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ket also makes legitimate cheapness say
Legitimate cheapness, for cheapness with

no money to buy is mockery to the
soul, while cheapness with good wages
is the delight of life. The broader and
richer the market. the lnore of each ar
ticle will be consumed, and the more
there is consumed, the cheaper each will
be made. Machinery has its foundation
on this. You would not build mach
inc to make single axe handle. You
could make it infinitely cheaper by hand.
A machine means half million axe
handles. Most manufacturers realize
these things, and the great fact that good
wages, so far from being hostile to their
progress, is its very foundation, When
manufacturers all see their interest that
way we shall witness the happy death,
for this country at least, of that old po-
litical economy doctrine, that profits are
dependent on low wages. Business pros
perity will then come from extension of
business and not from the diminution of
wages.
But, if protection tends to division
of wealth, why have the werkingmen
voted the Democratic ticket2 Why
have they who are most concerned failed
to see this great advantage of which you
preach? A man cares infinitely more
for little thing which is present than
a great thing afar off, and, as he thinks,
contingent. A man will be set wild by
sand in his shoe and give no thought to
the question Of a final place of punish
ment for the wicked. A man will be
deeply outraged by bug in bis cup and
give no heed to thunderstorm lower
ing black in the distant sky, but when
the thunderstorm breaks and capsizes his
tent, as this one has, beats him black and
blue with hail and leaves him damp and
shivering, he realizes the difference be-
tween storm and bug. believe that
the workingmen this year and hereafter
will say to their employers: "You and l
will adjourn our fight, we will go togeth-
er to get something to divide and after
that we will fight on tie divide. for we
can no longer fight when there is nothing
to fight for.''
Another thing which led this whole
country into the error of 1892 was the
history OF the last 80 years. During all
that time we had been prosperous; wag-
es had increased, so all parties agree, in
the ratio of from 81 to $1.7O; so that
whoever got a dollar in 1860, in 1891
got for the same work $1.7O, and that
$1.7O bought nearly as much as 50 did
when the world was 80 years younger.
The generation which lived under r.
J.Walker and JamesBuchanan has passed
away. A new generation has
come, Having lived all their lives in
prosperity with increasing wages, people
came to feel that prosperity was natur-
al thing, something born of the climate
perhaps, or of the soil and utterly dis
connected with the government. For the
last 10 months it has slowly crept into
the minds Of all the people that there
may have been some brains put into the
government of this country during its
80 years of prosperity, that all this hap
pened, not by luck and chance, but by
good management and sound ideas.
am not going to enter into any pane
gyric of the Republican party. 1t is a
+ Iarty like any other, with many good
deeds and some bad ones, but on the
whole friend of the currency, of honest
living, of business prosperity, and fair
interpreter of the peoples wishes giving
them as good a government as they want
ed, and often better. Virtue in this
world is comparative. We never get
perfection. All we can say is that one
man Is better than another and that 1t IS
wiser to choose the better. One piece of
goods rescued :rom the general jettison
of the last two years is the fact that the
Democratic party has been tried in actu-
al command. We can now make CON-
parisons, not between what each party
says it will do, but between what each
party does. 1 notice that this fact trou-
bles the Democratic orator. The late
governor of Massachusetts, in out of the
wet himself, in presiding over the conven-
ton to nominate the other Russell, who
is already soaked with the coming storm,
demands to know what the Republican
party proposes to do. He and all the rest
| want to get back on the old platform.
which was of professions and not of deeds
This country has had enough of promises.
What it wants is character. Anybody can
make promises, Even the Democratic
party, disheveled and torn, continues to
promise, and is ready, notwithstanding a
ream of dishonored paper already protest
ed at the bank and marked ''No funds -
ssTo issue all the notes anybody will take"
I do not wonder. When politician IN
my own state, now dead. after helping to
muddle away $250,000out ofthe treasury
of the state of Maine, was asked by Mr..
Blaine why he kept issuing his notes after
they could only be sold at SO per cent, he
replied that he. though he could
stand it if the buyers could. There
is no reason why Democratic leaders
should stop issuing promises as long as
the public will take them. They are new
er redeemed. We Republicans cannot
compete we try to pay as we promise. If
you pay your notes you cannot afford to
swap paper with man who does not paw.
In saying what I have said about the
Democratic party, I: mean no disrespect
to individual Democrats. / do not claim