Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-09-01
WEAVER IN FRISCO.
THE PEOPLES CANDIDATE SPEAKS
TO 5000 CALIFORNlANS.

: Manner-The Producers and the Rob
bers-A Part of the Speech.
The Associated Press. in consequence,
If the conspiracy of silence, sent to tn,
country only four lines about Genera
Weaver's magnificent meeting in SAL
Francisco From the San Francisco pa
)ers it appears that more than 5000 cage,
listeners crowded Mechanics pavilion
! 20 hear the Peoples candidate for presi
lent discuss the issues of the day, ant
many thousands more were turned away
rom the doors because there was NJ
:oom for them. The speech was splen
lid effort and fully covered all the ques
ions of the campaign. The speaker
was frequently interrupted by applause
Ind was rendered a perfect ovation al
The conclusion of his remarks. Abou
)ne-third (the earlier portion) Of the ad
lress follows:
Mr.. CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
r these meetings continue to increase in mum
oers and enthusiasm we will have to move t
make it unanimous and abandon the cam
paign. This campaign began at Vincennes
Ind, on the 2lst day of July, and now here We
are at the Golden Gate, and all along the route
clear across the continent crowds Of this char
lcter and magnitude have assembled to greet
rs and bring us assurance Of victory in the
dies of November. My friends, we are in the
midst of the most tremendous political up
heaval that the world has known anythine
about. When | was boy | remember the
great breakup that took place between 1855
and 1850, when the Free Soil Democracy and
;he Free Soil Wings, despairing of doing any.
hing with the proslavery parties, came out
and met in the middle of the road and saved
his Union, and saved the spirit of liberty un.
Ter the constitution and the Declaration OF
independence. Here we are in the same phase
d the same battle. What was the underlying
philosophy which eliminated in the nomina.
ton of Abraham Lincoln in 1902
Wendell Phillips said to me in his own resi-
lence in Boston: Mr.. Weaver, there are but
few people who understand the movement
which eliminated in the war; That movement
was the great battle for the freedom of labor,
but it is yet to be fought out on this continent,
because the result of that war was simply the
extension of that battle, not to conclude with
the freedom of the black man, but to continue
"
the slave power lost, and which great battle of
labor has yet to be fought out on the American
continent. You may live to see 1t, and probably
will, but will be called home long before thGt
contest will take place." and thank God to-
night that the great prophecy Of a great man
will be fulfilled at the ballot box in November.
Now want the careful attention of the peo-
pie tonight while interpret this question
which is now shaking the republic from center
N1at Il . 40 T.,
fication TO it? My friends, have you ever taken
your seat upon the shores of the Pacific here
and watched the great waves as they chase
each other like things of life and push thus
one the other? Just so 1t goes, and one follows
another in this movement of the people, which
wish to interpret before you tonight. Now,
am talking to you and shall address you as
laboring people
Labor produces all the wealth of this world.
You clothe the naked back of the world and
you feed its hungry mouth. The world waits
for your industry. | assert, without fear OF
contradiction, that you enjoy less of it in your
homes than any other class of people living
under our flag. Let us call attention now to a
few facts that are indisputable. A statistician
Of known reputation that no one will question
says that in 1870 n, 600 men, heads of families,
in this country men vino have never earned a
dollar of wealth, as laboring men do, in their
lives, and he says, after mature deliberation,
he can reduce i; 10 5000 men-own one-half Of
the wealth of this entire country, or S31. O00,-
N0,GO. ] have no way of properly conveying
to your mind how much S3l, OO0,0OO, 600 are
The war for the suppression of the rebellion
cost the government and the south combined
about S8,UN0, 0UO,OO0 yet these 25,000 men have
accumulated S3l,0O0000,0OO. They have ac-
rumulaied enough to carry on war for four
years and carry out the work with an ex-
penditure Of less than one-third of the
wealth they have accumulated. put the
question to the critic, to the editor. the lawyer.
the banker.
want to ak you in the face of these facts
dare you say before God and in this presence
that the republic is in a healthy condition when