The advocate., 1891-11-18

Pack.
Political experience ed. G. Jones.
The Farmers Alliance-H. r, Clark.
Good will-Wm. Owens.
Patriotism-A. B. Smith.
The Congressman's wife-Mrs. Otis.
The Senators wife-Mrs. PETER.
Closing toast--D. l. FurbeCk.
AT the close of the responses to tn,
several toasts proposed Hon. j. G. Oti
gave the following address:
My FRIENDs:-We are on the threshold O
mighty. social, industrial and politiCa
revolution. In the language Of the Ameri
can poet, Lowell:
"New conditions teach new duties:
Time makes ancient good unCouth."
Ours is a progressive movement. Since
our first parents left Eden's sacred portals
there has never been time fraught with
such momentouS issues, with problems 80
important, so far reaching. The light of a
higher and better civilization is dawninR-
a civilization in which neither gold nor sill.
YER as money base can longer hold the
helm of human destiny. In our own Coun-
try the great common people are fast learn.
ing the wonderful power of united action.
The old clock upon the watch tower Of time
marks new hour for the wealth producers.
The time has come TO transfer the seat of
government from the gilded palace of the
rich to the humble home of honest toiler;
from Wall street to the farms and factories.
The almighty dollar must let 60 its grip
upon the immortal soul. Competition must
give place to cooperation. The interests
of humanity must take precedence of the
interests of property. We are at that period
of our nations history where Lincoln
prophesied that Corporations would be.
come enthroned," and it ia for the common
people to dethrone these hydra-headed
monsters and take the government in their
own hands. We shave reached that period Of
luxury and extravaganza, of which John
Adams, when in France, wrote as follows:
My dear cOuntrymen, how shall I per.
suade you to avoid the plague Of Europe?
Luxury has as many charms on your side of
the ocean as this. Had the power would
Danish and exclude from America all cold
and silver, precious stones, alabaster, silk,
velvets and laces.
We clip the following from the Gazette:
When Abraham Lincoln was a candidate
for president in 1860 the plutocracy and
aristocracy, both of this country and
Europe, was arrsyed against him in q solid
phalanx. Less than five of the big financial
institutions of Philadelphia and not one of
New York favored his election. They said
his election meant the destruction of i'vest-
ed property rights" and the placing of
'mud-sllls', In power. Well, the same kind
OF "mud-sills" are now demanding financial
reforms which the banks are opposing, and
so per cent. Of the living men who voted for
Abraham Lincoln in 1850 are believed 10 be
in full sympathy with the st. Louis platform
and the Peoples party now.
Our cause is right. It matters not how
many or how powerful our enemies. Inter-
est slavery is as CALLING as chattel slavery.
Both are wrong. Neither are compatible
with our national declaration Of indepen-
dence. High interest on money, high pro-
5ective tariff and high dividends on railroad
and other stocks of inflated value are alb
'orbing the annual wealth of the west and |
south and carrying it in a steady stream to |
'he east. This condition of things must |
top. Our late census shows that the in
,rease in wealth in the little state Of Massa
'husetts has more than equaled that Of nine
agricultural state of the west and south; the
increase Of Pennsylvania has more than
'qualed twelve western and southern states;
New York's increase more than exceeds
hat of fifteen of the western and southern
tates. And the question naturally arises,
low does this come about2 There is but
ne answer-high interest on money, high