man la my community built a neat little home for himself and family twelve years ago. The size of tke building was 16 x 28, two stories high. Th* Mastructioa of this house cost him It was recently des tr*y«4 ky Are and he Is now building aaotkor home on the same plan with the eiooatfaa that it Is two feet larg er en the foundation, or 18 x 3#. Ha tells ae that the contract price for thla house which he Is now building is 1545.M Now who is paying this differanoe ia cost and wbo is receiv ing the heaeflt —not the carpenter nor the maaaa who does the work, aat the plaaalag mill men who furaisk the lumber. but the timber trust tkat OWBH tka timber from which the house Is built, Tke building and ownership of kemea ia America, has doae mora towards making us a world power thaa tka building of battleships and the little komes which cost from ire to eight kundred dollars is just as dear to tke family that occupies it and kaa oost more in honest effort and peraon.il privation perhaps thaa some of our mansions that have cost ' a hundred times as much money. Uniform Conditions for Wage Earner and Producer. Any condition which impoverishes the ladlvidual workingman is a condi- j tion which works a harm to all oth- j ers and even though you may never buy a single foot of lumber or may never awi a home, you are contribut- ! lng indirectly your share to this Three Hundred and Fifty Millions of j Dollars being abstracted from the I pockets of the people by the timber i trust every year. When the farmer or miner or wage earner offers ta sell his labor or the products of his labor, ba must always take the price that somebody else offers him; whea [ he buys an article for his farm or [ household use, he must also pay the I price that somebody else demands. In no instance is he permitted to fix the price of that which he has to sell or that which he is compelled to buy go that any form of private monopoly or a government monopoly in the form af a special tax which prevents the farmer and wage earner from buy ing his goods in any market where you can buy them cheapest is ua- American, unpatriotic and uniair. If the farmer and wage earner must I meet open competition and be govern- j ed in their earnings by the law of supply and demand, then if wo are Bincere in our plea for a square deal the timber trust and its allied Inter ests and the manufacturer should al so be obliged to meet the farmer and the wage earner upon the same level and by the same law of competition. Under the present order of trust man agement and tariff manipulation, the "wage earner's dollar is value because of the fact that he is obliged to pay a fictitious value upon nearly everything which he is oblig ed to buy while at the same time liis earning capacity is confined to prac tically the same limits it was ten year ago. Class Lsjis'ntion. The working man to whom ! have JUKI, referred is wori.ii -"-"try : day's labor and is rce physical energy which ! . s for • day of .10 hoi; again.-: sl.2f> which here > . \e years « ">, or less than an advance j of one pen out. per day i r year dtir- , lng these past twelve years. Granting j that this man can save 25 cents on every day's work after maintaining his borne and supporting his family, it would require live years of con stant toil to pay tho increased cost in the construction of his homo over and above the construction cost ot ten years ago, while during this same period of five years his wage rate has only been advanced on an average of 6 cents per day. There can be no true prosperity that does not bring prosperity to the average working man and the question that must be answered by the present party in pow er is: Why is it that notwithstanding we have a higher wage rate and a greater number of days of employ ment yet the Individual savings to provide for a future rainy day in the average home, are no greater today and in many instances not as great as they were five years ago. All forms of class legislation should be elimi nated. If there is any class who does need governmental protection it is the farmer, miner and wage earn er, all of whom are producers. These men have nothing to sell but their own physical energies or the products which their energy has produced. So when we consider the question of a government of the people and the question of common brotherhood which should unite us together with out regard to party, a system of government which protects and safe guards the interests of the masses is the kind and form of government for which our revolutionary fathers shed their life blood and which it becomes our duty to reverence and to main tain. False Attitude of the