The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-11-03
The News of Carbonda1e.

| eight times as much coal as at any
other time. We also lead in the pro-
duction of iron and lead The farms
are more valuable and the miners are
| producing more coal because there are
more factories at work, more coal is
| used, more men are at work, and they
! eat more and better foodstuffs. Today
! YOU are once more producing more coal
than any nation, thanks to the strenu-
Gus and resolute President Roosevelt,
said Mr.. Payne, amidst enthusiastic ap-
plause.
Taking up the opportunities the
Democrats had to deal with the tariff,
| Mr.. Payne referred to 1894. In these
times of peace, after their tinkering,
we were obliged to borrow two hum
dred and siXty-two millions of dollars.
| Then the change came after the Ding.
! ley tariff law. Factories arose and null
tiplied as If by magic. Labor was in
demand. We began to eat more. Far
mers sold more. We imported more raw
material for manufacturing, and on
every hand there were the smiles OF
prosperity to chase away the frowns OF
depression caused by the Democrats
We had II war with Spain that cost
four hundred millions. but we now owe
ten millions less than the day. William
Mckinley was inaugurated. We took
off one hundred and fifteen millions in
| taxes the past aiXteen months. and we
have enough in the treasury. If we de-
eide to build the sthmian canal. to pay
a little sum like forty millions, and we
| could pay the contractors as fast as
they would build, until the three hun
dred millions were met.
President Gompers, of the American
Federation of Labor. in a speech some
time ago--not a labor speech. either
said that from 1898 to 1897 there were
800, 900 men anxious for work, but could
not find employment. Three hundred
thousand men at the Cleveland wage
scale of one dollar, meant $500. 600 per
day. and multiplied by three hundred
working days in the year reached an
appalling sum to be cut off from ,he
wOrkngnlen in Il single year This was
under the Democrat tariff for revenue
only. In the same speech. Mr. Comp
ers said that last year there wasn't one
man who couldn't get work if he wanted
it, This was under Il Republican pro-
tectivc tariff.
Inc Democrats are always looking for
some calamity out OF which to con-
struct an issue. They cannot thrive on
prosperity. but must seek Il calamity
by which to get votes and power In
looking for an issue this year. David
Hill. who said some ten years ago, Il
am Il Democrat" the proper statement
would have been, Il am the Deinoc-
racy. for he appropriated everything
to himself at, the Syracuse conventions
Well. Hill looked around this year and
noticed that the miners were not work.
ing. here was Il chance to charge q
calamity against the Republican party,
as 1t looked as If the people We're going
to be deprived OF coal and would suffer.
me thlng would be to pass something
ABOUT II, and he drove the plank in the
platform advising government seizure
or mines under right of eminent do
main. This would require a constitu-
tlohal amendment and before it could
be adopted or rejected Hill would
freeze to death waiting for chunk of
coal When Mr.. Payne said this same
lh'hg Il rev nights ago. Il bright Irish
BOY in the hall. he explained. cried out:
Yes. and sure he'd thaw ont again be.
fore he'd get it,"
This was the Democratic way. The |
Republican way was like this In the |
afraid of lowering his dignity by look
ing into it. This strenuous. tactful
absolutely honest man called the oper-
alofs ana he called the miners repre-
SentativeS together. He said that while |
they represented so much money or so |
many people, he represented eighty |
millions of people. who should not be |
allowed To starve or freeze to death.
Nothing n snE.il; nf
put mat strenuous president kept ne
sotiating and after weeks of patience
ana tact he got Il settlement which evil
IDENTIFY pleased We'll the miners.
The miners, continued Mr. Pavne
thanked some one. Did they thanl, tba
Democrats? No. but they did thank
the president and your own senator's
quay ami Penrose Senator Plat in
my state and our noble Governor Odell,
This set the audience wild with en-
thusiasm and after the subsistence of
the continued applause IL voice WAS
heard asking. How about Theodore
strauss evidently meaning Nathan
Strauss
Theodore Strauss" asked Mr..
Payne. II don't know that he had any
thing to do with the settlement of the
strike. He was thanked by the miners
IN their resolutions. And my good
friend, back there, Mr.. Strauss was
such good Democrat that he wouldn't
vote for William J. Bryan"
The defeated inquirer was silent the
rest of the evening while the crowd en-
1oyed hearty laugh at his expense.
The miners. Mr.. Payne said didn't
like lillfs way of getting Democratic
votes: bur they did like the presidents
way. The way The miners can show
hey were earnest in thanking the pres-
dent is by voting the Republican ticket
in its fun strength, thus encourag gng
he president in his cause.
Mr.. Payne showed how the Demo-
cratic party ran away from the trust
question by referring it, after an in
luiry in the tlftieth 10 the hfty-hrst
congress The hfty-frst congress.
Trough the Republicans, showed the
way by proposing Il remedy in the
sherman antitrust law. But the Dem
ocrats refused even to adopt this
'emedy and wouldn't vote for II,
though they We're unable to discover
any themselves,
Mr.. Payne showed further that the