The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-09-24

business over again, what could l do
with S1.4G0? What could do with
S14. 900. or with $4,000? l would need
million. at the least, to attempt to do
now what | did then, and the thirty
one years of experience don't count. 1t
is to this state of affairs that the
strength of thc discOntented feeling in
the West is due. A few men control
verything nowadays; there's no show
for the young man. The trusts and the
corporations are the people | fight,
and that's why the people support me-
The free-silver people tell them that
free silver will help them out. They
will fight, fight like wildcats, for free
silver until they have given 1t a trial
If silver doesn't do what Its advocates
promise they'll throw 1t over and try
something else. And they'll keep on
trying until they get some help some
where.
"The soil Is the source Of all wealth.
and it isn't supporting people as it
should. Now, Liverpool sets the price
for all our farm products. The Amer
ican farmer comes into competition
with India and Russia and all starva-
ton. There isn't an American living
In 1t for him. He works himself to
death and only gets 20 cents day out
of IT, He shouldn't be forced to COM
pete with the dirty heather. He
ought to be protected. He wants pro-
tection and he wants more money. He
wants some of the money that the
sharks Of Wall street are fighting with
each other for.
"You folks in the East don't appre-
ciate the Westerners' position because
you can't realize it. You don't keep
your eyes on the people who work
with their hands. This country can't
pull together until things are evened
up. Our farms are mortgaged, and
they are not even worth foreclosng ON,
they have deprecated So Oats are
eight cents bushel and coal is $125
more than it was year ago. We
burn corn. We have got to have
market, and we want to be protected.
to come down to the farmer or the far
mer must be raised up to them, or
something's going to bust. l don't
blame any man for making all the
money he can, but for Gods sake, let
him give some one else chance, too.
when he can"
Mr.. Pingree switched off here and
began to talk Of street cars and cheap
fares, one Of his pet subjects. New
York is away behind the times in
street cars" he said. "This prejudice
against trolley cars Is all an ailment
that Detroit has passed through and
gotten well of. They don't kill peo-
pie out our way. In Brooklyn they do,
you say? That ls because the corpor-
atioDs don't care whether they kill
anybody or not so long as they can col
leut tive-cent fares. Make them care!
Jump on them, by barry, and hurt
them a little! Then they won't kill
people so much. Now the street car
franchises ought TO pay all the taxes
for the city of New York. Refuse the
franchise until they agree to put the
fare down to two cents. Every time
you ride you save three cents There's
your years taxes in month almost.
The road will be repaid by the increas-
ed number of passengers.
New York has too many crowded
spots. More street car lines would
break them up. The Health Board,
with the police back Of it, has full
power to drive the people out of the
crowded districts, and make them give
up crawling together like a lot Of
water bugs, Then your trolley lines,
with two-cent fares, take them away
out to purer air and cheaper, better
homes, where they can live like Chris
"Well, Uncle Rasbury, how did you
| like the sermonT'
1T was a pow'rful sermon, Marse
John"
What was 1t aboutS"
1T was bout de mir'cle of seven
thousand lOayes an Ave thousand
fishes bein' fed TO de twelve 'postles."
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