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that quiet and certainty are not to be hoped for
In Democratic success.

| In Democratic success.
RBpuBLtcANs MUST LET THR TARIFF ALONE.
| On the other hand. the Republicans are placed
| two years give TO business that certainty which
| II must have TO do anything successfully. We
our point Of view, because Cleveland and the
| Senate could oppose. We certainly should not
90 anythinR 10 make the tarin worse, for that is
There Is another fixed fact in the land besides
the Senate bill which is law. and that is that
| Grover Cleveland is, unfortunately, President
,Ii h'ss Is "a ana OF course our during his term there
than his party IN that respect.
~ TO sum It all up In word. thi; appeal TO bus.
all the people, Democracy promises war on bus
mess certainly, while the Republicans must
give you rest. We do not promise you prosper
We do not recognize the senate bill. IL is not OF
our enscting. hut IL is very certain that II there
is any good In IT. the only way to get at 1t is to
or course business in this country must revive
cannot stay where il is now unless american
enterprise is dead and that can never be. We
shall SHAFT, hsys ave s,russesd 0yer %aHes and iessened
with and whatever failures TO protect there are
In this bin will find themselves out. That much
hurt will come, that wages will not again reach
their former level do not doubt. But we shall
learn at the costly school of experience and per-
haps learn enough to pay the cost OF tuition.
WONDERFUL AND INSPIRING"
We shall learn. among other things, TO avoid
the Chairman OF Ways and Means and his
entire school as men who are pursuing by
man adorned his last address by an outbnrst Of
enthusiasm which showed how much his head
IL is Of much Importance, simply as showing
what leadership we have now.
THE battle for tariff REFORM" said he, and
Of course he used u two-arm gesture [Mr. Reed
raised both arms up above his shoulders as
a and h the "aGenGs s'Rs pat" good OF wns ns
,ngl the battle a, lie, for tariff reform has
ron afnh q nj m taat ghar tn
the language of the Democratic correspondent
of the Democratic Times of Chicago, every
morally and legislatively whipped" l remem-
ber well how every time | rose that day
field devastated by a hail storm. They were de-
yastated not by US, for they had hundred ma;
should live to hear that that scene was "inspir-
ing" Wonderful" +" II was indeed, but inspir-
Ing, never; % Perhaps the orator when he used ..i
of The brilliant dinner in London where his legs
were under the British mahogany and he was
cheered by the applause OF real friends.
Perhaps. however, he meant TO refer to the
condition OF this country the last year and
came from deserted workshops, impending cuts
OF wages, struggles between employers and
thing cheering in the fact that only loo miles
of railroad was built the first nine months of
this very year Of our Lord-the lowest record
In the last six months, on a portion only Of its
lines, the great Pennsylvania Railroad has spent
$4,000. 900 less than usual in its expenses. That
fact means that $4,000, 900 has gone out OF
wages TO trainmen. Of new building; OF exten-
workingmen Of this country have lost that vast
sum. Perhaps when you add all the losses OF
something so truly inspiring to the reformer
that he can really long to stir up strife so as to
fairs. But this world welded to material good,
will get rid OF such men as fast possible.
[" Right you are" and cheers
DEFENCE OF PROTECTION.
Il - III
not book education, but education In the work.
ings OF human affairs My best consolation in
ed not out Of books, but in more solid fashion,
out of experience. Nor is the lesson to be learn
ed only by those who voted wrong. some OF us
who voted right have much to understand as to
the foundation of things. Perhaps the know-
edge comes to us fast enough for practical life.
on the ground OF infant industries, we stated
good grounds for the establishment OF
like the prosperity of the country, upon wages.
II did not believe that protection, which is not
method Of securing to everybody in America
the markets OF the country, Is the best method
OF , dstri6utng among % the people the God-given
full, should not be for it. II did not believe
that profession was only method OF making
tor Jones, do all OF its own work" should
not demand its retention; IL is perfectly true
tunes for those who have the genius TO organize |
great enterprises. but this 4 the case every;
manufacturer in England did not die a pauper. |
and Lord Armstrong and the Rothschilds hardly !
ISOLATION when see great riches-for own upto |
the same envy that affiicts my brethren OF those
riches are OF no profit to the owners unless they
build railroads. or mills, or dig illumination for
the poorest OF us out OF the bowels OF the earth.
The more prosperity there Is the more there |
Is to distri butte, and there is the chance |
that the worker, whether with brain or muscle, |
not the author of this idea 1t came from Penn |
sylvsnia workingman. who declared before the |
Congress would only pass laws which would en-
able enterprise to make profits, the workingmen |
very day in the strike which Is, or was going on
in Massachusetts. the very basis of the argu- |
ment on both sides is the price OF goods, and the
The orators on the other side have always |
declared that strikes would cease when they |
had power, but they have not passed away yet. |
On the contrary, more loom in the future than |
we have ever had in the past. Strikes are always
Their success consists not in their victories but |
in their existence. Men who see their way clear |
they employ when the great disorganization OF a |
strike 10 possible under sense of injustice on |
Mr.. Evarts's Illustration, the wit OF which |
Il only e9uailed by rs wisdom. the only way
enjoysbis Wealth is rst to give the ehsnes % to
create It and then let each side struggle for its
share, do not say that this is AL there ever
welcome than any method for a fair and peace
full distribution. But there In one thing certain,
until you have profits they cannot be divided.
WHENCE CONES THE MARKET2
Why do desire q fair distribution Of profits
Is it because profess 10 be the special friend of
those who laborT Anybody who does that from
a political platform had better be watched. l
have no such motive; My motive is the good old
selfish one that such distribution leads to gem
eral prosperity, OF which hope To get my share
What Is the motive power that lets on the
water and feeds In the coal and sets the machine
ry in motion IL is the market, the capacity for
buying, tine power Of pure chase. Whence comes
thntf From the rich and the poor; from the
rich little from the poor much. IL you were
to give me alone for myself million dollars
should not spend ten thousand OF IL in consum-
able wealth. though | might put it into plant,
INTO works or railroads; but IL was to give you
! million dollars. distributed among you all,
every cent OF II would be spent not
n looms and machinery, but in the
products of looms and machinery. This
= what makes the market the aOtiv
power OF production, not the large cUntribu-
ions OF the few. but the small contributions Of
he many. This large market also makes legit-
nate cheapness. say legitimate cheapness,
or a cheapness with no money TO buy Is a mock
'ry TO the soul, while Cheapness with goOdl
wages Is the delight OF life. The broader and
Al l,l,.