The evening bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1887-1905, 1896-08-22

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plays in measuring debts
If had paid $40 for 10 yards Of cloth to
be delivered TO mo next week, and In the
interim the government should pass a
law declaring that hereafter the yard
measure should consist of IL inches and
that all existing contracts should be set
tied in that system OF measure, l would
be cheated out of half the cloth for which
had paid. If, on the other hand. owed
cloth merchant for 10 yaids of CLOTH
which he had delivered to me and which
was payable next week, and in the mean
time the government should change the
value of the dollar, and cut down the unit
of measure one-half then 1 would settle
that debt for So and the cloth merchant
would have been cheated.
Now the Populists say that the creditor
Is n person who Expresses the western
farmer; the creditors of this country are
not the bankers, they are not the so called
capitalists they are the laborers and it Is
at the expense of labor this change Is
made. The laborer Is always creditor for
at least one days work. When any man
can show me laborer who has been paid
in advance for days work, will show
him II laborer who Is u debtor. The la
borer by the very law of his being cred
itor for ut least one days work and is gen.
orally a creditor for a weeks work or two
week 5 work. Every great industrial en-
tcrprise has for Its chief creditors its own
laborers. The heaviest account in every
department. of industry, whatever it may
be, is always tho wages account.
The pretense that the farmer of Nebras-
ka is suffering under the weight of a
mortgage contracted under metal which
has steadily increased in value is but
PopuliStic metaphor. Two-thirds of the
farmers have no mortgage debts whatever.
l do not believe there Is per cent of them
that owe mortgage three years old
during which time thore has been no
change in the value of the metal. This
proposal of the Populists is an intent to
enlist the farmer in a conspiracy ro reduce
the wages paid this labor, that he may
have larger proportion of his own
products, and they are willing to cut down
the wages of every man who works in cit
les, who tolls ut the breach, who digs in
the mines, who manages the train, in the
hope that they can wave into power on
wave of cupidity and greed awakened in
the breast of the voter.
But, my friends, 1t is triumphant vim
dication of American citizenship that this
attempt to enlist the farming and agri.
cultural members of this community into
conspiracy has failed, miserably, utterly,
absolutely. Every estern wstate which
in 1890 and 1892 fell into the hands of the
Populists and went into the Farmers
Alliance, befo'e their real purposes were
executed, were purified and the Pop.
ullstlC forces scat, cred out of existence
when the farmers of this country under.
stood precisely what the Populists meant
for his welfare was really Tor his ruin.
The farmer who, when this country was
in danger, shouldered his musket to set il
aside when the last shot had been fired on
the southern Battlefield, whose modera-
ton proven ted the political warriors at
Washington from pursuing a policy of
discrimination and punishment in the
sOnfhnrn StAtpS-fhnt fnrInpr who aHn
the policy of the north policy of concili
alton OF forgiveness, of reunion, whose
hand it was that made ruin of her cities
and ashes of her homes, received her once
more and said: Live in peace, and sin no
more"
That farmer today Is the mainstay Of
order and OF property as he was the main
stay of the Union. There was a Popu-
listic delegation from states that were
Democratic, but il is "a significant fact
that every northern state in which there
was chance of electing a Democratic
governor, of choosing Democtatic electors
with the exceptions of Missouri aud In
diana stood boldly and firmly for tho
gold standard at Chicago and they were
submerged by wave of Populism from
the south. My friends there has been a
great change in the Democratic organiza-
ton of the southern states. The men who
from mistaken sense of loyalty followed
their states out of the Union,
whose gallantry in war, whose
fortitude in defeat, won the admiration of
the civilized world, the men whose virtues
commanded the support of northern pub
lie opinion in the attempt to overturn car
pet-bag government in the southern
states, the men who led their people
through all the troubled period of recon
struction back into full union with the
sister states, these men-like Hampton in
North Carolina and Caffrcy in Louisiana
have been swept from power, new set
has got into the saddle-a set of leaders of
which Tillman is the exponent, who bold
ly unfurled the sectional flag at Chicago
and declared that this Populist movement
Is direct movement against the prosperi-
ty of the east.
Men of money, toilers of America,
guardians of your own homes, will you
allow rates of wages to be affected by any
man who never has paid wages at all if he
could get out OF itY Will you submit to
this conspiracy between the professional
farmers the farmers who cultivate the
quarrols OF their neighbors, farmers who
labor with their jaws, Populist agitators
of the west and the unrequited slave
holders Of the south? This is conspir-
acy between professional farmers who
want to pay low wages and the unrecon-
ciled STAKEHOLDER who would like to pay
no wages at all. Here is the real root of
TINS conspiracy. Mr.. Bryan did not create
1t. No man can create "a movement like
this.
The forces that created it are active and
have been working in thousand differ
ent directions Mr.. Bryan rep resenting
this theory, is but like drop OF water on
the crest Of wave, more conspicuous, but
no more important, than the millions OF
drops that form its base. The Populistic
movement Is the attempt of these pro
fessional farmers, of these men who are
to share with the laborer, &c