The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-04-29

v.rv chance TO happen again.
ws. not much Of a President pu'
49,. Zoo, doesn't cut anything OF a ns'
,,re ~ I can plank up the 'oooo'e'
,,orono,,sts all tell me ] am inc
49, ,,em" So Benjy may as wen oe
-. into The account from this day
hence as one who is to be reckoheu VIZ"
This il very plain from the speee" ~
ID a few DAYS back at Indianapolis 10
,,o penublican convention held tnere'
But the country has no neea "h
FOR Heniy-could dispense with hin'' HI
/ doed easier than with any cast-oh
80, that q has ever worn. II Is grauiy-
ing therefore. to have his confessio" u
faith beforehand. that we may DE a''e ~
learn certainly whether he is reaiy '"e
po,,v ~ old or a reformed repropa'e'
cbastened and improved by the INSTRUCTIVE
lessons of a sad experience. we duo'e'
therefore. with pleasure. the following
from his speech. He said:
"orr friends may endeavor to persuade
tho American people that this period OF
depression Is only one OF those periouic
nanics that they say at intervals. more or
less certain. necessarily fall upon US
some NAV endeavor TO persuade you that
the Influences that have brought II ABOUT
were climatic or seismic. but 1 psHe'e
I do not state il too strongly when say
the common mind-the close opser'e'on
of those who are educated and instructed
by facts rather than given TO refnen
theories-has settled upon the cause OF
this present disastrous depression. They
find that cause I'm the attempt to wipe out
the protective idea and 10 submit the doc
trines Of a revenue tariff =
There now, there it is. The plethora
Of money in the banks Of New York
with interest at two per cent. per an
mum there whilst the rural districts are
absolutely bare Of it, and interest is eight
TO ten per cent. a year there, is due
neither TO hot suns. cold winds, nor earth
ouakes. It's worth something to us to
know that. No. Climatic and seismic dis
~turbances Of the globe count for nothing
in the c~ataclysm. The whole trouble
dfiStS rum tAt ldSt TIA W.
minded Democrats are going TO put a
stop TO Andrew Carnegie drawing a tax
of over S13 on every ton of steel rails,
and paying his workmen only IS to manu-
facfure it, and when Benny had worked
himself up to that clear perceptive of
earthquakes and simoons being forces
that might just as well be left wholly
out of the case, he let himself down, so 10
speak, after the following fashion:
THE American workman is realizing to-
day that it is not possible for him TO
separate himself in interest from the man.
ufacturer who employs him; that he can
not listen TO the wild and vicious APP
peals which nave been made to him,
strike at the men who give employment
to labor, without bringing the blow back
in recoil upon himself and upon his fam
fly"
Now our long lost. but unlamented,
Benny may believe all this, and we give
his credit for sense enought TO know it's
all ~humbuggery, from a protectionist's
standpoint, though perfectly true in it.
self. But he is not going to be President
again, just the same. When a great body
Of people have made one experiment and
found their supposed coin nothing but a
counterfeit, they never try it a second
tire. You may fool some of the peo-
pie all the time. Benny, and all Of the
people some of the time. But you can't
fool all Of the people all OF the time"