The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-09-27


the war Democrats honored themselves by
standing by the country; and so 1t will be
now, for we have a right to call upon all
sincere lovers Of the flag, upon all believers
In national honesty and civic uprlghtness,
upon all men who wish to bring about the
betterment and uplifting of the mass Of the
people, to stand with US until the heresies
for which our opponents now fight have
been relegated to the unclean dust where
they belong.
Democrats Propose No Remedy for Trusts.
Our opponents denounee trusts. But they
propose not one remedy that would not
make the situation ten times worse than at
its worst 1t now is. l have read through
carefully the speeches Of Mr.. Bryan and Of
his fellows to find out what they propose to
do. / have found plenty Of vague denuncla-
tlon. l have not found so much as an at.
tempt to formulate q rational policy Of re-
lief.
More and more as we study their speeches,
1t must be impressed deeply upon US that
they are not seeking to secure a remedy for
the grave economic evils that have made
themselves manifest In connection with the
huge Industrial development, which we
speak Of as the growth Of trusts; that
they are not honestly striving for a remedy;
that all they are seeking to do Is to raise
cry which will lntlame the people, that
thereby they themselves may come back to
power. They are not striving to benefit the
people. They are striving to hoodwlnk the
people In order to benefit themselves.
In the Democratic platform in Ohio just
two measures of relief are proposed The
first, that you should change the tariff be-
cause II favors trusts; and the second, that
you should coin silver at the ratio Of 10 to
without regard to the action of any other
nation.
They pretend that the tariff favors trusts.
They know well that the greatest trusts in
this Countrywide Standard Oil and the Su-
gar trusts-are utterly unaffected by the
tariff. They know well that the trust with
which there Is the most widespread md
deepest dissatisfaction, the Beef trust, Is
utterly unaffected by the tariff; and In my
own state, one Of the largest trusts, the Ice
trust (Which is said TO- have as its most
prominent member and promoter that
ardent antitrust champion and advocate of
Mr.. Bryan, Mr.. Richard Croker, is also
wholly unaffected by the tariff.
They know all this, for they cannot but
know 1t, II they possess the intelligence to
draw up a platform; and yet they invelgh
against the tariff, knowing what they say is
false, because, as they have no remedy,
they trust, by proposing a false remedy,
they can mlslead the people for their own
benefit and to the peoples destruction. Six
.GN.l ,g
to which they now ask you to return And
you were suffering from the threat of free
colnage-the threat which they now revive.
Six Years Ago and Today.
Are the people Of this country so short.
sighted that they forget the mlseries of six
years ago. Do they forget the bread riots,
the poverty, the squalld want, even Of those
able and anxious to work? l appeal TO the
evidence Of your own senses. Are you, or
are you not better of than you were six
years agOi The farmer, the tradesman, the
man with the dinner pail, the wage-worker,
are these men as a whole better or worse
of than they were six years ago?
In great community there is, aud there
always will be, individual suffering, not
only among the shiftless and the ne er.do-
weels, but at certain times and in certain
places among the honest and industrious
with whom fate has gone hard. We caunot
by any laws bring happiness and prosperity
to everyone, but We can do what the Re-
publican party has actually done; that is, by
wise legislation and wise administration Sc.
cure the chance for the great bulk Of our
people to live out their lives and do their
work with the odds as much as possible In
their favor; the conditions as favorable as
they can be made.
You cannot by law make a man prosper
GUS. You can only do what we have done
give him the chance to become prosperous
by his own exertlons. But you can very
readily by law take this chance away from
him, and as sure as there Is q sun In
heaven, II you do what our opponents ask
you to do, II you upset our present tariff
policy and plunge us back Into the economic
chaos In which we were 1oundering six
years ago, and If you upset our system Of
finance and destroy our national credit, then
| you will cast this country into condition
| of appalling misery, a misery which will be
| felt by all, but which will be felt most Sc.
verely by the wage-workers, to whom our
foes especially appeal. Surely, the country
has had enough Of tariff tinkering by the
opponents Of a protective tariff.
Free Silver and the Wage-Earners.
The second great remedy they propose for
| trusts is the free coinage of silver at 16 to
the coinage Of a ascent dollar They act
ually propose to the people that, IL the
| trusts deprive certain men Of part Of their
| earnings, or throw certain body Of men
out of employment, this shall be remedied
| by decreelng that the men who still have
employment shall be paid 4s cents on the
dollar for the work they do.
| II they carry through their proposition, II
they succeed in securing the free coinage Of
silver, the effect would be indeed dlsas-
| trous upon the whole community; for there
| is, In spite Of what demagOgues may say,
real and ever present brotherhood Of in
terest throughout this whole nation, from
the top to the bottom, from the East to the
West, from the North to the South, and
you cannot cause Widespread disaster to
any one class without including other class
es therein to Il greater or less extent; but
remember that the disaster would fall with
| AANSh NANShih6 NtibuNt nut NpOu tue men
against whom the demag gues rail, but upon
the wage-workers, with whose interest
they profess themselves to be primarily con.
cerned.
The utter unsettement Of values conse-
quent upon complete upsettlng Of our
financial system would give great oppor-
t'luity for gain TO every INSCRIPTIONS spec.
ulator in the country, and probably the peo-
pie who would suffer the feast from It
would be the very people who by comblna-
tlon have created the greatest trusts. They
could, and they would partly protect them.
selves. Here and there they would even
wiring profit from themselves out Of the dis
tress caused to the multitude by the folly
which have made them yield to the knavery
Of their demagoglc ADVISERS.
wags-Earners Would Be Crushed by free
silver.