Republican Machine. What excuse can the Republican party offer in behalf of a tax on lum ber. I want my opponent to face the voters on the platform and tell them why he believes the lumber tax a goad thing. I want him to tell you what his idea is of a square deal and should he now feel convinced that the removal cf the tax on lumber would be a good thing will he promise you ta do it. Ask him why he didn't try to have it done before. Read the machine state platform. See the glittering promises of reform, trolley freight, two cent railroad fare. ' ballot reform, equalization of taxa- j tiea, and what they have done for tke country and what they are going j |ta io Ask them why they have not ; I already given you these reforms | i wkea for the past twenty years they , have kad full power to do so. An I old Columbia county politician once told me that if a man fools me once ! it isn't my fault, but if he fools me a : •oeoQil time in the same way it is my fault and I deserve the punish moat I get from the deception. Trap Set by the Boss, j Many years ago up in my country I j tke early settlers used to catch wild j j pigeons. The plan was to place a i j dummy or attractive stool pigeon on i a pole ami when a flock of pigeons . would come along and see this nice ; j looking pigeon setting up on a pole, j with tempting grains of corn scat ; I tered on the ground they would j | swoop down in thousands. liaiae- t j dlately they alighted on the ground the trapper in ambush would spring j kis net and catch the little innocent 1 i victims by the hundreds and by the i thousands. The Republican machine j has learned the art of the old pigeon catcher and always manages to place upon its pole an attractive vote get ting figurehead. In Pennsylvania the gang has put up Mr. Stuart of | Philadelphia who is personally a very good gentleman. In that part of the campaign which relates to the nation al Government the magic name of Roosevelt is used as a decoy. The bait has been set and the nets laid, while the political bosses and the trust managers lie in ambush ready to spring the net and entangle us in its meshes for another four years. Pure Food Legislation. ! Barn'un said, the American people like to be humbugged. Lincoln said, I "you can fool all the people some of j the time and some of the people all of the time, but vou can't fool all of the people all of the time." Wheth er we are believers in Barnum or Lincoln will lie determined by our votes on November 6th, for any party or any leader who has for* ver tallied about a square deal in national legis- Jn.tlon and wll| turn around and ad- | vocate the reelection of men who op ] posed every good is open to llie charge . cf plnviug a bunco game upon the I American p< pie. Talra th" question pf ! our pore food legislation, the rail- I I - j?nt o" the Standard OM trust, Steel j j tract -ni railroad trust, and Dr. Sam- I nel vciur pro; 'it 0< ■ —< ssinan, is but j j a cor, in the "• i-; 1 ' " Alarm a ' [vania would a-in deceive the vol-! ! ers by false premises and an app. al i I to Roosevelt to save th -n from final | } dissolution, but til plea vll for | ! once he in vain. j Government of the System by the j System and for the System. . ' The soldiers in the Spanish War ■ ; could eat poisoned beef and die but the echoes of their murmurs never reached the machine. Vou all remem ber the severe reprimand Gen. .Miles j received for reporting the wicked ; wrongs and making known the facts ! to the public about the beef trust. S Young Garfield was appointed spe- I c iai commissioner to dig into the t j facts and make a report. A synopsis of his report contained three things. ' First, there wasn't any beef trust; second, the beef trust was not mak _ ; iiig money; third, the beef trust is 3 ! a benevolent Institution and accom . ! pushing a real good to humanity. It | remained for a story writer to tell .[ ; the story of the real wrongs of the ! |>eef trust. The people, the sov j ereign people read of these wrongs demanded thai they be ri-hted. The ' g trusts could no longer suppress the r j facts, the public demanded an In vestlgation. A law was passed ordering proper , | governmental inspection of the meat I house. The Democrats wanted the ! packer to pay for the cost of this In " spection upon the same plan that the nuMorsl hanks or the country now n uti-.e to pay for the work o. the gov- • ernmental inspector ry imt ho i calls. The machine Republicans . ' voted against this and O ' :Ued li. j ' Every Democrat In tlu bouse voted for it. but it never would have be come a law if it had not b whip ped into such shape as pleased the , packers. Take