The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1893-06-22
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XVI they find tehri, N thn ,n Ne
It is to be expect, d that shey w.,
duce federal taxa. ion WITH :, ,i"e
the treasury facin.r thetns M S'''
| president now says Here j. .
| place to go SLOW" Applause. - :,
reduce the tariff tn deficit viii g
larger, and it woulu, not max, ~. S'"
difference whether .hc bows o., '+'.', a.,
| office or not If they cannot -. =, ''i'
salaries. (Laughter.l If they r.5.,.'
the tariff taxes to Il point wL.,,.. .''''' .t.''
Will stimulate imports ard iuc,nasn -,
revenue in that way they will n,o,,,,n' -,
an explosion in labor unles, 49, n.;1,
hurl them out Of power Ike 49,, " VA Al
ploslon OF dynamite. The: are oun,sa>,
to an income tax, opposes. to An incrna." ,
OF the currency. There they s,anS @
facing this revolution in the f.na ."'1u ~
public sentiment. Now what can ,rn
Democratic party do? What can Ma,
party do, not only for the lnhorinr,on,' ,''
COO bless you, but what can il do rn,.
itself: tLaughter.) 1t can do no,b;.,rr
but stand still and perish,
What OF the Republican party. SIMS
once, sans state. sans public confidence
sans everything applause and laushteri
II has fought its last battle (laurh;rri
ana no ougle will ever call it to r}o,v
again: (Applause.) The evils tina, ar..
complained OF before the people to-day
are its own Internal brood. They h,vr
sprung into life, grown and ma,urr,,
under Its fostering care, and the Demo
cratic party Is assessory after the far;
to all OF 1t. Laughter.l don't won.
der that Colonel Waiter son shouId saw
as ne did In his speech. that the cont.n-
tions between the two old parties
amount to what he sums up TO IN,
mighty small politics." (Applausc. .
so 1t Is now. my friends, and want
70 say to you here tonight that | have
nothing against any lady or gentleman
who may differ with mo in politics.
nave learned some very important les.
sons during my brief political career
and that Is that other people are ant to
De a. honest as am, even though they
dlfler with me in politics: and | wan,
to say here right now that | hold il To-.
be your right. / go further than ,ha,
and hold 1t to be your duty to differ
wlth mo IL, after investigation. vou as
sertain that am wrong. (Applause.)
NOW want to make another conf.s-
sion before this audience before pro
cced to discuss the situation thoroughly.
have learned that do not know il nll
AND have found out that it requires
everybody to know it all, and then after
We have obtained the sum total of hu-
man Information we are cropping our
way in the dark ut best.
AND now l want to make another con-
ession here brethren. We love our
party, put We may be wrong. Now We
10 not believe We arc wrong. We he
leve We are right with all our mind
md strength, (applause) hut | know
enough OF tho frailty of human ju,r-
nent TO know that VIC may be wrong af-
or all, and now is it not barely possible
.nst you may be wrong: Have you
'ver thought OF that? (Applausc.)
so with charity. for all and malice to-
wards none wish to discuss the issues
before the people presented by our par
Y, ana l want to say now that the gen
'leman who follows me, the Hon Slow.
art L. WOodford, must speak from ,hc
'tandpoint of his platform. and NO,
rom MIR. Woodford's point of yiov.
want him to stand upon his party nIa,-
'Orm, and l want to stand ON ,h;, nl,:-
[orm OF my party, (applausel or the
platform made by my party and not one
made by myself.
This revolution had a peculiar origin.
1t began in its present form and shane
some four years ago, though We had
been working up to it for a quarter Of n
will illustrate it bv an al
egory.
An old gentleman past middle life.
1ecrepid, in bad health. called one
morning upon his ncighbor, by whom
ne had lived for more than q uuartcrof
! century. His neighbor was busy a,
work, and he did not even look up as ha
approached him, but as the visitor
spoke he saw that there was something
agitating the old mans mind. He said,
my friend. / have come over to talk 10
you upon matter of great Importance
20 me, and think it is to you."s What
IS IT,: said the neighbor, noticing his
agitation. cannot tell you here. bat
you nave time to step into your house,
ano SIT down and give me an hour Twill
'eli you. This is matter of great i'm
1Ortance to me-" The neiyhbor rep led.
You have been my neighbor for "A quar-
er OF q century. Step into the house,
md take seat" AS he took seat
his man laid his old hand upon The
knse OF his neighbor and as he did 70
tear stole down one of the burrows in
1ls time-wOrn cheek. He said. "My
riend. I am getting old $50 am i,
'ut let us not complain of this" replied
lis friend; don't take that to heart:
his may be said of all Of U.s." That is
lOt what is on my mind" replied the
'isitor; II have lived by you for guar
er OF century, and you have seen me
very morning, or you have seen the
light from my forge, for am q black
mith; you have seen it light up the win
low next to your house before daylight.
nd you have seen the same light there
Ehen you went to bed at night. and
vhen I was not working ut nv forge
'as working in my little garden as a
lorticulturist near by, and have lad
o work my children when they ought
g have been in school, and now INV
Andren are full-grown, but they can
ot appear alongside OF those Of the
icn man, who have had better oppor-
dn.'.es, l,e l have to work hard, and INV
que mas worked as hard as / have and
40 truth is We have never had a luxury
our house, and we have only had y