The state herald. (Holyoke, Logan County, Colo.) 1887-1921, 1893-07-21
TWO SILVER SPEECHES.
Rev. Myron Reed and President Andrews
Addrcss y Big Denver

Addrcss y Big Denver
Audience.
broadway thcatcr, Denver, was crowded on
the evening OF the llth TO listen to Discus
sion of the silver question by the Rev. Myron
W. Reed of Denver und President Andrews
of Brown University. the audichce was
largely coo,pcscd OF delegates TO the silver
convrnton which met during the day.
Mr.. Reed was the first speaker and among
the good things that he said were the follow.
Ing:
There Is enforced idlencss IN Colorado,
They SANDER who eay rn~p VIII hot work In
this State. PHt an advertisement In morn
Ing pnpee that You want eco men TO tear up
street IN Denver and at OPP. m. you Will
have 100 yicn or more ut the spot
| " was true that some men were born
lramps, declared Mr.. Reed, lie had met one
who said he WA born With n wanlerlng
foot, but improved machinery hea much to
40 with making ttT,i,p6 Men by these new
agent. we're fortcd TO learn new trades. They
sOnM siarvc In nine days but they could not
learn a new trade In that period. II was the
transition time which made tramps. After u
lew dlsappointments the workingman lcgihed
TO beg to steal, 10 get aruns.
SILVER and gold MP .'oyni metals. A man
| runs VI ,lctt on that understanding, and 10
so'nc@sat perplcycd, when the debt Is due, to
| discover that come congress haf doubled his
debt and haiyed his money. There seem 70
/ be no real, solid, stable values.
| Carlyle suggests that the dangerous classes
ire not In back nileys and cellars. He .r-i
the suprc me scoundre, Is IN 4 padded chair,
close 10 uekrr manipulating the prices Of
bread and wool md coal and currency. What
relation has the price Of cotton to-day to the
nnkcdncss OF the worldi The price OF cotton
depends upon conspiracy.
Up to 1882 silver constituted the coin In
common use among Americans. In my child
hood saw no gold. The ratio has varied,
I sometimes l to !, s to {, l5l4 10 1. For tho
longest period tho ratio has been l5iS Oh 10 III
I. Napoleon established this ratIo 81 1911 to
| by law. From Napo!eon H6napartc TO John
Sherman 4 " io"s way, u long way down.
| tilver has held Its own until one fatal day or
| night when 1t was made ashamed. / hear the
| proposition 10 make the ratio - or "a TO l..
That shamcs the metal, iisgraccs 1t. humil.
stes 1t.
Suppose VIZ get what we want, we have
prosperity. VIII my rich man thereby sur
lcri lie will suiIer perhaps, III his mind
| Carlyle defines the h-li nj \ rlch Englishman
anywhere have 10 fctrench or cconomlzc or
go without.
lie will not miss meal or o fire or A ~
| or bali or banquet i,n vii sit at the
royal gorge !..i.t Tie same. Did abundance OF
nio-ey ever cause any bodily distress. All
the rich man suffers under silver aud gold is
that he is not so rich and must add TO his
riches more slowly.
Missionaries ought to be seut IL the sodth
The South and IVES, arc naturally together.
silver down, Nhcnt down, cotton nj cents a
pounds that makes lripar'e alliance Of tho
South and West What more ID We heeds
After strdS ~ NE question, II any repre-
sentative At Washington from any Western
or Southern state, from any mining or
farming state, goes back on silver; on his re.
turn let his people not shoot HIN, That
would be hasty, inconsi Qernir mil y slscredit
| TO the peoples scrss " law and order No,
irs' .css MIN In standard oil and burn him.
| silver is the peoples money. We must 90 on
with Western pluck and Christian faith, and
| The fulfillmcnt OF our State must be an the
scale OF the preparation,
President Andrews, who Nas A delegate to
the International Moaetary Conference which
me, a, Brussels last fall, then sddrcs ,eii ths
audience. He urcnei Wy e4jlbg that he
Yielded tc no ,iaI alive In his belief In silver
as money. Its decentralization was a frIghtful
mistake, the worst blunier ever perpetra,cd
by nation. Therefore, II he and his audi.
enee differed on minor details he hoped they
would not shoot him, or u 'het ntA, bdin
q
him. would no, stet lin irst In standard oil.
'he financial difficulties depressing pri.
inarily the Rocky Mountain country and the
whole country In general, vas not due to the
sherman law. He denounced ,hrt law a. un.
wise and unsonni legislation, bu. the rn,iscs
oil tho panic lie deeper, IN the cpnstan,ly
growing scarcity of II ,ihu'c tnohck ell over
the world. The prese3t spell OF hard times,
be feais. viii be more severe than any since
1873, and II Is due 10 the same cause, the use
OF gold as ultimate money.
The United states Ia apparently committed
TO the policy 81 an International bir,esaiisin,
and for myself lp"d"riook 10 try the temper
Of 'sr Hngilshnen on the question, aud
found H. II was that England wants us to
take silver up alone. They wanted then and
they want day Tor the United States 10 coin
silver alone nj The present ratio OF 10 to l, and
That was tue role obstacle that met us Ia the
conference. The English were ,rt -pcn II,
and We could FOL get them to make a com
promise move OF any sort or condition what
ever. There Is absolutely no doubt, and
hope you v III pardon me for my frankncss, but
that until England csn be made to believe that
the United States will not undertake To do
this thing, then there need be no hope Of an
International bluetAilism. II that country
-ould lie 'uaJs ~ tr,ete tbs, We viii not do
this, then kngland would be forced To yield,
and II would lie compelled IN srlf-defcnse to
Join thl, country In free silver movement
do not want yol 10 regard me ~ M ennis.
AIRY OF Wall street, for let ms assure you that
am not. AZ home ] am regarded as a silver
crank, but am afraid that In this at least,
You VIII not agree with me; and do not care
whether you do or not-thc quickest, and
may LAY the only way out OF the whole dim.
Guilty j. 10 stop buying silver Shut down
ronr mines aud stop ceiling TO the govern.
neh,. What hurt would II do you, Not n
bit. What II sll,et dncs decline 10 4, 10, 10