The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-09-18

euO iiShV w PiOtCCl tuc pIOpeIty Oi tu6 gov
ernment, the malls, the lives of the citizens,
and see law and order prevail. The Amer
lean people take great pride in their public
and private honor. and had shown by the
victory OF 1868 that they did not propose to
repudiate but pay all debts in the honest
money of the world-debts contracted to
save the Union. After the republican party
had paid two-thirds of the 5000 millions of
the public debt, the party of IAltgeld and
Tillman and Bryan proposed to repudiate
the remainder. By the policy of the repub-
lican party every dollar issued by the gov
| ernment had been as good as gold and it
proposed to continue that policy. Vermont,
the star that neversets, and Maine had spok-
en- in no uncertain tones. and as men like
Chandler had risen when the greenbackers
attempted to say that by putting the stamp
of government on paper it would become
money and all that was necessary, so had
the men of these states and the United
States, regardless of party, arisen at this
time to prevent the same class of people
from doing the same kind of work. Mr..
Patton said he did not profess to know all
about the financial question, but was glad
that he was not like the silverites who knew
so many things that were not so.
The ''crime Of 1878" was considered.
The claim that the law leaving the silver
dollar out of the list Of coins was passed
stealthily was absolutely absurd. Speeches
had been made in congress about it for two
years and it was. we'll understood all over
the country. No silver dollars had been in
circulation in over forty years and every
one was worth $1.O4. Senator Stewart vot-
ed for the bill and John Sherman voted
against 1t, which alone would prove that it
was not done to help the silver mine owners,
and in fact was sanctioned by the very men
who today claim it was crime. Altgeld,
chief adviser of Bryan, made all contracts
payable in gold, and Coin Harvey had de-
manded gold from the bank to put in safe
ty deposit box. The price of silver had not
kept up when the nation bought two and a
half million ounces month. 1t had drop
ped lower when four and half million
ounces month were purchased, and it
would drop to its very bullion value in the
worlds markets under free coinage. Gold
would under free coinage 60 into hiding
no silver country has any gold as currency.
Money does not make business. Business
makes use for money. In every silver
country-and that's what we would imme-
diately become-wages are low, miserably
low. One class lives in palaces, the other
class in novels. This Is what Bryan would
bring us to. In all his speeches he tries to
array capital against labor. The sfall in
prices had been attributed to lack of money.
In the last fifty years all the great inven-
tions had been made; one man in wheat
field could do the work of twenty. A few
years ago the wheat line was in New York.
In 1881 Dakota had not raised a bushel of
wheat for export. Last year one-quarter of
the entire American product was raised in
Dakota. Transportation rates had been re-
duced until they were hardly part worth
considering in the cost of raising wheat In
1896 there were 400, 900 harvesting machines
in operation and 10000 we're being made
every year. Each did the work that twenty
men could do fifty years ago. Three thous.
and of those machines were exported to the
Argentine Republic last year. Is 1t won
der that the price of wheat has fallenP
BY the increase of railroad facilities the
markets Of Boston and New York were
brought to the door of the Michigan farmer,
and yet Bryan and his emissaries would
have people believe that the railroads were
their natural enemies.
Bryan claimed that If free coinage bill
could be passed the price of silver would
remain at $1.29 an ounce, and in the same
speech says the people demand and must
have cheap currency.
The trouble was not In lack of money
90 per cent of the business today was done
through clearing houses-no money used at
all, and as business increases more of it is
done in that way.
In closing, Mr.. Patton urged the voters to
study the question In all its phases, and as
in all previous times Of great national
trouble the result would be right.
Rousing three cheers were given for Nc
Kinley and the speaker, and the following
telegram sent;
Owosso, Sept. Is, 1896.
Hon. WILLIAM MCKINLEY, Canton, Ohio:
Republicans and friends of honest money
IN this manufacturing center of 10000 in
habitants in club meeting assembled, send
greeting to Major Mckinley, the next presi-
dent of the United States. Against the
combined elements of four so-called parties,
we stand with club list of 1000 earnest,
and well-read voters and prom
se to swell the grand victory in November
N the same manner as the intelligent citi-
zens of Maine and Vermont have started Il.
WARREN PIERPoNT, President.
GEO. M. DEWEY, JB,, Secretary.