Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-08-27

winch IN 1871 aud lSJ2 Tell INTO tne nalnis
of the POpulsts and went into the Far
mers' Alliance, before their real purposes
were executed, was purified. and the Pop |
nlistic forces scattered ont of existence |
when the farmers Of this country under |
stood precisely that what the Populists |
meant for his welfare was really for his
ruin. The farmer who, when this country
was in danger. shculdered his musket TO
set il aside when the last shot had been
fired on the Southern battlefield. whose
moderation prevented the political warri-
prs at Washington from pursuing policy
of discrimination and punishment in the
Southern States. that farmer who mnde
the policy Of the North u policy of concili-
alton, of forgiveness, of reunion, whose
hand it was made ruin of her cities and
ashes of homes, received her once more,
and said; '.Livc In peace and sin no
more Va
That farmer to-day is the mainstay of
order and property as he was the mainI
stay af the Union. There was a Popuiis-
tic delegation from States that were
Democratic. but it is significant fact
that every Northern State in which there
was a chance of electing a Democratic
Governor or of choosing Democratic cleo
tors. with the exception of Missouri aud
Indiana, stood boldly and firmly for the
geld standard mt Chicago, and they were
submerged by the Populists from the
South
My friends, there has been great
change in the Democratic organization OF
the Southern States; men who from a
! mistaken sense of loyalty followed their
| States ont of the Uninp, whose gallantry
| in war, whose fortitudc in defeat, won
the admiration of the civilized world, the
| men whose virtues commanded the sup
port of Northern public opinion in the alb
tempt to overtnrn carIIet-bng govern
ments in the Southern States, the men
| who led their people through all the trou-
bled period of reconstruction back into
| full union with the sister States. these
men. like Hampton, in North Carolina.
and Caffrey, in Louisiana, have been
swept from power. 4 new set has got
into the saddle "A set Of leaders of which
Tilman is the exponent, who boldly un-
furlc1 the sectional flag al Chicago and
declared that this PoDulistic movement is
a direct movement against the prosperity
of the East.
Men Of New York, toilers of America,
guardians of homes, will You allow the
rate of wages to be affected Gries Of
Never. Never'o by any man who never
has paid wages at all if he could get out
of it? Will you submit to this conspiracy
between the professional farmers. the
farmers who cultivate the quarrels Of
their neighbors: farmers who labor with
their jaws: Popnlist agitators of the West
and the unreconciled shareholders of the
South? This is Il conspiracy between pro
fessiOna farmers, who want to pay low
wages. and the unreconciled Shareholder
who would like to pay no wages at all
iApplause.l' Here is the real root of this
conspiracy.
Mr.. Bryan did not create it. No man
can create movement like this. The
fHces that create it are active, and have
been working in a thousand different di
rections. Mr. Bryan, representing this
theory, is bnt like drop of water on the
crest of the wave. more conspicuous, bn'
no more important than the millions Of
drops that form its base. The Populistit
movement is the attempt of these profess
sional farmers, of these men who are un
willing to share with the laborer, to ap
peal to their greed.
He is an enemy of public ORDER he is ar
obstacle to progress: he is conspiratol
against the peace and prosperity of th'
industrial masses of the country. i hay,
said that the laborer is the object of THU
conspiracy. and he is. But let no maj
imagine that if they are successful, th'
injury would all lie borne my the man witt
works with his hands. He would be tn,
first to suffer, and the last to recove
from its effect. But the shock TO civiliza
ton which would cnsuc from such +;
breach of public and private faith wouit
, le irrcpnrable. Its effect no man coul,
measure from any one of the human race
/ cannot tell to what degree it would para
, lyZe industry,
, If was asked to define civilization.
, | would say it was industrial co-Opera
+ ton" Everything that a~mnn does 70
, his own benefit acts upon the interests o
, his ncighhors. No man can stand alon
. in civilized community. His interests
< his prospects, his fortunes. are TO som
p extent shared by his fellows. There i
I not nm car of corn ripcning in the West
$ crn fields that docs not affect the price o
- bread to you and to me.
) The farmer who srattcrs seed upon tn
o ground by that act starts into motion til
wheels of the factory; he sharpens III
{ tools of the carpenter; he stimulates tn
r construction of railroads: he causes til
a engineers TO plan new bridges crossin
Is currents. new tunnels under rivers, neN
o canals joining oceans and separating col
: tin"nts, If the farmer did not work.
n tho miner did not dig in the subtcrranea
e gallery, every other department of il
: dustry would languish. for men would NJ
It produce aud create if they did not 50
l. in the industry and activity Of others
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