The record-union., 1892-10-18

ments. am not going 10 refuse that poor,
starving man dime with which to buy ioaf
OF bread because, forsooth, it may finally
reach the pocket of the rich baker who has
bread to sell, sufficient is il for me to know
that the hungry are led suthclent IS IL IoT tne
Republican party to know that her laoorers
are better fed, clothed, educated and PAID than
any other people. Let IL be that our protect
i've laws make it possible for men TO become
mtll1onatres.
1 don't know how our Democratic friends
may feel concerning such accumulation OF
wealth, but the Republican party has s;tld II
there are to be milliOnaires, ''lets have
American milnOnaires," and instead OF for-
tunes being confined to those who receive
them in the course of arlstocratic transmits
sion, as they do in free trade Europe, let's per-
petuate the present possibilities that give
every man chance in protected America.
Suppose our manufacturers do incidentally
receive increased pronts from the protective
taTiIi, they are profits that are made IN this
country. 1t is an increase OF the income or
your neighbor, and an improvement Of his
condition is an improvement OF yours; and If
our Democratic friends and Peoples party
friends would only quit following and howl
ing against phantom policies which they
claim make the rich richer and the poor
poorer, and devote themselves to a studious
imitation OF the ways of the rich, and thereby
make the poor rich also, we would possibly
have better country than we now possess
IL a little more time was devoted 10 the Ilrn
and less to the organization of political parties
some of our Farmers Alliance folks would
have no mortgage to talk about.
The Democratic party makes the bold, bald
statement that protection is a robbery; they
put poor Peck in Jail for telling the truth, they
tell you that you are StraVlng while your
stOmachS are full, they have you freezing TO
death with warm clothes on your back, your
chlldren,s Gleeiul greetings are waI.ngs for
IooG, and all OF this IS claimed, IN the lace OF
the TACT that from 1850 to 1883 this country
under protection has annually added 166, $50
tillers at the soil to those already engaged in
farming. oh, yes, we have been robbing the
farmers; and yet 4,00G0OO OF men have
Joined the army OF the victims of Republican
theft in twenty-eight years. In 1850 we pro-
duced 15,OO0,OOO tons of coal; in 1855 we
produced 142 100000.
In 1SSS the product OF American factories
under prolection was over s. 100000. In
iree-trade England il but S4,OCO,0OO,
and yet [ heard stephen NJ. White say the
other night that England had outgrown pro-
lection. Between 1860 and 1888 the wealth
of the United States increased over S47 800
0G0, 700. Just think of a country that is
being robbed increasing her wealth in twenty
eight years In a sum greater than Great Brit
aims entire wealth. In 1860 the per capita
wealth OF the United States was S513. In
1SSS, had it been divided. every man, woman
and child would have received 81, ,O50-more
than twice as much.
In 1860 we had 3O,626 miles of railroad; in
l S9l we had 40, ,OO1. And, let me say, rail-
roads are not built in the face of such rob
berries as the Democratic party would have us
| believe have been carried on for the last
! thirty years. our exports have increased
S150,0U0,O00 in the last two years, while
British exports (America's only competitor
!
do not establish the fact that America has
through the instrumentality of Republican
rule, been made exclusively for Americans,
know Of no means by which he can success
fully appeal to the better judgment Of our fel-
| low-citZens.
| II America has not been made for Ameri-
cans, how is II that since 1S4O we have re-
| ceived upon our shores over 100000
SOuls-l22 900 in one year from Great Brit
am? They are now coming at the rate Of
| 1000 per day. Strange, is it not, that people
| nom every citme hearing OF the great rob
| berry that is going on in America. should seek
| its shores.
/ And how many are immigrating from this
| country, let me ask? 1t our Democratic friends
are correct and this is such II dreadful cOun-
| try, how do they account for the rush to our
! shores, and an absolute refusal of those who
| do come to leave, even to the heather Chinese
| coming from an empire that nourished before
| the Caesars, strong in every C Iaracteristic,
| particularly precluded from ever associating
with White ioks having once breatheu the
! pure, free wholesome air OF America, will
| Notwithstanding the attachments that have
Deen cementing Tor centuries decline to re-
! turn to the FlOWery Kingdom without certi-
cate emitting him to again land on the shores
OF America.
