The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-08

member of the house and when he voted
| for the bill, that it demoetiZed silver.
That man was Roscoe Conkling.
heard Allen Thurman say: 1 did not
know when voted for that bill that it
demonetized silver General Grant,
who signed the bill, declared repeatedly
| that he did not know when he signed
| it, that it demonetized silver
81 know another thing that is signi-
can't In this country, where the nerws-
paper people are so active, no newspaper
| the next morning after the bill passed,
mentioned the fact that there had been
a characterization of silver, and no news
paper mentioned it for days after, and
nobody can find line about it in any
American newspaper for more than
twelve months after the bill passed
CONSPIRACY.
"I am well satisfied of another of
these facts, that / have positive knowl-
edge of, and that it is, the American
dollar was stricken out of the list or
American coin by preconcerted aagre-
ment Some power, some agency,
knowing what the effect would be upon
commerce and trade, knowing that the
destruction of silver dollars would dou-
bic all the credit moneys, all the bonds
and all the securities Of that kind, in
this country, stood back of it and en-
gineered it and secured its passage.
The great Republican party that 1
joined in my very early life, the party
that, in my good judgment, stood near
err to the great American masses than
any other party ever organized, the par
ty that promised great things, and did
accomplish great things and that has
~ n
the right direction, to again acorn
plish great things for the country, de-
parted from the platform of 1888 and
the platform of 1892. 1t tells you now
that the present gold standard must be
maintained. The provision for interna-
tional bimetallism is to make you be-
lieve, as they made me believe in 1892,
that they were in favor of honest BIZ
metallisn.
BLOCKED BY ENGLAND.
eve know that the history of inter-
national bimetallism is that Great Brit
ain alone prevented its accomplishment
in the international conferences in 1873
1881 and 1892. All the great countries
of the world sent their representatives
and the four greatest nations of the
world said that they were ready to go
into any international agreement to
have the use of silver all over the world
but Great Britain stood out and said
no. Great Britain has been the obstacle;
she always will be. We nave contend
ed with England on land and on sea
and we did not come out second-rate
either there. Great applause) Why
are we not able TO contend with her IN
our financial affairs, and at least try
the financial system that our fathers
adopted in 1892 and successfully main
tanned until 1873" Great applause)
Senator Teller then discussed the ap-
precia ton of the gold dollar in value
and maintained that relief could not
be had except in the free coinage of
silver He argued that the dishonest
dollar was the appreciated" gold dol
lar, maintaining that an ounce of gold,
though il would coin into no more mon
ey, would buy on an average one hum
dred per cent more Of the worlds pro-
ducts than it would twenty years ago.
The senator closed his address in the
following words:
SNEERS AT THE TARIFF.
81 want to say to you today that I am
a protectionist. l believe in protection
to American labor. (Cheers). 1 have
not changed my views upon that ques-
ton. But let me tell you that the Will
son bill is not free trade bill. Cap
plause) 1t is a protection measure.
daughter and cheering) And L say
here. without fear of successful contra
diction. that il is a better bill for the
manufacturers Of the country, q do not
speak of the farmers) than the bill of
1883. The people who make iron and
steel tell us that the schedule on iron
aI, ?: "a
and they did not ask any more. The
great bugbear is free trade. You cannot
have free trade, and everybody knows
it. A people that have TO raise $780,
900 600 a year to carry on its debt, as
we do. with no method of raising taxes
as other states have, must raise its rev.
enue by import duties or internal rev.
enue duties. Then you can't have free
trade, and everybody ought to know il.
That bugalboo is nonsense and, in my
judgment, it is equal nonsense to say
that legislation touching the tariff can
bring prosperity TO this country. 1t can
not do it. (Applause)
WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY.
81 believe this is the most important
campaign that has ever been made.
believe that it will go down to history
as the most astonishing to man. When
you consider that all the wealth of this
country, all the great trusts. all the
great corporations, "a voice: And all
the newspapers'O are on one one side.
l believe that the people, whatever may
be their politics. viii rise up and have
the courage 70 say that their interests
do not lie with that crowd. Applause1
Do you believe that the Whitneys and
the Ickelheimers are lying awake nights
and looking out for your interests?
When ! see all these agencies arrayed
in one way. and when I hear these men
who have beef fighting honest labor ev-
erywhere al al once begin TO be seri-
Gus about the American farmer and the
American laborer. b feel just as the ply
stefan did who. when his employer said
I'm afraid your wages Will be cut into
If you vote for Bryan replied: If you
thought so, you would vote for Bryan
too daughter and applause)
A WORD FOR BRYAN
Let me say one word about Bryan,
for fear somebody may think that 1 am
not in accord with him entirely. I say
to you now. here, after an acquaint-
ance OF more than seven years with
Mr. Bryan. and a pretty close scQuaint-
ance that in the whole ranks OF the
Democracy there was not a better equi-
ped man than he. Great cheering and
appIause) He who calls him an anarch
Mr. A. H Crznshv ~ va