The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-01
Falsehooss and Abuse.

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 said:
 Farnehooas and Abuse. 'The only excuse for those fafse- hoods and foul personal abuse in the 1884 campaign were the fear that the
 gains of greedy monopolists would in
 some way be interfered with, and an
 attempt was made at every turn to
 represent to the country that thess
 represented it's great business inter ests. In spite of the indecency and bitterness, in spite of tho unlimited expenditure of money in every quarter.
 the Democrats carried the election. < Tt would scarcely become me, in speaking before an audience of busi- ness men, more than to ask the ques- ton whether or not, in their opinion, every legitimate business in the tcoun- try was not promoted and enlarged by the election and subsequent adminis- tration of Grover Cleveland. He en-
 forced economy, he settled great dis puted questions and he administered the government with an honesty and courage than which nothing in all our history could be more positive or dis tinctive.
 We now hear again the same old parrot cry, that the business interests of the country cannot be entrusted to the keeping of one half of it's people. and that their efrAsen representative. whoever he may be, is the enemy of thrift and industry.
 And that cry wells up from the throats of men whose interest is to preserve untouched the statutes which permit them to collect tribute from the people, or who are interested in combinations organized to prevent competition.
 Seek Only Reward for Labor. You, who as business men are here tonight, and those whom you represent, have not thus shown an interest in politics because you think there is something in it for you. or because you are the beneficiaries of favors granted by law, or because you desire legisla- tion which will turn taxes from the government treasury in which they properly belong and put them into your pockets. You do not seek to gather at the expense of your neighbors gains which you have not worked for and earned. You only seek the reward of your labor, and that because you have earned 1t.
 You do not belong to that order of business men who levy contributions on Wall Street .on timid or grasping in- dustries. You are not compelled, on the other hand, to purchase immunity for some wrongdoing, either actual or pros pective, or to compound some offense committed in the past or contemplated in the future. Nor do you belong to those who hope further to enrich them selves at the expense of the investing public and of the people and their gov ernment by contributing illegally from funds entrusted to you what you know will be expended to corrupt the suf- e. nR "On the contrary. you are interested. as all right minded men are, in the encouragement of thrift. the accumu- lation of property. the upbuilding of all
 our industries, the development of every part of our great country and the perpetuation of the government on the lines laid down by our fathers.
 Equal Chance for All.
 And you know that an equal chance
 for all men is absolutely essential to
 that healthful prosperity which all
 patriotic men most desire for our be-
 loved country.
 We stand as a country upon the
 threshold of a great foreign trade. Our
 natural resources. the industry, the en-
 terprise and the ingenuity of our peo-
 pie; our ability to command efficient
 labor from every quarter of the globe
 and the strength and hexibility of the
 institutions founded for us on strong
 and right lines. all combine to fight for
 supplying an almost infinitely increas-
 ed demand for products.
 Foreign trade cannot be won by a
 people which consents to put itself into
 the leading strings of second childhood.
 It cannot become the heritage of manu-
 lecturers who must be paid a bounty
 in order that they can mulct their own
 countrymen. It is not to be won by
 selling at home at prohibitive prices
 which check consumption and thus les
 sen production. merely that products
 made by the same workmen In the
 same factories may be sold with freight paid thousands of miles away for a fifth, quarter or a third less.
 Approaching Parting of Ways.
 We are approaching the parting of the ways. Either we want, as we certainly need. a foreign trade in