The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-10-24

stone wall and passed that amendment.
We were citizens then but we were not
voters. It needed another amendment
and then 1t was that the Republican
party passed the fifteenth amendment.
making us voters.
Where was the chance for US TO get
In the Democratic party? VIII a man
OF Intelligence walk boldly into the FIRE
with his eyes open? VIII you permit
man to smack you in the face and then
hug him to keep him from doing It
again? That is the condition that has
confronted us all the way. A negro
cannot join the Democratic camp with,
out surrendering his manhood. know
that the Republican party has not done
all that It might have done, but claim
that 1t has done all that has been dune
for US. (Applause.)
Race of Laborers.
There are other reasons why we as q
race should be with the Republican par
ty. We are o race OF laborers. There
are 1900 colored lawyers In this country,
about 700 physicians and an army OF
preachers. That about represents all
our professional men. Wehaye scarce
ly 800 business men in the country. We
are really race OF laboring men. The
labor legislation affects US just as much
"a, % of 70 IN i,,.
much interested In 1t as any other class
OF citizens.
The Democratic party advocates free
trade. Every time we have tried 1t
It has produced panic. The two worst
panics it produced was in 1887 and 1898.
Every time we have tried It 1t had pro-
.duced distress beyond the power to de-
scribe. Free trade looks very well on
paper. It may have some sense In
every government but ours. There is
nowhere in this world that the work.
ingman Is paid as good wages as ours.
II We don't have something to protect
US against the encroachments OF cheap
foreign labor our manufacturers must
either cut down wages or SO out Of
business.
We'are equ2lly,interested in having
good, sound, honest dollar. There Is no
one more interested In having a sound
dollar than the workingman The busi-
ness man cnn better stand q cheap
money than we can. The Democrats
only once or twice had g show OF maxi
Ing money. They made money In the
Confederacy. At first $40 bill would
buy q coat. a hat and pair OF shoes.
They made money, they made more and
more until any old blackleg would have
pockets full of bills It finally went on
until q man had to pay $3.50 for his
breakfast. That was an example of
Democratic money making. How much
better did they do In Grover Cleveland's
administration? They claimed the
treasury was bursting with money and
II something was not done there would
be a Capitalization of government and
an olisarchy would be established that
would throttle the people. There was
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