The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1900-04-05
tee as to the places he would stop he in
sisted upon being put off at Yakima.

tee as to the places he would stop he in
sisted upon being ''put off at Yakima. /"
II am glad to talk to the farmer. l
be lieve that the farmer lie, as a rule, as
we'll read man, as we'll posted a man
on public affairs as any citizen we have,
10 fact when we were discussing the
money question used to wish that the
bank president would take a day off &C.
casionally and 20 out and get into joint
debate with the farmer, and see how
little the bank president knew on the
subject of finance compared with the far
mer. (Applause.) A man in our state
was making speech one day and he
said, "What does the farmer know about
the money question ?" "Why," be said,
''the farmer doesn't handle thousand
dollars year," and somebody reminded
him that If the bankers did all the legs.
lating the farmer would handle good
deal less than that in a year. Now l be-
lieve that there is work for every class in
community believe that there is
work for the farmer, that there is work
for the merchant, work for the wage.
Garner, work for the employer, work for
the lawyer, the doctor, the banker and
the minister. l believe that there is
work for every one, but what provokes
me is to hear people talk as if there was
just one class OF people who ought to be
consulted on matters of legislation. The
republicans of New York state held a
convention in 1896 to send delegates to
the national convention, and they adopt.
ed platform, their candidate for the
presidency was Levi P. Morton, and the
platform declared that the government
should be run by the business men on
business principles, in behalf of the
business interests of the country; but the
trouble is that the people are all the time
talking about business interests and ex-
GLIDING the most important business
man, yes, the most important business
man, from their calculations, and it used
to require all the Christian forbearance
| had to keep from getting mad when l
was in Washington and would hear
those representatives OF the cities talk
about the business interests. And who,
according to their definition, is the bus
mess man, the farmer? No, he is no
business man, he just works that is all /;
he commences in the morning and works
all day, commences in the spring and
works all summer, and when he gets
through after he has paid himself a
reasonable wage for his labor and taken
out reasonable interest on the money
invested in his farm, he hasn't great
deal left, as rule, but he is no business
man. Who is? The man who goes onto
the Board Of Trade at ten O'Clock q. m.
and before noon makes more betting on
the price of what the farmer raises than
the farmer can make IN whole year
raising it. He is the business man; and
whenever question comes up in con-
gress they always have petitions and reso-
lutions from boards of trade aud cham
bers Of commerce. Who is business
man? The man who tolls in factory
No; he is no business man. Who is
The man who employs him. Who is the
business man, the little merchant here in
your town? No; you 20 into the cities
and they don't call him business man,
it is the big merchant who does a whole
sale business. The miner is not q bust
ness man, whether he mines coal or
metal; but the man who towns the mine
sometimes rises to the dignity Of bust
ness man. Yet the man who instead of