The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-11-01

ment imagine that the taxation which they say belongs in the customs receipts for revenue only llaughterl would bring them enough to support the wants of the government l Instead of that the deficit is Si03,0 900 every l day in the week. If that should continue dur ing the next twelve months at the same rate the deficit would be Sl47, 900 900. And even with the full extra sugar duty-oh what lovely sound that has lgreat laughterl-the deficit stays at $l0OO0O,000. The reason why we are waiting for the sugar revenue to come round is because some gentlemen, utterly disconnected with trusts-because the dethocratic party has undoubtedly kept its promise and abolished | trusts llaughterl-some gentlemen are at | present absorbing the sand. But if there should come a time when they didn't absorb 1t then our deficit instead of being Si47 900, 0OO would | be Si00,000000
 No Money, No Markets.
 "Why, we are not buying our own goods, let alone goods from foreign countries, Laugh ter and applause.l 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 1t the greatest mar | ketS What makes great market? What is | great markety It is place where people have money to spend. [Applausel When we left | of having money to spend, in just that propor- tion we left on 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 | tho great market of the United States, or, rather, in 1899 the great market of the United | States was made up, notuby the purchasing of I the few, but by the aggregate purchases of the many. Applause, And we were In condition | to make those purchases for ever since 1881 wages had steadily increased until the fatal | day in 1892 when Illinois went wrong like some other parts of the union. Applause
 | stITnfn hnf dav I Isav npr h ad unn m increasing until for every dollar which the man of brain and muscle gained. he gained Sl.7. | Do you understand what that gain of n cents meant for our market? Why. can give you I some rough figures. They are but guesses and | yet they convey my idea, and you will under stand it. Suppose that out of the a, ,000,0OO of | human beings that there are in the United | States to-day one-hfth Of them were wage earners, what would one cent day increase in wages mean? Why, it would mean for every day in the year sS0, 600, and for the whole year l s30,00O000, and if 1 cent meant 300O0,000, 7l cents meant $2 100. 0)O OO0-yes, the market has changed. If you want to understand how much 1t has changed, look up Sir Walter Scott, read hIs novel of Ivanhoe' and read the de- scription of the death dress of the swineherd Curtin, he being clad in only leather jerkin. | That Is all with which he adorned his tragic | fall.
 Wages Not Matter of JuggIery.
 "No factory could make living of of him or his kind. But you may say to me this 7l cents of wages was not spent. but 1t was because the necessity of spending it was what brought it. | 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 l which no man ever knew, but upon the social | life Of our people. Why in l725 the wages of a carpenter used to be g cents day.
 Natt nnn Nnu tn for this by saying that 25 cents then was the equiv- | alent of & 50 now. But such was not the fact, | Twenty-Five cents to-day will buy more than | s250 ever bought then. lApplause Why. | then, was the carpenter contented to live on | 25 cents day? Twas not because he had not | learned what 1t was to live better [applausel; | and when once men discover by the fair proc- esses of honest civilization how to live better they utterly decline to live worse, except under a democratic administration. Laughter and applause.l
 "I 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 a nation the same as what we boys used to call suction Is to pump It sets all the machinery going; it turns the mill wheel; 1t does more than that It is the foundation and origin of cheapness. Grand Rapids, in Michi- gan, could not furnish good furniture to be scattered all over the Ollteu states unless there was tremendous demand for it and money to buy 1t with. Fall River could not furnish cotton cloth at the price at which 1t is sold If 1t were not for the fact that great many people wear cotton cloth. Here let me say 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 cheapness and the other is not. Cheapness without cent of money in your pocket to buy with is a bitter Dess to the soul. Applause and laughter Don't you know 1t nowg Laughter.l Cheap ness with money to ouy Is a blessing unmiti- gated
 Foreign Cheapness Decrled.
 "which do you want? Which do you prefer? IA voice from the au dience: We want the money.1 Illegitimate cheapness, foreign cheapness fcries Of "No'l in the shop. or American cheapness in your own home? Cries of No 'Cheapness ia our homes'l l have said to you that the legson of experience is a most tremendous lesson. It Is no use, some times to tell people truth. They have got to have receptive souls or 1t glances on them. Laughter. For years we have been preach ing the truth, and to-day you are seeing the truth lLaughterl
 How cheap and trivial the arguments of two years ago seem to be now. How uncon- vincing would the democratic orator be If he were to take his place here tonight. Laugh ter.l Don't you remember how he talked 10 you about tin plate? Laughter Don't you remember how he agonized to you over the workingman's dinner pailY Laughter He was going to pay five cents more for his dinner pail. but the dinner pail was full them it is empty now. Prolonged applausel And 1t will be a long year before the worlEingman is again fooled by that empty dinner pail Laughter and applause.
 Here Is another little thing from the New York World, and l marvel that they should have presented 1t, after all that men have learned since the time when 1t used to be efectuaL It is headed-for it is pictorial-'A Nut for Mckinley to Crack Unfortunately for you, Mir Mckinley is not present, but I will crack that nut myself Laughter and applause Here is the legend on it: Cotton cloth, 1895 l0h cents; 1894, 9h cents. Now, l suppoSing that those two statements are true (and the place where find them is not an ab- solute guaranty that they are true). Laugh ter.l Suppose them both to be true, what is the rest of the story? Why, the men who made that cotton cloth in 1894 have already suffered 10 per cent.--I think 13 per cent.-reduction in their wages, and they are on the verge of suf- fering, fl they have not already suffered, 10 per