The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1894-10-27


belongs In tho customs receipts for revenue
| only llaughterl would bring them enough 70
| support the wants OF the government.
Instead OF that the dencit r. $4,000 every
day In the week. II that should continue dur
| ing the next twelve months ct the same rate
| tho dehclt would be $4,000 0oo And even with
the full extra sugar duty--oh. what lovely
| sound that hast tgreat laughterl-tho dehcit
| stays ut si00.00000o. The reason why We are
waiting for the sugar revenue to come round Ia
because some gentlemen. utterly disconnected
with trusts-because the democratic party has
undoubtedly kept its promise and abolished
trusts llaushterl-some gentlemen are at
| present absorbing the sand. But Il there should
| come time when they didn't absorb t. thon
our deficit, instead OF being sif7.o0 900, would
| be 800 O0O.0O0
No Money. No Markets.
why. we are not buying our own goods, let
alone goods from foreign countries. Laugh
tor and applause Our market has grown
smaller and smaller Until the year ls9, our
market was the greatest market In the world
/ DO you know what made IL the greatest mar
keti What makes a great MARKET What is
great marketi II Is place where people have
money TO spend Applause When we loft
/ on having money 70 spend, in just that proper
ton We loft on being market. But markets
have changed. as told you business changed.
There was time. not so very long ago. when
my lord and his retainers. my lady and her
maids. were All the market there was To-day
tho great market OF the United states, or,
| rather, In 1892 the great market OF the United
States was made up, noteby the purchasing OF
the few. but by the aggregate purchases OF the
many Applause And we were In condition
| 70 make those purchases for ever since 1891
wages had steadily increased until the fatal
day Ia is9, when Illinois went wrong like some
other parts OF the union. Applause
Until that day. say. our wages had gone on
! increasing until for every dollar which the man
OF brain and muscle gained, he gained ti.Ti.
/ DO you understand what that gain OF II cents
| meant for our marllety Why, 1 can give you
| some rough figures They are but guesses and
| yet they convey my idea. aud you will UNDER
| stand IL. suppose that out OF the 70 100000 OF
human beings that there arc In tho United
states to-day one-ntth OF them were wage
earners what would one cent day increase In
wages meant Why. II would mean for every
day In the year $50, 600 and for the whole year
tSOOo00oO and II cent meant sS0OOOOoO n
cents meant &, 100 0)0. 0O0-yes. the market has
| CHI Anged. IL you want 70 understand how
| much it has changed, look up Sir Walter Scott.
read his novel Of Ivanhoo and read the de-
| scriptlon OF the death dress OF the swlneherd
Gurth, he being clad In only leather jerkin.
That Is all with which he adorned his tragic
fall.
Wages Not n Matter Of Jugglery.
mo factory could make living on OF him OF
his kind. But you may say 10 me this n cents
OF wages was not spent, but IL was because the
necessity OF spending IL was what brought 10.
Wages are not 90 be summed up as used 10 be
in the old books OF political economy, as a mere
question OF division. our wages to-day depend
not upon any such juggling calculation OF
which no man ever knew, but upon tho social
life OF our people Why in i7e5 the wages OF u
carpenter used TO be 8 cents day.
Sometimes you undertake to account for
this by saying that 25 cents then was the equiv
alont OF ST. now. Hut such was not the fact
Twenty-Five cents to-day will buy more than
So 80 ever bought then lApplRuse.l Why.
then. was the carpenter contented 20 live on
% cents "A dayi Twas not because he had not
learned what II was 10 live better lapplausel:
and when once men discover by tho fair proc
esses OF honest civilization how TO live better
they utterly decline TO live worse except under
q democratic administration Laughter and
applause.l
II want you 20 realize what this greatness OF
the American market means. what II means 20
you. The market is only another name for the
purchasing power, and the purchasing power
" 90 a nation the same what we boys used
60 call suction Is 10 pump IL sets all the
machinery going; II turns The mill wheel. IL
does more than that IL is the foundation and
origin OF cheapness. Grand Rapids In Michi-
gan could not furnish good furniture TO be
scattered all over the United States unless
there was a tremendous demand for 10 and
money TO buy II with Fall River could not
furnish cotton cloth at the price at which II Is
hOlo III IL were not TOT the TACT thht great
many people wear cotton cloth Here let me
say TO you, my friends that on this question OF
cheapness we ought to have some sensible
Ideas. There are two different kinds OF cheap
ness one is legitimate choapness ana the
other Is not Cheapness without q cent OF
money In your pocket 20 buy with is a bitter
ness "a tho soul Applause and laughter. I
Don't you know IL nowy Laughter Cheap
ness with money 10 buy IN blessing unmiti-
gated
Foreign Cheapness Decried.
(Which do you WANT Which DO you prefcri
IA voice from the an dionce; We want the
money Legitimate cheapness, foreign
cheapness lcncs OF mo u ia the shop. or
American chcapncss IN your own homer Cries
OF No 'Cheapness In our homes. 1 have
said 20 you that the lesson OF experience Is a
most tremendous lesson IL IS no use, some
times, TO tell people truth. They have got 40
have receptive souls or II glanccs on them
Laughter For years we have been preach
ing the truth, and to-day you are seeing the
truth lIaughtor.l
How cheap aud trivial the arguments OF
two years ago seem 20 be now. How uncon-
yinclng would the democratic orator be II he
we're 20 take his place here tonight. Laugh
ter Don't you remember how no talked TO
you about tin platoi Laughter Don't you
remember how he agonizcd 10 you over the
workingman's dinner pailf Laughter lie
was going 70 pay five cents more for h \ dinner
empty now. prolonged applause And IL
wlll be q long year before the w0rsingman Is
again fooled by that empty dinner pail
Laughter and applausol
Hero * another little thing from the New
York World. and 1 marvel that they should
have presented II. after all that men have
learned since the timo when IL used 20 be
cnectuaL IL II headod-for 10 Is pictorial-'A
Nut for Mckinley 20 Crack Unfortunately
for YOU Mr.. Mckinley ~ not preseat. but 1
will crack that nut myself laughter ana
applause.l Here il tho legend on ~; Cotton
cloth, 1879. 1876 cents 1894, % conts Now.
Suppoying thnt those two statements are true
(and the place whore and them Il not on alb
solute guaranty that they are true). Laugh
teri suppose them both 20 be true, what a.
the rest OF the story Why the men who made
that cotton cloth IN 1894 have already suffered
10 per cent think ~ per contradiction in
their wages. and they are on tho verge OF SUI
fcrng II they have not already suffered, 10 per
cent more They Will get their cloth 10 per
| cent cheaper aud they lose - per cent ON