The record-union., 1896-09-25

lieve it, and it has been conclusively
proved there was no secrecy in the
passage Of the bill, and there was no
criticism of it till the mine-owners be-
gan to produce largely. II the an
archistic doctrines Of Altgeld, Tillman
and the other leaders prevail 1t will re-
suit in great disaster to every town
and city and State in the country.
1t is a great mistake to say that
Bryan Is the poor mans candidate
and Mckinley the rioh mans candi-
date Mckinley is the exponent of the
principle of protection-the princi-
pie that will set the wheels to running
and the men to work, and bring back
prosperity to the country. Free trade
will not do it. He instanced the
wooden mills, which could not be run
at profit and were sold and taken
down and shipped to Japan, where
woolen goods will be manufactured
and sent back here for sale unless we
have a law to prevent 1T and protect
ourselves. He appealed to them as Re-
publicans to help save the country.
Commander Mott announced that he
had received a telegram from San Fran
cisco announcing that Irving M. Scott
and Mr.. McKinlay would address the
citizens Of Sacramento tomorrow (Fri-
day. night, and he hoped they would
have a large audience.
Messrs. Cohn and Crocker then treat
Ell the audience to a fine duet, which
was loudly encored.
Judge w. A. Wayrnire spoke next and
said that, as old soldiers, his audience
must be greatly interested in the re-
suits of this election. The same men
that stood together in 1861 to maintain
the integrity of the Union are again
standing together to maintain it's integ-
rity. General Sickles, always a Dem
ocrat, is for the first time asking for the
election of Republican President with
that end in view. There is no oppo-
sition to the coinage of silver and 1t will
so on increasing as it has for many
years past. 1t has been very greatly in
creased since 1873, amounting to over
S400, 900 since that time-an aver
age of $20,000,OO0 a year, as against
100000 annually before that time.
This is the result of 1.-The crime of
1878" The per capita supply of silver
is the greatest of any country in the
world. Even Mexico, a silver country,
has only per capita of so; so in China,
Japan, and other silver countries. The
talk about the demonetiZation of silver
being the cause Of the present hard
times is clearly delusion then. There
are other causes, as over-production,
but the present tariff bill is the main
cause Of our number Of idle men. If
there were a good tariff so that these
men could be again employed the farm
er would find home market for his pro-
duce, which would consume the export
surplus. We must not only elect a Con-
gress for sound money then, but one
that will pass a proper tariff bill.
If the comrades go about it the right
way they can influence many Of their
friends to vote for Mckinley, in the in
terest of the country, and thus once
again come to it's assistance.
He read an extract from Blaine's
speech to refute the claims Of Taylor
that he favored free coinage.
During Mr.. Waymire's remarks
Johnson Club No. /, from the shops,
came in and met an enthusiastic recep-
ton.
In conclusion, he said that in order
that our country may prosper we must
cultivate a high order Of intelligence,
and to do so we must be able TO pay
high wages to labor, in order that the
workingman may have time to read
and think and the protective tariff does
this
Colonel Babcock said he would not
dwell upon either the silver or tariff
question, but was going to talk to the
old boys and leave some ideas with
them. Renan says there Is no place SO
walled in that some breath from the
outside world does not enter a man.
living apart from all around him, may
be lifted above his fellows in thought.
He may become a crank and enthusi-
asst, but can we always understand and
measure him? These are the ones we
sometimes persecute and kill. From the
time of Christ almost every precious
truth has been handed down to us In
crimson. The civil war gave to US Lin
coin and Grant and many others. Is it
hard to believe that John Brown was
the instrument Of God to warn the ma
ton Of the condition into which it was
drifting? He was the forerunner Of a
new dispensation. Abraham Lincoln
was the logical and religious sequence
Of John Brown. He pictured the closing
hours OF 1862, when the negro refugees
in Washington awaited the opening Of
the New Year that should make them
free men. Abraham Lincoln, the bur-
den bearer, standing alone, a target for
hate. malice and abuse, with hand on
HE covenant, with God and pursuing
his way to the end. He recounted the
progress of the movement that had set
the slaves free, from the efforts Of Wen
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