The Princeton union., 1894-08-16
LIVELY SHAKING Up
FOR Mr.. D0NNELLY
Ridiculed Statements Made
in a st. Paul Speech
by Mr.. Horr,
Who Replies with a Terrific
Battery Of Dignified
g.. g.. Argument.
PopuliSt Fallacies Thoroughly
Flayed by Republican
Wisdom.
DONNELLY VS.. .HORR.

When the Minnesota Republican
State Convention met in St. Paul July
II, very earnest address was made by
Mr.. Horr, Of New York, but formerly
Michigan Congressman. He devoted
considerable time to the Peoples Party,
while speaking, and discussed some of
the alleged reforms that the new party
would inaugurate.
Ignatius Donnelly, in recent issue
of his paper, ridiculed the public state
ments made by Mr.. Horr, who in turn
discusses the whole matter in the New
York Tribune.
DOnnelly VS.. Horr.
Mr.. Horr says in the Tribune:
am in receipt of an article published in
The representative, Populist paper 10.
Gated in Minneapolis. The person who
sends it states that it was written by Igna-
thus Donnelly. should think there must
be some mistake about that, because the
entire article is full of billingsgate and
low personal filings, and a man of the liter
ary reputation of Mr.. Donnelly would
hardly be expected to stoop to such vulgar
journalism; but the initials IT, d." with
which the article is signed, seem to decide
the question against me, and I assume
that my Minnesota correspondent is cor
rect in his statement.
AS rule, never notice public criticisms
OF my public work when they are couched
In language which shows their author,
whoever he may be, to lack ordinary DO
likeness. When one is writing for publ
cation he can never afford to use the Ian.
guage of the common blackguard. No
matter how cultivated and refined he may
be, decent and well-informed people will
classify him in the vocabulary he himself
uses as a blackguard, when in fact the in
dividual may be capable of better things
ii one happens to catch him lat his best. !"
Eplthets are not arguments. They are
seldom used except when their authors
lack better material.
l was in St. Paul when the Republican
state convention met, and had the honor
OF addressing the delegates there assem-
bled for the space of IS minutes. visited
st. Paul for that very purpose. II. D."
asserts that was sent there by the New
York Tribune. What difference would it
make whether was employed by the New
York Tribune or not? 1 have no means of
support except my earnings from month
to month Is it a disgrace to be employed
by great metropolitan journal, such as
the New York Tribune is everywhere &C
knowledged to be? It so, then acknowl-
edge my disgrace. 1t is also true that / do
large amount of campaign work for the
Tribune Is there anything wrong about
that? If my views agree with those Of
the Tribune, and the managers of that
paper see fit to keep me engaged in teach
ing such views from the platform, have
they not perfect right so to do? If I
teach the truth, does it make my utter
ances any the less true because am con-
stantly employed on the New York Trib-
une? Has not the Tribune perfect right
to select it's own methods of education? ?
Then what does any intelligent man ex-
pect to gain by asserting that I am in
some way connected with the New York
Tribune? have never sought in any way
to deny that fact. 1t is the kind of work
which man does for which he should be
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 criticise is denied to no one
now invite the attention of my readers to
some of those criticisms.
What Reduced Wages.
I quote from the article in the Repre-
sentative, signed II. D."
Mr. Horr said:
"Whenever you reduce wages, you stor
consumption, and then the markets are
ruined"
"I D." replies:
Well, who in thunder reduced wages? Il
was your Republican party, when it de
monetized silver in 1878, and made the
gold dollar the equivalent of twice a!
much of the workman's muscle and thu
farmers toll And now you come here tt
enlighten the western hobos with you1
shallow platitudes. Scat Get out
The trouble with this statement is thai
it is not true. Wages did not begin tt
decline after the passage of the act of 1878
Indeed, during the 20 years from 1878 tt
1898, the wages of the workingmen of tn,
United States were increased per capita
The members of the senate committe,
unanimously to that effect, without regard
to party affiliations.
There may have been few isolated
instances in which wages were lowered il
the United States between those dates
but taken in the aggregate, the wage
paid in gold dollars to each laboring maj
were increased during those 20 years TIL,
claim has been constantly made durins
those years by nearly all the farmers
journals of the country that there ha,
been decline in the price of farm
products, but that the wages of hire,
hands had been nowhere less, and in man,
Instances had been higher than they wer
20 years ago.
THE DROPPING OF WAGES WHICH
HAS RUINED OUR HOME MARKET
TOOK PLACE AFTER THE ELECTION
OF 1892. During the years 1889. 1890 an
1891 the people of this country were wei
employed, and at good wages Durin
those years travelled over 100000 miles
entirely within the United States G
where would found factories runnin
full handed and the people receiving goo
wages. The history and statistics of prt