The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-10-17

an erwhelming victory.
EX-PREsIDENT HARRISON has taken
the stump in his own State and is max
inc a series of speeches in his own in
imitable manner to immense crowds
that gather TO hear him. We Gull from
them a few striking passages for the
benefit of our readers:
"Can the workingmen expect 10 have
good wages when the mills don't pay any
dividends to the stockholders? Can the
farmer expect To have good prices for his
crops when the workingman is not en-
ployed or getting good wages?"
Not long ago we heard a great deal
from Democratic newspapers at time
when the country WAS prosperous and
when that prosperity was generally dis
tributed among all the people, great deal
of talk about a time when the rich were
all getting richer and the poor were get
ting poorer and by way of curing that
condition of things, which did Eot exist,
the Democrats said that they would bring
in a time when the rich would all get
poorer and the poor all get richer. But
instead of that they have illustrated the
general truth that we prosper together
and that we suffer together by bringing
i'm a time when we are all getting poorer
together. The policy of party that is to
be accepted by people should be poll
c.v that brings and maintains a general
policy and that appeals to men in allpur-
suits in life. Let us stop To think of the
promises that were made to us, because
out Of this experience you ought to learn
Experience is a hard school, but its les
sons abide with us longer than any other.
THE Democrats talked to the labOring
man about the oppression of the tariff,
especially as it was related to his coat.
The appeal made to you was 10 smash the
tariff, the suggestion being that your
wages would remain as good as they had
I been, but that everything you bought
would be cheaper. You were told that
! il would be good thing to smash this
tariff umbrella under which you and your
employers had been walking together and
sharing the benefits of its protection.
You were told that you were getting too
much of the drip, but you found when
YOU had smashed the umbrella that in
the very nature of things he had an ac-
cumulation and had provided himself
with rubber coat, while you were left
/ in your shirt sleeves.
Just before the radical change in our
responsible government the country was
/ i'm the highest state of prosperity; our
foreign trade was larger than it had ever
! been in the history of this country and
the beauty of il was that il was something
! like 500. 600 larger in exports than in
| imports.
j Everybody knows that everybody was
| busy. Everybody knows that every mill
was running. The comforts OF life as dis
/ tributed among our people were greater
| than ever before. But wheat was low
and some of our farmer, became discon-
tented. Some one told me of a Demo
cratic orator in Missouri who appealed To
the farmers whether they had ever known
a time before when it took four bushels of
wheat to shoe horse. But now what do
we see? Wheat has not appreciated. but
has gone lower than ever before in the
memory of any farmer who hears me.
II has been hard TO get enough of it in
the shape of -four sometimes in the home
of the workingman, but it has been so
cheap that it has in some places gone into
the hog trough.
''And the gates of Castle Garden, which
always swung inward to the working
man, have been swinging outward.
''The choice of Congress pledged to
put the Chicago platform into legislation
! introduced an element of uncertainty that
made il impossible for any manufactures
or merchant To go on with his work if he
gave the Democratic party any credit for
sincerity.
"These gentlemen now tell you that
they want to break down the fences. That
| is what Mr.. Wilson told his English
| friends the other day, that he was en-
gagged in tearing down fences. Now,
fences are for two purposes. / was
raised on farm and have some expert
ence. They are to keep things out or to
keep them in, one or the other. The
fence around the cornfield is to keep stock
out. the fence around the pasture field is
to keep stock i'm. What does tearing them
down imply? That all of the range stock
outside will get into our pastures and that
our cattle will share the range with them.
start out with this proposition, that
there is not enough grass on the range for
the cattle that are out there already. /
make this second proposition, that the
grass inside of our fences has been better
and the cattle slicller and better in bone
and richer in condition than those ouG on
the range. If we equalize these things
and let this wild-horned and hIngry
stock from the range into our fields we
won't have as much grass for our own
stock as we had before.
"They talk TO us about wanting more
foreign markets, and concluding pointed
out the rich and exclusive market of
Cuba rs well as other markets that had
been thrown away with the reciprocity
feature Of the Mckinley bill.
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