The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-19

tning which ne means 10 bestow on him
he must take from somebody else. Who
Is TO be despoiled, and who Is 10 be en-.
rlched by the exercise OF this new
scheme of government
Concerning Generosity.
A government never can be generous.
because III IL be generous to one II must
be oppressive TO another. But this finan-
cial scheme contempiates an increase In
the price or certain commodities. We
are coming now pretty close to the wood
pile behind which the African Is con.
cealed. Now IL everything in this world,
or In this country, including labor, be in
creased In value tomorrow In like pro-
portion, not one of US would be affected
at all. If everything be increased 10
per cent In value, we would pay 10 per
cent I'm addition for what we would buy,
ana get 10 per cent more for what we
would sell, and we would be in exactly
the same place we occupied before.
Therefore, IL is fair TO assume that is not
the lame and impotent conclusion which
this Popuist revolution contemplates.
What. then, is IL? IL is an increase I'm
the price OF commodities, and allowing
labor TO shift for itself. III the price OF
commodities be increased. and the price
OF labor be left stationary, why that
means the cutting down of the rate OF
consists of given quantity of gold equal
to 100 cents anywhere in the world, with
the purchasing power OF 100 centA the
laborer Is to be paid I'm dollars worth 90
cents each, why he can only buy half as
much with a days wages as be buys
now.
Mr.. Bryan leads the van In saying that
II is the creditors he is after. Now tine
Populist loves TO say that the creditor
Is a person who oppresses the western
farmer; the creditors OF this country are
not the bankers; they are not the So
called capitalists; they are the laborers,
and IL IL at the expense of labor that this
charge Is made. The laborer Is always
a creditor for at least one days work
When any man can show me laborer
who has been paid in advance for a
days work, l will show him laborer
who is a debtor. The laborer, by the very
law OF his being creditor for at least
one days work. is generally a cred
itor for a weeks work. or two weeks
work. Every great industrial enter
prise has for its chief creditors its own
laborers. The heartiest account in every
department OF industry, whatever IL
may be, is always the wages account.
The pretense that the farmer OF Me-
braska is suffering under the weight OF q
mortgage, contracted under a metal
which has steadily increased In value.
~ but Populistic metaphor. l do not
believe there is per cent OF them who
owe a mortgage over three years old,
during which time there has been no
change in the value of the metal. This
proposal Of the Populists is an intent TO
enlist the farmer in q conspiracy 10 re-
duce the wages paid this labor, that he
may have a larger proportion OF his own
products, and they are willing to cut
down the wages of every man who works
in cities, who tolls at the bench, who digs
In the mines, who manages the train, In
the hope that they can ride into power
on a wave of cupidity and greed awak-
ened i'm the breast of the voter, but, my
friends, IL is a triumphant vindication
OF American citizenship that this at
tempt to enlist the farming and agricul-
tural members OF this community in
this conspiracy has failed, miserably,
utterly, absolutely. Every western state
which I'm 1890 and in 1892 fell into the
hands OF the Populists went into the
farmers alliance before their real pur-
poses were executed; were purified, and
the Populistic forces scattered out OF
existence. When the farmers OF this
country understand precisely what the
Populists meant for his welfare was
really for his ruin, the farmer, who.
when this country was in danger, shoul-
dered his musket to set IL aside when the
last shot had been fired on the southern
the political warriors at Washington
fiom pursuing a policy Of discrimina-
ton and punishment in the southern
states-that farmer who made the policy
OF the north a policy of conciliation, OF
forgiveness, of reunion, whose hand IL
was that made ruins of her cities and
ashes of her homes, received her once
more and said. Live in peace and sin
no more"
The farmer today is the mainstay Of
order and OF property, as he was the
mainstay Of the Union. My friends,
there has been great change In the
Democratic organization OF the south
ern states. The men. who from a mis-
taken sense Of loyalty, followed their
states out of the Union, whose gallantry
in war, whose forttude I'm defeat, won
the admiration of the civilized world,
the men whose virtues commanded the
support of northen public opinion is the
attempt to overthrow carpet-bag gov
ernments in the southern states, the men
who led their people through all the
troubled period of reconstruction back
into a full union with the sister states,
these men. like Hampton of South Caro-
lima, and Caffrey i'm Louisiana. have been
swept from power, new set has got into
the saddle; a set of leaders of which
Tulman is the exponent, who boldly un-
furled the sectional flag at Chicago, and
declared tndl tnlS GOpullSt movements
is a direct movement against the pros
perity OF the east.
Men OF New York, toilers of America.
guardians Of your own homes, will you
allow your rate of wages TO be affected
by any man who never has paid wages
at all II he could get out OF it. Will you
submit 10 this conspiracy between the
professional farmers, who labor with
their jaws, Populist agitators of the west,
and the unreconciled shareholders Of
the south? This is conspiracy between
professional farmers, who want To pay
low wages, and the unreconciled slave
holder who would like TO pay no wages.
Here is the real root Of this conspiracy.
The Populistic movement is the attempt
of these professional farmers, OF these
men who are unwilling TO share with the
laborer. TO appeal to their greed. The
Populist is ain enemy Of public order. he
Is an obstacle To progress. He is con-
spirator against the peace and pros
perity OF The industrial masses Of the
country.
Labor the Target OF Conspiracy.
/ have said that the lnborer is the OBJ
ject OF this conspiracy. and he is. But