The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-09-12
IGNATIUS DONNELLY'S TALK.


n huuIonGe EhMt WAS WeIl fIeubsu M
the Opera House.
Aa the Hon. IRnatius Donnelly walled
around from Tho Helena to the opera
house last night. no remarked to A. M.
Keith, the private secretary Of Gov. Iiok-
nrds: IF | were the governor Of Mon
tnnn think would take chances and call
an extra session Of the Legislature TO slsot
a senator" This showed that DIR. Don
nelly has = mind of his own. Despite the
remark the speaker mnde, Private SeGreta y
Keith introduced tho lecturer TO the audi
ence at the opera house. The attendance
was not As large ns IL would have been ha d
the weathsf not kent many away. Among
those present were Gov. Riokardt and Hon.
L. II. Garter. Mr.. Donneliy's subject was
announced ma "silver and Hard Times; the
Causes and Conaeque noes" The lecturer is
a convincing aud forcibls talksr. slow and
deliberate. and clear and distinct In his
ennunciation. whtlo making no retense 10
oretory. "Tho American psopls." he be-
gan, 'aro standing facs TO face with great
problem and with the most serious condi-
tions." He thon referred to the dangers
which Alexander Hamilton. Thomas Jefier-
son md John Adams foresav, or rather
feared. In the maintenance OF popular
government. and briefly referred to the
changes that had, almost without the peo-
pies knowledge taken place between the
revolution. which be called an "insurrec-
ent dny. when. he said. there 32, 600 million
aires owning one-half the wealth
of the American people. Tho
lecturer then wanted to know why
there WAS such hard times and such pan los.
and from thero proceeded to trace the ince p-
tion and growth Of the use of gold and sil
hand" he said, they came down through
tho nges, and no despot ever sought to cut
the thread that bound them until . email
number Of men undertook TO strike down
ono Of the metals and destroy IL. The great
money lords Of the old world, small In
number but great in cunning, nrs trying to
strike out onc-half of the money to make
tho other half more valuable" The con-
spiratoTs, he said, were trying TO turn back
the wheels of time and bring the wor Id halt
way back to the middle ages. After the
first gun was fred at Sumpter. 2, 600 600 men
nobly responded to the call OF President
Lincoln. Can you expect such service from
the poor " etches who are eating now at the
soup houses of New York and Chicago"
MIR. Donnelly called the men respon-
sibie for the present conditions "ene-
niles of mankind. who. had they 10000
lives, and could lose them all in greatest
agony. could not e1piate the wrong they
had done" Ali this suffering. hs said, was
attributed to the Sherman act. From this
he won't on to show the depreciation of
property all over the world since the de-
mon etization OF silver In the United States.
He said: This county IL no longer a
republic; IL is an oliqarchy. 1t il vary
easy to keep serf IN serfdom. II 10 very
hard to reduce freeman to a serf. These
enemies of mankind have started out 70 do
what will either reduce the freemen 30
serfdon or annihilate themselves. If these
causes continue there will come such an
outburst that the land will run rod
with blood and revolution. We find
this great country almost on its knees be-
fore England, a country governed by an
aristoeraey-not OF the Plantaeenet day,
won on the bnttio feid--hut an accumulat-
i've aristocracy like our own" Tho doptor
said the members Of the Two old parties dd
not realizs that they were being played fol
"a lot Of euckcrs." He said the remedy
was to send to the next congress from the
south and west body of men who would
restore silver TO its place. The present
fight, he said, was not blow solely at sl-
YER, nor at Montana. but at mankind.