Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-03

declaring that the tight little isle"
simply attended to and protected her own
business, which the United States did not
know how tc do. The next speech was
by Senator Allen, of Nebraska, Populist,
and he made n Populist speech from st rt
to finish and got tremendous applause.
Then II recess was taken until afternoon
Organized Labor for silver.
When the convention came to order at
2:15 John b. Lennon, of New York, mem
Der of the executive council of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, was presented
the audience. He declared that all organ
lied labor was in favor of free coinage Of
silver at 16 to l.
Waited for Waite and He Came.
All this time the convention had been
restless for Governor Waite. 1t was the
bellicose executive of Colorado that the
delegates wanted to hear, and at last he
appeared and received an ovation. He
started out with the assertion that a ma
jority of every congress since 1878 had been
in favor of restoring the free coinage of
silver, but had never Leen able to enact
such law because the president. whether
Republican or Democrat, had always been
dominated by Wall street and stood ready
to interpose his veto.
VIII be the Death of Silver.
"Cleveland's policy said the speaker,
"as outlined in his call for a special ses-
sion of congress to convene on the 9TH of
the month is against silver as money, and
threatens its total destruction as coin ex-
cept for subsidiary purposes. Enforced,
that policy will shut up the mines, destroy
the mining towns and cities and drive the
miners of all the Rocky mountain region
bankrupt upon g cold and unfeeling
world Already the illegal act of de-
partment treasury clerk in practically re-
pealing the sherman act, by refusing to
obey its positive mandates in the purchase
of silver, has occasoned premature dis
aster in forcing down the price of bullion
silver, in shutting down many mines in
Colorado, and turning the miners out of
house and home"
Jumps on the President.
He said that if for any long period farm
lands decreased in price, as well as farm
products, in any country with good re-
sources, and in time of peace, that coun-
try was misgoN erned. But when mon
opoly refuses to the miner a chance to get
a living in mining COAL iron, copper, lead
or silver in the mountains. when the mills
and manufactures are closed when g.
900 men seek labor and find it not,
when women go half clad, and men starve
in land of plenty, Il president who in
stead of alleviating this public distress
would increased the severity has charac-
, ter marked by every act which defines a
tyrant and is unfit to be the ruler of fl ee
people.
Getting Warm at His Work.
"Who is Grover Cleveland and who is
Benjamin Harrison? and who are their
supporters in Wall street and in Chicago
that they dare assume to drive into power
ty and exile a half million of American
| freemen? Our weapons are ar
guments and the ballot-a free ballot
| and fair count. AS the sons of Revolu-
| tionary sires who freely sacrificed their
| lives and their fortunes in creating a
free and independent government we
| should be towards indeed if we cannot
maintain and transmit to our children
the freedom handed down to US by our
fathers The most dangerous tyanny is
that enforced under the forms of law The
vital truths which underlie our govern
ment must at all hazards be preserved and
if the money power shall attempt to sus-
tain its usurpation of onr rights by the
strong hand, as they have in other lands,
we will meet that issue if it is forced upon
us. For it is better, infinitely better,
| rather than that our national liberties
should be destroyed by the tyranny that
is depressing humanity all over the world,
that we should wade through seas of blood
wan blood IN the horses' hridles -