The record-union., 1894-08-03

just issued, that 81 7-l0 per cent. of all the
cultivated land in England is farmed by
tenants; that within twenty years one
ninth of all the arabic lands of England
has gone out of cultivation; that in pop
ulation of 81, SIS, ,2S5 people in Great Brit
ain 954 $50 are paupers, while according
to the United States census of 1890, in a
population in the United States of 20, geo,
900, there was at that time but sc, 578 white
paupers and 6,467 colored paupers. This
was before Mr. Cleveland came into
power and before he commenced his
great reform movement. And yet, in the
presence OF the above historical lessons,
he has sought TO fix American values OF
labor and the products Of labor by for
eign precedents. To do this he advocates
free trade and gold money, and thus the
Democracy, under MIR. Cleveland's mis-
taken leadership, represents only the
creditor class-the importers. the money
lenders and the bondholderS. Here, too.
he fails, because as the productive indus
| tries of the country are destroyed trade
and commerce are destroyed also and
money cannot be safely loaned. For sew
enteeD months Democratic Congress
has given us Democratic remedies for
Democratic diseases, but the remedy has
failed and our condition is growing
worse. This reminds me OF the story
told OF the old South Carolina negro slave
who sent word to his master: "De mule
am sick; guv him de medcin. He am
well OBJ de desease, but am dyin' OBJ de
remedy" We are dying OF Democratic
remedies.
The fact is Mr.. Cleveland has for years
been experimenting with the patience of
the American people. He is a theorist in
government as he is in revenue laws. He
knew the people were prosperous under
Republican rule, and he knew he must
promise to do more than the Republicans
had done, and therefore, under the un-
certain but attractive promise of Rev
enue Reform" he made many of his own
and even some of our party believe a
great wrong was being done the people,
and that he was the IA ioses with the REM
edy for that wrong. The people have pa
tiently waited for he blessings 10 come
until they are bankrupt
In word, Mr.. Cleveland and his few
followers are satisfying themselves with
the pleasing delusiOn that our children
and children's children will be happy if
we suffer; that when gold is our only
money; when free trade shall become the
national policy, and American labor and
American products shall reach European
prices then the people will be content
and happy and the Cleveland Democracy
triumphant. My friends, when that time
comes we will have no Government to
sustain, no property to protect, no liberty
to defend.
70 recapitulate, Mr.. Cleveland went
into Office with ali our vast national re-
sources within reach, our productive
energy unimpaired, our manufacturing
Industries in successful operation and un
diminished in resource-the same fertile
soil and genial climate, an amount Of
money in circulation necessary for the
business needs of the people, the same
number of laborers with unabated ca
pacIty for work, the people III health and
the country at peace; and yet the conf
mercial agencies report that the first year
OF his administration, namely, the year
1893, was the most disastrous in the his
tory of the American republic"
The speaker then discussed the fnan-
cial condition of the country, scored vari-
Gus corporations, referred briefly to the
late labor troubles and concluded as fol-
lows:
Let me emphasize, in conclusion: The
security OF property, the maintenance Of
law and order. depend on giving to every
man, whatever his condition, an equal
chance i'll the great struggle of life.
Equality is the only safeguard of the peo-
pie. The law must be honestly enforced
against all men and in favor of all men
alike. Free institutions will then be per-
petuated, our country will prosper, the
Government will then be Government
OF the people, for the people and by the
people," and this great republic viii not
be blotted off the face of the EARTH but
will live on in the fullness OF accumulat-
ing splendor and added glory.