Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-08-26
Mr.. Managers Speech. Which Is
Right?
(Continued from last week. J

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statesman and scholar, Hon. Jas
G. Blaine. and every fair-mindeC
hearer must have agreed with HIN
IN his statement of the patriotism
OF this American of Americans
Owing to the interest so earnestly
displayed by Mr.. Blaine in every
question of national Importance
during his public career; nay, dur.
] ing has entire life; it is a very ex.
celient thing 10 refer to his utter
ances on this important subject,
especially Is this true as he was
accused by many of his friends as
we'll as his political enemies. OF
showing too great an independence
of the opinions of foreign nations
and was considered one OF the
most aggressive men of his day in
upholding American supremacy
and independence.
The speaker at this point in his
address gave us another illustra-
ton of the character and value of
the education he spoke of and la id
so much stress upon. He quoted
from speech of Mr.. Blaine and
by reading only single or isolat-
ed paragraph or sentence attempt
ed to show in this way that the
honorable gentleman was in favor
of the free and unlimited coinage
of silver. We deny emphatically
that anyone, after reading all of
any one speech of Blaine's or all
his speeches, can show other than
that Mr.. Blaine was utterly and
emphatically opposed to the free
and unlimited coinage at any ratio
unless the European countries
agreed also to do it at the same
time.
We quote from his speeches on
this subject delivered in 1878
while the Bland-Allison bill was
under consideration. lie said {:
by our line of policy in a Joint
movement with other nations to
remonetize is very simple and very
direct. The difficult problem is,
what we shall do when we aim to
re-establish silver without the CO.
operation of European powers, and
really as an advance movement to
coerce them there into the same
policy" Again: "And it assured
ly follows that if we give free
coinage to this dollar of inferior
value and put it in circulation,
we do so at the expense of our bet
ter coinage of gold; end unless we
expect the uniform and invariable
experience of other nations to be
IN some mysterious way suspend
ed for our peculiar benefit, we in
evitably lose our gold coin" Once
more: of were TO venture a die
tum on the silver question it would
declare that until Europe remonet-
ize we canrot afford to coin adollar
as low as 4124 grains" With these
illustrations of his position in this
matter In opposition to the feeble
attempt of Mr.. Menager to show
Mr.. Blame as a free silver man,
we ask all to get his speeches or
the history of his life and read
them carefully.
We then listened to quotations
or parts of certain speeches of
various other men TO show they
we're silver men, but we say that
be was careful to select only the
particular sentence from among all
the different speeches which would
tend to support the cause he was
advocating. We do not quarrel with
anyone for advocating free silver.
or free wheat or free anything else,
but we say don't start out with an
earnest plea to the people to OBJ
tain wisdom on a subject and gen.
erously offer to give them an edu-
cation free, and then give them
such food as will poison, and re-
suit in a further addition TO the
fact that those things which are
given for nothing are generally,
nay, almost invariably, worthless.
As an illustration he quoted
from a speech of Hon. VIM. D.
Kelley in his effort TO maintain
his position. Again we beg our
readers to look up the records full
ly and see how Mr.. Kelley stood
all through. He was Chairman