The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-07-25
A HORRIBLE HORR.
His Sophistries Answered.
A FOOL PUNCTURED.

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bune to canvass for it. made speech
at the Republican State Convention,
which tickled them TO their midritfs.
He said:
The trouble all comes from the
queS tion of wages. People can enjoy
more of the comforts OF life when
wages are good
Indeed. That is a wonderful piece
of wisdom. 1t needed no ghost come
from the grave to tell us that.
"Whenever you reduce wages, you
stop consumption and then the mar
kets are ruined
Well who in thunder reduced
wages: 1t was your Republican party,
when it dcmonetzed silver, in 1873,
and made the gold dollar the eqnit0leM
u trice as much Of the workmon's muscle
Ld he farmers toll. And now you come
lcre, to cnlightcn the western hobOes
With your shallow platitudes. Scat.
ict out
"They tell us that it is over-produc-
ion, when the fact is that it is lack of
consumption, because there is moth
ing to buy with
What do YOU buy with? Money.
Who reduced the money of this coun-
try by demonetizing silver? The Re-
publican party. Who repealed the
sherman act, which gave us 81, 300, 900
Of additional paper currency every
month? The Republican party, aided
by Cleveland and lot of fool Demo-
Gratis. And what is the use of your
talking Populist doctrines to help the
Plutocracy? You are fraud,
''Ihc Republican party plants itself
upon the position that we should
make, as far as possible, everything
we need right here at home"
Well, why don't you make your
money at home? Why should we bor-
row money IN England, and pay inter
est on it, when our experience during
the war, with the first $50, 100000 of
grecnbacks, shows that we can make
Just as good money ourselves, and pay
no interest on it?
"This law of protection begins at
the cradle; it should never end until
the grave"
The collin, the shroud the nails, the
hearse, the shovel, the box. are all
taxed. to enrich the employers of la
Dor under pretence of helping labor.
while labor nowadays tramps, and
regalcs Itself on the salubriOus sub
stantiality of their soup. If the Nc
kinlcy tariff was dOubled,-nay if all
importatons were positively forbid
den,-would that add one cent to the
price OF wheat or wages of the work
men: No: you have got both down to
the market price of the world: and
10000 Mckinley bills, with 100000
llOrrs thrown in, could not lift them
up. The real remedy is an increase of
money. And Horr knows it perfect
ly we'll; but he is trying to distract at
tention from that question by his
nasty. sinking dead mackeral Of Pro
lection.
First protect your own family.
You owe a higher duty to your own
family than any enc else's family. AS
a general rule, yoG had better leave
other 5 families alone" (ApplauseD
Yes: that is the hogs argument
guzzlc and grant and gorge. That is
the essential spirit of plutocracy. We
Populists look at things in a broader
light. We are going t. defend our
own family from such scamps as you;
and we would also defend our neigh
bor's family. TO do good said Tom
Paine, lis my religion: and the whole
world is my country"
owe have not much of a fight with
the Democrats. They are quiet and
subducd. Things have not just turn
ed out as they expected and they are
ready to be laid out. You've got to
meet new party A party that be-
lleyes that everything was wrong
and that everything is still wrong:
that thinks that wisdom never struck
the earth until few years ago, when
the first POpuliSt was born
Now it is a shame to taunt the
Democrats with the ruin they have
brought upon themselves by carrying
ont Republican doctrines You fellows
persuaded foolish old Cleveland. that
the repeal of the Sherman law would
bring good times He leaned on John
f'uCAAldI. oilu yOli dll NOUCu UORplncf,
and wrecked the country: and now you
mock your poor, imbccile, partner in
crime. We nowhere read in the
Bible that after Lucifer had
whecdled our first parents into eating
the apple, he sat on the fence and
stuck his tongue out at them, and
mocked them for being "quiet and
subdued." Horr is meaner than the
the devil
And the new party, he says, 'be-
lieves that everything is wrong"
We'll, isn't it wrong? Will Mr.. Horr
tell us what is right today? Now
even the money-lenders are happy, for
their securities are turning into chafr.
And if wisdom struck the earth" be-
fore the Peoples Party was born,
where did it light? Did it lodge in
the Republican party, during whose
reign nine million mortgages were put
on record. for t,co o1ad o holf BILLIONS
Of dolloTSi Wisdom. Think of Wisdom
marching in the ranks with this fellow
Horr. The Angel Gabriel carrying
musket in the Falstaff's regiment.
Mr.. Horr proceeded to have fun at
the expense of the Populists. 'They
think" he dryly said. "that if a man
has two shillings he stole it, Becausc.
you know. if he had not stolen it he
would not have SO much"