the question of the j Pure Food legislation, "hf- snme flsrht 1 was put up against hone* t legislation ■ Iby this same dishonest machine. We ! can stand poisoned meat and eat dir ! ty food if we have to but when if | comes to exchanging poisoned can ! dies for the pennies of the little chil ! dren, that men who ar already mil i lion aires may make still more money, | is a horrible disgrace upon the conn ■ try. But this reform legislation is ; bound to come becaus the people , ' are demanding it and 'tie people will l>e heard. Photographic Dsccption. j .Most inconsistent an i ludicrous is j the attitude of those caiidlua: -s. print | ing on their cards, untiern -th their j pictures on banners and on fences, support Roosevelt by vothi for Dr. I Jones etc., begging on the'?* knees for i recognition from the men . iiom they ; fought in an effort for better laws and : better government The order goes l forth from the Boss to stand by the organisation, do talk "bout the is I sues but keep mum and stand pat | for protection. That issue which will j not bear the light of public discussion i jis always a dangerous issue. That j candidate who will not fairly come | before the public and di ss these j public questions of vital importune • is not worthy of the sup:; >rt of the voter. The order to pat is the cry of the dark ages and an insult to the intelligent voter of today. Railroad Rate Bi I. 1 repeat, that this is no loiuer a matter of democracy or republicanism for this government today both state and national is in the le mis of the most dangerous politicians thai ever held the power of stale. it has be- j come one of gigantic graft and : corporate greed. Take the railroad rate question. When the railroads • of the country want laws they al- I ways get them and like a suit of j clothes you buy, they must fit or the railroads won't pay for them. Nearly the whole of j (he last session of Congr «• wasp • lon this important matter. ho peo ple have begged for years '■" v relief 1 from unfair competition in -hipping and from the rebate evil. But as j the people in the revolutionary davs ! were spurned in their appeal to the I i hrone of King George, so are the pe titions of the American people today thwarted by political bosses. The ' recent rtjlroad rate law !s sT i» Tn i he right lir< ction and is th€ be -' lftvt j r its kind that we have ever had. ; Hut it was so mutilated and eh aged | and fixed up by the Republican ma j ohine to please the railroads before i i could pass the House that it has i , ], any resemblance to s or! Ily r tr o:; th - bill w:*r ever allowed to •rv b : "r? tho h?uvc «n ti e laet sc » ton was that the railroads themseiv ! cc wanted the rebate evil rs-.-novad j 1 because there v. r '.oo many insiders I ! bene-ited by the sy t i. th 4 ' ! -, ] t ! the control in v interests ■1 all (lie mllr.sails In the c mntrv it ■ ~„H : •.!,-i-.il '; .it Hi'" wanted the v r having too mat:; grafters within !th erase! vi' and 'lie railroads v.-hich fhe> BOW ovn wer; '.osln- moil : hy 1 thoin. Consumer Not Benefitted. In proof of the statement that this i -tew r-i .■ l H 1 more In the Interest 'of th<> rail,-; '- themselves than of the consumer, I want to say to >ou : that \ on will never buy your coal for | in ~it:s cheaper because of re ' duced freight rates. The merchant I will continue to pay the same freight 1 upon his merchandise and the price of farm machinery will continue to j be the same delivered as in the past. No, we haven't a government of the i people at all but we have a govern* j menl of railroad corporations and : trusts. The chief executive says ( | that we must all be good citizens, | I that both capital and labor must be ' fairly dealt with and the country must have a square deal. 1 believe he , means it and I promise you to help 1 him. if elected, to bring about a i square deal to the consumer In dol lars and cents and not in words. But I behind the throne of the chief execu- I tive there looms up the shadow of i political bossism, behind this we find - ' the substance of that shadow, this i all powerful corporate man. We see » him in our mind's eye with out » stretched arms on either side of the - President throttling with one hand the House of Congress, with the oth r er hand the highest legislative body t in the world. We can Hear his or -3 der issue forth with the hissing - : sound of the lash and if the members 5 1 are disobedient they are shaken and 7 ' their purses fall from their pockets. - The pleadings of hungry men and . won: on. ihe storming of an honest i , Pre; .Men; arc of no avail; the clutch ! and power of this corporate grasp is I relentless in its purpose and all must ; bow to its mighty will or be broken | upon the wheel of fate. It takes*! i strong men and courageous men to ' ! enter the poiitical arena, serve the \ people and live. A Concjrees For the People. It has been urged as a machine campaign argument that Republican • Congressmen should be elected to sup ' port Roosevelt. I ask you in all j fairness to point me out a single , j Pennsylvania Democrat who has fail- ; »id to support Roosevelt in any of bis ! great measures of reform. Mr. . 