The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-11-02

A Toiler Calls tto Democratic Party to
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account.
One of the important things guaran-
teed under your contract with the na-
ton was that you would make things
cheaper You have made some progress
in that direction which honesty requires
you should be given credit for. Articles
of food, however, though much cheaper
than under tho lower tariff four years
back, are not much changed in retail
price from two years ago, fact 1
thoroughly tested in my time of want,
and such difference as does exist, store
keepers tell me, is temporary and due
to the fact that tho smaller quantity
used by the working and other classes
during the past year has left an unusual
store of such products on hand, which
farmers and owners have had to sell in
order to get money or avoid loss.
Rents, too, have not changed, except
to few who for the present get theirs
for nothing, owing to its being paid by
charity or to not having anything to
pay with and landlords too kind hearted
to turn them out But some things you
have made decidedly cheaper. You have
cheapened clothing, dry goods and near
ly all kinds of manufactured articles
temporarily down to one-third the regu-
lar price and one-half the cost to make,
through bankrupt stocks ON all sides,
with many rare bargains which would
gladly jump at if / only had my old job
and money to buy with.
With these you have also cheapened
our labor until 1896, 900 workingmen
have been months unable to sell it at
any price, and 5000, 900 more, through
reduced time or pay, for more than an
average of quarters its former
value. You have cheapened the country
by prostrating its industries, decreasing
the consumption of its products and q
loss of $15, 600, 600, 900 Of business in
single year. You have cheapened the
nation before the world by q miserable
attempt to force brass mounted queen
over friendly people and by stupid
plumbers in conducting our foreign re-
lations. You have cheapened the presi-
dency by its use to intimidate and cor
rupt the people representatives in their
official action and to secure their CO.
operation in an effort to degrade largo
part and to cheaper the whole people.
You have cheapened your party by
showing through its leaders its hy
pocrisy, want of settled principles, in
capacity to legislate for the corntry'5
welfare, readiness to sell Legislation fOr
Sugar and Whisky trusts campaign con-
tributions and its treachery to American
and favoritism Of foreign interests. YoG
have cheapened your supporters b. OK
hibiting their weakness, cowardice, SER
Witty, trickery and their readiness TO
sell their votes and the interests Of tEeir
constituents for official favors, and, last
ly, you have cheapened yourself by be-
trayal of public trust, through misappro-
priation and use of public Office to ropGy
money used to secure your election, b.
cowardly allowing measures which you
had branded as dishonorable to become
law and by acts Of arrogance, malice,
ignorance and duplicity which have
given rise to doubts Of your temperance
or sanity. In fact, you have been so
generally successful in this particular
that both you and your supporters will
pass down through the ages as the
cheapest in American history. Plain
Talk by Laboring Man. "