The man that sells his vote strips himself of the imperial purple, throws away the scepter and admits that he is less than a man. More than that, the man that will sell his vote for prejudice or for hatred, the man that will be lied out of his vote, that will be slandered out of his vote, is not worthy to be an American citizen.

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Labor-Saving Machinery.

Every man ought to be willing to pay for what he gets. He ought to desire to give full value received. The man who wants $2 worth of work for $1 is not an honest man. The man who wants others to work to such an extent that their lives are burdens is utterly

heartless.

crease.

INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION.

The toil of the world should continually deOf what use are your inventions if no burden is lifted from industry? If no additional comforts find their way to the home of labor?

Why should labor fill the world with wealth and live in want?

Every labor-saving machine should help the whole world. Every one should tend to shorten the hours of labor.

Reasonable labor is a source of joy. To work for wife and child, to toil for those you love is happiness, provided you can make them happy. But to work like a slave, to see your wife and children in rags, to sit at a table where food is coarse and scarce, to rise at four in the morning, to work all day and throw your tired bones upon a miserable bed at night, to live without leisure, without rest, without making those you love comfortable and happy, this is not living, it is dying, a slow, lingering crucifixion.

With the

The hours of labor should be shortened. vast and wonderful improvements of the nineteenth century there should not only be the necessaries of life for those who toil, but comforts and luxuries as well.

What is a reasonable price for labor? I answer: Such a price as will enable the man to live; to have the comforts of life; to lay by something for his declining years; so that he can have his own home, his own fireside, so that he can preserve the feelings of a man.

I sympathize with every honest effort made by the children of labor to improve their condition. That is a poorly governed country in which those who do the most have the least.

There is something wrong when men are obliged to beg for leave to toil. We are not yet a civilized people. When we are, pauperism and crime will vanish from out land.

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Servants of Man.

There should be labor and food for all.

slave the winds and waves.

We invent.

We take advantage of the forces of nature. We enWe put shackles upon the unseen powers. These slaves should release from bondage all the sons of men.

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The American Republic.

The United States of America is a free country; it is the only free country on this earth; it is the only republic that was ever established among men. We have read-we have heard of the Republic of Greece, of Egypt, and of Venice. We have heard of the free cities of Europe. There never was a republic in Venice, there never was a republic in Rome, there never was a republic in Athens, there never was a free city in Europe, there never was a government not cursed with caste, there never was a government not cursed with slavery, there never was a government not cursed with almost every infamy until the Republican party of the United States made this a free Nation. I want no grander, no higher title or nobility than this, that I belong to the Republican party, and did a little towards making the Republican party a fact.

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Equal Opportunities for All.

I love this country because it gives to the lowest equal opportunity with the greatest. The avenues to distinction are open to all. We have taken the failures of other countries; we have taken the men who could not succeed in England; we have taken the men who have been

robbed and trampled upon,-we have taken them into this country, and the second generation are superior to the nobility of the country from which her fathers emigrated. We have taken the Irishmen, robbed; we have taken the foreigner from the almshouse, and we have turned their rags into robes; we have transferred their hovels and huts into palaces; out of their paupers we have made patriotic, splendid men. This is what we have done in this country. We have given to every man in the Union, in the States to which I have referred, equal opportunities to get a home, equal opportunities to attain distinction. That is the reason I like this coun

try.

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Labor and Capital.

The lovers of the human race, the philanthropists, the dreamers of grand dreams, all predicted and all believed that when man should have the right to govern himself, when every human being should be equal before the law, they believed, they prophesied, that pauperism, crime and want would exist only in the history of the past. They accounted for misery in their time by the rapacity of kings and the cruelty of priests. The rich cannot oppress the poor, the poor are in a majority; the laboring men, those who in some way work for their living, can elect every Congressman and every judge; they can make and interpret the laws, and if labor is oppressed in the United states by capital, labor is simply itself to blame.

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"Gee a Little."

There was an old fellow used to come into town every Saturday and get drunk. He had a little yoke of oxen and the boys, out of pity, used to throw him into the wagon and start the oxen for home. Just before he got home they had to go down a long hill, and the oxen, when they got to the brow of it, commenced to run. Now and then the wagon struck a stone and gave the fellow an awful jolt, and that would wake him up. After he had looked up and had one glance at the cattle, he would fall helplessly back to the bottom, and always say, "Gee a little, if anything." (Laughter.)

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How to Vote.

Let us be honest. We are reaping the reward of all tnese great and glorious actions, and every good man who has ever lived in the country, no matter whether he has been persecuted or not, had made the world better.

The

The other night I happened to notice a sunset. sun went down and the West was full of light and fire, and I said: "There, there is the perfect death of a great man; that sun, dying, leaves a legacy of glory to the very clouds that obstruct its path. (Applause.) That sun, like the great man, leaves a legacy of glory even to the ones who persecuted him, and the world is glorious only because there have been men great enough and grand enough to die for the right." (Applause.) Will any man, can any man, afford to die for this country? Then we can afford to vote for it. If a man can afford to fight for it and to die for it, I can afford to speak for it.