The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-07
REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN
 OPENED IN WILMINGTON
FIRST RALLY HELD IN THAT
 oITY LAST NIGHT.

secretary of Treasury Shaw Speaks Be
 fore the Roosevelt worI<ingmen's
 Club-ExpIains the Difference in
 Prosperity of Artisan and Farmer Are
 Interdependent.
 Wilmington. Del, June 6.-The open ing meeting of the republican campaign was held here tonight in the opera house under the auspices of the Roose- welt Wor1ingmen's club of Delaware, an organization formed recently. AL fred c. Crosier presided and the vice presidents included Governor Hum, United States Senators Ball and Alice and prominent republicans from all parts of the stae.
 MT. Crosier made a speech introduce ling Secretary of the Treasury Shaw, who spoke at considerable length on the issues of the campaign. He said;
 The republican party is not a party of sympathy. but of encouragement. Instead of posing as benevolent in lstitution, it represents policies which reduce the occasion for almsgiving to the minimum. Its bounty is opportun- Iitv.
 The democratic party, on the contra Try, never fails to express sympathy flor the overburdened; but it's policies, Iwhen put into operation, never fail to Iproduce conditions which incite sym Ipathy. When the products of labor find ready sale. and labor finds cor Irespondingly ready employment, then our opponents are loudest in their pro- Itestatioins of sympathy for the over taxed and over-burdened people. They never congratulate; they always sym lpathize. They never rejoice: they all ways bemoan. They seldom cheer ex- lcept at the prospect of something worse.
 I This country has never seen and ney- Ter will see suffering at time when labor finds ready and constant enl- ployment, whatever the price of food land clothes. And the converse of this lis also true This country always has been and always will be filled with suf- lfering whenever labor fails of employ Iment however cheap may be the food land clothes.
 I I think I can demonstrate either one Tor both of these propositions can show that the happiness of the wage- earner is dependent upon high priced farm products. and can also demon- Istrate that the prosperity of the farn- ~rl<,.>+ t1.n q constant employment of the wage- earner. Jn other words. it is easily demonstrated that the prosperity of artisan and farmer are interdepend- lent.
 Phil Armour once said to me: T got rich when comparatively a young man by watching the coal and iron miners. Whenever they were employed pack led every ham I could get my bands on. My partner would say, Phil, you Twill break us up.' I would answer, No, they are working now" But when I saw the coal and iron workers quit, sold every ham we had.
 And what is the market of the Ann erican wage -earner? It is the American consumer-artisan, farmer. freight handler, business man and capitalist. The republican party insists that the American producer. to the limit of his ability, shall supply the needs of the American consumer. The democratic lparty seems to think it of no conse- lquence who produces that which we consume, providing only 1t is cheap. The republican party insists that is measurably uninnportant what price we bay so long as we pay the price to our selves.
 Higher wages mean more and better food for the wage-earners, more and better clothes for his family, a better roof for the home, and therefore bet tier market for the farmer Higher Iprices for cattle and corn mean more Humber for farm buildings, more barbed wire for fences, more and better clothes for happier family, more and better furniture for the home, better carpets, better carriages and more and better implements of agriculture, and there- fore a better market for the wage learner.
 In other words, both the wage-earner and the farmer-yes, the business man and the capitalist as well-spend in one way and another about all their ! income It is spent either for improve |ments on the farm, or for a little home in town, or in the education of ehil- dren or in the construction of a rail- road or in building a ship; and ninety per cent. of it goes directly or indi- rectly for labor or for the products of labor
 Whenever the republican party is in power and its policies are in operation, when public guildings are being erect ed when rivers and harbors are being 'dredged, when railroads are being graded and widened and double-track- ed, when canals are being dug, and Iwhen the home market is protected in the interest of the American producer, artisan and farmer, then are all men lied and all families clothed. But may Ithe good Lord deliver us from another !period when living expenses are cheap.
 Republicans Win in Oregon. ! Portland, Ore. June 6.-At o'clock