People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1896-10-09


open the MINIS and the Mills VIII Start.
believe if I refer to the New York
chamber OF Commerce, it will be consid-
cred good authority to the average bus
mess man, and the New York Chamber
OF commerce says that owing to the
strlngency of money they are forced to
issue certificates. Laughter) In other
words, they have got to issue substi-
tute for money. If there is a stringency
1or money why not let the government
issue the real thing. (Applause.) Major
Mchlnley SAID open the mills instead
OF the mlnts." My reply to that is, if
you will open the minis you will open
the mills. (Applause.) Why did the
mills shut down? Because the manu-
1acturer can not sell his goods. Why
cannot the merchant sell his goods
why cannot he sell them to the farmer
and why cannot the farmer buy them?
Is 1t because they don't want them?
On no, fellow citizens, you here in Lin
coin Nebraska, you in this city, my
L
most emphatically from personal ac-
qualntance with the people that they
could buy millions of do lars worth of
the cheap clothing which they need
and the various household necessities
which they need and tuy the various
farm implements which they need and
do the various repairing that is abso-
lutely necessary on the farms; they
could spend millions of dollars every
year if they had the dollars to buy with.
(Applause.) Open the minis and make
more moGey. (Applause.) Then the
farmer can sell for better prices and
can buy the merchants goods, and the
merchant can buy from the manufac-
turer and the manufacturer can start
the wheels and make the spipdles hum
labor and the Gold Standard.
You ask me how it is, a day laborer
is benefited by rising prices. How does
it hurt him to have falling prices? just
reverse the two situations and you have
it. Failing prices mean that the stores
will be shut up and the clerk out of Il
job. Falling prices means the mills
shut down and hands locked out from
their work. 1t means that the rail
road is in the hands of receivers and
half the crew do twice the amount of
work and the other half go without; it
means that the farmer is sold out by
the sheriff and his wife and child and
hired man have to take to the big road
and tramp alike for work. applause
You ask me how rising prices will help
the day laborer, will tell you how: 1t
will increase the demand for his labor,
his labor is his stock in trade. Rising
prices means opening the doors of the
stores and opening of the mills to be
run; railroads doing business with a
full crew, farmers singing the songs of
gladness. 1t means that the laoorer
gets work to- do because there is de-
mand for it and price goes according to
demand. But not only that, five men
sget work where one man gets it now.
The Tariff and Wagework.
gu ask me about the tariff system
protecting the laborer. 1t has been
protecting him hundred years has it
not? Uaughter.) The tariff system
has produced millionaires. daughter
Is there any laborer millionaire? Yet
the tariff system has been protecting
the laborer one hundred years. Whv
is it that the laborer never gets at the
right end of a Winchester rifle? He is
always at the wrong end. Why? Been
protecting the laborer one hundred
years. Does he ride in a palace car;
does he ride in yachts across the ocean?
Does he enjoy his life in castles in Scot
land? Does he have a summer palace
by the sea side, seeking the health Civ
ing breezes of the ocean that NAV fan
his fevered brow? (Laughter.) Does
he have winter palace in Florida,
where he can go when the cold wind
blows and enables him to enjoy the
Injuries of our Southern climate :?
Does the laborer do that? Is it the
manufacturer that is killing his wife
and children because he cannot get
bread for them to eat? And yet in the
protective center of New York and
Chicago, unless the old party papers
are telling more stories than usual,
laborers are shooting and killing their
wives and killing their little children
because they had rather kill them than
see them starve to death. (Applause.)
The good master said that the tree
might be judged by its fruit This is
tree that has stood for 100 years, which
was to make the laborer content and
happy; it was to protect him from com
petition, to give him a benefit. Has he
got it? If not the tree does not do
what it was warranted to do, does it?
They say the tariff will protect them
from foreign competition, and yet at
the same time the doors of commerce
are open to the importation of foreign
labor that wants to take bread out of
your mouth. (Applause.) ask my
good friends, the republicans, if the
-. system was not adopted for the pur-
pose of giving a benefit to the Ameri-
can laoorer, what was it adopted for;
and if it was adopted for that purpose
hoe II done what il was intended m,