nut os debt and build a home for a
1aborer. But we don't propose TO
have an unlimlted issue-not more
shan $500. .00o. GOO. We don't propos .
20 hopele>sly initiate the currency Il
f= essentially che same scheme that
v,,ch men az Gladstone advocates that
che English government shah loan
snoaev at q low rate OF interest TO
the tenant farmers.
I'm not going TO talk about the tariff
son.t know anyth' Nc about it and
haven't found snycne WHO lid. We
have had hard times nnder a low
farfH and hard times under a high
tartff. hut We nave never had any hard
.me> when there vas pienty q Heasy
o. ci~culat
We ear raier psrf ~ the raonev 70
nav fhe government On graduated
Income Ear. Al neafneS ~ more thsu
s2-eoo clean net pref y 20 b tsxfsi
fn enc exersz on an iueoTste ~ sstsP"o
a. Eve pr cent. tax. fh@ wonid
amount - orls <59 ver year A fale
fncesne frrresse4 we VII fiFressr fne
tar aasf whcn ~ strike enc - taH~f
sara vo~kisrr fslEows fts lay tloHif
ana PAT trHs0nr 50 witf make teres