The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-10-03

featuring plants, the same great army Of
intelligent workingmen and the same
money we had in 1892. The trouble with
US is there has been change of manage
ment in the government of the
United States. For nineteen months
the Democratic president and the Demo-
cratic congress have been running the
government, during which time little else
has been running
Every Industry Suffered.
Every industry Of this country has
suffered since the Novemb ber election day
of 1892, and you men of Kansas know it,
and we men of Ohio know it, Every
department cf human industry has been
checked. Labor has been little employed.
and when employed, at greatly reduced
wages. The prices for the products Of
the farm have gone steadily down; and
although they promised you in 1892 they
would give you 4 dollar a bushel for
your wheat if you would vote the Demo-
cratic ticket they now say they meant
two bushels for dollar. TApplause-l
Charity, my fellow citizens, the ap-
peals of charity were never SO great As
they are today. There has been no
wasting in the wealth Of wages, prop
erty, and investments in the last eighteen
months This country has lost more in
It's investments and property and wages
than the entire cost OF the civil war, and
the trouble is that nobody has any con-
fdence in the present management of
the national administration; nobody has
been able to tell what they could do.
"They have been nineteen months
trying to revise the tariff, and during
that time the people have revised their
opinions, and are burning with i'm
patience to pass judgment on their work.
1sThe people OF this country never
wanted to vote SO badly in all their his
tory as they want to vote this year.
[Cries of ssYou betr'l They are ready to
vote now; the day of discussion has
passed. You have reached your con-
clusiong in the severe school of expert
ence and you know you don't want what
you have. Why. even the blindest par
tisans have had their eyes opened, and
Democrats everywhere are coming into
the Republican fold
Coming Into the Fold.
"They are coming into the Republican
fold because they believe more in their
country than they do in their party lAp-
plausel They believe that the prosper
ity of the country is above any party and
greater than any party, and they propose
tnis year to stand by the policy that gives
them prosperity and gives to the work
ingman wages.
s.Why, they say they have reduced the
tariff SO they have They have put on
the free list fOrty-One millions OF dollars
worth of imported product, AMI eighteen
millions of that IS wool The wool Of the
farmers of the United States is put on the
free list and exposed TO ruiuous competi-
tion from the wool growing countries be-
ond the sea- by, pound of wool in
1892 would buy seven pounds Of sugar: =
pound Of wool now will not buy three
pounds Of sugar. But they say they
have reduced duties, and so they have.
But what does it mean to reduce
duties! What is the effect of
reducing duties? Why. the ef-
feet OF reducing duties is to increase
imporfatIonz, and the effect of increasing
lmportatlons Is to diminish production 1t
home
"You cannot import your goods from
abroad and still make them at home, and
il you don't make them at home. Won
don'E employ labor at home. and ii YOU
don't employ labor at home. Won don't
pay wages At home; and if you don't nav
wages at home, you have taken from the
great farming portion of the country. one
Of the great elements of consum ption Of
their products.