The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-08-20


Hampton i'll North Carolina and Caffery
in Louisiana, have been swept from
power, and now they have in the saddle,
leaders like Tillman, who boldly I'M
furled the sectional flag at Chicago and
declared this populist movement is
against the prosperity of the eastern men
of New York. Toiling American citi-
zens, will you allow your rates of
wages to be affected (cries of never,
never by any man who has never paid
wages at all if he could get out of it?
Will you submit to this conspiracy be-
tween the professional farmers, the far
mers who cultivate the quarrels of their
neighbors-farmers who labor with their
jaws, populist agitators of the west and
the unreconciled slave holders who would
like to pay no wages at all (Applause).
He is the real root of this conspiracy.
Mr.. Bryan did not create it. No man
can create n movement like this. The
forces that created it are active and
have been working in thousand differ
ent directions. Mr.. Bryan. representing
this theory, is but like a drop of water
on the crest of wave, more cOnspicu-
Gus, but no more important. than the
millions of drops that form its base The
populistic movement is the attempt of
these professional farmers, of these men
who are unwilling to share with the la
borer the appeal to their greed. He is
an engine of public order; he is an obsta-
Gle to progress; he is Il cOnspirator against
the peace and prosperity of the indus
trial masses of the country. | have said
that the laborer is the object of this
conspiracy, and he is.
But let no man imagine that if they
are successful the injury would be to
him alone who works with his hands.
10 hn tbn E,,ct 10 Go, thn
last to recover from its effects. But the
shock to civilization which would ensue
from such breach of public and private
faith would be irreparable. Its effect
no man could measure from any eXpe-
rience of the human race. We cannot
tell to what degree it would paralyze in
dustry. If | were asked to define civil
ZatiOn, | should say if was industrial
cooperation Everything that man
does for his own benefit acts directly upon
others interests. His prospects, his for
tunes are to some extent shared by his
fellows. There is not an ear of corn rip
ening in the western field that does not
affect the price of bread to you and to me.
1.-The farmer who scatters seed upon the
ground, by that act starts into motion
the wheels of the factory: he sharpens
the tools of the carpenter; he stimulates
the construction of railroads: he causes
the engineers to plan new bridges cross
ing currents, news, canals. joining oceans
and separating continents. If the farmer
did not work. if the miner did not dig
in the subterranean gallery, every other
department of industry would languish;
so every man in the world is bound close
" to the destiny and interests OF his fel-
low man. Underlying the whole system
OF civilization is the confidence men have
in nth In fhnip hnp
esty: confidence in their integrity: con-
tidence in their industry; if we ever de-
base our standard of value, you would
still have the same property you have
today you would still have the same soil;
you would still have the same continent.
lt Is true. But SO ana the indian nave
the same rivers tnat roll past our cltles
ana turn Ine Wheeis OF commerce as tneH
Formerly dld; so were the mountains full
or yellow treasures as OF days gone by.
Inc same soil covered the earth; the same
sun shone IN heaven, pursuing the path
way OF war through the trackless for
ests, and the river bore no living thing
except the Indian in his canoe. pursuing
Il pathway OF destruction. There was no
industrial cooperation, because the In
dian was savage and did not under
stand the principle by which men aid
each other in taking from the bosom of
the earth the wealth which makes life
bearable. and he did not develop the in
telligence which makes civilization. Any
thing that attacks that basis of human
confidence is Il crime against civilization
and blow against the foundation of So
clal order.
"Wherever YOU find populists assembled
YOU will find discussions proceeding mon
the theory that men are hostile to each
other in their interests. that the condi-
ton of life is one of contests. At Chica
go Mr.. Bryan declared when YOU come
before lis and tell us that we shall dis
turb your business interest we reply that
you have disturbed our business inter
ests.' CA voice. che was right.'0
"He was. NV friend. When n man
loses all sense he has n right 70 defv
those that possess any. Iaupbterl In
n convention of extremists the most ey-
IRENE will ALWAYS be selected for n lead
err. | merely desire TO call the attention
of this gathering TO the character of that
speech TO the underlying shirt that per-
yades it and to ask the workingmen of
this country. TO ask the citizens of This
nation if the government sbOuld he trust
ed in the hands of men whose convention
of civilized society is one of warfare and
strife. We believe that tbe voice and
sense of civilization is mutual forbeor-
ance. mutual co-operotion. We believe
the world has got mast the time when
mems hands are at encb others tbroots.
We believe today that mon stand should.