The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-11-17
Congressman DOlliver Speaks.

Congressman Dolliver was one OF the
speakers at banquet given last We'd
nesday evening by the Home Market
Club of Boston. He closed with the
following eloquent peroration:
Some things at least have been settled
We have witnessed in this country, for one
thing, the last public appeal to the preju-
dices OF section against section, the w est
against the East, and the South against the
is, is one country, politically and CONNER
cially, and what God, under the bonds OF
sacrifice and of blood has joined together
the American people will look to 1t that
demagogues do not put asunder.
That is one thing we have settled. And
another thing is that no political leader can
hold the confidence of the people who is
ready to exalt his personal fortunes by
kindling the prejudices of class against
class, Of man against man, of the industries
against the professions, of the poor against
the rich, of the unsuccessful against the
successful in the race of life. There is alb
solutely no limit to the degradation Of that
system of politics. That was illustrated in
the election Of last year, when Presiden-
tial candidate publicly advised the working
men Of the United States to put on false
badge OF their political faith, that is to say,
to live the lives of liars and hypocrites for the
space OF five months in order that at the end
Of that time they might enjoy the luxury Of
voting to cut in two the value of the stand
ard coin in which the wages of American
labor are paid. Nor ought we, in measur-
ing the infamy OF that advice, to forget that
it was offered in country where in our
generation more than million Of men,
nearly all Of them poor men, nearly all Of
them working men, turned their backs on
home and friends and business and occupa-
tions and worldly prospects in their eager
loyalty to the moral conviction that filed
the record of the old volunteer army of the
Union with the trophies Of victory and of
fame
1t will be long time. in my Judgment,
before another political leader, real or inn
aginary, shall dare to come forward and
brand the workingmen of America as race
Of towards, sneaking to the ballot box un-
der an assumed name for the purpose of re-
cording political opinions they have not the
manhood to avow. 1t is bad enough to be
poor without being rounded up every four
years by overheated orators and erratic
campaign managers
Already the people of the United States
have entered upon the beneficent results
OF their fidelity to the Republican party.
When Governor Dingley stood up in the
House Of Representatives to offer the tariff
bill Of March 10, felt sure that he was
right. When four months later he carried the
enrolled bill to the White House, was sure
that he was right, and now since have seen
every enterprise OF the American people re-
bpohu 10 inc THRILL Vi new anu DeUter con-
ditions, since have seen the fires lighted
in the furnaces and heard again the old mu.
sic of forge and loom and spindle, since
have seen the American farmer, struggling
under burdens too heavy to be borne, stand
again erect and hopeful in the market place
of America, since have seen all these
things with my own eyes, l am ready to
bear a confident witness here and every
where that Governor Dingley is all right,
and that the American people may go
ahead in safety and security to rebuild the
waste places OF the land, and to repeat on a
more splendid scale the miracles of COM
merce and industry which are yet to win
for this great republic the undisputed lead
ershp of mankind.