The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-08-19


owe 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 n conspiracy TO reduce
the wages paid this laborer that he NAV
have a larger proportion of his own pro-
ducts, and they are willing to cut down
the wages of every man who works in the
city, every man who tolls at the bench
who manages the train, i'm the hope that
they can ride into power on wave of
cupidity and greed awakened in the breast
of the voter.
"My friends, there has been q great
change in the Democratic organization Of
uhe southern states A new set has got
into the saddle, u set Of leaders of which
TDlman is the exponent, who boldly un-
furled the sectional flag at Chicago and
declared that this Populist movement is a
direct movement against the prosperity of
the east Men of New York, toilers of
America, guardians of homes will you al
low rates of wages to be affected by any
man who never has paid wages at all II he
could get out Of It? win you submit to
this conspiracy between the professional
farmers, the farmers who cultivate the
quarrels Of their neighbors, farmers who
labor with their jaws, Populist agitators
of the west and the unrecognized slave
holders of the south2 This is a conspiracy
between professional farmers who want
to pay low wages and the unreconcilcd
STAKEHOLDER who would like to pay no
wages at all.
I'VE believe that the very essence of civ
ilization is mutual interest, mutual for
bearance, mutual cooperation We be-
lieve the world has got past the time
when mems hands are at each others
throats. We believe today that men stand
shoulder to shoulder, working together
for common purpose beneficial to all,
and we believe that this attempt to assail
wages, which means an attempt TO attack
the prosperity of all, will be resisted not
by class, but by the whole nation. What
labor has gained, that shall it keep The
rate of wages that Is paid to it today is
the lowest rate we will ever willingly ac-
ccpt. We look forward to "a farther and
further increase in the prosperity of work
ingmen, not merely by an increase in the
daily wage, but by further increasing in
the purchasing power of wages.
Cooperation Brings Prosperity.
while we have in existence a system Of
mutual cooperation which is but another
name for civilized society, all men are ad-
mitted to share in every bounty which
providence showers upon. the earth, The
dWeller In the tenement house stopping
over his bench who never sees field of
waving corn, who has never inhaled the
perfume of grasses and of flowers is yet
made the participator on all the bounties
OF providence in the purifying influences
OF the atmosphere, the ripening rays of the
sum- when the product of the soil is made
cheaper to him every day by the abundance
of the harvest. 1t is from his share in this
bounty that the Populist wants to exclude
the American workingman. To him we
say, in the name of humanity, in the name
progress, you should neither press IA crown
Of thorns upon the brow of labor, nor
press scourge upon his back.
Il do not regret this campaign The
time has come when the people Of this
country will show their capacity for self
government. They will prove that the
men who have left the world in the path
way of progress will be the jealous guard
ians of liberty and order They are not
to be seduced by appeals to their cupidity
or moved by threats of injury. They will
ever relentlessly press and crush under
their heels the flaming torch of Populist
IuNhui 'pullsu dBludtloh "iu Up
ulist destruction. When this tide of agi-
tation shall have receded this tide of Pop
ulist agitation, this assault upon common
honesty and upon industry shall have been
abated forever, the foundations of this re-
public will remain undisturbed. This
government will still shelter a people
welded to liberty and order, jealousy for
bidding any distinction Of burden or Of
privileges concerning property, maintain
ing morality. resting forever upon the
broad basis Of American patriotism and
American INTEL lliGeuce.'