The record-union., 1894-09-20

ing and breaking, and have suspended
and broken all over the country. And
right here permit me to pay a word OF
due compliment to the banks of Sacra-
mento City. They through the troubles
and the terrible times of last year kept
up their credit and maintained their rep
utatien as solvent financial institutions.
OF which we are proud. was travelling
IN the East during that financial panic,
and 1t dig my heart good, it made me feel
proud, when l heard the reports of the
various banks that the Sacramento bank
Ing institutions were standing firm, and
that draft drawn on Sacramento bank
would be honored anywhere, in any finan-
cisl center in the United States of Amer
lea. [Applause.l
PRESENT CONDITIONS.
Money is scarce at the present time and
interest is high. There is stagnation in
business on every hand. The farmers,
the body and soul of the country, are
nearly all ruined. All new projected en-
terprises have been stopped. Anarchistic
and socialistic doctrines are preached
with increasing boldness, and also the
men who claim to be anarchists and So
clallsts are coming out from high places
and haunting the red flag OF sedition and
war. The army of the unemployed has
| been increasing in mum bers, and the
tread of thousands of men demanding
bread or blood has been heard in our
streets, and in the streets of other cities
OF the land, in their march ION to Wash
lngton," hoping to there receive from the
Democratic Congress aid. But they re-
ceived from that Democratic Congress the
poor privilege OF being driven from the
capitol OF the land, where they ought to
have been permitted 20 present their petit
ton. Applause. The national debt has
been increased some seventy-two mill
ions of dollars. Fifty millions of dollars
of gold bonds have been issued i'll order
to pay the expenses OF the Government,
and general turmoil and distress are seen
on every hand. 1t is the result of eigh-
teen months of Democratic rule.
THE CAUSE AND RESPONSIBILITY.
The cause for this is easy to ascertain,
and the responsibility is easy to fix.
Iaritf-tinkering is the primary cause 1t
has unsettled everything; it has shaken
the faith of capital in the stability of busi-
ness; it has made all men trim their sails
to avoid the storm; it has prevented the
capitalist from investing his money in
enterprises; it has precluded the laborer
from obtaining employment. BY this at
tempt to change the protective tariff of
the country, which is necessity to the
United States, it has demoralized every
avenue of business and brought trouble
on us all. A protective tariff to the
United States Of America is like we'll
regulated stomach to a human being.
and, like the stomach, it needs, when it
is well, to be left alone. We may well
say to the democratic party in It's treat
ment OF America as it was pertinently
put in another case: az was well;
wanted TO be better; took physic and
died" Laughter. So it is here The
Democracy have protected the country in
the same old way that they protected it
before the war, by making war upon the
interests of the North. They have dosed
the healthy stomach of Uncle Sam with
Cleveland platitudes and with English
free trade theories, and Uncle Sam has
become very sick man. They have
given ruction enough in the internal sys-
tenn so that he has become very sick, and
the only way to cure him is TO discharge
the Democratic doctor and put in charge
of Uncle Sam Republican doctor, and
all will be well. [Applause.l
THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ALL THIS
CHANGE
And for all this trouble rests with the
Democratic party. 1t is useless for them
to deny it-as they do in their newspa-
pers and upon the stump. Judge Ma
guire-the ablest speaker they have upon
the stump, an honest man, a man whom
/ believe to be an honest man but SIM
ply misguided in his vIews-Judge
Mcguire seeks to avoid and evade the
force of our charge in reference to this
matter, by saying that all these things
are the accumulation of thirty years OF
Republican rule, but Judge Mcguire dis
ingeniously forgets to state that we had
four years Of Democratic rule from 'S5 to
'S9, and that these troubles, and these
different things that debilitated the pa
tient. were almost cured by four years of
Republican rule from 'S9 to '93. But it is
useless for the Democrats to attempt to
evade the responsibility. The very
effort that they make in seeking to
escape the responsibility shows that they
realize their responsibility. They are in
full power; they have the President, they
have the Senate, they have the House of
representatives; they shape and control
all legislation. If they had been success
ful in managing the affairs of the Nation
they would have boasted of and have
claimed all the credit of the success: thew
would have more roosters upon their
hats than they had in 'S4, when they beat
the greatest American of all, and sent the
STUFFED Prophet into the White House
over our great leader, Blaine. ZAP
plause.] Inasmuch as they have been
unsuccessful, they must stand the shame.
They cannot and
SHALL NOT ESCAPE THE RESPONSIBILITY.
If stage-driver overturns a stage,
does he come out before the public and
say, ut was not me that overturned the
stage, did not make any mistake, it was
the driver that you had last year, and
that you paid off and discharged last
year." Laughter. If an engineer
takes possession of an engine in perfect
order, if he gets certificate of the
former engineer that the engine is in
good order and is perfectly to be trusted,
and then after running the engine for
eighteen months. if he explodes it and
kills the people and demoralizes the
factory, does it lie on his mouth to say
that it was the fault of the engineer who
had been discharged eighteen months be-
fore? No! And the same rule applies in
war, it applies in politics and it applies
in Government Power brings with it
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