The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-09-11
UNITED REPUBLICANS.
Senator Burrows Made PLAIN All Ques-
tions

park last Friday afternoon showed most
plainly the drift of sentin ent in this county,
and, If we mistake not, 1t means a glorious
victory, not alone for honesty and honor In
political matters, but triumph oyer the
ungodly combination formed by men who
claim that they had principle and not Office
in view when they united the most unalter-
bly, opposed elements In county ticket
At $3.50 O'Clock Odell Chapman called the
large crowd to order and after long and hearty
cheers for Senator Burrows and Mayor Pin
gree, as they assembled the platform, stated
that the campaign In Shiawassee county for
honest money, protection to American labor,
the supremacy of the national government,
the guarding of its citizens against anarchy
and rebellion was to be opened by the
speakers of the afternoon. Some thought
| it was late to open the campaign, but the
committees looked upon the free silver craze
as disease which must be allowed to run
about so long before giving the medicine to
cure, and then to give II in large doses, max
ing the recovery complete.
After an introduction OF Mayor Pingree,
Senator Burrows began speaking and for
two hours held the crowd by the most con-
yincing and logical political talk ever heard
in the county. If there were doubters; II
some nearly converted to free silverism and
anarchy; il there was one who thought the
tariff was not part of the campaign, he
was completely restored to his rightful con-
diton and will be a laborer until election
day for the right.
Mr.. Burrows stated that the times were
hard and everybody knew it, and no one
wanted to continue the present condition.
These troubles had commenced after the
election of democratic president and demo-
cratic congress, and upon the promise of
that party to pass a tariff for revenue or
free trade bill If they came into power. A
crowd assuming the same name was again
before the people, but realizing the vast
misery and suffering, the very murder its
course had caused did not dare come before
the people with the same issue, and in Or
'
worse If possible than the one of 1892 if
the course it laid down was carried out.
With the combined evils the great and pros
porous nation as it was left by the repubi-
can party in 1892 would sink to the most
dismal depths of poverty, ruin and despair.
| Why would free coinage help and why had
ii not helped in times similar to these
brought on in the same manner. In 1916
the democratic party had passed a free
trade bill and Immediately terrible panic
resulted. This was changed by the passing
of protective tariff bills in 1924 and 1928
and the nation moved on in prosperity. In
1887 the democratic party passed again a
free trade bill and again crisis resulted,
stopped as before by protective tariff bill.
In 1857 the same villainous policy was
passed by the democrats and again the
prosperity of the people was taken away
and again the people turned to the republi-
can party for help. In all these crises the
free and unlimited coinage of silver was 60
ing on, yet it did not and could not heal the
disease and stop the ravages made by the
free trade legislation. The same condition
again existed as regards the tariff and the
democratic party proposed to remedy 1t by
coming silver, when the fact is that more
silver has been coined so far in the year
1896 than was coined in the entire period of
free coinage-S5 years; showing the absur-
dity of their claims and proving to the I'M
predjudiced voter that 1t is simply scheme
to defraud the ignorant voter and keep or
put lot of unqualified men In Office.
One part of Mr.. Burrows speech that was
particularly interesting and showed most
conclusively the robbery that will take place
should the present free coinage advocates
come into control, is the fact shown by the
following statement that the U. S. govern
ment would have to pay the value of the
coin deposited at the mint without having
the mine owner wait to have his own silver
coined.
A few days ago ex-Director of the Mint
Leech sent to Mr.. Burrows copy of CON-
munication which he Ueech) had sent to the
N. Y. Sun. 1t was Mr.. Leech's comment
on statement in the New York Sun to the
effect that under the free and unlimited
coinage of silver at 16 to 1, the owner of sill
yer bullion would take his silver to the U.
s. mint, get 1t coined into silver dollars at
the rate of S71A grains to each dollar and
take the coined dollars away with him.
The UNLIMITED demand" theory of Coin
and Bryan is generally answered by the
statement that under free coinage of silver
the government does not buy the silver.
But Mr.. o. e. Leech wrote Senator Bur-
rows letter In which he stated:
"what say is absolutely true, and If you
will telegraph the director of the mint at
Washington he will confirm it, that free sill
yer at 16 to 1 means unlimited purchase at
S1.29 an ounce. 1t seems to me that there
is great deal in this point and that you can
make great deal out of 1t. The product Of
our mines alone this year land last year.
was IT'S, 0O0,00O ounces of silver, worth