The Portland daily press., 1894-09-10

But, who does that help the lame and the
lazy? for we cannot leave them out in this
country. They have to be taken care of.
Why not let them have the cheap goods of
Europe, and then they could. get along so
much better. The answer is,that the lame
and the lazy are taken care of. They are
taken care of by The very fact that. / haze
mentioned, namely. that the Sill now is
worth the $l.9S 1880. How did that hap
pen to come abort? 1t came about from the
simple principle that you can make q
thousand things cheaper, per- piece, than
you can make one. It used to take an hour
to make an ak handle. You can make one
now in minute. That is because poor
people wanted ak handles, and other things
as well. When say that You can make
thousand things cheaper per piece
than you can make one, l might say that
you can make million per piece cheaper
than YOU can make thousand. So that, il
my lame and lazy friend. or anybody else,
wants an AK handle. 1t is for his interest
that they should be made Ly the million. 1t
is for his interest that the purchasing power
Of the market should be great.
What is the matter with us today? Why,
the very specter of Democracy has scared
Our mar et away. Men do not dare to buy
things, because they know that some
cheaper European stuff is to come here, and
they are waiting possibly Tor them. II they
do not buy, nobody manufactures. Nobody
goes into mill out of which no goods go.
Nobody can earn anything in country
that does not make its own things. In orr
hour of folly we said we would have to
| make lovely experiment. Here We were
with wages at twice what they were in 1850,
and prosperity over the whole country.
Mill wheels were turning and factory
wheels were humming, and we said, Look,
how prosperous We are" Why, we have
always been SO. We have been SO for thirty
| years; We have been so for whole genera
| ton of men. There must be something in
the air, in the climate that does this, The
| Democratic orators said that the: Republi-
| cans were robbing the people all this time
| Well, we said too ourselves, 1--WE have had
good time; we are pretty rich but perhaps
We had better get some OF these foreign
cheap goods. What nice thing it would
be to have our wages and to have the
| foreign cheap goods too.''.. We did not know
enough TO know that those two things don't
go together, hat.whateyer goods were made
abroad do not pay any wages in America
| that whatever goods do not pay for Ameri-
can handling do not pay for supeIintedence
| Neither capital nor wages have any interest
in those goods. We forgot that what was
made abroad we could not make, and so we
| went into the FOOLS paradise and said: I'VE
| will keep all we have got. and thenswe will
get some more English cheap goods-'' Well.
We have tried it. We know what it Is now.
| There, was once a French gentleman who
was told that ii all the property of France
was gathered together in one pile. and was
| divided among the citizens, every one of
them would have 6G00 francs, "Well,'' he
says, THAT is good scheme. / am in favor
| of that. Every one will get 6G00 francs. Il
want that division. II had that 5000
| francs in addition to the twelve thousand
that have already got .aaug hter) would
have some comfortable things for my old
age" And SO we said that If we cold oily
make all our goods here. and, in addition
to that, get the British cheap goods too,
why we would be perfectly happy. And
we were 20 foolish and blind as not to know
that you can have English cheap goods If
| you want them, or American wages If you
want them, but you have got to keep them
separate. You cannot haveiboth together
| Well, we know it now and tia t. kno wledge,
my friends, means thirty.years more of Re-
l publican rule. tCneers.l Itmeans better
rule for the citizens .of this country than
there has been in the past, because this
experience is going to makefeur Democratic
brethren better. 1t is going to improve
| them. They have had a bad influence upon
| us. A minority never ceases to have power,
and the Democratic minority, during the
| last thirtysyears of Republican rule, has
been sour minority. Naturally SO, too;
verysnaturally. Why, at, any time in the
last thirty years when they have gone into
battle it has only been to be beaten, and
they have felt badly about it, and so would
you if you had been lin their place. You
would have begun to think that all the
| cards were stacked against you. You would
| have begun to think that nothing but
wickedness was beating you all the time.
That is the way they have felt, and the re-
suit has been that the individual Democrat
instead of throwing the mantle of charity
over our shortcomings. proclaimed it to the
four winds Of heaven. He had no charity
for us. Sometimes we fell short OF the glory
of God; sometimes we failed to act accord
ing to our higher dictates of duty. and the
Democrats stood by and 1eeled. They WONT
do that any more. daughter) The next
time they will say, These Republicans
l uayeu y uOue quite rs we'll tnlS Year as they
ought to have done. but then, they are pool
human creatures, just like us. They haven't
done just exactly right, but you mustn't
say anything about it," Then they will
take themselves out into a corner and say,
"You know what nasty mess we made OF
it when we tried.n Great laughter and ap.
| plause)
So say that the next thirty years of Re.
publican control will be better than the last
thirty years have been, and that is promis.
ing very well. Any party that undertakes
to govern seventy millions of people has
more or less of difficulty. Nevertheless, the
patty that undertakes to govern, has got
to govern. Unless it does govern it must &c
out of power. Unless it can keep the wheels
of government in motion, it must stop it.
self. Now the Democratic party has not
been able to run this country. The only
moral to this is, then, that wo must do it.
Now, my friends. meant to have talke d
to you longer, but / shallnot. / have NOT
made you any set discourse. really felt q
little bit ashamed when I came down here
in the rain to think that we had invited
you ITO come at all. 1t did not seem. from
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