Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-08-28

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a citizen of New York
the other eminent resi-
fotIDDOliS. KNOWS uGJle be-
Is. He has person al knowl-
the existence Of Washington city,
only vague idea Of the existence of
lche great West and South, except as out
lying provinces. Tohin, as TO the average
New Yorker, that city is the United
States and w all Street is it's capital. 1t
was from this stand point that, surround
ed by millionaires, bankers and railroad
presidents, he spoke at Madison Square
Garden on August 18th. He was to speak
for the Money Power of the country. He
was to do it, so to speak, officially, and had
been literally paid for the job. He was to
express the opinion held by the Money Pow
Ell of whole people and he did it faithfully.
He was to express the contempt-in which
Wall street (which is not an agricultural
country holds those who till the soil. He
was to express the contempt in which Wall
street (which always wants things quiet)
holds agitators. He was to express the
remainder of the sectional hatred that some
of the Northern people still bear the South
ern people. That he did his work well
nobody will deny; his money was fully
earned. He with infinite skill transfixed
the Door farmer who so far forgets his
station as to complain above his breath OF
the 6fty-cent wheat and other benefits that
the gold standard has conferred on him,
with the Characterization of farmers who
labor with their jaws" and his audience
enjoyed the mental picture OF the
poor farmer so transixed, with cloud ap-
plause." The people of the great West
Jared no better and he dismissed them as
Populist agltators. But it was OF the
"unreconciled slave holders Of the South"
that he was able to draw the most graphic
picture. Those gentlemen who have been
getting fifty cents for their wheat and five
cents for their cotton. were exposed as
having entered into ''conspiracy" with
certain persons, known as professional.
farmers the party of the FIRST part, desir-
ing to pay slow wages, - and the party Of
the seecJnt part, the 'unreconciled slave
holders of the South, desiring to ''pay nc
wages at all.'' And not only were these
Western and Southern agitators after
paying low OF no wages, but they were
preparing to wipe out all Indebtedness of the
past by starting campaign which lis an
issue of common honesty; an issue between
the honest discharge and the dishonest re
pudiation of public and private obliga
tions." Of course having thus arranged
the parties to the financial question in two
classes-all on his side as high toned
| professional farmers working with theil
Jaws" ''unreconclled slave holders wh(
would like to pay no wages at ALL" and
men engaged in the dishonest Reputation
| of public and private obligations" MI
COCHRAN had no further tronhle and found
| the rest of his argument plain sailing.
AS boomerang MI. Cockran's speech
will be disastrous in its effects, but in the
rejoicing of all patriotic men that a MAI
who would speak thus of the great MAORI.
| ty of the American people has administered
most deadly blow to his own bad cause
we should not forget that by looking around
we may see other men not so prominent as
MI. Cochran who, having enjoyed the honors
and emoluments of Office at the hands OF
the Democratic party, are now engaged in
| the chivalric task of stabbing it in the
| back. Men alternating themselves from OLD
political associates, alternating themselves
| from great movement in behalf of hui
| manity, and alternating themselves from the
great mass of their countrymen, simply to
, serve Mammon.