No emigrant mig ates from America in the
! steerage. Those IRON our shores go as cabin
passengers, and they manage to get back be-
! lore the winter sets in.
/ The Democratic party lays at the door Of the
| Republican party the responsibility OF the
Homestead strike. Think OF it. Think OF
any political organization being responsible
lOl SltiNcs, anu llltll, Will lilSlI usual v,
they view the strikes that have occurred in
! America with alarm. Strikes, strife ana
| struggle are Synonymous. Who is there in the
! hearing OF my voice that has not been COM
! PEELED to strike for living ever since
he left the parental root; strikes to the
| body polite are what bilious attack
! is to the system-dreadful temporary effects.
| but with results that are beneficial; does
| the pimple on my arm forever shut out
| the hope that my blood may again become
| pure; OF course not. Strikes are great reg
! HlDtOrS. Show a country without strikes
| and l will show you people too poor too
| meek, under too great and severe a subjection
| TO even ask for what they believe is theirs. A
| political organization can no more be respon-
| sible for strikes than ii can be held answera-
bic for the individual contentious that must
| necessarily arise in the great battle of life
| You might as well-and it would be no more
| inconsistent-view with alarm the millions of
| instances where individuals have resorted TO
the highest and hnal judicial tribunal to set
| tie their disputes. You might say that the
Republican party should be responsible for
| the litigation of the country or even 90 so far
/ as to lay at her door the strikes that occurred
during the building ofthe pyramids of Egypt
400 years before Christ But suppose the
number of strikes did mark weakness in the
administration of a party. During year in
| Cleveland's term. as compared with the period
in which the Mckinley bill has been in effect
there were three strikes to one now while in
free trade England there are ten TO our one
And then again, let us consider the Home
stead strike; let US Tor n minute examine that
| question. Who Is Fl. G. Frick? A prominent
| democrat. w no Is lUlS man IfONe1OE. his
| companion in the affair? A very prominent
| Democrat in the State of Pennsylvania Was
| the Governor, who is responsible in no small
| degree for the lives that were lost a Democrat
| or Republican? And who is Andrew Car
negie? A Republican and the only man who
| agreed to the advance Of wages as demanded
by the Amalgamated Association. But what
| was the report of the Democratic committee
| who investigated this disturbance? Con
gresham Boatner, from Louisiana, a
Democrat, and one of the commit
| xrbn IN inv l..
trouble at HOMESTEAD said, "They receive
| down there the largest wages I ever heard of
! Every two weeks" said he "they distribute
| S16O 600. The average wages made by work
ers, skilled and unSkilled, were So per day
| Many thousand received $1Oo per month,
and hundreds received IS per day and
| worked eight hours. How does that sound
Talk about wages at Homestead! Go down in
| Tennessee, among The convict laborers of Cal
| win S. Brice, the Democratic United States
| Senator, who IS representing the people of
| this country in capacity higher even than
| that of your President. because be is a law
maker, and compare the condition of labor
| ing men there with those OF Homestead 7
would that Senator Palmer another Demo-
cratic champion, might be called upon to in
vestisate and report TO the people Of the
| United States the state of affairs as they exist
! to-day upon the soil Of Tennessee his col
leagues home, who, by the way, as another
champion of Democracy and a believer In
| high wages (?l pays to the cOnvicts in his
mines sum that would not Keep dog, while
| the poor free laborers of Tennessee are tele-
| phoned from the Capitol at Washington:
| Your miserable condition is due TO the
awful robberies that are being INDUCED in bv
the Republican party under the guise Of n
protective tariff. am doing all can to help
| you. CALVIN ). BRICE.r
| Fellow-eitzens. whenever the Democratic
party. the Peoples party, or any other or
| ganization pretends to widen the scope of 20
| litical power until every great question of
| capital and labor can be met with Immediate
aud final solution, until the great laws of pro-
duction, supply and demand will be made
| subservient, until every mortgage in the land
/ viii be paid and every man shall have at his
| front gate guardian, they are pretend nding to