The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1894-11-03


hls rountrv ana its future ana is citizenship
and It's civilization want wages orought down
any lover lCries OF mo, Mo- we'll
wages will come down unless We pre-
serve this market and the American
workshop by a protective tarin. tCries OF
Hear Heart IL the wool grower getting TOO |
much for his woolY 1 met wool grower IN /
Nebraska the other day. Ho told me that IN /
1862 he had voted for free wool ana ne SAID ne |
had come within i've GEMS OF H. li.aughter'l |
lie said he had sold his wool the dAy before io'
Ave cents pound tRenewed ana long CON
tinued laughter.l The last saw OF him ne
was heading a republican procession Laugh
teri He told me subsequently, that ID iess ne
voted for his party. but that In 1894 ne meant
20 vote for his property. ll.anghterl nut,
my fellow-citizens. don't think cheapness is
the most essential IN this world IL the old
men In this audience will let memory sweep
back they will recall that when Things
were cheapest men ~ere the poorest
and that when the prices OF prouucts
/ were the lowest they were the hardest TOT the
/ peopie 10 get lApplause.l Mr.. Stevenson. the
vice president OF the United states. and a cit
izen Of this state lhissesl, In speech made In
the city OF Brooklyn two or three nights ago
| said boastfuiiy. and In defense OF the present
administration. that 500 would buy as much
now as 500 would have bought In les' Wen,
/ supposlng that 20 be true. where Is the NO
nowg Applause and laughter.l How many
worIingmen In the city OF Chicago who hao
/ 800 in the savings banks In le02 have got tNV
| there nowY Cries OF ''none."l submit 10 the
men in this great audience Tonight don
care what their occupation isl submit 10
them whether II was not easier by far 70 get
SiO0 IN 1892 than Il is 10 get 500 nowi cries OF
Yes. yespi He says cheerfahy-cheeriuliy no
says by way OF encouragement--that they nave
i reduced the cost Of living. Yes. the cost OF
living doubtless has gone down. cries oil
| 'Staryation " and laughterl So the power 10
make living has gone down, too
Nothing from Europe IL Cheap
MY fellow citizens there Is nothing cheap
10 the American people that comes from En-
rope that enforees idleness at home. lAp-
plnuse.I There Is no agricultural product that
| comes from Canada that Is cheap TO the Amer
lean people II Ii leaves tho American product
| 70 rot'in, uur fields lcries OF Hear Hear l.
hand there IS no manufactured product from
any quarter OF the globe that Is cheap 10 the
American people II IL takes day work from
American workingmen. What we want Is more
. work. (Cries OF. That's right. voice
|, IGNORE labor and no soup houses My trlenu
4 up in the gallery says No soup houses. lAp-
| plause.l We never had free soup house our
inf the thirty years OF protective tarln
ltfreat applause It's free trade invention.
n For thirty years down 10 the fatal Novem-
Der day in 1892 lived under tho pro-
: tectlye tariff and during all those years
/ every man earned his own soup and ate at MS
own table ftireat applause There IL noun
a any country as idleness and poverty, ana th'
/ xay 10 prevent idleness and poverty Is 70 az
O our own work Applause, ana cries OF "ihAt
I right II We have discovered In the last nine
o teen months that II We do not keep our owl
= bnslncss here our business won't Keep VI
I | hcre Applause Why. they talk about
: foreign market II there il anything IN tn
q | wcrl1 that cheers the democratic leader IL !
Il something foreign Laughter iorelg
i markett why tho bcst foreign market W
| tF.s lnt nf
a fapplnuse and n voice That's what unde
, the treaties OF reciprocity with Cuba an
"a Brazil and other foreign states All thht M
u been abroRated by the tarin law Of 10y
i the treaty win Germany--and see Dy th
n mess Of the morning that Germany has alrcad
J. issued her proclamation preventing our por
a. and our beef from entering her ports Al
n plnuse hut. they say bad as thov law Is
Il is better than the law Of 1890 "A voice.
u don't think SO" Applause Ihat y our lhN
Better for themi Voices all over the nous
W England I.,I never hoard such ready =
o. snonses as tcome this year. Great applause
NJ | 1ihe people were never so ready 20 vote as
= said M the outset, az They are now "a
,h pause Better than the tariff law OF 1872
IN Why during. the two years ana nail OF !
IS operation, aud down 20 November lhyl the
a. Was not IA factory beneath our nag thnt VI
ol not running 20 Us fullest capacity. lPreat a
90 nlause Old Industries were rchabllitate
N new industries we're established, ana Tor
OF millions OF new capital went into enterprls
ar that had never been prosecuted ia the Unit
ty states before lapplausel giving employme
er TO labor In new and hitherto unknown helas
at Gave work 10 tho Toilers.
GU BETTER than the law OF 1897 During I
n years OF its operation, down 10 the oyerturni
OF its policy. there was not a worklngman
the United states who could not get work
~ roniunerative wages, and on the average bet'
er wages than he had ever received before. lGr'
DO applause.
no There were no tramps then II q man want
~ 70 work applause, There we're mistas
y. | in the law OF 1890 doubtless No great law j
~ that could be made without mistakes creep
M into III but my countrymen. whatever M
=, | takes there were every one OF them was
nrs | the side OF the American people applau
nm and Ia favor OF the American home. /.
ia. plause. There have been boo mistakes alse
"a cred m the law OF 1894 lapplau-ol ana not e'
,cd hy the accident OF mistake, or by the nceid
10 Of error are any OF them in favor OF the Am
rIr lean. people the American home, orr
ala American flag.
~. Inv feilow-citizons my friend wantsto kr
aif about he pensions They say they have
=, dueed expenditures in the last two years. ]
~. Vice President Stevenson says they have sa
= lis2s 900 900 In appropriations, aud twenty-se'
% ~ these twenty eight millions are for
rhe sions lie doesn't say that, but do |.
, n plause.
- ..,rhe democratic party is the most remar
,icr bic party In history. lLaughterl II Is Tor a
, !, thing 20 get power and thenit Is never for a
~ thing which gives IL power. Applause
tn,c remember when IL used 10 be for free
gon unlimited coinage OF silver az least II tried
'hts make believe II was when IL had the house
ave the republicans had the rest OF the COVE
/. In mont and they used TO 90 through INC
ana ceremony OF passing free coinage bill
An then they would so back 70 their people 10
ne south aud the west. and say II II had not I
tho for the republican party they would nave y
An them FREQ and unlimited coinage OF sil
Inc Well. the republican party Is not IN their
aaea / now and has not been for nineteen mon
vii aud now that they have got the power
we're have not heard anything about the Tree and
An limited coinage OF silver lApplausel
TWO They posed In 1879 as the enemies OF
GOOD trusts and when they came into power Y
and their own confession they became the VII
lav, tools OF the most gigantic trust In the couf
hen Applause They posed In 1872 as the
low ana only friends OF labor, Bnd they were
and gagged IA that year In nrraying the emp
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