The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-06-08

| The burst from the audience al
most drowned the last sentence
Handkerchiefs fiuttered, shrill
shrieks Of delight mingled with ths
battcring Of umbrellas and hoarsel
shouts.
SENATOR'S SPECULATE, PEOPLE
sTARvE.
"Consider what to-day is going
on! dickering, bartering, this max
ing Of fortunes out Of legislation,
while the great mass Of the people
are suffering in their misery, wait
ing for the Senate to do something
to help them. Each day little items
appear in the newspapers, are read
and forgotten, which recite the most
horrible tragedies. Our cities and
our roads are filled with men ask
ing the first Of human rights, the
privilege Of earning their living.
And what is Congress doing? Moth
ing. 1t is trading, trading on the
very life-blood of men and women
and little children, while rings and
trusts and monopolies are cared for.
"Our so-called representatives are
selling labor To trusts and rings. !
say that the party and men who
promised to do something for labor
by remitting taxes have done moth
ing. Remission would, for time
at least, increase the production,
and set to work thousands who are
now idle, and who are trying with
all their might to find work. These
Coxey armies are not vagrants, Oh
if they are they are not vagrants
from choice. No matter how ride
ulous are their demands, they are
not so ridiculous as the demands OF
the protectionists lobbies.
ONLY CONTEMPT FOR POVERTY.
"The agents Of the steel ring, the
sugar trust, and the whole horde OF
them 90 to Washington in private
cars, and are received by Demo-
Gratis with the most distinguished
consideration. But the men who
90 there on foot, feeling want, the
pressure Of awful suffering end mis-.
ery. are received by the standing
army of Congress-for that is what
it is-with clubs, and punished fol
treading on the grass. 1t is time
that the Democratic principle was
asserted, the principal Of equal
rights to all, and special privileges
to none.' For the Democratic party
l care little; for Democratic prin-
ciples / care everything. l don't
care what Mr.. cleveland does"
The resolutions were read by
Charles Frederick Adams, Of Brook
lyn, and adopted with a great shout,
with exactly four votes against
them. These are the resolutions :
SENATOR'S, READ THESE.
Whereas, a Democratic President
and Congress were elected in 1892
upon the pledge Of giving prompt
relief from what the Republicans
call "protection," but which the
National Democracy declared to be
robbery and fraud;
And, whereas, the Wilson bill
not passed in the House until nearly
year after the Democracy came
into control Of the National Govern
ment, and in itself a weak conces.
sion to tariff trusts and rings and q
lame attempt to carry out Demo
cratic promises, has now been sc
emasculated by the Democrats Of
the Senate in concession to shame.
less bargaining and unconcealed
corruption as to have become little
better than the Mckinley bill OF
denominations;
Therefore, be it resolved by this
meeting Of citizens Of New York
who supported Mr.. Cleveland and
the Democratic party in 1892,
That up to the present time the
Democratic party, as represented in
the National Govenment, has by
the failure to carry out its pledges
and the disposition to surrender its
principles, provoked the indignant
contempt Of those who accepted its
promises in 1892, and that it must
quickly show substantial evidences
of good faith, or be swept from pow
er at the next election.
That we call on the honest Dem
ocrats Of the Senate to abandon the
suicidal policy Of surrendering all
that traitors and corruptionists in
their ranks demand, and to force 70
open issue the reduction proposed
by the Wilson bill as it came from
the House, so that it may be seen
who are in favor Of so far keeping
their party pledges, and who it is
that repudiate them, and the re-
sponsibility may thus be shifted
from the party as whole to the in
|dividuals who have betrayed It.
That we call on the honest Dem
ocrats Of the House 10 accept no
Senate amendments that adds nm