The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-09-23

re eo,nase With adherence OF lUO per
ceM. 10 you suppose, asked Mr.. In
gals, that Mr.. Bryan believes the free
coinage OF silver will make II worth 100
cents on the dollar? HE talked 1t at
Madison Garden, but then he thought
he would get in with the respectable
people,"
Here the speakers voice was drowned
by perfect storm OF Kisses. and coun-
ter applause. When this mad subsidized
MT ingalls, told his audience that none
| OF 1hem mad to believe him. All he ask
ed was that they listen TO the facts
anu IL there were any there who didn't
agree with him they could go out after
the meeting and ''cuss the speaker"
continuing, Mr.. ingalls, said that Bry-
an did not use the same arguments in
the West he did in the East. In the
East he talked about the appreciation of
| silver; in the West he confined his re-
m arks TO gold. bugs" 'bloa,ed bond
| holders" and "asistocrats."
whom Will We swindlc when we nav
our debts In cheap dollars?" he asked
is II worth while to debase our curren-
| cy LOT the sake of the small amount
OF debts outlying before 1873, not more
enan one or two per cent. of which are
unpaid? Are you not going TO renay
honestly the debts contracted on a cold
OASIS! The money America owes to for
elGn pondholders is mere drop in the
QUICKER. If we swindle them they will
charge up their small losses to profit and
| IL idtlOn OIL SW1nQlerS. and
| stop doing business with rs n 10 nmr
nome creditors chiefly who will be tbe
iosers; your building and loan men
your bankers, butchers tradesmen. Arc
| dollar?" ~ oo-eeht
The speaker then declared that tho
laooring man was, after all. the chief
credhor: He took the Chesapeake and
e,re, ralir oN as an example. This road
emp 10000 men. It's earnings last
S,,a were slo,ooO.ooO. or this 81, oOO, 600
was turned over to the bondholders :
an honest return on the canital tba,,
haa invested; 81, 600 900 went for supplies
ono So,o0O0O went to labor. Then he
hhsReI, FOR the sake of robbing che
90 o noo non Of their Justly earned
| from the laboring men?" The frUi
.ninss, he declared that would rise In
plise under free coinage system womb
ne pe,o .he necessities of fffe; the last. the
| Ihere has never been a marion IN
earth asserted Mr. ingalls,. "tbat nro Un
| pered with a debased currency Sbou
me people of this country then dehasa
| their currency? o"se
wer IN 1873. ssoOo,ooO ounces of silver
| amount produced was liz nm ooo
ounces. This enormous increase
ON railing market Would some nne
zen now much silver would be producnd
49, d bryan regime, If the amount
cents" ""S with only 63
| IN February. 1895, he said. when tho
s go a. an Tins this country had gone down 10
soo'ooo'ooO, and 1T looked as thourb the
sreaiest panic in the world was unon ne
o,iihs saved us but the honesty and
plause.) iahu' ZAP
| we would never have good business
ne declared. until our currency Ia nc
tions. favored ma
on In London. the speaker proceeded.
only per cent Of the business 10 trans
aeaea IN money; in New York, s ner
cent; In Lincoln, Neb., about IL nor
cent. daughter) pei
ne zen years between 1850 and 1880
mas inc most prosperous period in our
operation. In 1880 there was investad
IN southern factories $3.50, 0O0, 900. In 1880
IL had grown to $3.50, oO0, OOO The nroe
uucS OF these factories in 1880 were
worth sl5o,0Oo,ooo Ten years later the
amount had grown TO 5000, 600 600
| Ihen he added: Give us an bonos.
currency for the next ten years, and Tho
l oouth VIII be as one greqS garden fac
.orles VIII be running. and there will he
WORK FOR all. If the free coinage IF ell
yer rs adopted the same conditions will
| prevail as now exist in Meyico where
II railroad company earns sloo ooo q
laohth, upon shipping it to London to
pay the D0ndholders, 1t shrinks to aho,r
SSSooO. Free silver will be the death
VI manufacturing and Industrial enter
prlses, and every railroad runninC into
Norfoik will be bankrupted.
| am, as some of you know n Dano
cIdt' tApplause) I have been a Demo-
la an my life. but when l saw our
3on in Chicago captured by the
onIv ut tfi,s i could not go with them. The
~ l. e. l.
ticket. and the only way / see In do
II. Is what hated to do-yote for Nc
kinley. Cheers) I would like IN vote.
lor Palmer and Buckner. bur agree
with MIR Bryan in his Richmond snnecb
when he said that If we did NOT want a.
see him elected. we would have 70 Vote
the Republican ticket. Ii is the eureSt
method to defeat Bryan and his Pon,,,is.
gang. Hisses) Now is the time Yom
eanlot anord TO go with n party that
arrays labor against capitai c lns.
against class; that is trying to dah"so
our currency. and bring dishonor ,nop
the nation. My country is greater tben
my party" imam
re further spoke of the spectacle Of
~ tU.ouO,ooo people disgracing themselves
nIas oi beating few bondholders. and
IIoseo with hope that some dav tho
80. oG ;ic party would rise again
80 otoI VI, us ashes" and that the people
sHslhia would consider this money
~, Iuestioh Wen before ehey cast their bal.
'o. ri; ana vo:e for honor and right.
ne applause that followed Mr. Tn.
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