The advocate., 1894-02-28

JOQQ COGIST6ll Saw UnlS, anu dJ Guo Gull
cluSion of the speech, rose from his
seat in the gallery fronting the stage
and asked the speaker if he would
answer a few questions which troubled
a common WOrkingman.
The chairman was about to call the
disturber to order, but candidate who
was on the stage hastily whispered:
"Let him talk! If you saw him off
wen lose half the labor vOte;" and al
ready the orator Of the evening, in Sc
rene self elf-cOnfidence, had hidden John
proceed. -.
"Weli," said John, "while ! don't
belong to any church, | think good
deal Of the teachings of the Carpenter
of Nazareth about how men ought to
act in this world; and if l understand
him right, he thought we ought to treat
everybOdy-nOt only our next-dOor
neighborS and our cOuntrymen- but
eue1ybody all over the world, just like
we think we'd like everybody else to
treat U.s."
He paused and looked steadily at the
ex.preacher on the stage as if expect
ing to be corrected. The ex-preacher
said, however:
"That's right, my man. Proceed" D."
"Well, you say we worklngmen
ought to vote for a protective tariff be-
cause if the democrats should get in
and give us free trade we'd have to
compete with the pauper labor of
Europe. Is that it?"
"That is so. Proceed"
"And this country would be flooded
with goods made by this foreign pau
per labor, and we'd bye and bye have
to be satisfied with as low wages as
these people get in Europe" J." .
"YOu understand me perfectly" "
said the orator, and he was happy.
The anxious candidate, however, who
feared the labor vote, knew John was
sup to something" and the anxious
candidate was uneasy.
"In that case" continued John, ''the
pauper labor of Europe would be set
to work making goods for this market
and would cease to be pauper labor,
while we American Workingmen would
have to begin to live cheaper ourselves,
and may be, get thrown out Of our
jobs altogether"
EXACTLY" said the beaming orator,
rubbing his hands with great selt-satis-
faction. Even the anxious candidate
began to breathe freely, so sensible
were Johns remarks. Just then many
in the audience, having become weary
of twisting their necks in order to see
the speaker in the rear gallery, began
to call out: "Come to the stage!'
"COme up on to the stage!' and the
chairman, at the candidates whispered
suggestion, requested John to come
forward, the orator joining in the re-
quest. John left his place in the gal
lery and came down and walked up the
aisle to the stage, where his appearance
was greeted with tremendous applause.
When the applause had subsided the
chairman mOtioned him to proceed.
"I'm only a workingman, " he began.
81 don't have a great deal of chance to
study these questions and / want to
learn what l can from people that
know"
"That's rightp' said a number of
business men voices.
"NOw," continued John, "what
worries me is this: Is it rights it
Christian-fOr us wOrkingmen over
here to say to our starving brothers in
Europe, If we let you have anything
to eat Wen have to live slim ourselves;
so we're going to keep what we have
and starVe you to DEATH l heard
awhile ago about some people up by
the north pole that had nothing hardly
to eat, and they divided what little they
had and gave each man his equal share,
and just all starved there together.
Now, what / want to know is, whether
it would have been right and Christian
for half of those men to have got all
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