The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-17
MINING.
stocks.
The Cyclones speech.

Very few people, we opine, who heard
either MIR. Plumley's speech or that OF Mr..
Prout last evening know more about the
propriety of coming free silver at 16 to
than they did before. The most OF Plum
ley's address appeared TO be directed
TO the democrats, that ia, the old-lint
democrats, appealing to them not to
vote for Bryan and Tree silver because the
convention that nominated him was not
a democratic but a populist one. In
much of this he might be correct, but still
it did not educate the people particular
ly upon the points to be decided by the
present campaign.
Mr.. Prout last evening. in his address,
nude many statements and then asked
his audience, sis that not true2" No one
could well deny the statements, but wert
the inierences he chose TO draw fair or
honest ones The man on horseback
appeared TO be his bugaboo, and he kept
abiding to this IMAM on horseback,
who, according TO his statements, had
not only commits all the crimes on thu
decalogue, but all that possibly could b.
committed Mr. Prout gave a history oi
the greenback. aud asked il the originator
OF that kind of money, virtually Abraham
Lincoln, was not more of IA repudiatoT
than BRYAN and his trends. He went
back TO the battle of Waterlooto first in
troduce his imam on horseback"
Ii was fact that an officer in the Brit
ish army did make his way from tn.
field to London bringing dispatches,
which, Of course, were afterwards proved
TO be false, announcing the defeat Of the
allied armies, which at once caused a
great fall in the price OF securities, from
which those in the ring no doubt reapeo
large profit. The officer in question, We
forget his name, was, we believe, tried.
kicked out Of the army and publicly die
graced. So this statement was true, to a
certain extent, but was the inference that
"the man on horseback" whom he after
wards personifed by saying "Roths-
child" was the guilty one fair. We think
theiniereuce AN unfair one; tbatit was done
by n lot Of INSCRIPTIONS stock jobbers,
there can be no doubt, but that Roths-
child was at the head OF it there il not,
we think, any evidence to show. II there
had been. the family would have been
dispraced az the army officer was, and
be- ides, according TO their own showing,
Kothschild could do all he pleased. with
out condescending to such disgraceiul
NEE ns.
Although Mr.. Prout chose to christen
his IMAM on horseback" Rotbschild, we
think he might az well have christened
h m capital" by the way he used IL, and
instead of saying Betsey and the baby"
he might have used the word Labor"
whose interests, that il, OF ''tbe
nan on horseback and "Betsey.r
or in other words, Capital and Labor, were
antagonistIc and instead OF trying TO
bring them together. which, as we look
at IL, il the duty of every patriot, he was
apparently doing what he could TO keep
them apart and TO endorse this view. 1t IL
only necessary to repeat the statement,
which he made over and over again, that
the republican speaker at Baraga refused
10 debate with him because he was a
woRKIYGMAN. Weunderstand the speaker
did not accept Mr.. Prout's challenge, but
that n was for the above reason Ia sim
ply ridiculous. These men sent out by
the national and State committees are
not generally iools; they more often, we
are sorry to cay, lean the other way.
There IL another point where thefact was