The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-10

wages, work for everybody and uni versal propriety. Now look back eight months after President liar rison's administration closed. Busi- ness houses were closed, mills were unoccupied, spindles were still and men were tramping over the coun- try. The republican administration had reduced the national debt $1S000,- = 000, and yet in these times of peace the succeeding democratic administra- tion has increased the debt by $262,- 900, 900.
 The democrats are singing doleful songs about the crime of '73, as they call it. It has been said by a silver orator In New Haven General War ner) that nobody knew about the in- tended demonstration of silver; that the work was done by stealth and on sudden. Why, my friends, I voted for the bill in question and it did not demonetize silver. It made every sil- yer dollar payable in gold, which is not characterization. Now about the secrecy of this legislation. Here are the facts: Senator Hawley then read proofs of the bill in question. He showed that the bill was referred sev- en times to a committee and was final ly carried on a close vote. The con- gressional records, said the speaker, published IA columns of debate on the bill in question.
 Where, now, does the stealth come in? sair the senator. After all these days of debate and publicity will any one dare say that the bill was passed suddenly or by stealth?
 Silver has not not been demonetized; there has been more silver coined since that bill was passed than be- fore 1873. The gold product has been greater, certainly. Look to the mines of Australia, they are wonderfully pro- ductive. By such productiveness the parity of the metals will come about. Nature is a great economist and she will settle the metal question. Senator Hawley, continuing, said: I am not aiming at those gentlemen who met at Indianapolis a few days ago. I admire those patriotic citizens; I know them; I salute them. They are not popocrats. They are democrats.
 
 declares that all our debts. public, as we'll as private, shall be paid In fifty three cent dollars In this country.
 Now, the English of the plank of the Chicago platform relating to the inter- ference of federal authority means that two years ago there occurred controversy between MT. Pullman and his workmen in Chicago, It was thus the duty of Governor Altgeld to guard the property that was then being burned. It was not the time for argument. The time to argue Is not when men are disobeying the laws I have said that the lawx of this nation and the constitution of the United States should be obeyed on every inch of land and in every second of time Governor Altgeld did not call out the militia. President Cleveland hastened to the rescue and sept General Miles. Now you ask why General Miles was there. Does anyone deny that Presi- dent Cleveland had the right to pro- tect the interstate commerce between the states? Has any mob the right to put it's foot upon the jugular of the great channels of trade? Then there were the mails. President Cleveland would have been coward had he not risen to the emergency. I give him a soldiers salute for it.
 Now, gentlemen, this cry of masses against the classes sounds like the days of the French Revolution, when heads were chopped off,
 Are we to borrow our civilization from the nihi!lsts of Russia, from the worst of continental thought?
 But I must hasten. I claim that in twenty years the prices that men must pay for the necessaries of life have gone down. I affirm that wages have in- creased, that dividends of capitalists have decreased.
 These are rot proven by the figures of a protectionist, but from table pre- pared by Edward A. Atkinson, mug wump and a free trader. It was also the result of tke work of 8 committee composed of hostile clements It prov- ed the truth of the assertion. Many of these men would not have admitted the truth of these figures had they not been convinced of their truth.
 You ask, How Is it possible that wages have gone up and products have gone down? Is this country to be dis honest? Shall we allow it? You re- member the paper dollar? We paid every dollar of them issued to pay off the debt accrued by the war in gold Now the silver men, democrats and republicans, want to plunge us into an- other agony.
 All the populists, all the anarchists, all the communists are for Bryan. do not say that you Bryan democrats are with them, but they are with you.
 Now, are American society and the American financial system to be regen- erated by the nihilists of Russia, of Turkey, of Austria, the Chicago an archists, the crazy populists and the Bryanties?
 1 would advise the generous demo- crats to vote fer Mckinley, or if they cannot do that, do the next best thing go fishing.
 There must be something outrageous ly wrong when the venera ble A. F. Burr of the Hartford Times, who years upon years has prided himself upon his democracy comes out in indignant denunciatiOn of the Chicago platform, and proclaims that he will have none of it. And the gallant Colonel Osborn of the New Haven Register and the honorable eX-Governor Thomas Waller, who will be honored by every man who SC opinion Is worth having five wears hence