The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-01-21

ana tney nave pronted well by his fnstruc-
tfon, that under popular democratic rep
teiligence were ultimately no match for
numbers
JUST But JEALOUS.
The numbers in this country. Mr.. Pres :
dent, have learned at last the power of COM
binatfon, and the spectators should not for
get that while the people Of this country are
generous and just, they are jealous also, and
that when discomfort changes to resentment,
and resentment passes into evaporation.
one volume of a nations history Is closed
and another will be opened.
Mr.. President, the cotton product Of this
country, believe, is ,OOO. 900 bales.
Mr.. Butler. Seven million bales.
Mr.. ingalls,. Seven million bales, am told
The transactions of the New York Cotton
Exchange are 100000 bales, representing
transactions speculative, profitable and re-
munerative, by which some of these great
Accommodations have been piled up, an incon-
ceiVable burden upon the energies and in
dustries of the country. The production of
coal oil, believe, in this country, has aver
aged something like 20.Oo0OOO barrels a
year. The transactions of the New York
Petroleum Exchange year by year
average 600. Co., $50 barrels fictitious. simu-
lated, the instruments of the gambler and
the Spectator, by means of which thrOux III
| an impost upon the toll and labor and in
dustry of every laborer engaged in the pro-
ductiOn of petroleum, additional difficulties
are imposed. 1t is reported that the coal
alone that is mined in Pennsylvania, indis-
amounts in its annual product to about $i0,-
0O0,0 0, of which one third is profit over and
above the cost Of production and 4 fair re-
turn for the capital invested. That is ''Spec-
ulation," Mr.. President. and every dollar
over and above the cost of production with a
fol
dollar of that fifteen or sixteen millions is
filched, robbed. violently plundered out of
the earnings of the laborers and operatives
and farmers who are compelled to buy it;
and yet it goes by the euphemstic name of
Speculation" and is declared to be legiti-
mate; it is eulogiZed and Defended as one Of
those practices that Is entitled to respect
and ap probation.
Nor is this all, Mr.. President: the hostility
between the employer and the employed in
this country is becoming vindictive and per-
manently malevOlent. Labor and capital are
in two hostile camps to day. LOckOuts and
strikes and labor difficulties have become
practically the normal condition of our
system, and it is estimated that during the
year that is just closed I'm consequence of
these disorders in consequence of this hos
| tility and this warfare, the actual loss in
labor, in wages, in the destruction of perish
able commodities by the interruption of
railroad traffic has not been less than $780, =
100000. Mr.. President this is a serious prob
lem. 1t may well engage the attention of
the Representatives of the States and of the
American people. have no sympathy with
that school of political economists which
teaches that there is an inrecOncilable con :
fiict between labor and capital, and which
demands indiscriminate. hostile and repres
sive legislation against men because they
are rich, and corporations because they are
strong.
LABOR AND CAPITAL
Labor and capital should not be antago-
nists, but allies rather They should not be
opponents and enemies, but colleagues and
auXiliaries, whose cooperating rivalry is
essential to National prosperity. But l can
not forbear to affirm that a political system
under such despOtic power can be wrested
from the people and vested in the few is a
democracy only in name. financial syS
TEN under which more than onehalf of the
enormous wealth of the country derived from
the bounty of nature and the labor of all is
owned by a little more than 10000 people.
while 100000 American citizens, able and
willing to toll, are homeless tramps. starry
ing for bread, requires adjustment. \ social
system which offers to tender. virtuOuS and
independent women the alternative be-
tween prostitution and suicide as an escape
from beggary is organized crime, for
which some day unrelenting justice will de-
mand atOnement and explanation. Mr..
President, the man who loves his country
and the man who studies her history will
search in vain for any National cause for this
appalling condition. The earth has not for
gotten to yield her increase. There has been
no gen cral failure of harveStS. We have had
Jengnant skies and the early and the late
rain. Neither famine nor pestilence has
decimated our population nor wasted its
tppf
every land, and We are in the lusiy prime of
National youth and strength, with unex-
ampled resources and every stimulus to
their development; but, sir, the great body
of the American people are engaged to- day
in studying these problems that have sug-
gested in this morning hour. They are dis
heartened with misfortune. They are tired
of the exactions of the spectators. They
desire peace and rest They are turning
their attention to the great Industrial Ques-
tions which underlie their material pros
perity. They are indifferent to
party. They care nothing for
Republicanism nor for Democracy as such.
They are ready to say: "a plague on both
your houses" and they are ready, also, Mr..
President, to hail and to welcome any or.
ganization, any measure, any leader that
promises them relief from the prOfitleSS
strife of politicians and this turbulent and
distracting agitation which has already
eliminated in violence and may end in
blood. Such. sir, is the verdict which / read
in the elections from which we have just
emerged. verdict that was unexpected by
the leaders of both parties, and which sur
prised alike the vctors and thevanquished.
1t was spon.an cus, unprecedented pro-
test of the people against existing conditions.
1t was revolt of the National conscience
against injustice, a movement that is full of
pathos and also full of danger, because such
movements sometimes make victims of those
who are guiltless 1t was not a Republican
defeat. 1t was not a Democratic victory. 1t
was great upheaval and uprising, indie
pendent OF and superior TO both. 1t was
crisis that may become catastrophe filled
with terrible admon ition, but not without
encouragement to those who understand and
are ready to co operate with it.
PEACEFUL REVOLUTIONS
1t was peaceful revolution, an attempt to
resume rights that seemed to have been in
fringed. 1t is many years, Mr.. President
since predicted this inevitable result. In a
speech delivered in this chamber on the 18th
of February, 1873, from the seat that is now
adorned by my honorable friend from Texas,
who sits before me Mr.. Reaganl. 1 said:
I've can not disguise the truth that we are
on the verge of an impending revolution.
The old issues are dead. The people are ar
ravinU fhernSelyp unou one side he Ot her