Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-08-29
A NEW YORK LETTER
Bya Workin smah WHO Hard Burke
cochran's Reply TO pyln.

, Correspondence 10 lHE JoUhNAL
This evening attended meet ing,
: at Madison Square, and heard Burke
Cochran, goldbug Democrat. On
the evening OF the speech, Of William
j. Bryan. our candidate, with a ticket
/ of admission, / could not get any
nearer than three blocks, of the hall,
at 6 o'clock, although | went twice,
with friend, around the ball.
Ats minutes to 8 O'Clock the hall
was not nearly full, some sections. Of
seats, having only 13 in them, as |
counted and verified the count by a
city editor, who wanted TO know If |
came to "hear" the meeting. At half
past o'clock half an hour after
time for the meeting to begin, the
hall was not nearly full, not crowded,
plenty of room and those on the stage
looking like parties who had been to
horse race and bet on the wrong
horse.
His speech was rabid attack on
the farmer, the wage Garner, the
miner and even the slave owner, be-
fore the war and after the war,at this
late day. 1t is hereby more COM
pletely and fully summed up in the
words, Of two New York city dalies
before the passage of the Bland bill,
in 1878, and who said of the induus-
trial distress, at that time, which was
Immediately relieved, by the passage
Of that law. and we gained more than
5000 900, 900, Of gold in our markets.
First, the Democratic paper said'
"The American laborer must make up
his mind hcnceforth not to be so
much better off than the European
laborers Men must be content to
work for less wages. In this way the
werkingman will be nearer the sta
tlon, in life, to which it has pleased
God TO call him"
Second, the Republican paper said;
"There seems to be but one remedy
1t is the change of ownership, OF the
soil, and the creation of class OF
land owners, on the one hand, and
tenant farmers on the other"
In 1s47 and 1s4S when the Ameri-
can ships loaded down with the prod
ucts OF our farms forstarUng Ireland,
received from the homes Of the farm
ers, who then owned all their farms
aud wnen There were no landed tenant
estates in this country as now, and
still increasing, as eyinced 10y Mr..
Whltney's purchase of 1000 acres in
Berkshire county, Mass, as wedding
present for his daughter and where
there is today farm Of so acres, with
good buildings for sale for 800, and
where one hundred and fofty acres
was recently sold for $3.50, because
the owner could not pay off mort
gage OF $3.50, and his income was only
half that allowed a pauper and one
sixth that paid for convict labor, this
home containing all buildings neces-
sary for happy home.
BurkesC Cochran said there were no
mortgages on western farms, but his
coat tail was pulled and the mouth
piece of Napoleon, the silent, was
given notice he was getting beyond
his ken, .and do not these facts show
that few now of the farm mortgages
remain and are not yet called in to
establish this class of "land owners on
the one hand and tenant farmers on
the other" for the scions OF this
being-established class OF PloovoonoO-
cracycats, Of this no longer, free
America and republic.
Those ships coming out of the ports
of this Democracy found on coming
on the Irish coast that other English
ships were coming out OF Ireland's
harbor's with, not less than S72,OOO,- |
900 of Ireland's products of the tenant
farmers, so truly there was no famine
in Ireland; where wheat tharvest
reaches into wheat harvest and two
crops in every year, but the tenant
farmer, reduced to the substance OF
potatoes alone for his semi-annual
and continuous diet, then because,
forsooth, that one crop OF all the
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