The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-24

get back prosperity in the United States
until you give back TO the American people
the working wages that they lost four
years ago tApplause.)
I'VE are told in histories of the United
States that I'm Boston. during the revolutions.
corn sold for $3.50 "A bushel. II we have po-
ltical friends out i'm Nebraska and else
where who are anxious to do something
for US. why do they not do something hand
torian gravely adds that il was paid for in
continental money, which was not worth a
continental Uaughter.) High prices. of
course. exactly as If you should make "A
foot out of six inches, Instead of standing
before you a timid traveller to the tomb.
i should loom up in this stately presence
high. 1~Laughter) Gentlemen. the farmers
OF the West do not want prices doubled by
the cyanide process.
The theory OF the present law was that
We were not only to hold our own. but we
were to go out with our free-wool cloth
and divide with Bradford and Komnitz the
task OF clothing the naked inhabitants of
the earth. Uaughter.) That was the theory.
What has actually happened may be stated
sheep driven 10 the slaughter. 100000 900
pounds OF American wool displaced i'm our
own market. the Importation of cloth null
upIied by two. half the wooden mills idle
and locked up and the other half on scant
wages and short time. the treasury of
the United States 81 coo. 900 shy Qaughter).
our choice and select gentry disporting
themselves in German. English and French
clothes. and the rest of US shining around
IN overcoats purchased during Harrison's
Administration CApplau G and great laugh
teri
MR. D~OLLIvER'S PERORATION.
Mr.. Dolliver concluded as follows: TT
Wilson law still stands. and has for three
years stood, on the statute books of the
United States without a friend and without
a name, stealing the revenues from the
treasury. wasting the resources of the gov
eminent. stealing away the earnings of
American laborers, taking from the Amer
lean farms the market places of the United
States and of the world. That law stands
on the statute book to-day and brings this
Congress together i'm extraordinary session.
attract any public interest except a cheer
ful expression of relief sometimes when the
session is at an end; The American people
In ordinary times look TO Congress very
much as the shipwrecked mariner looks to
PROVIDENCE In a storm. not particularly be-
everything else has been washed overheard.
tLdugnter.)' Nor Is this slim and feeble
falth OF the people in Congress entirely TO
De reproved. for in the world In which we
i've. whatever we politicians may say on
the stump. the most is done for us-and you
VIII PARDON the fgure-we have got to do
Tor ourselves. If the American people ever
get their prosperity back ii Will come by
their own individual enterprise and cour-
age; not BY edicts and proclamations. but
by the honest and careful settlement of
conditions favorable to industry and Invest
ment.
IF William Mckinley has been described
as an advance agent. fastening TO the seat
OF government in order to distribute pros
perlty from the east portico of the Capitol
in a few well-chcsen words. the conception
belongs TO the world of dreams. and not TO
the earth on which We live. No man bears
any such relation TO the PROSPERITY of a
great people, but the man may standard
4 reverently believe that William Mckinley
does Stand-aS the chosen instrument. i'm
the hand OF Providence, TO restore to the
United States a public policy which has
never yet failed to enable the American
people, by their own honest. hard work. TO
secure. cut OF their own resources. a fair
level OF prosperity. a reasonable reward
Tor their labor and a reasonable dividend
on their Investments Applause On Re
publican side.) At the conclusion of his
speech Mr.. Dolliver was besieged with con-