The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-13

needs OF great manufacturing ->ow
England village who never llvea ~ 1 me
and never saw one. How can nes IL
may be as intellectual as Lord Kenny spll
he may be as wise as Shakespeare, pu1
he lacks education. The majority VI
is made up of Democrats. That is right.
They carried the last election, ana tney
are entitled to have all it means; put
the majority OF that majority IS mace
up of Southern gentlemen. 1t is under
Southern dictation that this bill must
first be passed through the Democratic
contingent of the committee OF ways and
means. 1t will then be presented TO the
full committee and crowded tnrough, that
committee, the one or two NorJhern
Democrats on the committee following
the Southern lead. 1t will then be put
into the House, and here be controlled
by the Democratic caucus which is, per-
haps, to be governed by these gentlemen,
who have no understanding OF the havoc
they may work in our. industrial 1nst1tu-
lions.
The elections have not touched them.
Having repealed, so far as the House OF
Representatives is concerned, the Federal
election laws; having swept away all
supervision, with the ballot boxes in
their own hand, they are inaccessible to
these influences. I say inaccessible; no,
l am not right. Nobody is lnaccess1 BILE
to the voice of the people. The con-
tinnous, persistent voice of the major
ity of the people of the United
States will reach any ear; but it
must be persistent. These men must be
made to understand what disaster they
are causing, what ruin they are working,
and the only thing that can make them
1r,Hn nd Sod I, Of ha nor
of this country.
Therefore, l say do not feel so much
like rejoicing tonight as I do like urging
our brethren to keep on in the good
work; to let the voice of the people be
heard continuously. There are Demo-
Gratis without number who are believers
with us in the doctrine of protection.
They simply allow their party feeling to
overcome their faith. We had many of
them before the committee on ways and
means, including the governor of West
Virginia and members of Congress from
Ohio. Many men came before US and
presented their own little cases relating
to their districts, or their states, unable
to broaden into the doctrine that the
American market should belong to the
American people. But the rank and file
of the democratic party are learning,
| first, that American markets had better
| be kept for ourselves, and, second, that
the American market had better be made
as good as it can be made. (Applause.)
; | hear some men flippantly say, some
men who believe with us, "Why, wages
can be reduced, and if these people
choose to go abroad, if they choose to
vote to reduce their own wages, why
not?'' My answer is there are many rea-
sons. In the first place, do not wish to
see lowered one little the standard of
living of the American people. ZAP
plause.] In the second place, | wish to
see men who are working from morning
until night. working contentedly and
happily, not only receiving just wages,
but believing that they are receiving
just wages. [Applause.l Convinced,
not by necessity, but convinced by a
sense of justice; and if we have that we
shall have not only a prosperous but a
contented people.
1t is true that when it comes to the
last resort, if people here are forced into
competition with people abroad, all the
elements of competition must be the
same, and the elements of wages must
be the same. But, if the people of the
United States rise, in their might and
control these men in Office, then this
country will be better off and will be
prosperous. These men who are now
turned out of work will be restored to
the productive list; they will receive
money for their wages, and with the
money they receive they will buy the
products of our manufactures. 1t is
| only by having everybody we'll employed /;
| it is only by having everybody at work
| that everybody can continue at work.
| Drop one set of men and that means
dropping the others. Shut up the manu-
| factories and you drive out the railroad
men. That is not argument, it is histo-
| ry; history which has taken place under
your own eyes.
| Here, il our industrial pursuits, we
have that element of uncertainty. We
have it in other things as we'll. Our
whole financial system is today exposed
| to the uncertain behavior of these men
who have had no united principles be-
cause they have had no occasion for
united action. Did you notice what a
| singular compromise those men in the
Senate got up when they thought they
were going to control A compromise
that expressed tile average sentiment sof
the Democratic party a compromise
that Su4 S ses4s pEq peffa3
Of GFs aiGave Away the Victory, sSSl'5 -
compromise that SUI rendered every
thing which had been obtained, and that
under the guidance of the secretary of
the treasury and possibly one higher.
But when the Republicans presented
their firm front, the firm from of men
who had been in battle often before for
honest money, the compromise went
down and the right thing went up.
Applause.] But we have not got
through with all our financial matters
yet. State banks will be question I'M
less the people take this matter in hand.
We shall find our system plunged into
the same uncertainty it was in years ago.
And yet, have such confidence in the
ultimate good sense of the people that
do not believe that the disasters that
menace us will really happen because 1
believe that the people will uprise as
they did upon the last election. APP
| plause.
Let me say another thing. | believe
that this victory was not only victory
for the American system, but believe
| that it is prtmonitory symptom that
our people will no longer endure fraud at
the ballot box. Applause. Do you
not see what those men were continuing
in New York? They were earnest,
vigorous, demanding that no federal
oversight should takes place at their