The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-10-18
COY, GLENN AT
THE COURT HOUSE
In an Eloquent, ImpassiOned Ad-
dress to a Great Audience, he
Appeals to Voters of Henderson
County to Stand by the "White
Mans Party"

An audience which completely filed |
the court room greeted Gov. Il. d.
Glenn last Friday night. His excel
lency was introduced by Mr.. Michael
Schenck, in q neat little speech, and
the governor was greeted with prolong-
ed applause and cheering. His speech
was q masterly one, and he held the
strictest attention of the crowd to the
end. At times the room was as quiet
as q church. The applause was fre-
ouent and loud. Gov. r. B. Glenn is
an orator of the first rank, and sways
his listeners at will. Sincerity and
earnestness seem to be his character
lstics. Following are extracts from
his speech.
"I have enjoyed every moment of my
stay in your city, and have so much
faith in it's future that I have taken
stock in this great lake you are about
to build, In my talk to you tonight
do not want to be bitter. will
appeal to your conscience, to your
sense of right. and to your pocketbook.
The Democratic party stands for the
weak as against the strong, and hope
YOU voters of Henderson will roll up
big majority this election for the white
mans party.
About the tariff. The tariff is q
dry subject. It's not really tariff. but
tax. This coat / have On cost So 90
it's $3.50 coat and s2.5O tax. I will
illustrate this way. Suppose there was
great wall built around Henderson
county with but one gate. The mer-
chants then form an organization to
keep out all dealers of the surrounding
counties and agree among themselves
to sell their goods at the highest prices
to you, and to buy your corn and pro-
duce at the lowest. That's the tariff.
You buy inthe highest and cell in the
lowest market. Tear down the wall
and they will buy and sell the same as
other merchants in surrounding coun-
ties.
The tariff bears hardest on
the poor and the weak.
Shall we help the strong. the power
full and the wealthy or shall we help
the poor, the needy, the hungry? Or
the shawl the poor mans wife wears
the wife who is as dear to him as the
wealthy mans wife is to him, the'ta1
on her shawl is so cents on the dollar
while the rich man pays but Is cents
on the dollar for shawl to cover hi
wife, and her shawl may cost hundred
and thousands of dollars. An alpac'
dress is taxed 40 to rs percent. A vel
vet or silk dress is taxed but 30 to A
per cent. The poor mans necessitie
are taxed high, and the rich man
necessities, are taxed low. Is this God
law? You pay S24 for a watch which
is sold abroad for $16; a typewriter her
costs 800, abroad $50; sewing machin
here costs s27.5O abroad $40; plo0
$14 here, abroad $l2.
"There is no protection to labor
The cost of living has increased 81 pc
cent, while wages haYe increased bt
from 10 to 25 per cent. The crlmin'
and pauper labor is mot excluded frol
this country and the labor of Americ
has no protection.
''They say the infant industries mu
be protected. They are no long'
infants. They are large enough now
not only stand on their own feet but
trample all over your feet and min
The steel trust has made e27 millio
of dollars profits in 33 months. earn
gies income during the time it takes
asneeze is $500!
Nv. T. Crawford is pledged to ne
remedy these things. He and the Del
ocratic party are pledged to enact leg
lation for the common people, to he
the poor, the needy, the distresse
and not the rich, and the powerful.
Rockefeller says the way the Anne
lean Beauty roses reaches the pertet
ion it has attained is because the f1or1
takes the great plant and nips Off
buds that the one remaining may Ii
and attain it's full measure OF beau
Would you, father or mother OF D
children, kill four that the Femainl
one may have all the advantages viii
the five could not have. Has the SIN
store e-keeper, the independentoil mi
no right to live, simply that Rockefel
may have it all? 1 say, in Gods ma
let the one die and the ninety-ni
live!
"The democratic party stands for
masses and not for the privileged cls
es, and l ask you people of Hender'
county tn send q man tn cOnUraGS Y