The Columbus journal., 1880-10-13

squares, avenues, 0ouieVards, anu
were selling what cost $40 dollars
an acre for $40 foot and $50 foot,
and all at once in 1873 the crash
came and all these lots resumed.
Great laughter.) A fellow who
had bought on credit, paying two
thirds down, found that the lots
would not pay the other third.
Lsughter.) Hundreds of thousands
of men were ruined, and all at once
they said, "What we want is another
imitation; we want more money"
and | never heard one that was
caught speaking on the subject who
did not say, eff there ever comes
another imitation you may shoot
me-" Laughter.) Wlen contrsc-
ton came certain men were left with
the bags to hold, and they were the
men who got up new financial theo-
ries, and | do not blame them.
(Laugh,er.) 1t is precisely the same
as it is in a game of cards, where
men have been playing poker all
night. | do not believe there is
man here that will understand this
campaign. (Laughter.) Along to-
wards morning the fellow who is
ahead has got to go home, his wife
is not very well. The other fellow,
who is behind, says "No; nobody
but a coward will jump the game;
let us get another candle, and we
will have another deal;;' and so il
was that the Greenback theory start
ed. We want another deal. We
have been left high and dry in the
brush miles from the channels. If
water can only come once more-if
we do not float Oft will be our
fault. Laughter.)
NO MAN CAN IMAGINE,
all the languages of the world can
not express, what the people of the
United States suffered from 1873 to
1879. Men who considered them
selves millionaires found that they
were bcggars men living in PALACES,
supposing they had enough to give
sunshine 10 the winter OF their age,
supposing they had enough TO have
all they loved in afiluence and COM
fort, suddenly found that they were
mendicants with bonds, stocks, NOR
tgages, all turned To ashes in their
aged, trembling hands. The Chin
neys grew cold, the fires in furnaces
went out, the poor families were
turned adrift, and the highways of
the United States were crowded
with tramps. Into the home of the
poor crept the serpent OF temptation,
and whispered in the ear of poverty
the terrible word "repudistion." |
want to tell you that you cannot
conceive of what the American peO-
pie suffered as they staggered over
the desert of bankruptcy from 1873
to 1879. We are too near now to
know how grand we were. The
poor mechanics said Mo-; the ruin
ed manufacturer said "No"; the
once millionaire said "No, we will
settle fair, We will agree to pay
whether we ever pay or not, snd we
will never soil the American name
with the infamous word 'repudia-
tion.'" Are you not glad? What
Is the talk2 Are you not glad that
our flag is covered all over with
financial honors? The stars shine
and geam now because they repre-
sent an honest Nation. They said
during that time, We must have
more paper" and the Republican
party said: "Let US pay what we
have" am in favor Of having that
as money which no human being
can create. | believe in gold and
silver. believe in silver, because
that is one of the great productions
of our country, and when you add a
use to a thing you add a value to
that thing, and want silver money
but want a silver dollar big enough
to be worth a gold dollar, if you
have to have it three feet in dame
ter. Nothing is ever made by ras-
cality. | do not want it understood
that we are nation of coin clippers.
| want honest dollars; honest dol
lars will make an honest dollar
every time. | only want money
that is a product of Nature. Now
listen:
NO CIVILIZED NATION,
no barbarOus nation, no tribe, how
ever ignorant, ever used anything as
money that man could make. They
had always used for money a pro-
duction of Nature. Some may say,
"Have not some uncivilized tribes
used beads for money, something
that civilized people could make 2"
Yes; but a savage tribe could not
make the beads. The savage tribes
supposed them to be product Ell
ther of Nature or of something else
that they could not initiate. Moth
ing has ever been considered money
among any people on this globe that
those people could make. What is
greenback? The greenbacks are