The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-27

balance of $500 900, 900, and for the first
time in our history we can claim to be
the creditor nation, while the world Is
our debtor.
The principles upon which the party
has acted in securing these results are
not changed for expediency. Asserting
the right of American labor to defense
against a low standard of life, We were
beaten in 1890. In 1892 we again gave bat
tie in defense of Americn labor and were
beaten. Then silence fell upon Ameri-
can workshops and dust and rust beset
their sleeping wheels. Capital no longer
sought enterprises for investment.
houses fell all over the land as If at
tackled at once by earthquake and cyclone.
Then men discovered that ingenuity has
no device for securing the circulation of
money equal TO the payment of wages to
well-employed labor. When the great
army of fifteen millions of laborers ceased
business shriveled like a rose. exposed
to our hot blasts from the north.
Again the Republican party asserted
the rights of labor to employment, to
1885 it won. a victory by putting .expedi-
ency behind it and persisting in the pur-
poses and principles which it was Gre
ated to sustain.
Let us stand by 1t. now. Let us not
forget that we had allies in 1895 who saw
danger in the Chicago. platform and
ter policies now put In issue in California,
We invite to our side all men who distin-
guish between party name and party
principles, who will lend a hand In bat
tie which involves even more than the
issues of 1896.
The fusion candidate, who appeals to
prejudice against the Republican ticket,
and the convention which nominated 1t,
by no means confines his campaign Of
prejudice to partisan attack. He appeals
to the prejudice that may be latent in
accumulated property by thrift and in
dustry. He rouses those who have failed
against those who have succeeded. He
appears, as he tells his audiences, as the
champion of the poor against the rich,
and in effect, affrms that his election is
necessary, to, end the aggressions Of the
lty and loss of manhood's opportunity, and
his campaign Is q general arraignment of
the social state.
Now l deny that the people of this
country have so slept upon their rights
that the aggressions of wealth have clos
ed the door of opportunity to the thrifty
and Industrious. The rich men of to-
day were the poor men of thirty years
ago, and the poor men of to-day will be
the rich men Of the future 1t is peculiarly
to the credit of our institutions that the
discipline of poverty fits men for for
tune by training In that self-denial that
leads from dependence to Independence.
In what other country do as many la
boring men own their own homes? In
ers depositors in savings banks?
In what other country may the poorest
boy hope for as high a destiny as in this
republic?
scavengers that take the refuse from our
stables and kitchens own homes and bank
deposits OF what other country can this
be said?
The harm done by such theories as
Judge Mcguire stands for Is that they in
duce the rising generation to look for
ward to a Utopia, In which the statute
law is to be every man shall have what
he wants without the energy. exertion and
character, which are now and always will
be the elements Of success In life