The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-07-20
HE REPLIES TO COL. WATTERSON AND
TpHOLDS TIE PRINCIPLES OF THE
PEOPLES PARTY IN TIE GREAT
OTADRANGULAR DEBATE II
PHILADELPHIA.


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! are. all WORKING men, the millionaire
/ the. banker, the railroad president
/ the LAWYER and thu editor" II
would have teen well he had stop
p-d to tell us the Democratic plan
| for keeping the millionaire working
man from eating UP the dollar and
| Il half ser dIy working man. Laugh
ter / have 40 doGLt that when
Alaric thupdrrcd at the gates ol
! Rome and the seventeen hundred
and sixty wealthy families who each
had an income OF ole mt,l!on I'VE
hundred thousand Il year, said 10 th'
ptasantry. ~ IIy. don . you drtrn'
the great city" aud they sad Nv
have nothing to defend; YOU own II
iali." have 70 doubt that The
seventeen hundred aud GjEty taml
lies said to the poor OF Rome, CIV by
we are ore ali Romans, We cannot al
expect to draw the nFst prizes, W.
are all workingmen." >Applause,
[ have nnrdo4bt that in highly pro-
tected Germany, today, whcrp tn
home Of the average working Ger
man to single room for himself
and family, and the average wage j
from twenty-five to seventy-iive cent,
a day, bis Diet black tread and COTE,
for break fast, black bread, fat anl
potatoes and soup for dinnel, black
bread and cheese and beer for sup.
per, eleven hours of toll and then al
, to lie dawn il the same room, no diff
ference how man. a.o IN the family
that is the average German home fol
German workingmen. nv friends. a.
established by the official reports tc
your state Department. published BY
YOUR Governments. I Eayn no doubt
that those German miii.onaires, and
gentry and nobility TO say to them.
"Why we are all Germans; we are all
workinemen. 1t is true that we
have drawn the good prizes and YOU
the bad ones, but You be subject
to the powers that be-" lAp-
plause.l
| have no doubt that in free trade
England today, or q few weeks ago,
when at Trafalgar Square, they
marched, hundreds of thousands of
poor people. bare-footed. asking for
employment, asking for bread,
have no boubt that there were Col
onel W4ttersons in that country
ready to say to them: 'Yo. are all
Britons; YOU are all worklngmen:
there is no class distinction: there can
be none under the laws of Great Brit
ain" I have no doubt that they
said that. and I have no doubt that
Carnegie did down at Homestead,
and [ have no doubt that over here
in the Lehigh valley they say to the
people over there: 1--WE are all
American citizens and we are all
workingmen." And if they did not
say il Colonel Watterson said il for
them. IAppisus4.1 "There are no
class distinctions in this country and
can be none, and the bell tower and
buttress Of the Democratic doctrine
is that there Cali be no distinctions
in this country" saws Colonel Wat
terson. 1t reminds me of what the
Irighman said to the LAWYER when ne
had his feet IN the stocks, and the
LAWYER came along anI said: "pat
what have they cot YOU there g: and
Pat told him. and the lawyer said.
But they can't put YOU there for
that" And Pat replied; "Broth-
er. YOU say they can't; don't Won
see they haya done it already ?"
Laughter.)
arraign Colonel Wattprson AZ
much as / respect and admire him,
for having COMPLETELY dodged The
whole question before the Anor;can
people. (Applausel
Again he saws: "rhe poorest child
that comes into this world nv the
back door has the same onnorfnnitv
to become a president Of the Tnited
States that the wealthiest child has
who takes his millionaire grandfather
by the wbiskers and on tha rar,,
next mace he saws thai tho ,o,,ag
5o,;1 : 49, ,,.L;s1, na' .ne tiioley
can civilization it lies rigbt anross
the pathway and this 2Ir+o"r.ar
will swallow rs m. That P' wa ~ h a.
reached . no;n+ ~ arn = "" r nav
Il 600 o00 70 nI,oa ~ ~ ".ieI
candidate in tba fiald al 'e Zoo 6nn
70 launch or alaot ~ ,' ,'1s qip0'ooo
ate Of the I-nitad q s ia4h 10 N Ne sell
can not diyest nv mind Of the " i'm
preston that tbera j. a oon,rad -; III
hetwaen tba bahv s,n.r o ,'h u az. Iu a
identiaI story fAnois @na ~ 'ne plTS-
terl Where i tba+ ,,oou CIV ah;I i"uS u
steals into Ifn hr ~ pI 80 ni ~ VINO
oct his million dollors "a o''iA uooi 10
POD for ,,naS;IIs " NC noiiiih nd