The herald., 1898-02-08
DINGLEYAN APOLOGIES

any prosperity we ever mad before In our
lives. Gaughter)
DINGLEYAN APOLOGIES
"Mr. Chairman. the other day, when
the chairman of the ways and means
committee (Mr. Dingley) was troubled
with the New England strike among the
operatives in the cotton factories on ac-
count of the reduction in wages, and
tried to account for it on lines consist
ent with the Dingley BILL to hear him
give US an excuse that these people down
south were working too much Qaughter)
making too much cotton and working
too many hours day to manufacture It,
Yes, that the white people of the south
were working too much! Why, you used
to tell us IL we would raise corn and cot
ton and produce more manufactured
goods and raise less hell we would be
great deal better off. Naughter) But
now we have adopted your advice.
I'VE have adopted your advice, and
you say now we are raising too much
cotton and manufacturing too many cot
ton goods, and that you will have to have
a constitutional amendment to restrain
the people of the south from overwork-
ing themselves. My God, Mr.. Chair
man, who would have thought it would
ever come to this? Laughter) Those
indolent, lazy, southern people! Who
would have thought that the time would
come when you would need an amend
ment to the constitution Of the United
States to keep them from overworking
themselves? Gaughter.)
why, Mr. Chairman, will tell our
excuse for working so much. We do not
do It just for our health. but we have to
do it or starve, under your Dingley tar.if
bill and your Republican gold standard
financial system. 1t is an absolute ne
cessity. We have no surplus with all
the work we do. 1t takes it all to sup
port us and our families. I suppose you
want us to work less, eat less and wear
fewer clothes. We have to work.
ENGLISH EVIDENCE
"Now, Mr.. Chairman, bearing on this
question of prosperity, and the particu-
lar location of the same, Will show you
where you can see some evidences OF 1t,
and a good many newspaper extracts
have been read here today to show that
there was prosperity in particular local
Iities-prosperity growing out of Re
publican methods. Let me read one.
read from the Evening Star Of this
city, telegram from London as to the
effect of President McKinley's speech
at the great banquet Of the National
Association of Manufacturers at the
Waldorf hotel in New York the night
before:
FAVORABLE EFFECT ON STOCKS
Presidents Speech at New York Pleases
London Financiers
LONDON, Jan. 2S-The speech of Pres
ident Mckinley at the banquet of the Ma
tional association of Manufacturers in
New York last night favorably affected
business on the stock exchange today.
" Gaughter)
There is another evidence of pros
perity. But where is it? When there
used to be favorable comments on the
Democratic tariff policy. you all thrust
these London dispatches in our faces
every day to show us that 1t was unpa-
triotic to earn favorable comment over
| there; but now when your president has
| by his speech so favorably affected the
London stock market. I DO not hear
any complaint from you about 1t. Az
fected 1t why? Affected 1t how? He has
declared his administration and the Re
publican party in favor of a policy tina
makes every stock and every bond thai
calls for dollar call for more of human
labor and sweat and toll and sacrifice
and human misery than ever before
| applause on the Democratic side.)
Now, I want to say in conclusion
that. peaceable man as am, am going
to offer the Republican party wager OF
battle on this question Of prosperity. Let
us go before the American people this
fall and let this be the issue. Let every
man who feels the effects of genuine
prosperity on his constitution-every-
one who thinks he Is receiving the pros
perity promised him by the Republican
administration-vote for the Republic.
ans, and let all who have not prospered
as they should, by reasonable effort, tc
whom the Republican promises have
been disappointment, vote the Demo
cratic ticket and we will wipe you of
the earth. There will not be seed corn
left of you." cloud applause on the
Democratic side.)
HENRY E. ELAND.
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