1100-ovelt at heart < mho lies the ideal of a true Democrat. ft is a matter : of history that if it. had not been for • iie Democratic support given to him. i lie principal reform measure of the ! i last session would not have become j i a iaw. I have invited my worthy! • i.apetitor tom e' me on the plat- | :'orm and tell us what he did in the j last house to support Roosevelt and j also tell us what he has done to sup- 1 port the Penrose * n who were fighting Roosev It.l make the :!i- ' lect charge that ur. opponent is a Penrose man and not a Roosevelt ' man. Witness his attitude at tlv icreral election. i asl; all voters o:" all parties, was it*no< a goo ' th!n;r i | for the tax payers of the sis:'. ilmi : Mr. Berry was elected? They try to stand by the organisation. The same cry of the old colored chicken thief • who was being tried b\ a colored ! jury and as the members of he jury : ; passed him he whispered to mar now in the time for all color* I hreth- , i era who steal chickens* to stand to- | I . ether. The jury rendered a ver Met i j ..." not guilty. Political Jugglery. Witness the nomination of Samuel. ' upon the Lincoln part; ticket curd by deception and fraud and ob- j 1 tained by methods and practices ab ; ! 'torrent to Roosevel' but in line with 1 I the Penrose policy I want you Lin ! eoln Republicans to ask Dr. Samuel j I ii' he himself will vote the stratglr. j j Lincoln ticket or for the head of th< • Lincoln ticket. I ask you then in .ill f-.'rn-ss as between men bow car ! j lie with any degree of decency ask I ou me;: to vote for a ticket which hf i iiimseif repullites? if be is n ' i friend of the soldiers and not a Pen i '—so man I as-: him to explain to th: j , -i sand to the Roosevelt Repub-J | ileans of this district why he threw i j out of office the Soldier Postmaster i | o. Danville replacinj him with one of j the Penrose henchmen. I ask him to ! axplain to organized labor for which j Jie professes a friendship with the j same form of deception that /under- ' 'ics his every political act, why he j dodged the eight hour labor bill in th< isthmus and wh n he found there was ; such a large majority for the meas : ire ho asked the clerk to record his •ote against it. If this does not bear ilie stamp of pttt> political tricker> nothing does. Corporation's P.ep>' ser.la'tive. The time 1 come when v.o do j not want politiciaits in ofiie 'wtit two ye: rs ago with the conli. ence o' ;he people of this district. Dr. Samuel ~3 in come the n»«;si servile political too; for tae gang and th ■ Standard .Oil interest that ever mi. rep« senterl this spl ndid district m-d this splendid people. I can bote pledge my word and lion or th in ( very reiorm measure of the character of which Mr. Roose velt has been ndvocaiir.g in tae ))a-i he will have m» full and hearty mip port. The farmer and the wage earn- | • i of this district for >«ars j wanted a Parcels Post. And my op ponent by his public utterance wh.m j he caused to be printed in the news papers of this district against par- : cals post has lintd up with brazen af- j fronterv as a railroad and corporaio j representative and the question 112 is now fairly up to the people, do you j want a man to represent you, or do j you want a man to represent the cor j j orate interc sts? If you want a man | : > • ,t: ;'sert the corporate int - cst of j . « s ;h. •: ' t cast your vote j or m< ;. • • 'i i am ele< ted I am ; goin;: to Washington as the represen- j tative of the » ople. Parcels Post. John \V-nam. uer during his admin- j istratlon as Postmaster General labor- ! ed hard to ecure a parcels post law. j He said there were three objections ; to it, viz: the American Express Com- . I pany. Adams Express Company and I the U. S. Express Company. The on ly speech Dr. Samuel made in Wa?h --| ington la&t winter against parcels post. He ottered the weakest pos sible excuse for Jiis action. His po : sition would have been much more l manly had he said in his speech that I do not want parcel post laws be ! cause my manager,' the political gang of Pennsylvania and the railroads I which they represent, don't want me