Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-11-01

Kind that we can make them cheaper.
Would you think Of building Il machine for
q single ak handle? Why. you cou.h make
IL cheaper with an ak yourself. But wheh
you want half a million of AK handles, YOU
have got to build a machine. Why. saw
your trolley cars rushing through the streets
tonight. Do you suppose trolley cars were
possible in the Old horse car days way
backY Not a bit OF it,. Trolley cars mean a
lot OF people who had been In the habit or
riding In cars. II means full cars and many
ley system In my city Of Portland to-day |
doubt II there would be any money IL 1t
whatever. A railroad won't do where you
coach. A Stage coach can take half a dozen
people a dozen miles cheaper than a railroad
train. Un'ess the railroad ears can be rea-
want to go you cannot get there cheaply.
Thai illustrates what | said about the power
OF the market, and there IL where my per-
sonal comes In In one direction.
manufactured IN such profusion that they
will be cheap 1 can buy mine cheaper.
What do you suppose, makes It possible for
| Fall River to produce cotton clothing
at the price at which It does produce II?
II Is because it Is backed up by a people
who want to wear cotton cloth. ard ha 9
the money to buy ii with. ApplauseC How
do you suppoS.. that Grand Rapids has
low cred the price OF furniture us I has?
1t IL because so many OF us belonging 10
what used to be called tn" poor class, be-
cause 50 many of us prior to 1892 Guild
afford decent furniture In our homes. Now
what sort Of a market have we gotf what
sort of purchasing power to you 1nHL DO
of ways and means; follow your nlusttiOus
president. Let Mr.. Mills, from the great
manufacturing state of Texas, Lead you on
(applause), hut you don't want IL. Now,
mind ynu, I have said no unkind things
about iudividut' DemoCrntS. YOu and | live
right with them. yOu ana | are personal
friends to some of them. You know that
plo VAC fhng aTa q - good pS wn IN In
dividuaIly. They may he collectively, Except
a few percentage, better, but the small per-
centagc Is always the difference between
profit and loss. U.aughter.) Now, | have
no unkind things to say about them. In
addition to the fact that they have said
II Of themselves; but about the individuals
I have no tpithcts to bostow. | hold a good
many OF thom harmless In this crisis. Why.
IL their leaders were so short sighted as
not to prophesy this thing, how could you
suppose
The Poor Average
to know what he was doing? (Applause.l II
shall the rest of the citizens be? Well.
one young Democrat got at me In a horse
car and he says, You say the Democrats,
although they arc bad as a party, are good
as individuals: bow can 8 lot Of good men
make a bad partyT Well. the answer Is
pretty easy. The finest team of horses that
were ever hltched TO a wagon never could
get ahead If they pulled and kicked in
opposite directions. All they could do would
be to smash the wagon Naughtery, and that
Is what the Democratic party has done
smashed the wagon. Applause.)
Don't you think you had better trust for
the next stage at least OF two years to q
team tLat never broke the wagon yet?
There Is another thing that notice about
the Democracy, and that IS that they are
all anxious tO get back TO what | may
paraPhruse and say was TO them a land OF
promise; that is. they want to get back to
the old debating ground when they could
charge lis Wit. everything that could hap
pvn, and then draw on their imagination
for everything that was going to happen
All their leaders had been trying that; they
had been saying, we are responsible, ana
that by and by the Democrats are going to
DO something. Well, you have got another
party OF a similar kinda party Of prom.
Ises? Do you want to take refuge with
them? For my part | don't believe that
this nation Is going to be bought In Its de-
termination to administer a rebuke to these
men who have done this thing, and as for
the PoOuliSts in congress, they have done
nothing but tail on behind the Democratic
leaders from the beginning OF the session
TO the end. Applause.) They make prom.
ises. Why shouldn't they But what in the
world are promises? Wasn't 1t promises
that led you into the last two years? lis
not the size Of the figures on a check that
inspires confidence, but the name Of the man
that signs H.. Applause)
Many q fellow will give you a check Ter
will only take it, ! have seen the rise and
fall OF many of these side parties, every
one of them promising these millennium
and within a short time. ! have seen them
in my own state. where they said they were
going 10 have 10000 votes, and got three
but | never saw, a party that promised a
millennium which did not pay with the
certificate Of bankruptcy whenever they
came into business. and you will never see
It. Now. l don't propose to eulogize the
Republican party. In the first place
II Does Not Need Ny Feeble Praise.
1t is a narty. 1t Is a party, like many
Ofhnrs with Srurp had ,lcnIS and many IsODn
ones. The fair average In the face of honest
currency OF right living and proper treat
ment Of the people. But there Is one fac
your attention. And If you are a patriot
it will strike you as high praise; 1t stayed
thirty-two years In power for do not count
first TING. when he was bound. Thirty-one
years OF Republican rule. Do you, know
that that was without parallel In the his
tory Of the world? Why, when coward Eng
land rose in q mass under Oliver Cromwell
how long was Ii between the death of
Charles |. and the return Of Charles ll-be-
tween the accession to the controlling power
Of that hero Cromwell and the return OF
the dainty Charles? Not a dozen years.
In l793 there came up one or the strahSest
phenomena in human history, the French
Revocation; where a great nation was con-
vulsed; where every institution was torn
in pieces; where the lives and thoughts OF
changed before in the history of the world:
And how long was IL between the rise OF
the French and the retirn of the Bourbons?
Twenty one years. And the Republican,
party for thlrty-one years has held control
Of the councils of this nation. How did IL
get it under a free government? In only one
way-by representing that solid foundation
on which our institutions rest, the average
common sense of the intelligent people. zap
plause), and IL you want any further tustt-
compare 1t with the last two years.
applause and laughter.)
I don't think that I need TO trouble You
with any more arguments tonight. have
stated to you the facts, and you will act