The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-07-27
SPEECH OF GEN. J. B. WEAVER.
HE REPLIES TO COL. WATTERSON AND
UPHOLDS THE PRINCIPLES OF THE
PEOPLES PARTY IN THE GREAT
tADRANGtLAR DEBATE AT
PHILADELPHIA.
HOW THE NATIONAL BANKING SYSTEM OPERAT ES-ILLUS-
TEArONS TO FIT THE PRESENT CONDITION OF AFFAIRS
-POPTLIS PRINCIPLES APPLIED Is CHRISTIANITY
IN MOTION-THE SPEECH IN FULL
Continued from last issue.

What was your thoughtf' said III
. neighbor. Why" said he. lit wa
|. Just this: that wealth was account
! cumuIated before in all the history 4
th" world. and | knew that wealt
was the product Of labor, admitte
to natural opportunities. And vet
knew that there were but IA few year
IN Il man. life in which he cold pro
duce more than he consumed. Il
his childhood he is burden. in hi
youth still burden if his parent
are able to keep him IN school, aud i,
old age he becomes IA burden again
SO there are only few years. in thu
prime of life, in which man ear
produce more than he consumes
Then this thought came to me, If la
Dor is able to support itself, and
then support both extremes OF indl
gence, youth and old age, and theI
support all the idle people around
the cities. and the professional elias
ses, and then be able to pile up a sur.
plus of wealth over and above all,
just reached the conclusion that
there must be a tremendous profit in
labor or there could not be any such
thing as, the accumulation of wealth. .
(Applause.)
WELL" said the neighbor, that is
a big thought" Why" said he.
that is perfectly apparent and
transparent. What shall we do
about it p said they. "Well sup
pose we send out for Smith and Jones,
two of our neighbors who live near
by. John, get on your horse and go
and tell Smith and Jones to come
over to my house; there is something
terrible going on here, and they are
Interested. Don't stand upon the
order of your going, but go now"
John didn't know what was up, but
he rode over, out of breath, for
Smith and Jones, and said "there
was something awful going to hap
pen in the family and for them to
go right away" Jones and Smith
came. Jones was lean, lank fell
low with sunken jaws and hooked
nose and little bullet eyes away back
in his head. Smith was a jolly, ro-
tund. philosophic, bright-faced old
fellow, with hand like the hand of
Providence. and a great philosophic
blue eye IN his head. They came
into the house, and the first to speak
was Jones. He said: "What is
the matter ? What did you send
for me for ?" They then told him
what they had been talking about.
WELL" said he, that is nothing
new to me. have thought that
thing over for year, have
thought of 1t and thought about it
until l thought had no sense left.
and finally | remembered what my
mother said to me before she died.
She was poor waman. and father
lied when | was ii years Of age,
md | had to take care of mother and
myself, and | have had hard time
If 1t. My mother could not leave me
when she died except her
blessing, and this is what she said
% me: John, if you ever get into
rouble, go to the bible; there is con
ISOLATION there Now | thought that
anne from my good old mother, but
didn't think much about it. To
ell the truth, | had not read nv BIZ
'le for five years, and finally when
nd think of it | remembered what
ny mother had SAID, and | will pro-
'ate my mothers will in the court of
ny conscience. (Applause) Iopen-
q 1t to see whether these was any con
olatlon there, and | heard the part
where God, speaking to Adam after
he fall, said, Adam in the sweat of
by face shalt thouleat bread all the
avs of thy hfe.' | just closed the
ook and said, we'll, I'll bet that S
nat meant that Adam should eat {
is bread in the sweat of his own
ace and not in the sweat of some {
ody else's face Uaughter.) | Z.
egan to get some consolation from !
~ mothers old Bible, sure enough. 4
thought l would read little furth
r, and l read over where it said the y
-ch rule over the poor and the bor-
over Is servant of the lender:' and +
knew 1t was so for | had felt like a
ave ever since put that mortgage
my home. Then | turned over to L
mother place where it said the la d
orer is worthy of his hire and Il
lterpreted that to mean that he was -
ltltled to full wages, and all that "
IS LABOR was worth. | was getting .
good zeal out of the book. Then p
turned over to where Paul said to -,
e IhessolanlanS, IF any will not D
ork, neither shall he eat NV :;
3D. said, suppose they should ~
'ply that law now applause r.;
Ia laughter.) l just thought of
e people around in the community J.
was acquainted with and it seemed -
me that those who were eating b,
e most worked the least. CAD. y.
ause and laughter) | concluded ~
would read further and | turned -,
'er to where the Lord seemed TO y.
ach the climax of all He had to -,
Y to convince the poor of the res - -
ct He had for everything that oT
orked, and he put it in the book Il,
on shall not muzzle the OK that -
eadeth out the corn He should w
We enough for his work, (applausel m
at is, when they drove him around di
the threshing floor they should of
t forget the OK, that he ought TO !,
We enough to eat. N
Then l just folded up mothers st
book and Rugged 1t to my heart m
d | said, This system of poll
al economy under which we are
ing is without God and with ov
t hope in the world" (An- W
ause.) RI
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