Ito want it. The railroads of this country are making a prof.t of *H'" I i'Cmi.ooo per y<*ar in carrying the U. S. | Tbe PostofKce D< ;• n trnent on sec . losing $160,- | OO'i.uOO every v»ar or a ix»r capita ! loss of per head for every man, woman and child in the United States ' annuaily. A proper regulation of , the second class mail service and the establishment of j Parcels Post upon a business basis would not only save 1 to the government this loss of $160,- I ooo.oon which is nothing more or less ! than a direct tax of $2.00 per head for | every individual American, but would also save to our people many ! millions of dollars which are being paid out annually in excessive charg es. To do this is my understanding ! of a business administration of gov i eminent and of a square deal The i obj' et of all taxation is to provide ; . • . for tin* running; expenses and i ,-.4H'ds of our local, State and National ■ V' rumeuts. Not only should the r ' istrjtien o' this Government be i\ and economically administered ! inn ili* distribution o. the burden of taxation should be equalized. A Graduated Income Tax. Tlu man who buys a farm or a la :n Mould not be obliged to bear such an unfair ratio of taxation as he is now compelled to bear in compari son with the v.»althj capitalist and these corporate m n to whom I have referred. I In li-v, in the applica tion oi' . graduated income tax. For j'usUtnce tinman who has a fixed li «• '• vs... s'l.'MHI or $4,000 or re oi lii ii ■ '• tter position :» eonl: i 1 ::te 112" ard tii support of i.e u•»• -*! • . •nt t' ii the wage earn |»»r uo owns a s.aall house and who j j. s net i ;,r.i p«* haps n.ore than an ! ;v -•: a..' o j five or six hundred dol j lars per year. j I believe it: the fair and honest pro- I:i .ion of capital and vested inter but I u!so li ve that they should be made to contribute in turn ! iheir fair share of taxation for the I support of our various governments, j If the supreme court decides in its ; v.Ms ■ in that, such a law is uneonstl- I tutional then 1 would say let us • change the constitution, for to every i intelligent mind the application for j a condition of fifty years ago may be entirely unfair under present changed conditions If Jefferson and Jack . .an ... i li id le brains and i ara • their ivj fmme and i , . !. c</tstit . thav would I the? • : h »re tc ij have the ; i. . ii sand t courage and the pa j triotism to change the constitution j in such places v.here by such change ' would better •- rv the best Interests J of the whole people, and one of the I b.'st. chnn.es they would recommend would be the selection of the U. S. ! S i; iiors by direct vote of the peo : pie. The Steel Trust. To turn once more to tbe import tax qn< stion v e find in the United ! Stats on of the largest artificial ~.... us which 1 n pro luced \- » , • , ■ Steel Corporation. , ■ iif ■ ..<• .: >wing a defic ient fa- tli'" l ':" of $1GO,000»000 on I , ,-mle :i. ... ■■ - a st.il,- ,■ 1 mail x : . i - i" financial ; ..• 1 - I-:.; . We not „:,i ~i t- ■! -1 our money - - ' ; i r .. ;s , i-• it- ■ r.. i. -.' i n. We place i- n -.1.-1 i ■ . ■' which com peiß us to pay an incroaßed profit to ; : totls selling el rallß* in I&urope thai to the American consumer. The •ailrcad do. n't. pay ror this increase'! price oil sto i rails, th. people who I -r- !e on th railroad and have coal ' an.l goods and machinery shipped ov- I <>r 1 hem :i •.• th"- . m-s ■ '-n must pay tariff charge. There is a tariff !: \ of from 2 10 :! cents a pound on j j anvils, axl -. hammers, bolts, pipes. | : ■: s, chains, cutlery, spikes, saws, wheels and nenriy every tliiiiß else j ! used on the farm or the hardware I I part of the construction of a house, i The Trusts' Idea of a Square Deal. ! • The farmers pay $125.0(1 for a reap i er while the same machine is sold by i the manufacturer in Europe for SSS. j American coal oil Is being sold on ! the sireeis of Germany for 8 cents i per p-allon and to the American con ' sumer for 12 and 1-1 cents per gal i lon. Every time you send your ] ■ l-.iH totl 1 store for a gallon of coal oil. 1 want you to remember that the Stan lard Oil Company is taking out nr. sin !. t 4 cents of ail unlawful profit as compared with the price which they are selling the same oil in i European markets and that Mr. Sarn ! uel who misrepresents you is their ! direct agent through the Penrose ma | chine for this Congressional district, i The American sewing machine is ! j offered and sold in the European .nar i kets at prices rancdnp: from five to t ! " rs eh-a;.