Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-11-01

"InsteAd Of that the deficit Is 100000 every
lay In the week. II that should continue dur
Ing the next twelve months OF the same rate
The deficit would be $l47 1000, And even with
The full extra sugar duty-oh, what lovely
lound that has [great laushterl- the deficit
Dtays at e100,000000. The reason why We are
waiting for the sugar revenue to come round ~
because some gentlemen, utterly disconnected
with trusts-because the democratic party has
undoubtedly kept Its promise and abolished
trusts |laughter]--some gentlemen are at
present absorbing the sand, But there should
eome time when they didn't absorb IT, then
bur deficit, instead Of being tll7 O0O would
be etO0, 100000
No Money, No Markets.
why, we are not buying our own goods, les
alone goods from foreign countries Laugh
ker and applause Our market has grown
smaller and smaller Until the year 1892 our
market was the greatest market In the world.
DO you know what made II the greatest mar.
ketf What makes great marketi What IL Q
great market' 1t Is place where people have
honey to spend. [Applause When we LETT
Oh having money to spend, In just that propor-
tion we left of being market. But markets
have changed, as told you business changed
There was time, not so very long ago, when
my lord and his retainers my lady and her
maids, were all the market there was To-day
the great market Of the United Statcs or,
rather, In 1902 the great market Of the United
States was made up, notaby the purchasing OF
the few, but by the aggregate purchases OF the
many. [Applause.] And we were In condition
to make those purchases, for ever since 1851
wages had steadily increased until the fatal
day In 1902 when Illinois went wrong like some
other parts Of the union, Applause
Until that day say, our wages had gone on
increasing until forevery dollar which the man
OF brain and muscle gained he gained Sill
Do you understand what that gain OF u cents
meant for our market Why, l can give you
some rough figures They are but guesses, and
yet they convey my idea, and you will UNDER
stand 1t. Suppose that out Of the 75,OOO,0OO OF
human beings that there are In the United
States to-day one-ffth Of them were wage
earners, what would one cent a day increase In
wages meani Why, 1t would mean for every
day in the year $50, ,O00 and for the whole year
$3O,00O00O, and II cent meant S3O,0O00o0, u
cents meant s., 100 0O0, ,O00yes, the market has
changed, II you want to understand how
much 1t has changed, look up Sir Walter Scott,
read his novel Of Ivanhoe and read the de-
scriptlon OF the death dress Of the swineherd
Gurth, he being clad in only leather ierkin.
That is ell with which he adorned his tragic
fall
Wages Not Matter Of Jugglcry.
mo factory could make living Of Of him or
his kind But you may say to me this II cents
OF wages was not spent but 1t was because the
necessity Of spending 1t was what brought 1t.
Wages are not to be summed up, as used to be
In the old books Of political economy, as a mere
question Of division. Our wages to-day depend
not upon any such juggling calculation, OF
which no man ever knew but upon the social
life Of our people. Why In l725 the wages Of
carpenter used 10 be 25 cents day.
4 "Sometimcs you undertake to account for
this by saying that rs cents then was the equiv
alent Of $3.50 now. But such was not the fact,
Twenty-Five cents to-day will buy more than
s2.b0 ever bought then. Applause] Why.
then, was the carpenter contented to live on
25 cents u day. Twas not because he had not
learned what 1t was to live better lapplausel
and when oslce men d;,coyer bysne fair proc
esses Of honest civilization how TO live better
they utterly decline to live worse, except under
o democratic administration. Laughter and
applause.
81 want you to realize what this greatness Of
the American market means, what 1t means TO
you. The market is only another name for the
purchasing power, and the purchasing power
is to nation the same as what we boys used
to call suction Is TO q pump. 1t sets oil the
machinery going; 1t turns the mill wheel 1t
does more than that. 1t Is the foundation and
origin Of cheapness. Grand Rapids, In Michi-
gan, could not furnish good furniture to bo
scattered all over the United States unless
there was tremendous demand for 1t and
money to buy it with Fall River could not
furnish cotton cloth ut the price at which 1t Is
sold II It were not for the fact that great
many people wear cotton cloth. Here let me
soy to you, my friends, that on this question of
cheapness we ought to have some sensible
Ideas There are two different kinds OF cheap
ness. One Is legitimate chcapness and tho
other is not Cbeapness without cent Of
money IN your pocket TO buy with is bitter
ness TO the soul, Applause and laughter,
Don't you know it nowi Laughter Cheap
ness with money to buy IA blessing unmti-
gated,
Foreign Cheappcss DocrIed.
(Which do you WANT Which do you prefer'
IA voice from the au udience We want the
money! Legitimate cheapness, foreign
cheapness lcries Of NO In the shop, or
American chcapness in your own homef lCrles
Of No 'Cheapness in our homes, l have
said 70 you that the lesson Of experience Is
most tremendous lesson, II Is no use, some
times, to tell people truth. They have got TO
have receptive souls or 1t glances of them
Laughter. For years we have been preach
Ing the truth, and to-day you are seeing the
truth Laughter.
"How cheap and trivial the arguments Of
two years ago seem to be now. How uncon-
vncing would tho democratic orator be II ho
were to take his place here tonight Laugh
ter Don't you remember how he talked 10
you about tin platei Laughter Don't you
remember how ho agonized to you over the
workingmans dinner pailf Laughter He
was going to pay five cents more for his dinner
pail, but the dinner pail was full then 1t Is
empty now prolonged applause And 1t
will be long year before the workingman Is
again fooled by that empty dinner pail
Laughter and applause
oHere ia another little thing from the New
York World, and | marvel that they should
have presented 1t, after oil that mon have
learned since the time when II used TO be
eirectual II is headed-ior 1t is plctorial-'A
Nut for Mckinley to Crack. Unfortunately
for YOU, Mr., Mckinley is not present, but |
viii crack that nut myself laughter and
applause Here is the legend on it. Cotton
cloth. isDs, iOs cents; 1894, ql, cents. Now,
suppo,iug that those two statements are true
fand the nlace where find them js not an nh.