The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-11-02

when it used to be for free and unlimited
coinage OF silver; at least IL tried TO make be-
lieve 1t was when IL had the House and the
Republicans had the rest OF the government
aud they used to go through the idle ceremony
of passing free coinage bill. and then they
wouldgo back to their people in the South and
the West and say II 1t had not been for the
Republican party they would have given them
free and unlimited coinage OF silver Well
the Republican party Ia not in their way now,
and has not been for nineteen months, and
now that they have got the power you have
not heard anything about the free and unlim-
tied coinage of silver.
They posed in 1872 as the enemies OF the
trusts, and when they came into power upon
their own comics ion, they bee lme the willing
tools OF the most gigantic trust in this coun-
try. They posed in 1897 IA the true and only
friends OF labor, aud they were engaged in that
year In arraying the enploye against the en-
poyer. And when they got into power they
inaugurated an industrial policy that has
given to labor the deadliest blow IL ever had.
lApplausel. For let me tell you, working men
wages down than IL is to take wages mp. Wages
are the first to fall and the last 10 rise, and
when the manufacturer has to reduce the cost
of his product to meet sharp foreign competi-
tion the first place he goes to Is his payroll.
applause
derstand-that capital will not work without
profit any more than labor will work without
wages And you cannot get capital to come out
OF its hiding place and come into investment
unless II sees reasonably certain profit.
Under n Protective Tariff
But can you be surprised at the situation?
For nearly third OF a century this country
had uninterruptedly been under a protective
tariff. Every industry in the country ad been
adjusted to IL. Mr. Lincoln signed the Morrill,
law soon after his inauguration. That was the
great protective tariff Nv. And from that day
down until the secOnt inauguration OF Mr..
Cleveland this country had without Interrupt
tion enjoyed protective tariff The prices Of
produ is the wages OF labOr-everything was
related to that protective tariff. And then sud
denly the country decreed IL was to be over
turned, and when that decree came uncertain
ty came: nobody knew what to do. for nobody
knew what the Democratic party would do;
ness was stagnated, and while business was
stagnated the workingmen waited out on the
streets. Applause and cries of You are
right.
Not II 1t has been very hard to get any
body to confess that this year. Laughter J
Why, men of every variety of political opinion
voted for him. There was no unity of purpose;
there was no great, lofty patriotic aim that
moved men to vote for President Cleveland.
The ree-silver man voted for him; the man
who believed in the gold standard alone voted
for him; the man who believed in the double
standard voted for him. The sin2le-tax men,
the disciples Of Henry George, the men
for him. IA voice: That's right The
Democratic protectionists voted for him,
for he didn't believe the Democratic party
would interrupt the industries OF the country.
And the DemoCr tic tree. trader voted for him.
because he believed that that party would
| open up unrestrained commerce with the
world. The Democratic zen ,1oner voted for
| him, and those " no didn't believe in pensions
who was dissatisfied voted for him, aud every
| body who voted for him who was diss atisfied
has, for the most part, been dissatisfied ever
| since. Long and tremendous spplause.l