The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-08-03
THE RIGHTS OF LABOR.
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pleasure trips and of furnishing the
Carnagies with money. [Cheers
and laughter. We now have a
standing army of %, 900 men, and
they are demanding that it shall be
increased to $4,000 men. In the
days when our government was
weaker, yet stronger, when we had
a hostile people on our frontier
lines, and had real fighting to do,
we had an army of only 10000
men.
ARE CAPITALISTS BECOMING
AFRAID?
"What is the reason that we are
building ships of war and increas-
ing the size of our army? 1t is
because the millionaire monopolists
are becoming afraid of the armies
of poverty stricken people which
their oppressive trusts and combi-
nations are creating. Long
cheering.1
~ want to speak with the ut
most respect of Mr.. Cleveland.
Prolonged kissing and groaning. ]
No man has been given such high
honor by the American people.
They made him president once, and
then after four years lapse showed
their confidence in him by making
him president again. He has re-
ceived more honor from the Amer
lean people than ever did George
Washington, Thomas Jefferson,
Abraham Lincoln or Ulysses s..
Grant.
"Why I supported him, why
against politicians and powers he
was elected, was because the peo-
pie believed he had sounded the
keynote against monopoly. | am
slow to attribute to Mr.. Cleveland
anything but the best motive, but
the facts are plain. Not only has
he left undOne that which he had
the warrant and the command of
the people to do, but from the very
first, | am sorry to say, he seems to
have taken the side, wantonly
taken the side, of those very mon
strous monopolies that have OPP
pressed the people, and which they
believed he would break down.
[Long cheering.]
cit is at least the fact that his
federal appointments have been
such as the monopolists themselves
would have dictated had they been
allowed to dictate, and [ am not
so sure that they were not. To the
most important federal office i'm Cal
ifornia Mr.. Cleveland appointed a
man who was denounced at Dem
Ocratic state convention as a traitor
to his party because he had sold
out to the railroad companies. Mr..
Cleveland did this in spite of the
fact that these things were formally
presented to him by representative
men of California. Misses.
THE SHAME OF OLNEY.
"Almost Mr.. Cleveland's first
step was to take as his attorney
general a corporation attorney, a
man whom I, and I guess most of
you, never had heard of. | refer
to Mr.. Olney. [Groans. 1t is
from Cleveland that we get this
omnibus injunction which would
look to the Furnishing of man for
not going to work when he did not
choose to 60 to work. 1t is from
him that we get the order that the
standing army shall be set to up
hold and serve corporate interests.
[Groans.]
"You have heard of the senate
sugar investigation, an investiga-
ton designed to do anything except
find out facts. Laughter. Twas
told in Washington by a man who
knows that nothing would come of
that investigation that the sugar
trust, like the whiskey trust, could
demand recognition of the govern
ment because of services rendered
to ambitious and selfish politicians.
| was told that the whiskey trust
contributed 100000 to Mr.. Cleve-
lands election. | wonder if the
railroads that the government is
now standing up for so staunchly
and so fairly made any contribu-