Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-28

Tammany Is an army of dec pllned
sOldlery.
"Darss not to reasoa sby,
Dares buI % d. ana de
when the command ls gwen they must
obey, and l have not the slightest
doubt but that Tammany viii support
the democratic ticket. oat IA the alb
sence Of affection for the head OF the
ticket DO not believe that Tammany
will commit crime for the ticket.
Applausel. And that means great
many thousands OF votes. Applause
Tammany, when she IS III love with =
candidate will 20 10 most any extent,
! bat she does not love Cleveland enough
70 risk-states prison.
The Farmers Surprise.
There Is an old farmer living near
ElmIra VINO does business with = gro
ceryman IN Elmlra; he came down
after TINS "culmInatlng calamity" that
Is what they called the Mckinley BILLY
had been enacted, after it had taken
the tariff of sugar, aud he
came In and gave his order
| for dollars worth of sugar
| TO the groceryman, and, being a demo
crat, went 10 tho back part OF the
grocery store 10 get drink of-water.
| daughter. don't see anything re-
markable about that. Laughter. 1t
Was In the morning. Laughter. When
| he came back he said TO the grocery
man;
"What are you dong thereT'
"Why, am putting up your dollars
worth of sugar"
Not that great, big package! Why.
man alive, only SAID a dollar worth"
IL am getting that"
"All that for a dollar?"
| yes"
'.How much%"
Twenty pounds"
| "You take it right back and put It in
the barrel; will pay you for only ten
| pounds"
"Whyr"
'If / should take twenty pounds of
| granulated sugar home TO my wife
and tell her it was only 81 since the
| Mckinley bill was passed, she would
never again let me vote the democratic
ticket" Laughter and spplausel.
| Now, right on that sugar question
] before | go any further. This infam-
| Gus robber bill OF MckInley's that is
depressing each one OF you, only you
don't know 1t, that is making you the
|
people, although you have not found
1t out. IN the item Of sugar alone saved
you $67 100000 in the year ending
July, 1892. Applause.l
what Change.
Let me ask this question-it may not
be fair one, but L want to put 1t TO my
democratic friends here: Which of all
the administrative and legislative acts
of the republican party since 1861
would you like to see changed? Would
you like TO have the pages of history
turned back If you could? Would you
roll up the scroll that has been un-
rolled, and in every contest which We
have had would you now in the light
of thirty years of experience have
the democratic party succeed on a
single issue which has divided the two
parties? { voice: No, sir.) In the
light CT that question, re-read the his
tory of this country. There never has
been a four years that we two parties
have not been confronted. the one say
ing ave are right" the other saying
1--WE are right" Aud yet in the light of
recorded history | challenge a patriotic
democrat to say that any of the great
acts of the republican party. he from
his heart would like to see undone and
recalled. There WAS the freedom OF
the slaves, the acts of RECONSTRUCT
ton, the issuing of the greenback
the redemption oY the greenback, the
opening OF lands to homesteaders, and
now and along with that has been the
development of the doctrine and prac-
tlce of protection of American INDUS
tries. Applause.
state Banks
The question which the inquisitive
democracy has blown into the muzzle
this fall that it has now found is load
ed, IS the question raised by that plank
IN their platform which advocates the
repeal of the prohibltory ten per cent
tax on state banks of issue. There
IS no one question in which
the workingman, including employer
and employee, and in which every IN
dustrIal enterprise is so deeply inter
ested as the question of an honest dol
lar, of n staple currency of money that
IS just and true, of money that is as
national as our flag, and as spotles:
and as honest AS national honor.
out of the cauldron of war
the republican party plucked at least
one priceless jewel, and that Is the
most staple. the most reliable and
most valuable currency we ever had
Just think of 1t. Never a bill-holder
OF a greenback or a national bank lost
one dollar because that bill was value.
less. Applausel.
We nave an enormous circulation;
we have gold dollars and silver dollars
and national bank dollars, and silver
certificate dollars; and every dollar u
worth 100 cents everywhere IN
the United States. There is not
msu IN this audience who
knows whether the bills that line hi,
pocket are greenback or national cur
rency, bills or ia com notes, or silver
notes You don't know whether those
bills were Issued in New Mexico OF
California or Nevada or New York OF
Maine. and you don't care. They are
worth one hundred pennies, every dol
lar of them.
Only q Proposittou
Now, our democratic friends advo
cate no system for issuing currency
They advocate the bold. barren propo
stion OF repeating the 10 per CEN
| perpetual tax, and thus restoring wha
we have always known wild cat bank
IIlg. DO you know what that means
You older men do. We younger mer
perhaps have forgotten II. Il
means that every state hank and ever
nstOnsl bank. and every monetary i'm
81 tuition everywhere will have its owr
table Of discount for the bills OF evcry
} ether hank. snd tnat you vii have e
submit to thst discount IN going from
one state 10 smother state. tha'
! there will Dc different kind
Of system or bass for re
demptl0u of q bill of the bank ~ each