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

the president. He had Republican
House; he had u Republican Senate.
1t was his duty, under the Constitution,
to lay before Congress the true con
dition of the country.
And now | ask you, what did they
dog What did they say? What was the
attitude Of that administration? What
was tho attitude OF those party mana
gers? know nothing that will describe
it, except pagein the history OF France.
When, after the death OF the Louis
XlV-he who was called the grand
monarch-there came the period of the
reign OF his nephew, the Duke Of Or
leans, which was followed by the reign
Of Louis XIV; and under that reign
France swept closer and closer and
faster and faster toward the rapids, the
whirlpool, the terrific destruction of the
revolution of 1889. But what said these
men then in charge as they saw the evils
which they had created. Did they seek
to stem ihemg Did they seek to meet
them? No, no; their laughter, their
sport was more intent than ever. Then
the cry arose after us tho deluge.
What care we, SO long as the power
shall outlast our time and our brief
reign"
THEY CRIED FOR CLEVELAND.
Gentlemen, the attitude of Benjamin
Harrison, the President of the United
States, the attitude of the men whom he
had in his cabinet, and especially of Mr..
Foster, his Secretary of the Treasury, as
he sat there smirIling and rubbing his
hands and smiling-they all said, "This
will outlast this administration, and the
Democrats shall shoulder the ruin that
| our incompetency and corruption have
wrought. Continued applause. This
is the truth; this is the truth; it stands
written on the sky; 1T stands written
| forever in history. When the people of
this country, when the business Inen-
than whom there are none more careful
when the careful, thoughtful, judi
cious men thought the danger was COM
ing; when they were gathering together
and asking for the remedy, to whom did
they look? For whom did they cry 7
They cried aloud for Grover Cleveland.
Applause. They cried aloud for the
Democratic party. They read the Demo-
cratic platform They heard the Demo-
ME coming here among my own friends
aud people to declare that there should
be reform and that there should be
safety so far as economy, care, skill and
courage. 1t was all coming. You
could no more stop it then than you
could arrest a typhus fever before it
reaches its crisis.
IT HAD TO COME.
Friends, it had to come. 1t was com
ing when | stood among you here, and
perhaps you remember the anxiety
expressed about it. 1t was written then
upon the faces of our thoughtful men.
| And the first thing that was done by the
President of the United States; the first
thing that Grover Cleveland Gssayed
was to grapple with these questions, to
carry out the very reforms he had prom.
ised and seek to take away from greedy
hands the great purposes of the govern
ment which had been entrusted TO them;
to stop this purchase of silver-as
though by au act of Congress men could
control values. Oh, my friends, without
going into this question of one metal OF
two metals or the combined, there is the
one fact and beg you to carry it reyer-
emily, that it is not IN the power of man
20 create values. Long ago there came
from the lips of God Himself on earth
(which Of you by taking thought can
add one cubit to his stature" Which
of you by taking thought can make
two blades OF grass grow where one
grew Which of you can affect the
value of the metals, or the produce OF
the earth? There is an illustration before
you most plain; had you asked twenty
five, twenty, fifteen, ten, or five year;
ago, "What are the relative values oI
the two grains, corn and wheat!" wha
would have been your answer? Well
you would have said usually one bushe
OF wheat is worth two bushels of corn
and you would have been nearer the
truth more frequently if you had sai-
that one bushel of wheat will brin:
more than three bushels of corn. VIVA
is the condition to-day? Is there d
farmer here, is there any man here who
, watches the prices, who does not know
that the corn of last year is worth to-
day more money than the wheat2
Friends, can the act of Congress
change this? Can man legislate him
self into wealth? If it be so, then til,
primeval curse is repealed and nj
| longer shall he by the sweat of his fac
earn his bread, but he will apply for al
/ act OF Congress to ordain that he shal
be comfortable and happy.
/ Therefore, whatever may be the deci
, sion that comes, distrust any man wht
, tells you that Congress or all the con
gresses in the world can create values
There cannot be u creation of value b,
} the act OF Parliament or by the act .
5 Congress.
/ Therefore the Sherman silver bill tina
9 was passed upon the demand of the silye
4 owners of the country, that they shoul,
+ have their percentum of government
/ aid in their private business just as tn
Y producers or the manufacturers of othe
things had their share and their per
+ centage upon their product in the shap
{ of protection against foreign competi
Il ton. They had secured the passage q
/ that bill, and what was the result?
f was that day by day, the danger grey
G nearer and nearer, That danger, III
: friends, was the immediate loss of ever
4 gold dollar to the use Of the people {
. the United States; the Instant tligl
r from the United States of the sam
Q producing contraction of values, prt
j. ducing Il disorder of business, producln
S an absence of all confidence, compare
it to which the suflerings of the people {
Q this country during the last elgatee
If months would have been child's pla,
o They would have been child's play {
y compared to what would have fo
IS lowed upon the loss of the gol
il standard of value to the people of ii
o United States. My friends, you cam,
e picture it. So gloomy would it be, til;
Is hesitate to draw picture of the col
0 sequences to the people Of this countr
3 and not only to the people OF this coul
n trv hut tn the mamie of other countri,