The herald., 1898-09-29
WHAT GAGE WAS TO SAY
The Prepared Speech Which the Call
Published on Tuesday Morning

The Prepared Speech Which the Call
Published on Tuesday Morning
The following Is a reproduction from the
San Francisco Call Of Tuesday. the 9th
inst. mfr. Cage" says the Call. spoke az
follows:
"It must be a cold heart that does not
respond to the greeting of friend and
neighbor The satisfactions of life are
largely wrought out Of the human relations
which interest us i'm the happiness of 9TH
ers. To feel the pain and share the pleas
ure of a friend is mans most refined priv
ilege.
Indeed In this regard for others Is the
origin Of all right personal and public ac-
ion. While i am thrilled by this grand
Demonstration Its suggestions almost sad.
len me with the sense of responsibility
which 1t brings. The hailing of fellow
citizen by the people who intentYto make
him their servant In public station Is
q feature almost peculiarly American. So
see here and now evidences of the great
underlying principles of this free govern
ment
The constitution was intended to secure
that civil equality asserted by the Decla-
ration of Independence and when some
timid and many wise statesmen had by re-
peated compromises held that intention in
allegiance the Republican party sprang into
being. 1t had no part in the compromises
Of the past. 1t looked beyond them to the
principles OF the constitution and declared
that its gift Of civil equality should no
longer be withheld. In its day this declar-
otion was the sounding Of the tocsin. War
came and made the years. lurid. but
through all the shock and shouting, the
battle cloud and thunder. where men died
n scores of thousands and where others
formed In, fresh battalions to replace them,
the banner of this party shone like SUM-
burst through the shadows, and Its legend
ran "All men are created equal" When
the strife was over that which was the
dream Of Jefferson and the inspiration Of
Lincoln had been written in the living law,
and all men had their constitutional inher-
itance Of civil equality.
"The party which has put Its standard
into my hands. by your favor and help to
be carried to victory. stands today in its
maturity for the principles to which 1t was
dedicated in its infancy. If those who
stood sponsors at its baptism were called
to answer for the high pledge they gave
in its name, they could point to its faith
full record and be justified. 1t has. every
moment of it's existence. put man and his
interests foremost among the things of
its concern. Man Is the laborer; his toll
precedes capital. Paralyze his arm or
take the light and impulse Of hope from his
heart and the creation of wealth ceases
Deprive him Of his Just share OF what he
creates and you dim the eye Of his faith
In freedom and his fellow man. Therefore
this party which commits to us it's fate
and fortunes in California, charged itself
with the high duty of protecting labor as
the creator of capital and the story of its
stewardship is written in the progressive
rise in the nominal value OF wages and
constant increase in their purchasing pow
er over the necessaries Of life.
Admonished by the interests OF fifteen
millions Of wage earners, who are our fell
low citizens. enjoying with us their en-
franchisement in the civil equality we
fought for, our party has said that there
shall be no rich mans money and poor
mans money. hut that there shall be hut
one kind of money. and that the best in
the world. The coin that pays the unearned
SALARY Of king is none too good to nay
the well earned wages OF an American
lAborer"
1.-THE above Is sufficiently lengthy ex-
tract to prove the absolute fabrication, It
II less than one-eighth Of the Calls pseudo