The advocate., 1891-05-27

which the swarming hOgts of reform could
rally. (Applause.) And, therefore, my
friends, with no pride of opinion Of our own,
we proceed in that platform to endorse
the st. Louis platform (prOlongsd applause)
and we proceed TO indorse the Ocala plat
form. (Applause.) We have said to our
friends of the south that if they are not with
us we are with them. (Applause.)
We have also indorsed the Omaha plat
form of the northern alliance (more ap-
plause), and unless there should be any
question as to just what these platforms
mean, we have summarized them in few
resolutions, and embrace those resolutions
in the heart and body Of our platform. ZAP
plause.)
Gentlemen of the convention, / thank you
for your kind attention, and will now give
way to the secretary of the committe on
platform, who will read the resolutions we
have recommended.
Robert Schilling, of Wisconsin, read
the report of the committee. Respect
ing the report, the Cincinnati CONNER
etal- Gazette, whose report we copy,
says: "The ovation that it received bsf-
fled description. The edlfce resounded
for five minutes with multiplicity Of
lusty cheers. Soon cries of 'Weaverp
'Wesverp brought the eminent gentle
man from Iowa to the floor" He said:
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen of
the Convention:-I thank you for the dis
honor you have conferred upon
me, in calling upon me to address you at
this late hour. Now, ] think we have
reached period Of action, and / am
great believer in the philosophy of that
motto which old Tom Benton had upon his
coat of arms, "facto non veritas"-deeds,
not words. We have passed through fifteen
years of talk, twenty years of anxiety, and
thank God reverently to-day that we have
at last reached the time of action when we
intend to make the fur fly from the Repub-
lican party. (Applause.)
We witnessed few moments ago beau
tiful tableau of the meeting of two soldiers,
and want to give you to-day in brief, just
in sentence or two, something which JUS
titles the blue and the gray in uniting for
the salvation Of our common country.
The war for the suppression of the rebel
lion continued AGO days, all told. II is es-
timated that it cost the government $3,OOO,-
600 day to down that rebellion. Now, es-
timating that the southern army cost as
much more, making $6,OO00OO a day the
total cost of the war, north and south, to
the people Of this country. Thomas G..
Shearmsn has given to the nation an esti-
mate that has never been controverted and
never can be, that $4,000 families in the
United States are the owners of one-half of
our total wealth or $31, ,O0O, 100000.
Now, the $4,000 families can carry on
war four years in duration at daily ex-
pense of 5000, 900, which is the expense of
both the confederate and the union armies,
and they can come out Of that conflict with
an expenditure of a little more than
one-third of that thirty billion dol
lars; they can come out of that war
with two-thirds of that wealth without
owing dollar, and all that wealth has been
accumulated by these families in the last
twenty-five years; they commenced poor
but they are rich to-day. If 5000 families
can accumulate one-half Of the wealth of
the nation in twenty-five years, commenc-
ing poor, what can they do in the next
twenty-five years with their $31, ,OOO, 900 900
to reinforce their class legislation under
which they operateH They could take il all
in the next twenty-five years. No wonder