The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-04-20

dustry It creates a demand for labor. | ap
peal to this audience as matter of persona
experience, to every man fifty years of age
or forty. five, is it not fact that the wage.
earned by our people are on the average
fifty per cent higher than they were il
1850? Is there any record of any grocery
store, farm or manufacturing labor tina
contradicts this? But some say, To ge
s 30 per day and only get for it what yor
could buy then for dollar. don't save any
thing. But what is the fact about that
Isn't it true that everything that you buy
costs you twenty-five per cent less than il
| 1S60-on an average twenty-five per cent
Why, / can show you iron manufactures
where the price is seventy-five, not twenty
five per cent less than it was then. Now
if you raise wages fifty per cent, and cut of
the cost of what you buy Twenty-Five pei
cent, it is just the same as raising YOU
wages. Is there a man in this audience
who does not know that the comforts o.
home have doubled in the last thrty-twC
years. Men live in better houses, the cows
have better barns, you have better streets
and sidewalks and comforts for the plair
people, not to the exclusion of those of us
who are not plain. Laughter and APP
plausel You all know that this is true
Somebody has done this, and it has beer
done by stirring things up, and takes agood
deal OF stirring, too. IL has taken thirty
elections in the state of Vermont in Maine
and all over the United States, and this
against the complaining and fighting of the
democrats. Applause.
"When the greenback was first created
the democrats would have nothing to dc
with the infamous thing, didn't want any
and we have seen democrats come around
and just cry for more greenbacks. Laughter
and applause. tell you the regular pro
cess in the democratic party is this: A new
movement is started which the democrats
denounce as disgraceful or ruinous. Well
we get along with it, it works well, and
then they come around and say that il
originated in the democratic party! ZAP
plause.l Oh, yes; they fought the battle:
of the war; they elected Abraham Lincoln
we know it now but didn't then. [Grea
applause A young man to join party
like that? 1t is preposterous!
zone idea | want to suggest The free
trader says, You say your very object il
raising tariff is to raise prices, and YOU
whole proposition is absurd, because wher
you put on tariff prices are lower How
is that? Lower prices come from new in
ventions and economy in administration
The first effect of tariff NAV be to raist
prices; but the result is, the Old World
must work all the faster, because if it dom
| it cannot get its goods on the American
market. From the very nature of things
| competition lowers prices and not only il
the United States but all over the world
prices have been lowered by protectiv,
] idTlll III clner WOIuS, ny IeNyluP d pTOleC
tive tariff we utilize the brains of the whole
world, and they are all the Lord has giver
u.s. Laughter.
cone thing is comforting about your pres
ence to-day: you don't need to be converted
| laughterl all you need is to strengthen
your faith. Why. them do you hold politi
cal meetings in Vermont? IL is to keep TIN
intelligent voters stirred up, for you will
always find when there is a decreased re
publican vote, it will show that the mos
intelligent voters staid away. And it is t,
stir them up and keep them interested tina
we hold these meetings. One thing more
Vermont wants to do this year as hand
somely AS she did four years ago. TLout
applause | suppose you wonder VIII,
righteousness don't prevail but | tell you
that the intelligence of day does not las
until tomorrow, and even in old Vermont
righteous and good as she is, you hav,
got to keep stirring up these questions o
she will go backward, her glory will wane
And now, my brethren, I've done all | coul'
to start YOU" Tremendous applause.
Two meetings of unparalleled interes
and enthusiasm had been held The ma
tional campaign in Vermont had been givei
an impulse that will send the states ma
jority far up toward 10000 and in the sum
mer months the freemeu of Vermont will
complete the work with bounce.
At Burlington.
Mr.. Reed left Montpelier by special trail
at 4: 10, and in the evening addressed thu
people of Burlington in Howard Opera
house. The republicans of the Queen Cit
filed that spacious structure from pit t
dome and gave the Gear of all the Amer
cas- " rousing reception, and he CAV
them such a speech as only 6 the tyran
Reed " can make.