Show A CONDITION NOT A THEORY when Pi president grover clove cleve land said in his famous tariff message IT is A CONDITION THAT CON VS 1 NOT OT A TI lEOnY lEORY llo lie put millions of men to thinking of the political situation laboring trien men began to r realize tile the force of democratic argument they had always looked upon the tari tariff IT question tion as having no direct influence ilu crice over their troubles if they had ever considered tile the matter it was in the li liblit IT lit 0 of f a protection to themselves but bu t tho the years they had labored under the vaunted sa system sten there had biad been strikes and lockouts lockout anil and labor riots their employers had 6 grown grown immensely wealthy while they were no better off after ton and fifteen years of employment clit it is a that confronts us said they what is our condition alave ilave havone we been protected or lias has our rich employers theory soothed them many years with tile the assurance that tile laboring man received the belief benefits its a aris L ing arg D from a high tariff but they had never placed this pet theory of republicanism side by side their true condition ondi tion after mr air cleve lands message hall had been published thiv did so but th that at document stirred u up I 1 another class as well it roused the employers far more quickly than it did the employees the former were prepared for immediate action they dropped thousands of dollars into the hat which wannamaker passed around and the hat bat being that of benjamins benjamin s grandfather was very largo large and held a great deal promises Cs were made to labor unions and every thing 0 poc possible sible was done to nonplus and delay the alie laboring masses who had been aroused in the ensuing campaign the millionaires bucce succeeded eded in clestin Clec electing tin C president II arrison although the popular vote was against him but they could not stop the laboring 0 man from thinking and two years later his voice was heard A democratic majority of the largest by far ever held in con congress 0 ress ahe direct i result result all sam 1 i r mon men people of this country the tax ridden farmers the pinkerton protected mechanics are arc fast lc learning arning that in spite of all mckinless McKin leys talk it is a condition which confronts them not a theory |