The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-06-10

not got from % PER cent more 70 four
times as much wages here as on the other
side Under the protective system men
got higher wages than anywhere else IN
the world, and working people hocxed
here from the Old World He ridiculed
cIeveIand's statement that tariff reduction
might reduce wages but IL would give
more constant employment.
He then asserted that when We build up
q new industry ge drive down the price OF
goods. This is q question of fact, said
he, land we won't theorize about IL IL
steel rails can be bought for so now, and
they used 10 cost $40 before any were
made IN this country. We cheaper goods.
He quoted the Instance of the salt indus
try. which be knew about. for 10000
barrels were made in the last four years IN
sight OF his own home, where be has
lived twenty-five years. III the tariff was
tax salt should have gone up, but II did
not understand the necessities OF the free
trade tariff, and kept going down, until
now they sold salt for 50 cents barrel,
and the barrel cost 20 cents. so that they
sold the salt for cents less than the duty,
which vas 80 cents. But the Democrats
claimed this was due TO peculiar condi-
tons. while other articles had gone up.
He asked some Democrat to name some
article Of which protection had not driven
the price down. and a Populist shouted
Interest" Mr.. Horr promptly an
swered, Interest is not manufactured
article; III get at the money business
after awhile" He did, and he made the
Popuiists feel sorry.
No other response came and he went on
to illustrate the reduction in prices by
quoting the eases of cutlery. moving
blades, in such way as to bring down the
house repeatedly with laughter at his
humorous and pointed stories. He told
the story Of the wire nail duty. how the
Democrats walled ct the prospect OF il and
how IL faisified all their predictions and
brought down the price from s. to sl.10
key. A similar record was given oS the
crockery business. He was grown up be-
fore he ate off crockery which did not have
that old picture OF the lion and unicorn
staring him in the face you can thank
protection that you can eat square meal
without that old chrome staring you in
the face, he adde
Somebody called out sugar" and he
said the Republicans found that America
could not produce enough sugar, and that
therefore the duty on it was free trade
tariff and they took it off. but now the
Democrats proposed TO put it on again.
Then he took up the case of clothing. and
compared the price of clothing when he
taught school at SIS month and boarded
round" with that paid now. He would
rather pay $40 for q suit made by Ameri-
can men and women than 81 for one made
abroad, in spite of all the free traders
might say
He then took up the case of raw mate
rial and denied that there was such a
thing on the markets of the world as raw
material, saying in reply to cry of
wool"
"You can't tell me wool Is raw material,
for | have had the scksche too often hoe
ing corn to feed sheep with" He made
rich fun of the holy wrath OF the Demo-
Gratis at the proposal to put tariff on
glass. The Democrats were always ind
ing fault with anything We do in the
United States, but he would stand by the
country, and he urged his Democratic
friends TO stand up for the country where
they lived, as q man should work for his
own family FIRST. IL there was any time
left, they could fix up the rest of the
universe, but "My country first and En-
gland afterwards. and if l had my way il
would be good deal afterwards" At
this motto the whole audience responded
with cheers.
lie did not blame the workingmen so
much for voting the Democratic ticket in
lS92, for they were misied, but now they
had found it out in state after state. As
he named Ohio and Mckinley q storm of
applause broke out, and was renewed at
the mention of Rhode Island. and parricu-
larly New York. for there, said he, the
business Democrats buried their party and
voted for what they thought for the best
interests of the nation.
But in Oregon he struck q new issue-a
party proposed that the government run
paper mill and manufacture paper money
They objected TO a currency based on gold
aud silver because 1t took work 20 get the
gold and silver. Senator PETER, whose name
was eheered bv the small knot of Populists
proposed 10 base money on gold and silver
but TO let the gold and silver stay in the
mountains. IL might be rather indefinite
in quantity but that would be all the bet
ter for there might be more than We ex-
peoted.
lie exposed the fiat money fallacy, say
ing that a bill was never issued that did
not contain q promise TO pay something.
"You cannot frame such a bill TO save
your Populist soul. said he. and all but
the Populists endorsed the statement with
cheer.
But now the Populists, of whom there
were about 100 on the right-hand side of
the hail. began 10 grow fractions, for they
thought the speaker had struck a subject
ON which they were uosted ana ,hav -
sisted in interrupting. One Of them asked
him whether the SCI. 1000 900 of demand
notes issued by President Lincoln in lssi
were not legal tender. and after telling
him that the notes were not issued by
Lincoln but by congress, Ne. Horr said
these notes we're not legal tender.
for IL was not necessary to make them so.
"a the people were anxious 60 GET
them. Then he showed up the absurdity
Of the idea OF making Cat moaey a legal
tender, stirring up such a storm Of laugh
tar at the Populists as abashed even them.
He compared those demand notes With
gold. saying. Every Pepuist In the
house would take ali the gold he could
carry. whether il was legal tender or not,
simply because his wanted H."
Not one quarter OF the money in
the pockets OF the audience was a
legal tender. but they had par
value because they would be redeemed lit
vas the paying OF them that made them
good. All this talk about fat money was
based on the idea that you could make
something out Of nothing. The Creator of
the universe Was the only being Who could
MAKE something cut OF nothing. aud the
difference between him and the Populists