Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-03-21
SUNDAY POLITICS.
Reverends Rork and Waldrop Hold
Forth at Reeds Opera
House.

, tended u mass meeting at Reeds
opera house Sunday afternoon to
hear two Peoples party speakers.
Rev. 10, Waldrop, Baptist speaker
and lecturer of the Peoples party,
spoke, entertaining his hearers well.
He spent some time charging that
the census when fully published
would reveal an awful state of af-
fairs. He claimed that farming was
the poorest paid of all occupations.
Massachusetts, had made $10,0O0,0O0
more than eight farming states.
New York had made 100000
more than five farming states. The
present system of government was
transferring the wealth of the pro-
ducers into the pockets of the finan-
ciers. Young men of today had no
ambition to do hard work because it
did not pay. There was but one
standard of dignity and respect in
this country-and that was what a
man had on his person. If the
street sweeper got as big salary as
the councilman we would take off
our hats to him. Government and
politics were Synonymous. Parti-
sanism and demagogery were all we
had in this country for many years.
Religion was government of ones
self first. Old parties were under
the control of bosses and the bosses
were under control of the Hebrews
of Threadneedle and Lombard street.
Strikes and dynamite were only
effects of causes that went before.
Men would go and vote their party
ticket if death was before them, un-
less they got their eyes opened and
voted the Peoples party ticket. He
was the father of the famous Wal
drop children and had raised them
in Arkansas. He was pretty severe
Oh the preachers of Salem who were
all hide-bound partisans. He re-
signed because he did not want his
denomination to feel ashamed of
anything he might say. He was
not fired but he felt he would have
been if he had stayed. Preachers as
class were good men but they had
not the courage of their convictions.
He was severe on Harrison and
wanted to see him and his barrel of
whiskey fired out of the White
House, and that saloonkeeper, Vice
President Morton, must be fired,
too. No stream could be cleaner
than its fountain and the fountain
of all our govern ment was in WASH
ington. He showed that Senator
Dolph introduced bill to regulate
and license saloons in Alaska to sell
liquor to Esquimaux Indians. The
people of Oregon knew there was no
craftsmanship in that. Every dollar
of expense of this government came
out of the working men. Money
was chrystalized sweat and he had
no respect for men who no longer
had to labor and sweat. He eulo-
gized the Davis bill, introduced by
Peoples party man from Kansas,
to declare a man bankrupt when
ever his mortgage became demand
unpaid, and that the United States
should pay his mortgage in money
and the mortgage should be Endorsed
"settled by the U. s." Then the
United States should give the man
twenty years to pay it off in. The
mortgage was also made uncollect-
able by law in any other manner.
There was religion in that bill, and
it would put an end to our cutting
each others throats. Men who
wanted to whoop up their old party
in preference to any other must be
sat down upon. The hogs in the
springs Of government must be
thrown out from Washington to
Marion county. He closed with a
plea for equal suffrage rights.
REV. NJ. v. RoRK
gave the audience a short talk. The
Peoples party had developed that
in place of 100000 debt there was
SlS0,000 debt in Jackson county.
Taxes were increasing. The great
nations of the globe we're starving,
while the world talked of overpro-
duction. The railroad system, the
banking system, the tariff system,
the licensed saloons, were the insu-
tutions that dominated the country.
He denounced the government for
its failure to give employment to the