The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-09-09

army" The republican leader slaps him
on tho back and says. Never mind about
your army just so you have q gold dollar
In your pocket" (Laugh.er) The Ger
man says he does not believe n q system
that takes the best years CT young mans
life and devotes them to an army, and the
republican leaders slap HIN on the shoul-
dars and say: Never mind your boys.
provided you have n gold dollar In your
pocket" Laughter.)
The German says. II camo TO this
country because | believe In liberty.
I came here because believe the pcorle
are tho source OF power. I am here be- I
cause ! want to havs the Individual to
I have his rights respected and his par 4
tlcipstion In tho government protested"
and the republican leader pats hiin on The
shoulder and says; "Neyar mind liberty,
never mind government; never n ,rd
anything but the dollar" Uauhhter.)
/ We are not responsible for the injection
! OF this question into politics. II the re-
publican party had not brought these
/ questions into existence we might have
J fought tha presidential campaign on do
nestle and economical questions u a
laborlng msn SAYS that he does not ike
| the menace OF largo army. II he says
! that no does not Ike imperialism, what
| IS the republican answer u him1 l; IS
not the gold standard It is the full dinner
4 pail. II man says: "a have IDEAS IN
\ my head" a'e republican party Gays
what DO you talk about your bead for
81 your stomach Is fIn7" The ennsr
pail argument is an insult 20 the man who
is complaining that there ars forces at
work which mean his destruction ans the
overthrow Of the government ~ lows.
nu; the dinner pail is not always full
Uaurhterl l read in this mornings
paper republican paper down ct Chi-
caso--an article which said a strike was
threatened in the anthracite region, and
| found the figures given BY member OF
the National board Of the United Mine
Workers % America now In session at
INDIANAPOLIS. The average daily Vages re-
ceisei by miners IS sl35 Tho average
wages today OF men at mines in 90 cen g.
and one OF them Fred nllseher of ONO.
Il was stated, spoke for ali when he said
It Is merely a question whether the men
would starye - delth al work or starye
in ialeneTs. (Applavse) Ninety cents
dlg FOR their work Ut the mine SIX days
in the weekslx rsne ffty-f our-thlnk OF
It, my friends $40 week for man to
support family on Il gives no chance for
a man TO rise IN this world.
Take the statistics furnished by Duu's
reports, in which you VIII And every week
the number OF failures. This week IS u
little larger than the same week last year
and that every month Of this year has
shown more failures than the same month
Of last year You will ind that even the
prosperity that the republican party has
boosted Of has not reached ell the people
and even that what we have is on the de-
cline. You win and II you will road the
: Iron Age that last month the decline In
the production OF from amounted to more
than $4,000 tons, You will find that down
: In Massachusetts the operators were dis
4 Guessing a reduction in the wages Of tho
= cotton mills 10 per cent and this morn
= ing's papers announced that a man In New
, Haven had discharged 100 men and being
= republican ana not being willing to ad-
init the truth, he said that ne did It for
e fear was going TO be elected and he could
a not take them back until the danger was
j. over But what aid the republican party
promise Ia the way OF money! Nothing
And what we get we got not because Of
n the republicans, but without regard to
X them. DID the republoAns discover gold
II Ia the Klondike? There Is nothing said
q In the platform about it. (L@ughter,) Al
IN though wo might know that II tho rspub,
10 lican party expected to discover gold any
where II would do II In British Possession
n They had famine In Europe and we sold
IS them breadstvffs at a high price and go
10 In some money. Did the republican party
ID cause the famino9 The republican party
IN Is coming silver and coming It at 10 to
ID and the money increases the circulation
Mt II was the opponents OF the republican
- party who forced them to put in a blfi
ut passed during the Spanish war, that pro-
Is vided for the coinage OF this money
III Snppcse the republican party was e.
In sponsihle for everything that has happened
ok that gave any benefit for those who
40 worked for wages, the republican party
e. has Offset also the benefits that the labor
as ing man has received by allowing trusts
x to cxtort from him when no comes 10 buy
20 what he has n buy, Let the llboring
Nv man spend his money for something that
~ he needs and item he Will ma 'or what
~ the republican party nas been looking
y, ont. He viii md tina tho trusts have
", raised tho Price for what no has to buy
10 more rapidly than republican Liquidation
~ has or can raise The amount Q, his in
-, come, You will find that the laboring
az az man, the ordinary uusiasss man has NJ
m snare II these trusts and yet he suffer.
NJ from all OF them,
m Tho wora for liberty have beon fought
by men who would rather die FOR liberty
I. than live fat under slavery. Applause,
Tho slave had always full dinner vail
H. hut under the industrial lesputlsm that
ir the republican party IS totci1s on the
q. United states men who owr the la or
Nd OF the rest arc not under any obieatlcr
a 10 see that they have elthe fol - cloth
\, Ing, (Applausel
"a We charge thai the republican parry
~ st2nds tr large military establishment
~ Twenty-nvo lhpCe1nl soldiers were
1" enough when the government rested or
'he consent OF the governed. hut It take.
m 100000 when the government rests on
10 the doctrine OF brute force FOR that IS
AZ tho foundation o, an emuire
na Il only took aAout $4,000 o0o 90 support
10 our staining army in 800 II viii a'C
$lcooee geo 30 support an army Of 100 O0D
\. a large standing army can have but two
A. punros"s--to carry on ,he vans In Other
n corntr'eg for the defeat ~ ,hpsc whom
~ we,"yploii with tholr lands sih 70 sun.
N press by force In this country lho tisc0r-
n tent that ought 20 be cured hy legislation.
" Eut II We are -oluBNto have war. II we
NJ are going 10 cross oceans and so1rcl TO
r interior races as tho republican party now
10 speaks OF jhcm = wa are ;7ias 10 Cr.G
tn, people under our dag and then 9oiisy
70 them that they are not 60 shafe m tn
doctrines % this country, We VIII uett
large army to keep Thorn iron malns
faces while they swallow ,ha hcneyclcu
ssiwlation Q.aughter) We have hst
- expansion. wa have mad no lmneri' ,i7m
Heretofore whenever we nave expanded
NJ within the limits Of this Republic. thC