It is natural. it is inevitable. that they who believe the farmer. the small merchant. should be fed with a spoon from the hands of the millionaire enriched by a Republican Ways and Means Committee and Republican tariff should look from the soil. the source of all wealth and the abode of virtue. to the great city. to the office of the broker and the factory of the tariff baron. to find the source of prosperity and plenty. We upon this side look out upon the spreading fields. blessed by Gods sunshine and His dew. ani when there is an abundant harvest. when there is prosperity among the toilIng masses. when the farmer and the small laborer join in one grand chorus of hope and content. then will you find prosperity deserved and earned even among the mighty rich. But when their millions are wrung from the sweat and toil and misery of the unnumbered masses. when their palaces are builded upon the ruins of ramshackling huts. upon the ruined fortunes and the blasted hopes of a people. when their factories are filled with the pauper labor of Europe. from which the American has been exiled. in such an hour it ill becomes the defenders of plunder to turn upon us in the country and in the small towns with the cold and pitiless sneer that we are ignorant and poor and ought to be oppressed. I am here to say it is indeed a truth to the leathern conscience and blind perceptions of Republicanism. but it is a slander and a lie to the nobler Impulses and clearer vision of the spirit of Democracy.
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