The herald., 1894-10-14

cspsizss his tent. as this one has, bsat.
him black and blue with hail and leave,
him damp and shivering. be realizes
the difference between the storm and
the bug.
Therefore, believe that the working
man this year and hereafter will eay to
his employer: "You and l will adjourn
our fight; We will 90 together to get
something to divide. and aiter that we
will fight on the division, for we can't
longer fight when there is nothing to
fight for.''
Another thing which led this country
into the error of 1892 was the history OF
the last 80 years. During all that time
We had been prosperous, wages had in.
creased. so all parties agree, in the
ratio OF from 81 to S1.7l. so that who.
ever got 81 in 1860, in 1891 got for the
same work sl7l, and that $l.7l bought
nearly as much as So did when the
world was 80 years younger.
The generation which lived under S.
Walker and James Buchanan had
pessed away. A new generation had
come. Having lived all their lives in
prosperity with increasing wants, peo ole
came to feel that prosperity was natu~
raj thing, something born of the climate,
perhaps, or of the soil, and utterly dis
connected with the government. For
the last IS months it has slowly crept
into the minds OF all the people that
there may have been some brains put
into the government of this country
during its 80 years OF prosperity that all
this happened not by luck and chance,
but BY good management anu sound
ideas.
am not goingto make any panegyric
OF the Republican party. 1t is a party
like any other, with many good deeds
and some bad ones. On the whole the
friend OF currency, OF honest living, OF
business prosperity and OF fair inter
prefer OF the peoples Wishes. Virtue in
the world ia comparative. We nevsr
get perfect.
All we can say is one man is better
than another. and that it ia wiser to
choose the better. One piece OF goods
rescued from the general isttison of the
last two yeErs Is the fact that the Demo-
cratic party has been tried in actual
command.
We can make comparisons, not be-
tween what each party says 1t will do,
but between what each has done. no.
tics that this fact troubles the Demo-
cratic orator. The late governor of
Massachusetts,, in presiding over the
convention to nominate the other Rus
sell, who has already been soaked with
the coming storm, demands to know |
what the Republican party proposes to |
do. He and all the rest want to get |
back on the old platform, which was OF |
professions and not OF deeds.
The countrv has had enough OF prom
ises; what it wants is character. Any.
body can make promises. Even the
Democratic party, dissolved and torn, |
continues to promise and is ready, not
withdrawing realm of dishonored |
paper already protested at the bank and
marked mo funds" to issue ell the
notes anybody will take. do not won
der when politician back in my own
Htate, now dead, after helping to muddle
away s250.000 out of the treasury of the
state OF Maine, was asked by Mr.. Blaine
why be kept issuing his notes after they
could only be sold at 90 per cent. He
replied that he thought he could stand
it if the buyers could.
There is no reason why Democratic
orators should stop issuing promises as
long as the public will let than. They
are never redeemed. We Republicans
cannot compete. We try to pay as we
promise. II you pay your notes you
cannot afford to swap paper With man
whe does not pay. In saying what
have about the Democratic party, |
mean NO disrespect to individuals. do
not claim that we are much better as
individuals than they, perhaps not at
all, except in the average, email aver
age at that.
Ihsve said nothing Of your local issues,
and did not mean to. If you desire to
place this state again in the hands OF
officials who rewarded that unjust Judge
whom you yourselves have condemned
and punished. you alone have the right.
II you continue in power here in your
own city the government, the bsseness
of which your executive committee has
disclosed, that also is in your power.
As citizen OF Maine, have my opin.
ion. with NO right to interfere. But as
a citizen OF the United States, of which
you are the most powerful single part,
have right to ask OF you as my fellow
citizens to rise with all the power and
majesty of the Empire state and help us
sweep out of place and position those
who have assumed the control Of great
government, without even the courage
to continue it manfuly or the wisdom to
preserve it from ruin.