The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-09

call lunatic, and others a TOOL Inc
rObber barons would rear back on their
launches and howl. 1t would look, FOR a
while. as though hell had broke loose Tor
certain. That would not phase me par
ticle. / have heard the wind whistle
through the rigging many time and llyed
70 tell the tale on dry land and IN dry
garments. / would stand by my guns and
fight for my faith, and. in the end, would
get more votes for my bill than / fear can
be got for the Wilson bill, as originally re-
ported. If passed. we should have some
thing worth having. and. if it should fail,
il probably would, we could go 10 the
people with a square issue-a plain issue
an issue separating the lambs from the
kids. sending the towards to the. rear and
the wolves in Sleeps clothing back into
the Republican party where they belong
and bringing the whole question to the
finality. whether we are TO live under "a
protective, or "A revenue, system.
what are these fireworks for?" says
people in the dark, says Pat. What are
these schedules and classifications for? The
same purpose. Every tariff schedule is an
classification is a riie-pit from which the
robber and the jobber ptsir their deadly
voleys into the helpless ranks of the raw
militia The men who make the schedules
and the classifications. and are supposed
to be experts in tariff legislation. do not
understand them. How then can the people
at large? !"
FREE TRADE VERSUS PROTECTION.
I do not claim nearly so much for free
wogk of creating wider markets. L claim
that it will decrease the cost of living
in greater measure than it will reduce
earnings. The question of wages Is ques-
ton of supply and demand, pure and sim
pie. In the crowded cities. where men
must work or starve they take what they
can get, and wages are low. In new and
less crowded communities, where oppor-
tunities are open to all and good men are
at a premium, wages are high. AS our
waste places are filling up, the problem
is how shall all, who want to work, be
kept in steady employment? Relatively,
wages are bound TO go down, as population
increases and labor-saving machinery takes
the place of handwork, and the problem is
how shall we decrease in fair proportion
the cost Of living? My answer to the first
problem is. by breaking down the barriers
that shut us out from free commercial in
tercourSe with the rest of the world. which
wants as much of us want of IL. And
TO the second by fairer distribution
of the fruits of labor between the employe
these two things be done without ruin to
the American manufacturer? My answer
is that they can be done and have been
done to the eminent good fortune of Amer
lean manufacturers and commerce and can
be done again with the same result that
we have had good and bad seasons Under
all tariffs, high and low; but that the low
tariff offers advantages to the many by
curtailing subsidy and limiting monopoly,
lap of the few by the opportunities it offers
TO combinations and trusts. For proof
POINT TO the operation OF thirty years OF
hands; a universal struggle to live among
the many: deeper. darker contrasts of life
and discomfort everywhere.
Inc koDDer baronS know their business.
They never go to sleep. They relinquish
nothing. Their rapacity is Unsuitable. 1t
the more Ii got the more it demanded IL
might have had emancipation. and its grad
corporate. 1t refused this, TO end in blood
and flame, carrying with them vast losses
and cruel hardships. Yet, in spite of the
tenaclty with which the Southern people
chung to slavery. going to war to defend
and maintain it. the South would not have
1t back to-day on any terms
Mr.. Wilson'S moderate dose of revenue
by the prOtectiOniStS as vigorously as the
slave owners rejected Mr. Clay's sugges-
tion of enancip alton. Like the slayeholoers
the RObber Barons yield nothing. They will
- reform themselves or consent that any
one shall reform them. The work must
never proceed from within. And when it
IS done, If II be done by statesmen and not
osl rise who has been in chains
an azed as the slave owner was, to find
- tne theory he cherished was a curse
and not a blessing. The Chinese wall re-
moved the world Will be at his feet. Does
nat'onHl character count for nothinp
a land teeming with original resources
count for nothing? Are the creative ener-
gies and inventive genius of a people who
have rever sed the feudal policies of the old
world to rebuild fabric in the new whose
s fnfS stone Is competition and whose
V"."N .-ord is freedom to be accounted
nothing?
THE WHY'S AND WHEREFORES.
The cry of the poor goes up to God for
work. But there is no work. Why? Be
cause there is overproduction Why? Be
cause we can produce in nine months more
More consumers; wider markets; freedom
OF trade with all mankind. Let us out of
this black hole of professionalism, where.
with banks bursting with money and mil
lionaires multiplying by hundreds. men are
starving by thousands. Let us out, out to
the world, and, with plants established.
processes perfected and cheapened, trade
marks and patents carrying all the protec-
ton that honesty ought to desire and we
can meet and beat all our commercial
rfvalS-yea, England-in every neutral mar
ket, recovering those markets that geo.
graphically belong to us, but which have
been stolen from US by our senseless poi
icy Of restriction.
There will not be such excessive and un-
equal profits to the manufactures. There
will not be 50 many great fortunes accum-
ulated by the spoiled children of monopoly.
The trusts will be harder to form and
maintain, and hence fewer i'm number But
there will be a more general diffusion of
be more work, and steadier work, and q
greater demand for labor. The living of
the poor will be cheapened. The living of
all will be bettered. Socialism will be shorn
of it's most potent argument and one fire.
brand at least will be extracted from the
brain-one bullet from the weapon-of the
Anarchist
do not predict the millennium No act
of Congress, but Gods will alone,
hasten that But free trade may. and /
believe IL will, witness the realization of the
dream of that great statesman who braVed
the excavations of the rich, and laid down
power. with the hope that he might leave
a name sometimes remembered with ex-
pressions of good will in the abodeS of
their daily bread with the sweat of their
brow, when they shall recruit their "
hausted strength with abundant and I'M
taxed food, the SweSter because Ii Is no
longer leavened with a sense of injustice"
Fellow Democrats, IL is Of the first i'm
poTtancs for us to know, and TO know as
speedily as possible. whether we have
as in the day OF the sage and hero whose
memory we celebrate this night-a party
whose lines are laid i'm fixed principles
honest money, home rule, and free trade
with power TO compel discipline everywhere
or, whether we are a mere agglOmeratiOn
of factions, thrown together by the up
heaval Of the times. My own effort is, and
square issues. l want to know a spade.
when / IL, and to call il a spade L
don't want 10 deceive, TO mislead nybody.
i love no reighbor less because he does not
agree with me. But let at least be
honest. Let us say what mean and
good government 1t is also the road to
N universal nafriOfiSrn o1 in fro.a