Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1896-08-27
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weeks work or two weeks work.
Every great industrial enterprise has for
its chief creditors it's own laborers The
heaviest account in every department. of
industry, whatever it may be, is always
the wages account.
Wages First Lien.
Here is an abstract which will show you
just how the earnings of Il great corpora
ton are distributed.
The New York Central railroad handles
ever year about s45, 900, 900. OF that sum
SlO,000,00 is paid for interest on bonds
and for rental Of leased railroads, s4, 000,-
600 is paid for dividends, S13, 600, 900 is
paid for equipment and repairs, and Sl5,-
500, 900 is paid Tor wages.
The railway employees of the United
States alone draw $500, 900, 600 year in
wages. If the New York Central railroad
went into the hands of q receiver tomor-
row, if it became totally and hopelesslv
bankrupt, its dividends could be passed
and its shareholders could not complain.
The interest on its bonds might be in de-
fault and the bondhulders would be with
out redress, but the wages of tho laborer
would always be paid for they are IL first
lien upon every industrial enterprise.
Not, my friends, because they love the
labor of man, but because he is absolute
ly necessary to the existence of the enter
prise
Here we have the figures from the Unit
cd States bureau of statistics showing the
amount of wages paid every year in the
United States, and we find that it was
over 50, 2S3, $780, 900. Talk of the interest
ON the national debt, talk of tho principal
of tho national debt talk of any other
debt that exists throughout the civilized
world and it forms but small percentage
of this debt which is due to labor, wher-
ever man works and toiis, wherever things
of value are being created, wherever means
of transportation are in activity, wherever
the forces of civilization arc at work.
farm is an industrial enterprise. Tho
pretense that the farmer of Nebraska is
suffering under the weight of a mortgage
contracted under metal which has stead
lily increased in value is but Populistic
metaphor Two-thirds Of the farmers
have no mortgage debt whatever. l do
not believe there is per cont of them
that owe mortgage over three years old,
during which time there has been no
change in the value of the metal, but every
single farmer is creditor in the shape of
his own labors.
The Farmer q Mainstay OF Order.
This proposal of the Populists is an at
tempt to enlist the farmer in "a conspiracy
to reduce the wages paid this labor that he
may have larger proportion of his own
products, and they are willing to cut down
the WACO of every man who works in cities.
who tolls at tho bench, who digs in the
mines, who manages the train, in the
hope that they can ride into power on Il
wave of cupidity and greed awakened in
the breast of the voter.
But, my friends, it is q triumphant vim
dication of American citizenship that this
attompt to enlist the farming and agricul-
tural members of this community into this
conspiracy has failed miserably, utterly,
absolutely. Every western state which in
1890 and 1892 fell into tho hands of the
Populists or went into tho Farmers ALI
ance, before their real purposes were OK
ecuted, was purified and the Populistic
forces We're scattered out of existence when
the farmers of this country understood
precisely what tho Populists meant for his
welfare was really for his ruin.
The farmer who when this country was
in DANCE shouldered his musket, to set it
aside when the last shot had been fircd on
prevented the political warriors at Wash
ington from pursuing policy of discrim-
ination. and punishment in the southern
states--that farmer who made the policy
Of the north a policy Of Cancellation, of
forgiveness, of reunion, whose hand it was
that made ruins of her cities and ashes of
her homes, received her once moro and
said, Live in peace and sin no more
That farmer today is the mainstay of
order and ofproperty, as he was tho main
stay of the Union.
There was Populistio delegation from
states chat were Democratic. bnt it is q
Significant fact that every northern state
in which there was a chance of clecting a
Democratic governor or of choosing Dem
ocratic electors, with+tho exception of Mis-
souri, and Indiana, stood boldly and firmly
for the gold standard at Chicago, and they
were submerged by Il wave of Populism
from the south.
My friends, there has been great
change in tho Democratic organization of
the southern states. The,nen who, from a
mistaken serse of loyalty, followed their
states out OF the Union, whose gallantry
in war, whose fortitude in defeat won the
admiration of the civilized world, the men
whose virtues commanded the support of
northern pubic opinion in tho attempt to
overturn carpetbag governments in the
southern states, the mon who led their
people through all the troubled period of
reconstruction back into full union with
the sister states-these men, like Hampton
in South Carolina and Caffcry in Louisi-
ana, have been swept from power, a new
set has got tito the saddle, set of leaders
Of which Til!man is the exponent, who
boldly unfurled the sectional flag at Chi
cago and declares that this Populist move
ment is q direct movement against the
prosperity of tho east
Conspiracy Against the Industrial NIaases.
Men of New York, toilers of America,
guardians of your own homes, will you
| allow yonr rate of wages to be affected by
any man who never has paid wages at all
If he could got out of it? Will you submit
to this conspiracy between the profession
al farmers, the farmers who cultivate tho
quarrels of their neighbors, farmers who
labor with their jaws, Populist agitators
of the west, and the unreconciled slave
holders 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
Hero is the explanation of this Populis.
movement