-r than the same machines are offered to our good American housewives. The great American watch trust is selling watches in foreign markets for from 20 per cent, to 40 per cent, cheaper than they are being sold here in the home market and yet we talk about a square deal. That which is true of lumber aad at eel in the tariff schedule is equally applicable to any other article where the tariff no longer produces a reve nue to the government or protection to the working man commensurate with the annual loss to the greaf buying American public because of the existence of such tariff and the protection is given to certain moaop olies. The people demand tariff re vision and should see to it through their votes that such men are chosen for this important work who will rep resent the people and not the allied interests. Foreign Immigration. I believe in an American Govern ment for an American people and I do not believe in maintaining any form of monopoly which holds up the wage earner at the threshhold of his door and levies taxes on necessities which he must buy from his day's wages. To such an extent do 1 be lieve in America for Americans that I Tuvor a fair and wise revision of the immigration, laws and the absolute exclusion of Chinese laborers and foreign criminals from this country. If you believe In the Barnum doc trines goto the polls and vote the straight Republican ticket. If you believe in Lincoln's teachings, that we should have a government of the people, for the people and by the people, then goto the polls and vote ♦lie straight Democratic ticket. These ire your alternatives. The Bar num theory of the present adminis tration is being exemplified in a re pent statement of the President urg ing the next Congress to pass a law prohibiting corporations from making campaign contributions. Why did n't. they have such a law passed at the last session of Congress when they had a Republican House and a Re publican Senate and a Republican President. The reason is so plain as to not need an answer and you will soon see the millions of dollars pouring from the Standard Oil trust and its allied corporations into Penn sylvania politics for the bribery, and debauchery of the voters. Hut thank lod the vrt'.rs in this district can't be bought. Like all honest men. they* may be deceived once but cannot be deceived twice in the same way which I believe you are ready to prove by your votes on the Congressional ques tion on November Gth. Two Issues. This campaign presents for consid iration two issues, one of state and one of national importance. In the .el tion of your Congressman his rela Ive influence toward both is of sufficient importance to merit your consideration. While it is the bus iness of other speakers to touch up on state i rues exclusively, yet there are some upon which I feel that you a ri t to have a direct expres ]•' ' v hat do you think of a | - • mj-' Vi-'' tint says appropria -1 : •: fi rhv ii >!s »rid schools must ; .e IM down ■ i want of funds and at :.h( same time deliberately spends withoat warrant or contest nine mil lion dollars of the tax payers' money or the c: ction of a slate capitol. Slate Constabulary. What do you think of a state ma chine appropriating ?500,u00.00 to en able politicians to ride around the country on horseback with a brace of pistol 3 and a club to knock people down if th. v don't take ofT their hats tud bow to them as to the Russian soldiery Never before have we need j eel the state constabulary nor hive we i ever had so much trouble and blood shed in preserving the peace as since the> have been appoitned. If the same gang goes back to the same leg islature who passed the state con ulary law, our next appropriation for the state constabulary will be $1,000,000 and then it won't be long before there will be a so called need for more officers and the next ap ( propriation will be for $2,000,000 of the tax payers' money and so on without limit. They were appointed by the political machine in the In terest of the coal operators and to give a few political grafters in every community a good salaried job. The constabulary is an insult to the State militia, to every local peace officer and to the citizens of Pennsylvania, l an insult which will not only h e re j buked at the polls by the election of | Lewis Emery, .Jr., but by the removal 1 of this obnrxious law from the stat ' ute books by the incoming legislature this winter. Pensions. Speaking of the constabulary re minds me of a word I would like to say to the soldiers. Your govern ment has very recently become quite liberal in the matter of adjusting pension claims. One of the best pension laws ever enacted was pn«*spd
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