The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-10-09

HIS III GAL4EN- AAASE1 -
as good for currency and for payment
OF debts Gs were the seven-thirty
notes. Mr.. Blaine here exhibited In
one hand a legal tender and a non
legal tender note, and in the other a
silver coin, and said: | hold 10 this
hand a coin. That is money.
daughter and applause 1t has
oeen money for a long time. Re
neged laughter aud applause II
. gentleman who knows anything
about literature will say that coin Is
not mentioned in the earliest annals,
then be has read more than | have
Moses didn't manage o get any re-
ference to it in the Erst chapter Of
Genesis. bat be brought it in in the
second. Prolonged laughter and
applause. He said, "dold Of the
land Of havilah is good" [Great
laughter and applause Il was not
g bit better than the gold Of the Land
Of California. Renewed laughter
asd applause. Silver is the younger
brother belonging to the same family.
gContinued laughter and applause
Gold and silver are permanent forms
of moaey. They have existed for
hundreds Of years and thousands Of
wears, and viii exist for thousands Of
years to come. ICries Of Good %
"Good !" and applause / have
great anticipalions for the future Of
this country. | wish | thought that
the Government OF the United States
would survive as long as that form Of
money will be kaoWp among men.
The Toledo platform, which Is tie
confession Of faith fOg the modern
Greenbacksr, entirely abolishes Iris
Ore silver coin) from the list # val
liable things 10 exchanges. They
SAY they want ore form q legal ten.
der. aGd only one-the pepper dollar )
they would rather have paper than
gold wish could see TOO most
d si1guished supporter Of this plat
form ia the position Of a creditor, aad
see him offered a Thousand dollars IA
gold end silver, or a Thousand dollars
in greenbacks. GGrcat laughter
You would see bic beir stand on end
from the repidity wiki which be
would
GRAB FOR THE COIN.
Wild spplause One Of the tbeo-
ries is that this derives its whole val
ne from the stamp which the Govern
ment has put upon it, and that gold
and silver are Of no value excep. they
are stamped By the Government.
Well, if they have it stamped by the
poorest Government OF the worll it
would be worth as much as il is now.
Applause.
Mr.. Blaine then instaneed the gold
dollar Of Buenos Ayres as being ac-
cepted by other nations st full value,
while its paper currency vas only
worth q cents on a dollar. Ap-
plapse and laughter Still, coBtin-
ued the speaker, their gold is just as
good as that of the United States.
In regard to the question Of stamp.
ing, the United States stamps this
piece of paper, and it says on the
face Of it "Will pay the bearer ten
dollars" 1t does not say Goa de
mand." They reserve to themselves
the right to say when bat now 2
man can come up TO the State Treas
ury and get all the coin be want
[Great applause. But the very
minute you can get it, then you don't
want IT, Prolonged laughter and ap-
plause. Well, now, the Democrats
say to the Republicans, "You say
you have $40 odd millions of dollars
in paper and only 200 millions in
gold. How are you going to redeem
the paper?n Well, l will tell. We
don't expect to redeem it all at once.
Laughter and applause A Demo-
cratic undertaken in Maine once said
to a questioner who expressed some
doubt as to his capacity to furnish q
number of collins on de-
mand: you have got 10000 peo-
pie here in Portland 2" YES"
They will all be wanting collins in
the natural course Of time ?" "Yes."
"Well, we don't keep 10000 cof-
fms stocked up here all the time"
Prolonged laughter and applause.
The Greenbsckers say this is $40.
Why not say This is a horse" OF q
mountain Laughter. Issy that
when you have come 10 that, you
have come inside the realms of luna
cy, because, as the saying is. il you
have the power to make that $40 by
stamping it, it is an awful waste to
make il only $40. Laughter You
might save time by having them
stamped on both sides, so that if you
owe a man a thousand dollars ell
you have got TO do is to turn it over
in that way. Laughter. If you
owe a man 500 turn it over the 9TH
er way. Renewed Laughter. If.
you owe HIM l LOO show him both
Great laughter and APP
plause Mr.. Blaine then denounced
the statement that France was a
greenback paradise, and commend Us
to France but commend US q long
distance. Laughter and applause
There is m thing whish retards
prosperity Of this country,
and that is the agitation about
currency. There never was, ] make
bold to take the aggressive. there
never was q stronger based currency
than the United States has tonight.
Applause. We have fought in
for a time, q losing battle !;
but tell you, as old Lyman Beech
said in Boston, when they thought
hey bad got a little the best of him
on the temperance question, I'VE
have only stepped back to spit on
our bands aud take q stronger start
next year" IGreat applause. 1t
IS for you men Of Massachusetts to
stand and win the victory, aud to
head the great army that is just now
u to vindicate the honor
and the truth aud the credit and the
conscience Of the country. Pro
applause. If Massachusetts
falls back, ! Will not say the bat.
tie is lost, because this battle can
never be lost. II Massachusetts
stands firm, we will have one firm
rock 10 which to attach our anchor
for the future. Prolonged applause.