The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-08-13

body to buy them. What is the trouble?
 Is 1t free silver? The opening of our hints,
 the putting of the credit of this country
 in the worlds supply of silver, the attempt
 to make something out of nothing, the old
 story of 60 cents on the dollar-is that the
 trouble? Four years ago that beggar in
 Chicago was the customer of the potato
 man in Iowa. Four years ago he had
 money in his pocket. He bought bread
 stuffs and filled his stomach to its full
 To-day he has got nothing inside but
 wrinkles. tLaughter.l Empty stomachs are not good markets for American prod
 ucts. [Laughter.]
 To-day they ask you people of this coun- try to take free silver, because they say that all debtors can pay their debts at half price. Who are the debtors of this country?
 I wish l had time to read you this state
 nient-[showing paper.] There are in this country 50 life insurance companies and $50 assessment life insurance companies. They have policies on your lives and on mine
 What man do see before me who has not for years been investing his little surplus earnings, what he could get, in the life in- surance policy-money that in the hour of need, when he was borne to his last home and the widow in her weeds sat desolate, would be paid to her by this life insurance company, to make her remaining years and those of her children less hard and ardu- GUS? Fourteen million life insurance poli- cies in the United States. Think what that means. You owe it to your people to continue that condition If finance, what eyer 1t may be, so that when you die your widow ard your child shall have dollars paid to them that are just as good as the dollar you paid for premiums from year to year. Applause.
 Advice to the Pensioners.
 Every old soldier of this country who draws persion-750.0 900 of them-owes it to himself and family that the dollar which he gets shall be the dollar that will buy just us much medicine for his child, just as much bread for his wife. just as many yards of calico for a member of the family as the best dollar that this government has ever supplied.
 There are in the national banks of this country and in the savings banks over 2O,- OOO,c0O of people who have money on de- posit. Think of 1t! Who are the debtors and who are the creditors? My cour try men, the most infamous thing about this new promise and this new policy js not that they would open our hints to silver. but 1t is that they demand that the gov ernment of this country shall pass l law compelling every man that has got dollar due him to accept it In the cheapest dollar that he can get to pay him in. [Applause.l Stop to think of that little while by your firesides. They ask that 8 law be assed the labortng man to accept for his labor the cheapes, dollar that the man. ufacturer can get to .,ay him with. Stop and think of that!
 "To whom will this cheap money cNme like a downpouring blessing from G,d? Will 1t come through the poor man? It hts got to come through the fingers of tn rfrh ho vrNnn nf rfr he debtors. This promise that they shall have cheaper dollars and dea,er food is like the old Mississippi fish trap open at both ends. 1t will catch 'em conn., and goin.
 Days of the War Pointed To.
 My countrymen, stop and think of 1t Q moment. and see where it ends. I sat in the train the other night. and by my side was an old German who told me of the four years he fought for the flag. and how he now owed another great duty to his maintain the honor of its financial integrity. which meant the well fare of every American man and woman md child. But while we were talking a face leaned over from the seat behind. and he man said: Pards. I was Johnny was in the rebel army. I fought against l your flag. And said: What are you go- | ng to do about 1t now?' He said: I have | got a chance now to fight for my country. Gentlemen, don't talk cheap money to me. | paid s65O for a pair of boots once Laughter and applause.l
 Suppose went to a boot dealer in the | ,ity of Madison and said to him: We will | ,ring on a condition of things, we will pass law. that will make boots s65O a pair Wouldn't he jump at it? Wouldn't he vote | hat ticket? But that bootmaker down in Tennessee who sold the pair of boots for $50 wouldn't jump at it. Do you think he would? Why. he learned the lesson that heapness of money doesn't help anybody; ing in the pocket one half-dollar does not | ake the place that the whole did before. To has learned the lesson of money--that honey is the measure of exchange of prod cts. It is not the price. 1t Is the facility hat enables men who cannot deal directly with each other. who don't want exactly ach others products. to deal through the of the measure. He has earned that lesson.
 To-day the one great promise Is that the nan who is in debt can pay his indebted ess at half price. Stop and think You len who owe $,000 on your farm or on | cur house-when is 1t due?
 Your mortgage is from two to three to ve years. The mortgage of the ordinary ian in this country is coming due in two or hrce years. When that mortgage comes ue, free silver is coined and the mine own- rs have built a pile of American dollars ntil its apex reaches to the eternal stars When that mans mortgage is due, how an he get dollar out of that pile? How i'll he get a thousand dollars out of that He? He can only get 1t in the same way he cts 1t now. He can only get 1t from the op- ortunity to get 1t. The mortgasors of this ountry cannot pay for their mortgages in day. I
 Reply to Darrow. After MT. Darrow had presented his de of the financial question and ad- { anced the usual arguments in it's be- aif' Senator Thurston replied as .ol- 'ws:
 My fellow citizens, you have heard our | oquent friend assert in so many words | lat ne did not know what the remonetiza- on or silver and its free coinage would do. e said in so many words: 1t is an experl- ent.' And again, my countrymen, I ask ,u who have tried the experiment they fered you four years ago. I ask you s ldnt we better have a little collateral curity this time? Applause and cheers. / What do we offer? We don't offer to \ bor cheaper dollars. The republican ( .rty offers to labor a days work under i e stars and stripes. [Great applause | I y countrymen, if you had taken this ad- ce and not given the foreign nations a ance to do the days work we Americans | c ere entitled to, you wouldn't have this l C