The advocate., 1892-06-22

bbOr0 10 lbS rlgnbLuI place among mebal9 the
silver Of our native mountains, and in due
time che financial circulation which thrObs
through the arteries Of the body polite,
shall be controlled in more natural way
by the great heart of the body. and not so
much by the head.
In due time we will restore to the people
the public lands which have been wrested
from them by violence and fraud.
In due time we will control the commerce
of the country, and if driven to extremes we
will absolutely own and operate such rail-
roads as are needed in our business, and by
some process too, as simple as that by which
our own lands are condemned and sold for
right of way and for the public good.
We will make it possible for the people to
buy and sell their commodities in the open
markets of the world, and protect them
from protection which under cover of law
robs every man who eats OR drinks or wears
clothes.
Yes, the people are for protection for him
who tolls and who eats bread in the sweat of
his face--the laborers of this countryside
miner, the mechanic, the artisan, the clerk,
the men-and women, too, God bless'em!-
who toll with their hands-these are they,
who, by the eternal, shall have protection.
My heart has often been moved by
graphic account of the great strike in Chica-
go, which occurred on the 4th of June, a
few years ago. The situation became alarm
ing. Actual starvation was at hand, and tie
wives and mothers of the railroad men were
so driven to desperation and 80 frenzied in
their determination to stop the moving
trains, that they grouped their little ones of
all ages upon the track in front of amoVing
freight train. The children were placed ac-
cOrding to age along the rails, the youngest
near the engine, the grown up daughters
and their mothers taking positions in the
rear. In this position the living mass
awaited the coming train, resolved if it
must be to surrender their lives as their
final testimony IN the great battle for bread.
One of the saddest sights was procession
of sewing girls and women psrading the
streets and demanding shorter hours and
better pay. From underground rooms,
dark, damp, foul and unwholesome, into
which the free, sweet air Of heavens blessed
sunshine never enters, they came forth, wan
and gaunt, and weary, poorly clothed,
scantily fed, every feature expressing their
hard fate, dreadful procession Of poverty
stricken creatures, whose evident suffering
should plead their cause with unanswerable
argument and powerful elOquenoe.
Talk Of patriotism and love Of country!
When your daughter is driven to such an
extremity you viii know for a truth that
there is something radically wrong, and
there must be some remedy, else Christ has
died in vain and the love of Gods an idle
mockery.
Patriotism, like charity, begins at home,
and what will the home become without
means to sustain an honorable life?
l tell you, my fellow citizens, it is the
homes of this country which are the con-
servatOrs of all that is pure and peaceable
and gentle. Destroy the home and anarchy
will surely follow. Do you want patriotism
in the people2 It is born at the family
altar, and from there it reaches out to the
embrace Of township, county, state and
nation. It knows no north, no south, no
"bloOdy Shirt" no "bloOdy ohasm," but
recognizes in the people one bond of COM
mon brotherhood.
F. j. Close, the nominee for congress
In the FIRST congressional district, re-
sponded to the addresses of welcome,
and compllmented the city and her peo-
pie upon their generosity and liberality,
in thus, without regard to party, extend
ing the freedom Of the city to party