The advocate., 1895-09-18

more calico dresses then than now. that &
calico dress not made OF the sloGdy
like today would outwear three Of today
ne did not mention. In short, he argued
that while prices OF farm products haa
fallen the prices Of all else had faltem
and he could not see where we are
worse off today than formerly. He Wise
ly did not mention in connection with
that, that 1t takes just twice as much
produce now to pay a dollar debt AS
before, that taxes are still payable
in dollars and that 1t takes twice ala
much of the produce to pay thenI that
salaries were the same, freight rates
also, and so one. To clinch II All dla
he went for Cleveland in great shap6
Then he told about the farmer Of tl84
present day, how the credit system
has ruined him, how he would go into
debt with the storekeeper expecting 10
pay with next years crops, but nature
would bless him with too much sunshine
and not enough rain, or too much rain
like this year, the crops would fail, the
storekeeper would refuse to trust, when
he would try another storekeeper for N
while with the same result and when
he had no longer any credit he would
join the pops. (Grea't applause and alec
considerable disgust ON even many REL
publican faces.) Cleveland and the pops
then again were handled without gloves
He told us how everybody was happy
and prosperous under Harrison, a pros.
perity never equalled before, that Cleye-
lands first act was TO issue 30 mill
lion dollars in bonds to keep ND Che
gold reserve, when he had spent the
6 million dollars surplus left from
-he would have us understand, from
Harrlson's administration, and which
Cleveland had loaned to the national
banks. He got his dates mixed, yOu
see. That Harrison's Secretary Foster
had the plates engraved on which those
bonds We're priRAed he did not say, norl
said he anything In regard to Cleve
lands extra session to repeal the Sher-
man law wherein the republicans 30
ably asslted him, nor did he say that
Harrison had only postponed these very
things to be done during his second
term That 1t Is likely, that Harri-
sons hesltancy in regard to this matter
did cause his defeat and the election OF
a new man more willing, or perhaps
with more backbone, to do WALL Streets
bidding, he did not think his audience
would know or suspect for said nv.
"The pops wanted a change and they
got It," He evidently believed his at-
dience were a set of ignoramuses or at
least Of short memory and had forgot
ten that the Alliance and n. M. B. a.
were not an outgrowth Of prosperity.
He forgot all about the 10cent corn In
Kansas In 1889 under Harrison's pros
perity, about the mortgage census law.
the nine million mortgages II showed,
all about the militia being out In Ave
states about the same time all under
Harrison. But he did show, or tried
to, that the gold reserve plea for is-
suing bonds, was only subterfuge and
the actual reason for it was a shortage
of revenue caused by a stagnation In
business which had been effected by the
fear what Cleveland would do when
elected. OF course he supposed that his
hearers understood that platforms did
not mean anything in the old parties.
or he supposed his hearers did not
know THAT the platforms of Harrison
and Cleveland were 50 much alike that
II the heading be left off, their own
fathers could not tell which was one and
which the other. This being a free ell
yer county he branches off on that
question and said he was for the free
coinage Of the American product and
intermixed with a fling at the cheap
dollars the pops wanted. He wants
tariff on foreign silver and is afraid
of foreign silver being dumped on US
While many are yet In doubt whether
Blue is bimetallist or gold bug. be-
lieve he Is a trimetalllst for gold, un