The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-09-27
The Gallant Hero Of the Rough Riders"
the Campaign.
Full Text Of the Magnificent Speech of New Yorks Favorte
Son at the Opening Of the Republican
Campaign at Akron.

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is the man who at the end of the week or
at the end of the month is paid his earn
lngs by another for whom he works. The
big capitalist, large share Of whose eI-
penses takes the form Of wages, would be
compensated to some extent for his losses
In other directions by the shrinking Of the
amount he would have to pay out for
wages; but the man who received these
wages would not be compensated In any
way, On him the blow would fan with
crushing force and for him there would be
absolutely no offset.
In the long run, It is not In the power Of
any memo Of any outside force,to lower the
Of living Of the American working
man, unless the American worklngman does
1t himself. II the wage-workers act With
wisdom and with fOrethought, II they show
far.sighted prudence In their combinations.
industrial and political, their ultimate well
fare Is assured. In the long run, only the
American worklngman can hurt himself.
Think Of 1t, gentlemen! Do not accept
merely my arguments; think yourselves
whether and how you individually could
be helped by having Ascent dollar,
The foundation Of our society rests upon
the man with the dinner pail Whatever is
really for his welfare, for his permanent
and ultimate welfare, Is for the welfare Of
the community. And Of all ways most sure
ly to interfere with his materih welfare,
tampering with the currency In which he ID
paid, Is the surest. The banker. the manu-
Footuror tho rInh vnarobont tho Iar0a land
owner, could get along after fashion un'
der the scourge Of free coinage, but the la
boring man could not. The laboring man
would 90 down to the level where you find
him in countries where silver is the stand
ard metal.
Democracy's Quack Nostrum.
What would you think Of the quack who
administered pill to cure broken leg,
and what would you think Of the dupe who
swallowed the pill in all serlousnessi This
is not an exact Illustration Of the conduct
Of our opponents In offering the free silver
nostrum as a cure for trusts, only because
the illustration Is not nearly strong enough.
The pill might be harmless to the man with
the broken leg, but free silver would aggra-
vate teIffold every evil the trusts have pro-
duced What possible effect in controlling
trusts could free silver have? AS 1t would
cut every dollar In half, 1t would make the
total amount of capital put into the trusts
reach far higher nominal figure. Other
wise It would not have the slightest posi-
BILE effect upon them, good, bad or indlffer-
ent, save only as 1t brought financial ruin
TO everybody in the community.
In short, want you to keep In mind, to
think over the fact that the two remedies
our opponents propose-altering the tarin
and debasing the currency--couid have no
possible effect In abatng the evils Of the
trusts, and could hurt those who profit by
the trusts only to the extent that they hurt
every member Of the American business
community, from the capitalist to the day
laborer. And, Furthermore, that together
with this nulllty Of effect upon trusts
would go immense and possibly lrretrlevable
damage to those men on whose behalf they
profess to be agltated. OF course, when
the upsetting Of the tariff and the introduc-
tlon Of free coinage had ruined the whole
business community, the trust owners
would share to n greater or less extent in
the general punishment Of all America. But
they would not suffer as much as the wage
worker, and the evils complained Of would
not be improved by so much as q hairs
breadth.
BefoggIng the Minds of the People
Do not take my word for 1t. Think It out
for yourselves. Try to think out any pos
slble way in which these so-called remedies
will interfere with trusts, and then ponder
deeply over the appalling disaster which
their Introduction would mean 10 the entire
wage-earning class. ! repeat what have
said: These remedies cannot be proposed in
good faith. Those who advance them must
know that at best they could have no pos
slble effect upon the evils complained Of,
even II they are too ignorant to realize the
disasters that would follow In their wake.
They are qunck remedies and nothing else,
and those that put them forth know that
they are such.
Mr.. Bryan has developed a visionary
scheme OF national supervision, a scheme OF
extreme centrallzatlon which would be uu.
workable at present and which might cause
great havoc to Industry.
What can you expect from political lead
ers who are not sincere In the remedies they
propose? Who frame policies, not for thu
pie, but hoping to befog the minds Of the
people, and TO get them to vote against theil
own real interests?
Now, have dealt with the purely destruc
tive arguments OF the demagogue. | hav'
shown that they do not propose one con
structlve piece Of legislation; that the!
propose merely to tear down the who'll
building, because there ia a leak In the roo
over one room; that not only are their pro
posuls mischevous, but that they them
selves must know that they are mischiev
ous, and have not even the poor apology o.
being sincere In their folly.
The Record In New York.
When It comes to seriously graphing will
those evils, the people can trust, not tn,
GLIB quack who says he can cure the dlseas
out OF hand, when he knows nothing an,
processes to know nothing about what /
really is, but the man who patiently am
faithfully starts to make n diagnosis of tn
case, and then to cure each bad feature a
the diagnosis reveals Its existence.
Let me Illustrate what am about TO sa
by giving you brief history Of what ha
recently occurred In my own state. For
number Of years the Democratic party 4
New York state has posed as the especia
enemy of corporate wealth. and in Its plat
forms has denounced monopolsts, trust,
rich corporations and the like, and bi
strongly for the vote OF the worklngmar
The Republican party, | am glad to say
has not gone on the principle Of promlsin
lmposslbllltles with the hope Of gettin
votes, but has promised what II could pei
form and has made Its performance sQuar
fully with Its promise.
We never posed as the enemy OF the rle
man, as the enemy Of the corporation. W
merely said, and we meant what we salt
that so far as we were concerned, rich an
poor should be treated alike; the corpori
| tioD safe-guarded when 1t did well; made
| pay It's just obligations whether 1t did we
or III; and II II did III, brought to sunmar
justice. During the time that the DEM