The Portland daily press., 1892-09-12


milton among other statisticians. Read
ing, [ suppose, the Democratic platform
and the Democratic newspapers, he
thought there was great chance, so he
sent out circulars to every manufacturing
establishment in the state of New York.
What did he find? Did he find, as the
Democratic platform stated and as the
Democratic newspapers have reiterated,
that there was no increase of wages, and
that there was no possibility OF, an in
crease? On the contrary, he found. and
stated, that there were eighty-nine thou
sand individual cases of increase of salary
in that state within the year under the Nc
Kinley bill. Applause. Now he is a
Democrat, and he is Democrat selected
by Mr.. Cleveland, with the approval of
derstand that those two good men have
now come together little, and it is
probably on account of Mr.. Peck. Great
laughter and applause. How much was
this increase of wages? More than six
millions of good, honest dollars, six mil
lions of them in the pockets of the work
ing men of the state of New York alone!
That concerns the working men. That
is something that concerns us. What
has been the production during one year
of the Mckinley bill as contrasted with
one wear when we did not have that
blessed institution? You know it is i'm
portant for us to have large production.
The more things there are lying around,
the more there are within our reach.
Laughter and applause.] The more
goods there are piled up the more
we shall get of them. The increased
production for that one year alone was
thirty-one millions of dollars. Why, my
f.,,o dc f1lp
cheap; when goods are scarce, they are
dear. Thirty-one millions of dollars in
the single state of New York is a great
addition to our chances in life. Well,
the Democratic newspapers don't like it,
and they say unlsind things about it, too.
They speak unpleasant thy of Mr.. Peck.
Laughter. They say that his action is
a stab in the back of Mr.. Cleveland. Well,
/ think that is SO. Laughter. l think
it is stab that goes the whole length of
his backbone. Great laughter and APP
plause. He may be man of majes-
ty, but it has got to be gelatinous males
ty hereafter. Laughter and applause
Of course they are forced to say that this
is not so; TINT it is all a lie; but even if
it were the truth it was a bad and a low
down time to present it, Why not keep
it until after election, when we could dis
cuss it dispassionately, when 1t wouldn't
hurt anybody or mean anything? Why
not present it in
The Good, Old Democratic Way,
when nothing would ever come of it,
just as nothing ever comes of the Demo-
cratic party? [Applause.l think that,
from the standpoint of the Democratic
newspaper, their complaint is just one,
and I say, knowing the nature of Mr..
Pecks appointment and how he was Sc
lected that we might reasonably have
expected worse things from him than
this. The first thing that the Democrat
ic papers said about it was that the man
ufacturers had all conspired TO lie about
it. The last heading that saw in the
Boston Herald of today was that wages
were increasing all around, but that the
Mckinley bill was not the cause of it; that
altered conditions were the cause of it.
Now that is the way the truth penetrates
the Democratic mind. The first impress
sion of the Democratic party of any great
truth is that it is a lie, and they proceed
to try to proveit to be lie until they
find they cannot, and then they say it is
the truth, But that it was not due to the
Republican party. Laughter and APP
plause. They say they do all believe in
it, but that they have been misunder
stood in regard to it; that is all. When
the Supreme Court decided that a pres
ent Democrat was as good as member
of Congress, the correspondent of the
New York Times said that the Demo
cratic party had really always thought
so, but that they thought they had been
told it IN a manner that was little
rough, and that was their real objection,
what they had been kicking and scream
ing about for six months or more. Well
not satisfied with having the testimony
of this Democrat who was appointed as a
very good man, and Endorsed by man
who used to be good but became bad and
has since reformed again, you take
another Democrat as witness, and that
is the Labor Commissioner of the State
of Indiana. [ am informed that he is
also a Democrat. Now if this is so, I
suppose there is no place in the world
where you can find Democrat SO utterly
nom partisan as in Indiana. Laughter]
What does he say? Why, he says that
the Mckinley bill has increased wages!
Where does he get this information, from
the manufacturers? No, he commences
at the other end Of the route. He got
his information from the workingmen,
and suppose that is the reason why this
COluIlu Ill Ull6H IlGIdIu 10 lCttdCu W CilO
statement that wages are rising all
around, but it is owing to the changed
condition of things, and not to the
Mckinley bill. Oh, my friends, have you
not for the last thirty years watched this
continuous evolution of the Democratic
Party? Have you not seen them gradu-
ally, year by year, brought up a little
farther and little farther until they are
now always within four years of US
about four years? Some of them stray
gle farther back than that, but, as a
whole, they are within about four years
of us; and for my part | am glad they
are, because I believe that the whole
human race has got to go together. Why,
we cannot leave those Democrats way
behind. Laughter. We have got to
bring them up with us. We Republic
cans know what law is before it can
be enacted. The Democratic party
have to have an object lesson; they
have to look at the law, and then they
see in time that it is righteous and then
they advance to it, l tell you, my
friends. we have now got them pretty
well educated on the subject of the
tariff.
Look at their last national convention.
The committee on resolutions, the sober,