The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-09-09


high tariff laws which prevented the ship
builders from getting the raw material
10 build the ships. and by high flrif
laws which intercepted our foreign trade.
the Republican party Of the country not
only proposes TO build ships at your ex-
pense to be held by other people, but here
and now to-day they are building ana
paying for ships to be built upon which
her flag will fly, and TO the ship owners
you will pay u stipulated freightage Tor
every ton of other peoples goods when
they will carry.
They are very anxious to see Mr.. Harri-
son elected that they may continue 10
finger your money 5nd keep their hands
in your pocket
HIGH PRICES.
Eighth. The manufacturers who want
the Government to protect them by COM
polling the people to purchase cheap
wares at high prices and by compell-
ing the farmers of this country to buy
in the highest markets of the world AIN
the implements which they work with
and TO sell their cotton. their tobacco,
their corn and their wheat in the cheap
est markets of the world. Why to-day
you can 90 to South America or you can
go to Europe and you can buy rake or
a harrow, or a sewing machine, or saw.
nails made here in the United States and
transported to those countries cheaper
than you can buy them here. Why! Be
cause in those countries they come in
competition with similar wares made IN
other countries, and here the manufac-
turer is cut out. and the result is that you
are not only paying high tax to destroy
your own agriculture, but at the same
time are building up with cheap manuiac-
turcd articles, the agricultural enterprises
of other nations by the cheap goods which
you send them.
AS TO TIKI PENSIONERS.
The pensioner: Who, without being
disabled, wants the Government to make
n living for them ont of the sweat OF
other peOple's broWS. | repeat the words
of my distinguished friend and comrade,
Governor Lee: | have no quarrel with
the Federal soldiers; | had my quarrel
out with them long time ago. L am
under the impression that | got rather
the worst of il, but | am disposed TO
make the best of is. If we believe the
pension roll, they got the worst OF 1t Tor
there are more pensioners upon the rolls
of the United States than there were
soldiers in the Confederate army; and all
| have To say about it is, II their pen
sion record is true you boys who wore
the gray uluSb nave uIuNu bcoN ~
markedly we'll. (Laughter)
Now if the matter were left to me, End
| say to YOU. my friends here at home,
caudidly, | would freely and gladly vote
for pension to every Federal soldier
who, doing the right us God gave him
to see the right, stood by his gun and
fell. and was disabled, and | would be
glad to administer to his necessities IN
the spirit of that grand general who lea
us in front Of Richmond, who gave or
ders to his surgeons TO treat the whole
field alike, and never to pass Il wounded
or stricken man, no matter what the
color of his coat. without ministering to
his necessities.
God speed the good work of help to The
MANNED. helpless and fallen all over
Gods green earth until Democracy shHil
sink deep into the hearts of men and
teach them that all men are brethren.
But do object. and will always Oh
ject. to paying pensions to bummers ana
camp-f0llOwers and wagon-drlvers VINO
stood away from the smoke and flame
Of battle and yet come forward WIN
their ruthless hands to claim the trop1l
How often have you seen IN the ileid
| some fellow in a fine uniform, who had
stood ten miles back, ride up, beaml *
and smiling, and, overlooking the stricA-
en- field upon which he had not been,
exclam with hilarity, "Oh, have we not
won a glorious victory and have we nOt
! given them the ID!
He is ready to agree with you, but he
was with somebody else when the hght
was going on. Giving pensions to men
who are not disabled does not help them
| and il does not help us, and 1t is teaching
a lesson which is the very opposite to
| what an American citizen should teach
his son. Self help is the best help Show
me the man who does not want TO stand
| ON anyone else's feet, who wants TO be
man amongst men, not fed by the spoon
ont of the Government 'adle. When he
sits down under his hubble roof whether
il be of logs or what not, be eats the
sweetness of honest bread and says: L
| did it," But take away from nm the
| idea of self help, take out OF his heart the
fiery force. the indOmitable, selt-assertive
principle of the man standing up alone
| bv his flag and by his home and by his
property. tecause it is his flag, because
| il is his home. because it is his property !.
take that out of him, and you had as well
7 take the stars off your flag and leave the
stripes there for race already ensiaved,
and which is ready for the coming VI It's
master. (Applause.)
THEIR PLATFORM.
Now. the other night before | came
down here ! picked up the platform or
the Third party. | had just been UP III
the mountains for a little while, nos feel
jIg very well. and ! recollect hearing
Young man on the green at the Whlte
| Sulphur make what seemed TO me to be Il
very appropriate political remark. lie
was sitting with young girl under one
of the spreading oaks, and he SAID: III
| such n place as this two is company Out
| three is IA crowd.
This country is just about the size oil
a country in which two parties Is com
pany but three at present Is
yery disagreeable crowd We have
cot something to say to me
Renublican party. and we don't
want to be Interrupted while we are
courtirg them over the left. | picked up
the Third party platform, and } said to
myself. | will eadcavor 10 analyze ana
zoe what our friends are atser. ami
rca d these words I'VE meet in the midst
of a nation brought to the verge III moral
noIitical and material ruin Who by,
nav friends? You omitted little part
of the history. Who did That: Why,
the Republican party did it. The Wana-
makers. with their 100000 spent 70
elect Republican President ana
to get Cabinet office. l never
heard of CleN eland appointing anybody
on such basis as that, and II the 1hiTrd
party wants to tell the truth. the whole
truth, and nothing but the truth, WHY
don't they tell the people who It was that
had so degen, rated this republic, instead
of stopping like a dime novel when tine
villain has gotten his dagger drawn and
Won are all expecting the ne1t scene when
it stops and says: To be continued III