Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-25
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could be shipped. Every subscriber
to the bonds was required to sign a
similar contract.
What this undertaking to protect
the reserve cost is not known, but we
do know that it has been protected,
and to-day is it intact. We do know
that the panic was arrested and con-
fidence restored. We do know that
prices, as a result, have gone up. We
do know that we have with us to-day
ali the evidences of returning pros
perity. The organs and Sibleysnever
tire of abusing the President and Sec
rotary for this transaction, which
came upon the country to bless it and
to prosper it under circumstances of
the EXTREMIST financial distress.
All, my fellow-citizens, Bryan and
Sibley and Stewart are in an ugly
dilemma. They have been brought by
the President face to face with pros
porous times. They are running a
losing race with prosperity. They
represent a cause which will give way
before the benign influences of hope
and confidence and prosperity like fog
before the rising sun These states
men planned their crusade for free
silver, and against the commercial
prosperity of the country, a little too
early. They seem to have drawn their
inspiration from Coxey's Army, and
Coxey's Army is only a "reminiscences
now. All the manufactures are OPEN
ing up. Prices of farm products are
better, trade is fiourishing and men
have gone to work. They cannot
make well-fed men believe they are
starving, and they cannot make we'll
clad men believe they r naked.
They have now nobody to appeal to,
except the nan without a vocation
and who has nothing to do except to
envy his prosperous neighbors and to
devise some scheme of finance under
which he will get something for moth
ing.
Standing here in the great central
city of the Union, in a State unsur-
HoOSNN III Y ACDOdLSCo W any Ol1Cl,
it is impossible for the imagination to
conceive the possibilities which the
future has in store for the people of
Missouri. l appeal TO you 10 answer
if you can accomplish your high des-
tiny without a recognition of the
truth that the prosperity of agricul-
ture, commerce and manufacture is
essentially dependent on a sound and
stable monetary system. All human
experience attests this truth, and all
history teaches the lesson that to dis
regard it is to invite disaster. Be as
sured this great Republic will not
abandon the advanced post of civiiiz-
alton and obscure its destiny by dis
carding the money in use by every
enlightened nation in the world. We
may destroy confidence in u cur
rency, and invite anew the disasters
of the recent panic, but ultimately,
when the American people have come
to an understanding of the problem,
they will know their interests and de-
mand in the transaction of their bust
ness standard money which will meet
all the ~exigencies of commerce at
home and abroad.
Tennessee willsend q sound money
delegation to the next National Dem
ocratic Convention" said Mr.. Josiah
Patterson to a number of Democrats
with whom he was ~conversing last
night. "We have pretty much the
same conditions prevailing there as
you have here, 90 far as our senatorial
representation is concerned Our
United States Senators, Harris and
Bate, are as pronounced silver advo-
Gates as are Vest and Cockrell, but the
people are leaving them on this ques-
ton. have spoken only once in the
State outside of the cities, and that
was at Union City, but the ''sound
money! ideas had found deep lodg-
ment there. I have never seen any
thing like the change in public senti-
ment-