El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-08-11

ley Dlii pdSSS1 promptly All the ne
pubncans voted for it and they were
assisted by five southern Democrats.
The law was. of course. denounced in
the terms which Democrats always APP
ply 10 tariff measures IS the most in
iquitous ever passed., and the most
outrageous ever forced upon a people"
But on the day Of its passage Mr.. Ding
ley issued a statement in which he
said This law will give increased
opportunity to American labor and at
IoLe the masses a purchasing power
which they have lost under the con-
dItons of the past four years. pur-
chasing power which will enable them
TO buy more Of the farmer, more of
the merchant. more Of the manufac-
turar. and more OF every producer in
the land. Confidence will return,
prices will begin to rise again to
paying point. and prosperity viii set
IN upon this country. The operation
Of the law will incr,a se our revenue
VIII be met and there viii be surplus
left with which the government can
resume the payment of the principal
Of the public debit There is not
living man today of respectable intel
ligence and fair mind, who can deny
that Mr.. Dingleys prophecy was abso-
lutely fulfilled.
Those False Prophecies.
Not one word of tho Democratic
prophecies which had been poured into
our ears came true. In place of despair
and Gesolation stalking through the
country, plenty and prosperity returned
at once. TO the dismsy of the Demo-
Gratis, the governmental machinery
began again to move with regular
strokes Tie price of cotton. the price
Of coal. the price of beef. the price of
wheat ana tt" price of corn began to
go up and they have been up ever
since. If the agricultural and stock
r2iSiDp inf Of
not satisfied with the prices which they
are now receiving fer their products,
they must, inde.d be hard To satisfy.
If they are dissatisfied with the
ing them for making money. they will
probably. always be dissatisfied. But
Il two vars from now the Democratic
party is returned to power in national
legislation, 1 predict that prices viii
speedily fall TO a Level at which some
boUy will be profoundly dissatisfied.
Bailry's Warning.
Everywhere we are hearing the cry
of down with the tariff. 1 believe that
our Democratic brethren have really
reached the conclusion that they can
dispense with all duties on imported
products and run the government on
wind Senator Bailey felt called upon
TO warn them last year in substance
to the effect that the demands which
they are making now could not be COM
piled with by them if they should
come into power, and that if they
control of the national government,
they would feel very much embar-
raised by the declarati lions which they
are making today. The truth is, gen
tlemen. our government is a great bus
mess concern 1t can only be run III
one way. and that is a business way.
If you depart from this you bring
desolation and misery upon the people,
and although they may clamor for it
under the advice of misguided lead
ers. they will repent if their own pray
ers be granted
Labor's Real Enemy
There is another question Of ma
uonal Importance TO which I beg to
call your attention. The Democratic
party has no just right to be consid-
ercd friend of the laboring man. 1t
is friendly to him only on election day
or when a strike is on. The founda-
ton for this feeling was laid by
Thomas Jefferson himself over 100
years ago. The average man pictured
Jefferson as the friend Of the working
man and as a man whose heart beat
high and warm with sympathy for
the brother who lived by the sweat of
his brow As matter of fact he be-
lieved in nothing of the kind.
Jefferson. the Arisfocrat
He was a fair type of the old vir-
ginia gentleman who lived on a coun-
try estate devoting himself 70 intel
lectual pursuits and depending for a
livelihood on the labor of slaves. He
had an actual adherence for the white
man who toiled in any manufacturing
industry. He regarded him as a men
ace to the state and ne declared with
the utmost vehemonce that he pre-
1erred TO send our raw material TO
England and have it manufactured
there and sent back To US and pay
the freight both ways, rather than to
be contaminated by the presence Of the
working man in America, whom he
declared had bad manners and bad
principles. England thoroughly agreed
with him in this view and Until 1s43
she forbade by law the expectation of
manufacturing machinery from Eng
land to America
Foe to Industry,
The Democratic partyTfrom the
days of Jefferson to the present time
has rarely attempted to turn a wheel
OF industry 1t has never attempted to
do anything to maintain good wages
for the laborins man 1t has at all
times declared a tariff for the protec-
ton Of the working man as Ubiquitous
and 1T has done everything both by
word and deed that could be done to
bring his wages in America down to
the wages of the worklngman in Eu-
rope.
Call of Duty.
Il am not an office seeker. have
never held but one office in my life
I have not had for manys years the
slightest desire to relinquish the pleas
ures and pursuits of private life, but
when you called upon me to bear
your banner in this campaign 1 felt It
my duty to accept, and If my healtrl
permits / will say some things to the
people of Texas which I am sure
many of them have never heard be-
fore.
No Defenders.
presume it is needless to make
an attack upon the present Democrat
ic administration of Texas until some
one can be found who is willing to
defend it. In the vigorous campaign
which has just ended not one man
dared lift his voice in Its behalf The
man who won by a great plurality de-
nounced 1t in. every speech that he
made
Governor Campbell entered office by
a bare plurality. He will reenter pri-
vate life by a practically unanimous
vote 1t is my judgment that we have
had during the past four years the
worst governed state in the union.
Our penitentiary system has dis
graced US in the eyes of the world.
Our public free school system, out
side Of the cities and towns has been
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