The times., 1897-04-07

| oppress and degrade him These are facts,
| Mr. Chairman, which cannot be gainsaid,
and so well are they understood that
| organized capital and corporations are
| making constant warfare on these labor
organizations and endeavoring to break
| and utterly destroy them. They have
| even gone SO far as to lay cunning plans
| to obtain the aid Of Federal bayOnets and
| they are constantly clamorints for u strong
| Government F." In the recent campaign
| they filled the air with fierce denunciations
| of the Democratic party because 1t had
dared TO denounce Government by in
| junction" In many cases they ruthiessly
| coerced and drove thousands OF their eTF-
| ployes into voting against the Democratic
! party because it had dared to demand
| Justice In their behalf. These are facts,
| Mr. Chairman, and history will so record
/ them, and as representative OF the Aueri-
| can people in the Hall of the American
| Congress, / here and now denounce the
| conduct of those corporations and Infamous
| GessIers of wealth as one of the most
shameful outrages that was ever perpe-
| trated in the history Of American politicsl
| The men who concocted and the men VINO
carried it out should be all branded alike
| with everlasting infamy!
And vet Mr.. Chairman, those very
| wretches can be found as thick as fieas
| with the Oily Cannon politicians VINO
now assume a benevolent regard for the
| rights of labor antl prate aboutth Dingley
| hill being a measure for the benefit or
] American workingmen! God save the marx!
| (Applause)
SO much for that miserably false pre-
| tense we come now to another that is
always made 10 do duty in these tarlif
| debates and that is the ''honue-market
| fake, or the pretense that a protective
tariff will build up so many new factories
| and employ so many men that the AIuerl-
| can farmer will find sufficient market
| here at home to consume the products or
| his farm This hoary-headed pretense has
so often been exposed that | Shall waste
| hut little time with {. In 1879 we eN-
| ported Of farm products, q surpluSof s54b,-
! 476703. and in 1892 we exported sur.
| Mus of S799,32S, ,232. As / took occasion
to say In former speech upon this sub
| iect, Just think, sir, OF the American
! DeopIe endeavoring to convert themselves
into a 'hoahe market to consume that enor-
nous surplus! Why, sir, each fellow would
have to enlarge not only his appetite but
also his capacity, and then provide hin-
| self with a wheelharrow to carry his ali
doninal extension" daughter But we
are told sir, that II protective tariff has
alyays been favorite American doctrine
| and that one of the first acts OF Congress,
after the adoption of the present Cons titu-
ton was an act TO encourage manu-
factures Grant that to be true. our
manufacturers We're then in their infancy,
andituay have been considered the proper
thing to encourage our infant industries.
That was certainly the idea Of Hen Y
| clay and other great leaders Of the Wing
| marty: but when are these Infants ever To
become of age? Are the giant trusts and
! combinations that go stalking abroad over
| this land devouring the substance OF the
| peonIc are they infant industries that
must have the fostering hand OF the 'IoV-
erulnent TO sustain them? May God deliver
us from all such infants! Why should all
the American people be burdened with adj
| ditional tariff taxes in order that FEW
more ..barous of protection may roll and
reyei in increasing wealth? Why should
the farmer, who has to take low price
for what he has TO sell, be compelled 10
nav a high price for what he has to buy?
By the contracting power of the single
gold standard YOU have lowered the level
of general prices for the products Of both
the factory and the farm, and now you
propose by a high tariff to check the
fall of prlces as to the one and leave II
unchecked as to the other is this the
Justice proclaimed in the very preamble OF
your Constitution, to establish which tht
union of these States was formed? When
YOU legisIate to increase the price Of mann
factured articles, do you not thereby de
crease the purchasing power of the dollar
that procures them? Have you Repub
lican goldites so soon forgotten the
speeches you made in the last campaign,
in which you held up your hands in holy
horror at the bare thought of doing any
thing that would decrease the purchas
ing power Of a dollar in the hands Of an
American workingman, or anybody else
that had one? How will you ever be
able hereafter to look an honest dollar
i'll the face? If it is right to increase
prices for the manufacturers of the North
ana East. by passing law for a high
protective tariff, how can it be wrong Il
, increase prices for the farmers OF tht
West ard South and everybody else, b,
passing a law for the free coinage of sill
yer? Do you imagine that you will be
|
the American people in the manner yoI
are attempting? Three-fourths of the
money that comes from abroad TO supply
gold to your Treasury and pay the inter
est on YOUR public debt is derived from
the sale of agricultural products, and ye
when you come TO legislate, the farmer
: forgotten and you only remember tn
pampered pets of protection who have fur
nished you money TO debauch the elections
! and return men to office who would other
/ wise have been overw whelmingly defeatet
by an honest poll You VIII pass this bill
and YOU VIII do nothing to afford an i'll
j creased volume of real money redemptio
money-for the people, but don't you fol-
get there will come day of reckoning
. | You have ridiculed and abused the Demo
cratic party. 1t has had its purpose
, thwarted and its councils rent by the in
J | fluence of men whom it had honored ant
, trusted but the party still lives to oppos
!; yoJr wicked class legislation and to de
, Inand Just and equal laws for the beneii
t of all the people, and in the end 1T Wi
: prove itself stronger than all the strengt
/ of foes from without and traitors from
: within! tApplause.)
4 Individual Democrats may be found her
@ and there who will bow the knee to Baa
4 and burn incense upon the affairs OF proteC
I ton, but the indomitable spirit Of Amer
Il lean Democracy will oppose you ever.