Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1894-08-31

point in his etory come on
would ask: "Well, what di,
you do then, Uncle George?'
"Do? dor" would answe
"Uncle George with inflnit,
COZ tempt, "what could dor 1wh,
thy killed me right thar
20 We have been tempted to asl
the Populist orator in the torren,
and fury OF is story of woe, ~Wha'
win We dof'b but have been restrain
ed by the fear that he would answer;
"Do7 do? What can We do? Why.
We ers dead ALREADY"
q However maay hungry children
ths1e may he in Chicago or China or
'sonpe other far away place. it was
soon made manifest after the dinner
hoVF was announced that am pie pro-
v4|Pn had been made on the present
oc< 4sion to appease the most raven
ous hunger Of all-men. women and
children. For judging by the quan-
tity and tempting character of the
food provided it must have been ex-
pected to feed an army. If anybody
went hungry 1t was their own fault.
Through the courtesy of the COM
mittee on arrangements Hon. u. s..
Hal had been given one hour IA
which to speak. Immediately then.
upon assembling after dinner he was
by Mr. p. s. RAIDER. of
Brunswick, and secured the earnest
attention Of the people to the end.
Mr.. Hall began by saying that the
proper way to judge principles Of q
party 10 BY the legislstion it propOs-
-. Judged by this rule the Popuist
party would prove to be, should the
country be % uniortunsts a. to pat
It In power. the most extravaesnt
aud ruInous party that ever had an
existsnce. Its members had intro
ducsd bills appropriating money to
the amount Of so billions of dollars.
The speaker said that all the mon
ey in the world, copper. brass. lead.
sine. p<wtsss ssnicksl. silver, gold and
paper only amounted to ten billions
one hundred millions of dollars. Yet
one single bill proposed to appro-
pirate twelve billions of dollars to
be loaned to any citizen in the coun-
try who wanted it. Another would
loan ten billions to the different mu-
inequalities OF the United States.
Still another proposed to pay in one
gross sum to the pensioners Of the
country the enormous amount Of
81 500. 900. 900. And SO on through
the catalogue OF extravagances un-
til the aggregate Of $4,000, ,000,-
900 was reached.
No party that proposed to deal
with the finances 10 such q reckless
manner should be trusted with pow
er. The speaker ridiculed the motto
demanding "Free Trade" conspicu-
ously displayed from the back Of the
stage. Their platform did not men
tion 1t and their speakers only spoke
of it to ridicule.
Mr.. Hall next took up the work
the Democratic party accomplished
in congress. Our editorial on
"wbst Congress Has Done" will
give our readers an idea of this part
OF his speech.
Mr.. Hall was in fine form and like
a mag with convictions and the abil-
ity to deSpd them. He will return
to the county again in the near fu-
ture to remain tor a week making
speeches in different parts nj old
Charlton.
After Mr.. Hall had finished the
Populists again put up j. Weier
long to answer him. We remained
or half an hour, but the only point
,e attempted to make in that time
against the previous speaker was
hat he was inconsistent in claiming
% be in favor Of free coinage OF sill
rer at 16 to 1 and then voting for
lifierent ratios as high as 20 to 1.
dr. Hall did not get the opportu-
lity to answer in q speech, but every
me knows the purpose Of the free sill
'er men in offering to change the |
alto. IL was to show the false pre-
ense OF the "gold-bugs," and that it
ras not the ratio to which they OBJ
.~koI onu pofsn