Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-30

nature, for rain and for dew. for
crops, for harvests, and not to Mark
Hanna nor to his servant. What
ever there is to that, either in our
prosperity or in the misfortune of
other nations which were forced to
come to us for their supply of foods,
whatever there is in that, ought to
have no credit given for it to the Re-
publican party. But is there that
prosperity of which they boat? I'm
doubtedly there is prosperity in this
country, much greater than in 1896,
but prosperity to whom? Is it to the
producers of wealth? Not by any
means, not in proportion with the
part they do in making that wealth.
The man who holds watered stock in
trusts is prosperous, the leisure class
is prosperous, but other men if their
wages have been increased it hasn't
been in proportion to their output,
their increase in their effort, or
their efficiency in the product
of industry, but because it has
been wrung, twisted from those
who pay them their wages, rather
than go without their labor.
An Organized Sheer.
Il had occasion, last week, to
spend few days among the North
ern lakes, stopping at various places,
and L was surprised to see that, al
most without exception, the people
who were there were the people who
were prosperous, who were enjoying
their outings, with good things all
about them to eat and drink and
wear; that almost exclusively they
were of people who do nothing toward
producing the resources of the coun-
try, and almost wholly, nearly with
out exception, and they were in favor
of the present administration and the
Republican party. Their conversa-
tion seemed to be an organized sneer
against those people who are unable
to have the same extravagances and
comforts and conveniences of life
which they have.
Glass Against Glass.
mo man is less liable than to un-
dertake to set class against class. 1t
ought not to be done by any we'll
wisher to his country but when we see
men who are themselves setting class
against class, monOpOlizing and alb
sOrbing the usufruct of labor of the
country, and either wasting it self
ishly, ostentatiously Haunting their
unearned wealth in vulgar, shoddy-
like, displays in the face of honest
industry and honorable poverty, ap-
plying it to their own purposes, and
not allowing those who earn the
greater proportion of it there proper
tionate share of it, there is in all this
something which ought to furnish
food for serious thought in the heart
of every man who wishes well to his
country.
''If it is said that our apparent pros
perity is due to an increase in the
volum of our circulating medium and
that money is going begging for bor-
rowers at per cent, then I answer
that low rate of interest is a certain
evidence that money cannot profit
ably be invested in legitimate in
dustrial channels, and the increase
in the amount of money in circula-
tion gives us the argument of 1896.
If an increase under a single stan
dard begets abundance, how much
more could we abound under
double standard and a larger in
crease?
1.-Two hundred years ago when Louis
XIV was cOntriving to enslave the
whole of Europe, something was said
about the State, speaking of France,
he said this: The State? 1t is 1,
[ am the State So this people ar
rogate to themselves the ownership
of the State. And at the election of
1896, as we all saw, they said, can we
coerce control and mOnopolize the
vote of the people of the United
States? But when Louis XIV used
that expression, he was unwittingly,
but none the less wickedly, laying
the foundation for a terrible state of
things, which occurred one hundred
years later, when both the prosperity
and the nobility of France went down
in sea of blood, or up in a sea of
flame.
Food For Reflection.
II have been student of history
all my life, and ! have tried within
my own mind to profit by it's exam
pies; and [ must confess that not
withstanding this prosperity around
Us, and in the midst of this abund-
ance, there is food for reflection as to
what may come upon us. Crops will
lot always be good, money will not
always be plenty, yet those who are
lsed to eXtravagant expenditures
will insist on having them, and some
kind of eXpiation must follow, and
t behooves the plain common peo-
Die, by their votes, to avert that if
possible.
Representative Men.
"WilI your votes be cast wisely,
for men who are repre-
'enting the interests of the people
ind for no one else? I trust that the
delegates to the State convention will
De guided by these motives, that
hey will carry them into effect in
whatever ticket they may nominate
md hope you will be equally wise
IS to county offices. The Republican
county ticket has many weak spots,
md they ought to be weak enough to
AIRY the whole ticket down. Set
ing aside any past differences of |
opinion, any discussion about names,
ct us join altogether, from this time |
onward, by our votes, by our infiu-
nee, and by every power that is
within us, to do what we can'for the
Welfare and uplifting of the masses
# the American people. At the pres
mt time, in my judgment, this can
u done in no wau GO Mall nc cur,