New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-08-13
POPULISM "a CARATS FINE.
THE GENUINE ARTICLE FROM THE PEN
OF IGNATIUs DONNELLY.
IGNORANCE AND vITUPERATIoN UNALLofEp

MINES polls The person who sends II states 'ha'
Il was written by Ignatius DonneiIy- sho"'"
think that there must be some mistake ABOUT
that because the entire article IL fuil OF plHnSS-
gate and low personal filings, and man oI '"e
literary reputation Of Mr.. Donnelly woud haru'!
he expected to stoop to such vulgar JOURNALISM"
hut the initials IL D." with which the aruc'e -
signed seem TO decide the question against me-
and assume that my Minnesota correspondent
Is correct in his statement
Asa rule 7 never notice criticisms Of my public
work when they are couched in language which
shows their author whoever he may be. to lack
ordinary poIiteness When one Is writing ior pup
,cat,on no can never afford TO use the language OF
. common h,ackguard No matter how cultivated
ora reaned no may be- decent and well-lniorheo
r.on,e will classify him in the vocabulary ne
h;useIf uses as a BLACKBOARD. when in fact lhc
individual may be capable of better 'hihsS Il
one happens to catch him "at his best T]l'
4he,s are not arguments. They are sc'uo'h "a0u
except when their authors lack better material.
WAS IN St Paul on the day that the Repup-
Ncan State Convention met. and had the hohor "
addressing the delegates there assembled lot 'iie
snace of forty-hve minutes visited 81 fau' lo'
that very purpose 81 D. asserts 'h"' ""'
sent there by The New-York Tribune. "ha' oii-
,srence would II make whether I was employed by
If support except my earnings from month 10
month. Is II a disgrace TO he employed ny
great metropolitan journal. such as The New"
yorl Tribune is everywhere acknowledged 10 De
7, ca then acknowledge my disgrace III is also
%rua that do a large amount OF campaign WORK
for The Tribune. Is there anything wrong aoou'
that? If my views agree with those VI inc
Tribune and the managers of that paper see III -
keep me engaged in teaching such views from lhe
platform have they not perfect righ' so 10 40
II teach the truth does it make my o''erah'es
snv the less true because | am constantly EN-
Moved on The New-York Tribune? Has not Inc
Tribune a perfect right to select its own methods
~ education? Then what does any intelligent
man expect 10 gain by asserting that am IN
some way connected with The New-York Trib-
me? | have never sought in any way to deny
that fact 1t is the kind of work which man
does for which he should he held responsible
The wrath Of this Populist writer seems to have
been aroused by some things which said at that
State Convention. The right TO crticise is denied
to no one. l now invite the attention OF my read
ers to some Of those criticisms.
WHAT REDUCED WAGES:
ouote from the article In THE Representa-
tive" signed Il. D"
Mr. Horn said:
ton and then the markets are ruined
Well who in thunder reduced wages? II was your
Republican party when 1t demonetiZe1 silver IN $780,
and made the gold dollar the equivalent OF twice as
much OF the workman's muscle and the farmer
toll And now you come here TO en'ighten the west
ern hobos with your shallow platitudes. Scat Get
out
The trouble with this statement is that II is
not true Wages did not begin 10 decline after
the passage Of the act Of 1873 Indeed. during
the twenty years from 1873 to 1893 the wages OF
the workngmen Of the United States were IN
creased per capita The members OF the senate
Committee who investigated that point reported
unanimously to that effect without regard 10
party affiliations.
There NAV have been few isolated Instances
IN which wages were lowered in the United
States between those dates; but taken in the az
eregate the wages paid in gold dollars TO each
laboring man were Increased during 'hose
twenty years. The Claim has been constantly
been made during those years by near!y all 'he
torrers, journals of the country that there had
been decline in the price OF farm products
u hut that the wages of Tired hands had been
nowhere less and in many instances had been
higher than they were twenty years ago.
THE DROPPING OF WAGES WHICH HAS
RIIINED OUR HOME MARKETS TOOK
PLACE AFTER THE ELECTION OF lS92-
During the years 1889. 1890, and 1891 the people
of this country We're well employed ana at good
wages During those years travelled over
100000 miles entirely within the United States
Go where l would. I found factories running
full handed and the people receiving good wages
The history and statistics If production In THIS
country will bear out In this statement.
Let us try to be truthful about these matters.
II is the threatened Tree trade legislation OF
alt-zaA hf1
ness thrown people out Of employment. and
cut down the wages Of laboring men here in the
United States. The fact cannot be gainsald py
calling any one else hard names. Epithets prove
nothing.
MORE MONEY NOW THAN EVER.
quote again from the article in THE Repre-
sentative:
Mr. Horr said:
.rney tell US that 1t is overproduction, when the
fact is that II is lack Of consumption because there
Is nothing TO buy with
What do you buy with? Money. VINO reduced
the money of this country by demoneuzihs SILVER
The Republican party.
Again Mr.. Horr said:
"The Republican party plants Itself upon the po-
sition that should make as far as possible
everything we need right here at home
Well why don't you make your money at nome!
Vhv should we borrow money in England, and pay
interest on II. when our experience curing 'he
war with the first $50 900 900 OF greenbacks, SHOWS
that we can make just as good money ourselves.
and pay interest on 1t?
The statement which actually made was 'his'
that the working people Of the united states
could not buy articles as they had done IN the
past because their wages had been recently cut
down or entirely stopped and on that account
the workingmen had nothing with which to buy
Nowhere did intimate that such STATE Oh
affairs existed because there was no money IN
the country with which to buy. The statement
which did make is absolutely true The wages
paid each day for work all over the United states
for many wears past have been the greatest dls-