Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-01

instantly have been cruelty shaved off
one half in its yalue--and God knows
whether the other half could be col
lected or not Applause.
CANNOT Make VALUE ny LEGISLATION
want you to think of it. From my
heart l warn you, do rot permit the
standard of value that you now have to
be shaken. You did not give it its
value. You cannot by legislation de-
prive it of its value. If you can create
values by law, then, my friends, all
labor is idle; we can simply legislate
ourselves into fortunes. Gods primeval
curse that "by the sweat of his face
shall man eat bread" has not been re-
pealed; and ell the values in the world
are the values that are created by labor.
You cannot increase the value of metal
by legislating upon it.
l said the other night, and you may
permit me to repeat it here, as familiar
fact before our eyes, five years ago, ten
years ago, In the experience of any man
who is old enough to remember, the
grains Indian corn and wheat were of
the relative value of two bushels of corn
for one OF wheat, or three bushels of
corn for one of wheat. In other words,
corn was worth about one-third of what
wheat was worth. What is the price to-
day? Old corn, as il is called-the corn
of lS93-is worth seven or eight cents
bushel more than wheat. What brought
that about? Could statutes prevent it ?
Mr. Lincoln used to speak of the folly
of the Pope's bull against the comet;
well, gentlemen, the action of Congress
to control the price of wheat or corn
would be just us idle, and it would be
perfectly impious.
beg you, therefore, to carry that
simple fact in your mind, and carry it,
my friends, if your fortunes are narrow
or limited. If God has given you much
money and has given you the intelli-
gence TO use it. you may be instructed
or you may be indifferent; for when
ruin comes upon the country the man
with the largest purse can buy in the
wrecked fortunes of his neighbors, but
the poor man has no such fortunes; and
let him take from me this maxim:
"Money can never be too good, and
an honest man is entitled to The best"
[Applause.
Whatever may come Of this question
and feel sometimes that we are still
struggling upon the borders Of lido not,
| beg of you as your friend and fellow
citizen, be deluded by the plea that you
can by legislation change the value of
anything that is produced on earth.
NO WORD OF ADVICE CANE.
But here were these three measures
that | have spoken of here were the
conditions; and who was to rectfy
them. Well, they existed before Mr..
Cleveland went in office the last time
From Mr.. Harrison the President, or
from any member of his party, or from
any officer of his administration, or
from his Secretary of the Treasury
there came not one word of advice or
assistance. On the contrary, there was
rather, now and then, heard a miserable
chuckle, to think what ruin would be
precipitated upon the country, and that
the Democratic party would be charged
with having produced it. "0nly let u.s."
they said, "live until the 4th of March;
let US live with some little thing in the
Treasury; let us doctor up our Treasury
accounts; let us keep in until the 4th
OF March, ana then we will wash our
hands OF the matter, and then we will
turn over to the Democrats the fruits of
ourown incompetency, and then we will
rise as one man and charge them with
having created it. Great applause.
Is fairness dead Is the sense of JUS
tice dead in the hearts of men, or are the
American people either knaves or fools
Is there not something in this land of
ours, placed there by that power that
has placed us upon this earth; is there
not something torebuke this kind OF mis-
cradle chicanery, this absolute untruth,
this utter audacity in dealing with the
affairs of an intelligent people?
QUESTION OF MIR. HARRISON.
Why did not Mr.. Harrison veto the
Sherman bill? Because they said they
would present him Free Coinage bill
Why, gentlemen, he ought to have
thanked God that the Free Coinage bill
was defeated. lie wanted the silver
vote; he wanted repetition of power,
and he followed the course of his party,
on which they had been going; under
their present leadership they have had
no pole star except party success. The
constitution OF the country, the ultimate
result of their action, apparently had
not been needed. "Give us power, then
VIC will take care that possibly you may
get your share of protection" So that
it became necessary to remove this
dreadful cloud of the coming laws of
our gold, of the substitution of silver as
the sole basis Of our dealing, to throw
us back, my friends, upon semi-bar-
barous condition OF commerce-take us
out, MOI only for this generation but for
many generations to come, from the
front rank of commercial and intelligent
people; to degrade us to the standard of
the Chinaman or of the South Sea
Islanders, or of the Turk, or of any
country that has accepted silver as its
only basis. All of that you were saved
from by Democratic President and
| Democratic Congress. The history is
before you, of how much assistance he
had, how much counsel, how much
comfort.
THE RESULT ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.
But more than that came; under their
| system of farming out the taxing powers
of the country, under their system ofad-
hitting that certain classes had right
to demand something that the rest of
the country themselves could not pos
sess and could not enjoy, we found all
over the country unions and combina-
tions raising their heads. We found the
combinations headed by Debs, and we
found the combinations headed BY
Cexcy, and we found The Populist com
blnations all over the country-ail OF
them demanding only that which they
had seen Mr.. Harrison and the Republi-
can Congress awarding to another set of
men [applausel "a share in the sovereign
prerogatiyes OF the country for the pri-
vate benefit of class or AN individual.
That had its natural course; insolence,
| nutrape stimuioted ny this l,araIvsis of