The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-19

| states that were Democratic, but 1t is a sig
which there a chance of electing a Demo-
cratic governor or of choosing Democratic
| electors, with the exception of Missouri and
| Indiana, stood boldly and firmly for the gold
standard at Chicago and they were sub
| merged by wave OF Populsm from the
| South. My friends, there has been a great
| change in the Democratic organization OF the
Southern states. The men who from a mis-
| taken 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 support of Northern public opin-
! ion in the attempt to overturn carpet-bag
governments in the Southern states, the men
| who led their people through all the troubled
| period of reconstruction back into full
| union with the sister states these men, like
4 Hampton in North Carolina and Cafrey in
Louisiana, have been swept from power,
new set has got into the saddle, set OF
| who boldly unfurled the sectional flag at
! Chicago and declared that this Populist move
ment is direct movement against the pros
/ perity Of the East.
Men of New York, toilers of America guard
/ ians of your own homes, will you allow your
rate of wages to be affected (cries Of Never!
! ncyer!') by any who never has paid
! wages at all IL he could get out OF IT.? VIII
! you submit to this conspiracy between the
/ tivate the quarrels of their neighbors, farm
! ers who labor with their jaws,
PoPULIsT AGITATORs OF TIE WEST
and the unreconciled shareholders of the
South. This is a conspiracy between the
professional farmers, who want TO pay low
wages, and the unreconciled shareholders
who would like to pay no wages at all. Gap
plause.) Here is the real root Of this con-
spiracy. Mr.. Bryan did not create it. No
man create a movement like this The
forces that created 1t are active and have
been working in a thousand different direc-
lions. Mr.. Bryan representing this theory
is but like a drop of water the crest Of
| the wave. more conspicuous but more
important than the million 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 laborer, to
| appeal to their greed. He is the enemy to
public order; he is an obstacle to progress.
He is a conspirator against the peace and
prosperity CT the industrial 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 successful, the
injury would all be borne by the man who
works with his hands. He should be the last
to suffer and the last to recover from the
| effects, but the shock to civilization which
| would ensue from such a breach Of public
! effect no man could measure from any ex-
| per1ence of the human race. We cannot tell
| to what degree it would paralyze industry.
II | were asked to defLe civilization, 1
should say 1t industrial cooperation"
everything that man does for his own ben
| eft reacts directly upon the interests of his
neighbors. No man can stand alone in a
| civilized community. His interests, his pros
poets, his fortunes are to some extent shared
Dy his Fellows. There is not an ear of corn
| ripening in the Western field that does not
affect the price of bread to you and me. 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 crossing currents new tunnels
under rivers. new canals joining oceans and
separating continents. If the farmer did not
| work, If the miner did not dig in the sub
terranean gallery, every other department
| of industry would languish, for men would
not produce and create if they did not see in
| the industry and activity of others prospect
Of demand for the commodity
which they produce, and 60 every
man In the world is bound closely
TO the destiny and interests OF his fellow man.
Underlying the whole scheme Of civilization
is the confidence men have in each other
Confidence in their industry; confidence in
! their future. If we have silver coinage tomor-
row, If we even debase our standard of value
men say that still you would have the same
property you have today, you would still
nave the same soil, you would still have the
same continent, and it is true. But so did
the Indian have the same rivers that roll past
our cities and turn the wheels of commerce
as tney pass. 50 the mountains were piled
full OF mineral treasures 400 years ago. The
same atmosphere enwrapped this continent;
the same soil covered the fields; the same
sun shone in heaven and yet there was none
put the savage pursuing the pathway of war
Inrough the trackless forests; and the river
pore no single living being, except the Indian
| ton.
mere was no industrial cooperation be-
| cause the indian was savage and did not
I understand the principles by which men aid
| each other in taking from the bosom Of the
earth the wealth which makes life bearabIe
| and develops the intelligence which makes
| civilization. Anything that attacks chat basis
OF human confidence is a crime against CIV
of social order.
Wherever you find PopuIists assembled.
you Will ind discussions proceeding upon the
theory that men are hostile to each other
IN their interests; that the condition of life is
one OF contest. At Chicago Mr.. Bryan de-
us that we shall disturb your business inter
ests, we reply that you have disturbed our
business interests" "a voice HE was right.'O
He was my friend. When a man loses all
sense, he has right to- defy those that
possess any. Q4aughter.) In a convention of
extremists, the most excitable will always
be selected for leader. Your prospects are
not bad. merely desire to call the attention
of this gathering to the character Of that
speech, to the underlying spirit that peryades
it, and then to ask the workingmen of this
| country, to ask the citizens OF this nation
II the government should be trusted to the
| hands of men whose conception Of civilized
| society is one of
WARFARE AND STRIFE.
We believe that the very gessence. of civil
| lization is mutual interest, mutual forbear-
! ance, mutual cooperation. We believe the
world has got past the time when mems
| hands are at each others Threats. We believe
today that men stand shoulder to shoulder
working together for a common purpose
! beneficial to all (applause), 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 1t keep. The rate of wages peid to it
/ today is the lowest rate we will ever will
| ingly accept. We look forward to a farther
and farther increase in the prosperity Of
workingmen, not merely by an increase in the
daily wage, but by further increasing in
| the purchasing power of wages.
Men who tell us that the price Of farm
| products has fallen, and that the farmer for
that reason is a sufferer, forget that while the
| price OF wages has risen, off the farm, the
/ efficiency Of labor has increased so that the
| cost of production has been reduced through
| the aid Of machinery, while the wages Of the
| individual laborer may have risen. While
wages remain at their present rate l hope
! ance Of decrease in the cost of living There
j is way in which l can be admitted to a
share Of Gods bounty except through fall
! in the prices Of the necessaries Of life. While
we have in existence a system of mutual CO.
| operation which is but another name for
| civilized society, all are admitted to share
| in every bounty which Providence showers
upon the earth. The dweller III the tene-
ment, STOPPING over his bench who never
| sees a field of waving corn, who has never in
| yet made the participator In all the bounties
| Of Providence in the purifying influences OF
the atmosphere in the ripening rays of the
sun when the product of the soil is made
! cheaper to him every day by the abundance Of
| the harvest. (ApplauseD
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 of progress you
! shall neither press a crown Of thorns upon
\ the brow Of labor nor press a scourge upon
| his back. Applause.) You shall not rob
| him of study, of progress in the skill Of his