The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-08-27
ANSWERS BRYAN.
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The loans and resources of a solvent bank
taken together must exceed its liabilities.
The excess represents the capital and prof
it But rs between their debts and their
credits all banks are debtors, which, my
friends, will be apparent To you in a mo-
ment if you consider that IA bank must
keep % per cent of lis deposits in reserve;
that the very business Of banking is the
business Of being in debt II is the business
of dealing with other peoples money, and
of course the money that it deals with is
the money that it owes to its depositors.
But the laborcr Is always IA creditor for
at least ono day , work When any man
can show me a laborer who has been paid
In advance for a day work, l will show
him a labnrer who is a dehtor But every
laboror that | nave ever known in my ex-
pericnce, every laborer Of whom | have
ever heard in my examination of tho con
ditions Of men, must By the very law of his
being be "A creditor for at least one days
work and is generally a creditor for q
week 5 work or two weeks work
Every great industrial enterprise 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.
wages firS' Lien
Hero Is an abstract which will show you
just how the earnings OF great corpora
zion are distributed
The New York Central railroad handles
ever year about $l5, 0D0, 000. OF that sum
$40, 900 900 Is paid for interest on bonds
and for rental Of leased railroads $1,000
00O Is paid for dividends, Sl3u0p, 900 is
paid for equipment and repairs, and 3d.
BOO, 600 is paid for wages
The railway employees Of the nited
States alone draw $ioaonD 600 year in
wages. II the New York Central railroad
went into tho hands Of a receiver tomor-
row, if 1t became totally and hopelessly
bankrupt, its dividends could be passed
and its shareholders could not complain
The interest on its bonds might be in de-
fault and the bondhoders would be with
out redress, but the wages Of the laborer
would always be paid, for they are first
lien upon every industrial enterprise
Not, my friends, because they love the
labpr OF maD, puJ peeaHae no Is aDsoIlte-
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MS own iapors'
The Farmer mainstay OF Order.
This proposal Of the Populists is an at
tempt to enlist the farmer in conspiracy
to reduce the wages paid this labor that he
may have larger proportion Of his own
products, and they are willing to cut down
tho wage of every man who work in cities,
who tolls at tho bench, who digs In the
mines, who manages the train, In the
hope that they can ride into power on
wave of cupidity and greed awakened in
the breast Of the voter
But, my friends it is triumphant vim
dication of American citizenship that this
attempt to enlist the farming and agricul-
tural members of this community into this
conspiracy has failed mxerably, utterly,
absolutely Every western state which in
1890 and 500 fell into the hands of tho
Populists or went into the Farmers Ali
ance, before their real purposes were OK
ecutud, was purified and the Populstic
forces were scattered out of existence when
tho farmers Of this country understood
precisely what the Popuists meant for his
welfare was really for his ruin.
The farmer who when this country was
in danger shouldered his musket, to set it
aside when the last shot had been fired on
the southern battlefield, whose moderation
prevented the political warriors at Wash
ington from pursuing policy of discrim-
inatiOn and punishment In the southern
states-that farmer who made the policy
of the north policy of Cancellation, Of
forgiveness of reunion, whose hand 1t was
that made ruins of her Gitios and ashes Of
her homes, received her once moro and
said Live In peace and sin no more "
That farmer today Is the mainstay OF
order and of property, as no was the main
stay of the Union.
There was IA Populisto delegation from
Statos that were Dpmocratir but H. Ia a