Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1880-10-21
lFrom Beecher's Speech in New York. !
A. Change
HENRY WARD BEEcHER's IpHa or THE
"cuANGE" WE DON'T WANT

HENRY WARD BEEcHER's IDRs OF THE
'cHANGE" WE DON'T WANT.
Well. hear those on the other side.
young men-and some Of them very young
say: "fhe republicans have been in
power long enough; it is time we had a
change" Well. gentlemen. let US ask these
men deliberately what kind of change do
you want? DO you want a change in our
foreign relations? We are in peace and
amity with every nation on the globe. You
canno, change that state of things unless
YOU go to war. Well. then. do YOU want
change in our finances? When a paper
dollar is worth a gold dollar | cannot see
what change YOU want there; you cannot
make it worth two dollars. Other men
would say I'VE want more paper dollars.
Now paper dollar represents property, and
! have no objection to Your decreasing prop
erty, but protest against your increasing
that which represents il; YOU would find a
very quick limit 10 the increase of the rep
resentatiye of property, when there was no
property To be represented. You have got
gold and silver. We are generous of our
gold and prodigal of our silver. We have
dollar. worth a dollar If it is gold, and We
give about so cents or 81 cents for it, il il is
silver. Laughter Gentlemen, We have
got silver enough. wish some Of these
men tina, are bothcring about the polls were
sent out to dig it. l.augh,er.l Their
counsel and their action at home are not
very profitable.
In regard to everybody else there is uni
yersal content. Ii | go to the arts, he tells
me There is a very large demand spring
ing up for my pictures" If go to the build
er's they tell me they are having house after
house pressed upon them; | 20 TO the ma
son. and his trowel clicks on the brick from
early morning TO late at night. | ask the
loom and il SAYS II am crowded TO death
with work :" 20 to the plough-it shines
a. a mirror, rubbed through the burrows to
bring out the haryests that all Europe and
all the world wants [ApplauseI ask the
compass and the ruddcr. and they say never
were the seas more propitlous; | ask com
mcrcc and agriculture and manufacture;
ask the fine arts, scholarship and learning.
and there comes an answer as OF one voice
from every interest-domcstc. private, pub
lic-evcrywhcre the Nation was never more
prosperous than it is TODAY. Loud APP
plause.
And now YOU want a change Laughter |
To do WHAT 4 change 10 carry this pros
perity forward faster would not be whole
some change. That way lies speculation.
fictitious prosperity. the insanity Of hope /;
moderation is on this side The other
change. and the only one. Is TO go back to
the dollar customs of the early DAYS, when
men did nothing bat attend to politics No.
no. This nation vas never more blessed
than i is to-day. Loud applause.
Nov. national prosperity lasts about ten
or fifteen wears. and then the natural cvolu-
ton of things brings matters 10 4 point.
We give men credit. rs II were. for period
Of ten to fifteen Years; then We call upon
every man 70 settle up. Settling up j.
called a crisis. Laughter Md il is.
Renewed laughter. Then. when We have
settled up. We all start again, and generally
there Is a run of ten to fifteen years, &C
coFding to the nation. Ii It is = vital ma
ton, the settling up come. in about ten to-
fifteen years IN conservative nation. like
the British. Il comes in abou; twenty years /,
Il the nation IS more phlcgmatic like the
Dutch, Il takes FIFTY years TO do H. Laugh
ter. But We are on the dawn Of a ia, OF
prosperity such a. has never been measured
out to this land applause and the republic
can party, having gone through the night ;
having carried the nation safely through all
it, past difficulties having suffered in every
possible way having indicated IL patriot,
ism, and being now about to stretch out its
hand and reach it, just reward Of quiet and
peaceful comfort, which prosperity brings.
the minions Of slayeccracy and democracy
start up and say. -Gcnilemcn. get dow
from the seat, and e, U. get up and drive. =
Laughter.
Where j. there a guarantee for another
four wears OF prosperity clearer than the fQgr
tsr--~.-Ahaf ------ts'- ost t'-t'As u" -
Presidcn, Have, has done Applause. J
" here can you pick out 4 Secretary who can
manage the Treasury a. Sherman does ,
Applause When has there ever been a
Cabinet, from the DAY Of Washington cleaner
~ every member of il than the Cabinet tina;
nov cousults in Washington Applause. 4
And Yet men can say, look my At these four
millennium Years We want a change 7~
DO You want To 20 from good 10 bad Do
you want TO 70 from prosperity backward ,
N, know the answer Of the Democratic
party. They were the men that cried IN the
wilderness forrhe lerk, and onions Of EgNpt.
and they wanted to 70 back to Egypt. Tor
they hadn't enough to eat Laughter.
Gentlemen. the lceks and the onion, are not
for the democratic party jus; yet Renew
cd laughter. And yet | am a very great
friend Of the democrats Laughter
Whom love chasten. Roar Of Laugh
ter