The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1900-04-05

into money corners the money that there
is, he is called a business man always.
Now | have protested against so narrow
q term as business man excluding the
most important business men in the
country. l believe that every man is
bushes man who, by his brain or mus
Gle, contributes to the nations wealth or
greatness. and election day is the most
important business day Of the year. GAP.
plause)
Prince Bismarck was talking to the
farmers Of Germany, and he said that
the farmers must stand together and pro
tect themselves from the drones of So
ciety who produced nothing but lave.
Did you ever think about it? Divide So
ciety into two classes and put into one
class the non-producers and into the
other class the producers Of wealth, and
it is because the non producers produce
the law that it is more profitable to be a
non.producer in this country than to be a
complains he is told to let them run the
legislative pillow and for him to raise more
corn. more cotton or more fruit, and less
disturbance. Bless you, the farmers of
this country never get together to dis
cuss their own condition and legislation
that would protect their rights, but what
the fellows who have been living upon
the government scold and fret for fear
the farmer would neglect his business for
politics. Now don't believe that any
one class of people should be allowed to
legislate for the country. have conf
dence in the honesty and patriotism OF
the farmer, and yet wouldn't be willing
to let the farmers and they alone make
the laws. have confidence in the la
boring men, but wouldn't be willing
to let them and they alone make the
laws. | wouldn't want laws made by
merchants alone or lawyers alone, or
bankers alone. I wouldn't have any
class or occupation exercising the exclu-
sive control of the government. | be-
lieve the government will be better when
we can have the sum of the wisdom OF
all of the people, and know that if we
were only going to have one class to do
the legislating, the last class on earth to
whom we could trust that business
would be the financiers; and when | say
that don't want you to think am try
ing to abuse them, because whenever
| say real harsh thing | always quote
what somebody else says; generally
quote what a republican says. CAP
plause). But sometimes, when | get
hold of real hard proposition, and
want stronger authority than repub.
lican speech l go back to the scriptures
and get my authority there, and then
let the republicans wrestle with the
scriptures. And when these men were
telling us in 1896 that we ought to let the
financiers legislate for the country; when
they said that the men with large for
tunes had more at stake in the govern.
ment, and therefore more interest in and
more concern about its welfare, used to
quote the parable OF the sower. Do YOU
remember that beautiful parable taken
by the Savior from the life OF the farmer
A sower went forth to SOW; and then he
described how the seed fell and what be-
came of the seed and then he explained
the parable; and you will remember that
some seed fell where the thorns sprung
up and choked it. Do you remember
that, and do remember how Christ ex-
planned it? He said the cares of this
world and the deceitfulness of riches
choked the truth. 1t has been so since
history began, and no great reform was
ever originated o. carried to perfection
by the financial class. You have found
men among the financial class, among
men of great wealth. whose hearts were
in sympathy with the people, but rs q
rule these reforms do not come from
those who are getting along we'll enough,
but from those who are suffering. The
cares Of this world and the deceitfulness
of riches choke the truth. To make ii
palmer, man who has boils studies the
subject OF boils more intently than the
man who hasn't any boils. And you
must rely on the man who suffers to Sc.
cure the relief, and believe that today
the farmers Of this country are not only
overburdened by positive laws, but that
they are the ones who are neglected in
the distribution of favors. | don't be.
lieve that the government should
give favors, but if the government does
give favors, it should try 10 distribute