Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-10-25

ings and see q measure that would have
otonly sheared off fifty per cent of the
value of these savings but would have
broken every savings bank in the United
State, language cannot adequately char
acterize it.
WHO AyERTED THE DISASTER.
They say that confidence is plant
of slow growth. My friends, when
would confidence have returned TO our
people If such state of things as that
had occurred? Sit down and think of
it. Picture to yourselves the results
that would have come and must have
come if the free coinage of silver had
been gained, or if the sherman bill had
been continued for ninety days more,
and then when you have considered
such disasters, when you shall agree
with meas you must agree with all
thoughtful men-that they are too terri
BILE to contemplate, and lead to conse-
sequences too. terrific and too disastrous
for us to contemplate with patience or
to call upon us for delay in our reply,
Then ask yourselves what was it and
who was it that saved the American
people from that disaster. Appause.]
II was that plain patriot; il was thAt
true man; it was that unseltish states.
man, who kept his word with the
American people. 1t was the peoples
choice for the Presidency in 1898, who
stood by the promise he had given them
and who more than performed every
promise when he saved them from such
disaster as that. Applause.
remember well watching anxiously
day by day the telegraphic reports of
the progress of that repeal. remember
day by day reading the account of the
apparent failure of that mans health.
| remember the anxiety that | felt, lest
IN the providence of an all-wise God
that life should be taken away and the
American people would be left without
that bulwark of honesty between them
and disaster. Applause. recall 1t
all, and | have come here to tell you it
all. | have come here to let you see
the picture as it was, and the picture as
II is, and then to ask you, are you pre-
pared under the shout and cry of dis
aster which they themselves have
caused, when we are still reaping the
fruits of Republican corruption and
Republican misrule, to place power in
the hands of such party now.
A "swoPPER FOR SENATOR.
Are you disposed to send to the Senate
of the United States a man to stand be-
hind George Gray to uphold him, lap
plause the honest President and the
policies Of the party; or are you to SEND
there some one else who will seek by
trick and chicancry and the swopping
of an office for money or gas stocks OF
something else of this sort to embarrass
and obstruct man in his effort to bring
peace and order and the welfare and
prosperity of the people of this coun-
try. Applause.
My friends, the issue is just that, and
it must go to your heart to consider and
it is upon your conscience how you
will decide il. L do my duty by stating
the issue, and you will do yours by con
templating it fairly and then acting ac-
cording to your responsibility and youi
conscience.
The Democratic party until 1898 had
no power to place measure on the
statute books. For the last 81 years, al
the measures-the measures of a tariff
tax which prohibited importations ant
thereby prevented expectations; the
measures that cooped American indus
tries up in American markets and then
glutted the market and compelled labol
| TO lie idle, and then cried out that they
| were the friends of high wages; the
measures that promoted trusts and com
| bines, that have created an inequality
| Of prices such as the world has scarcely
seen before; the measures that hav'
built up and fostered themselves and
have broken down countless quiet
modest homes. They are all there, anC
here is uot one of them that was no
placed there by the action of the Re
publican party.
| WHO CAUSED TIE TRouDLEp
Ii you ask yourself why any busines
is injured and congested all over thi
| land, whose measures have done it
| What legislation has fostered trusts ani
combinations? What party is responsi
Bile for them? What policies have op
pressed labor and lighted up the hills o
Homestead with private civil war, or
ganiZed by capital against labor? Ii thu
public powers of life and death hayt
been taken into private hands to bt
executed without due process of law
| what measures have forced men to it
under what measures do they preten,
to execute such powers? What policie
have brought this about?
| have asked, by whom were th
currency laws passed that threatene
and drove the gold from the country
Who was then, and who has been, an
who is to-day responsible? There
but one answer to this.
Now let me say u woid in regard t
the effect of the Mckinley principle q
considering only what they call til
home market in this country, as u sub
ject of legislation. 1 want you to con
slider profoundly how they have arrive
at it and at what cost.
One of the complaints of our fore
fathers against the British king, as Sc
forth in that immortal paper, TIL
Declaration of Independence, was tina
he had cut off their trade with fureig
parts of the world. Against that the
rebelleL. They gained their independ
ence and they framed governmen
Friends, they constituted the govern
ment. They constituted it upon pape
and in writing. What did that mean
1t meant that personal will as rule {
the people should end; that personal il
terest and that personal selfishnes
should be replaced by constitutions
form of government; that the formal
ascertained Will Of the peopl
, taken according to that constitution
should become the supreme Ia
of the land, and they hoped that by thi
. means men wouli go about their bus
ness freely, each according to his ow
purpose, his attributes, his capacitie
free to exert himself i'll any sphere
which his faculties attracted him; an
that the government would stand aloo
and protect him only when? Prote