The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-08-16
LUEE SHAKING Up
FOR 5IR. DONNRLLY
kIdiculed Statements Made
In a ST. Paul Speech
by Mr.. Horr.
VINO Replies with a Terrific
Battery of Dignified
Argument.
Popullst Fallacies Thoroughly
Flaydd by Republican
Wisdom.
~~nrNdr-s
DoNN ELY vs.. HoRR.


When the Minnesota Republican
State Conye htion met in St. Paul July
IL, q very ed rnest address was made b,
Mr.. Horr, OF New York, but formerly
. Michigan Congressman. he devotet
considerable time TO the Peoples Party
while speak, nag, and discussed some o.
the alleged Reforms that the new party
would inaughrate.
Ignatius Ionnelly. in a recent issue
Of his paper, riGicuied the public state
ments made by Mr.. Hort, who in tGru
discusses tkR whole matter in the New
York Tribunb ).
D|onneiiy VS.. Uorr.
{ Mr.. Rorr says in the Tribune:
am in recdipt of an article published in
The RepresenI tatiye, a populist paper 10
catetl III MidncSp0,is. The person who
bends 1t stateI that it was written by Igna-
titus Donnelly should think there must
be some mistdke about that, because the
entire artiald is full of billingsgate and
low personal iiings, and q man of the liter
AIRY reputation of Mr.. Donnelly would
hardly be EXPECTED to stoop to such vulgar
journalism; but the initials Il. D." with
which the article is signed, seem to decide
the question against me, and I assume
that my MINI ssota correspondent is cor
rect in his sta cement.
As rule, never notice public criticisms
OF my public work when they are couched
In language which shows their author,
whoever he n ay be, to lack ordinary po-
likeness. WhPn one is writing for publ
cation he can never afford TO use the lau-
guage of thd common blackguard. No
matter how cultivated and refined he may
be, decent an p well-informed people will
classify him il the vocabulary he himself
uses as a blacl1guard, when in fact the in
dividual may be capable of better things
II one happens to catch him ''at his best F"
Epithets are not arguments. They are
seldom used Except when their authors
lack better material
was in St Paul whe. the Republican
state convention net, aud had the honor
of addressing the delegates there assem-
bled for the 81 ace Of IS minutes. l visited
st. Paul for hat very purpose. 81. d.
asserts that vas sent there by the New
York Tribune What difference would it
make whetheI was employed by the New
York Tribune Or s5ots L nave no means of
support except ny earnings from month
to month Is itNa disgrace to be employed
by great n1d tire eEtsn journal, such as
the New York Trfhune is everywhere ac-
ID be- Ii So then l acknowl-
edge my disgr ace. It is also true that do
2 large amour L OF campaiga work for the
Tribune. Is here anything wrong about
eAats If my views agree with those of
Ahe Tribune, ard the managers of that
paper see ut "a keep me engaged in teach
ing such views from the platform, have
they not q ptrfect right so to dor If /
teach the t-a th, does it make my utter
ances any the less trEe because am con-
stantly emploJed ON the New York Trib-
une? Has nod the Tribune a perfect right
TO select its d'Tn methods Of educationi
Then what d es any intelligent man ex-
pect TO gain by Asserting that l am in
some way injected with the New York
Tribune? i've never sought in any way
to deny that Oct 1t is tbs kind of work
which man does for which he should De
held responsible e
The wrath al this Populist writer seems
to have been aroused by some things
which L said lat that state convention.
The right to driCicise IS denied TO 10 one.
now invite ii e attention Of my readers to
some OF those criticisms.
wtaat Reduced Wages.
quote fro nthe article in the Repre-
sentative, sign I'd IL D."
Mr. Horn saii:
Whenever you reduce wages, you stop
land then the markets are
ruined"
"I Do replies:
Well, who il thunder reduced wagesf It
was your Republican party. when it de-
silter in 1873, and made the
gold dollar the equivalent of twice as
much of the Horkman's muscle and the
toll And now you come here to
enlighten che western hobos with your
shallow plati5tdes. Scat Get out
The treuble with this statement is that
It is not true. Wages did not begin to
decline after the passage of the act OF 1873
Indeed, durind the 20 years from 1873 to
1893, the wage of the workingmen of the
United States were increased per capita.
The members of the senate committee
who investigated that point reported
unanimously t . that effect, without regard
to party ainliaE ions.
There may have been a few isolated
instances in " Fieh wages were lowered in
the United S Iates between those dates !;
but taken II the aggregate, the wages
paid in gold DID llars 10 each iaboring man
Were increased during those % years. The
claim has bee q constantly made during
those years nearly all the farmers
journals of he country that there lad
been a7decii1 e in the price of farm
products, but that the wages of hired
hands had bee b nowhere less, and in many
instances had been higher than they We're
80 years ago.
THE DROPPING OF WAGES WHICH
HAS RUINEIb OUR HOME MARKETS
TOOK PIAC3 AFTER THE ELECTION
OF 1S32.-Daj ns the years 1899, 1890 and
1891 the Ieepie OF this country were well
employed, a1lll at good wages During
thosr years i rayeled over 100000 miles,
entirely within the United States. Go
where l would found factories running
full handed and the people receiving good
wages. TIE hf story and statistics of pro-
Euction In thi country will bear me out
in this statemant. Let us try to be truth
full about thesf matters.
It is the third atened free trads legislation
of the Democr|ltic party which has par
6yzed business. thrown people out of en-
ployment and cut down the wages OF
lAboring men here In the United States.
The fact canhot be gainsaid by calling
any one else hI lrd names. Epithets prove
nothing.
More u oney Now Than Ever.
Iquote again from the article in The
Representative;
Mr.. Horr said:
''Thcy tell ub that 1t is overproduction,
when the fa@t is that is is lack Of con-
sumption, beot use there is nothing to buy
with"
What do yo4 buy WITH Money. Who
reduced the ml oney Of this country by de-
monetizing sill yer The Republican party.
Again Mr.. Horr said:
"The Repub lican party plants itself
upon the positl Ion that we should make, as
far as poss:bieI everything we need righ
here az home.
To which . d." inquiries.
Well, why d n't you make your money
at homer vii " should we borrow money
in England, a AL pay interest on it, whel,
our experieacd during the war, with tho
first $50, o9o. cd of s,rcenbacks, shows tha
we CEN Inakd just as good money our
seiye1, and PAL no interest on 1t?
The stateine st which / actually made