Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-10-10

around the banner of liberty, union and
national honor, between 1850 and 1866
tapplausel, and now you under
the same glorious banner. (Renewed
applause)
Appropriate Quotation from Lincoln.
II cannot omit here to make a quota
ton from Mr.. Lincoln, written TO the
young men of Illinois on June 22, 1S4S.
Mr.. Lincoln said: Now as to the young
men. You must not wait to be brought
forward by the older men. You young
men get together, form a trough and
ready club" and have regular meetings
and speeches. Take in everybody you
can get. As you 20 along gather up all
the shrewd. wild boys about town.
whether just Of age or a little under
age. Let everyone play the part he can
play best. Some speak, some sing and
all boiler. Great laughter.) Your
meetings will be Of evenings. The old
er men and women will go to hear you
and see you. Ii will not only contribute
10 the election of Old Zach, but it will
be interesting pastime and improving
TO the intellectual faculties of all en-
gagged. Do not fail to do this Great
applauseD
II commend these homely words of
MIR. Lincoln TO the young men of the
country. Such organizations as he ad-
vises will have powerful influence in the
political contest which il now upon us.
They will not only inspire the young
men, but will cheer the hearts of the
old guards of the Republican party.
(Applause.) 1t il seldom given to the
first voters of this country 20 start in so
important a national contest. where 80
much is involved. and where so many in
terests are at stake. IL is a year, too,
when old party divisions count for lit
tie; when men of all parties are united
in the common object 70 save the coun-
try from dishOnor and its currency
from degradation.
1T is always safe. young gentlemen.
to arrange yourself on the side of your
country. (~Applause.l 1t is always wise
to stand against lawlessness and repudi-
alton. tRenewed applause and cries OF
That's right 1t is always patriotic
TO stand against those who are opposed
to law and order, and who would raise
artificial barriers between classes or sec
tons in the United States. Great ap-
p%lause.D | congratulate you upon the
glorious opportunities You have. and. ap-
preciating those opportunities. | am sure
you will use them for the welfare of the
people and the glory Of the country.
(Cheers.b
Further Reference to MINIS and Mills.
MY fellow citizens. | ventured a few
weeks ago 10 suggest in a public speech
that | made that it would be better 10
open the mills than to open the minis.
.Great cheering and cries of That's
right. , see that some of our political
adversaries %criticise the statement, say
ing that il is putting the cart before the
| horse. They seem to think that the way
TO open the wooden mills, for example. is
10 start a yardstick factory. Great
laughter and APPLAUSE They forget
that you must make cloth before you
can measure il renewed laughter) and
that the weaver must be employed before
the yardst!ck is required. ~(Applause.D
But they say the yardstick is too long.
| answer if you make a yardstick nine
teen inches long instead of -thirty-six
inches. it's present length. you will not
increase the output of cloth or its value
or give an additional days labor to an
American weaver. Great applause.)
Nor will a 52-cent dollar increase our in
dustrial enterprises, add to the actual
earnings of anybody, or enhance the real
value of anything. CGreat applause and
cries of That's right II will wrong
labor and wreck values, and has done SO
wherever il has been used. Great APP
plause and cries of That's right More
cloth might require more yardsticks
Qaughter). but more yardsticks or short
or ones will not create a demand for
more cloth. (Renewed laughter and cries
of Good, good.") Nor will short dol
ltlH u w Vlth AlAAlAs lItt " hAA
the world increase our factories. ZAP
plause and cries of "You are right
More factories at work will lind work
fs,r ttr- Eurrt rvffuf- uvw III trrfr nfrfTE
places. and find employment for the good
men now idle at their homes. CTremen-
dous ~cheering.l
Industry must come first. Labor
precedes all else. 1t is the foundation
Of wealth: it is the creator of all
wealth. GApplause.) Its active employ
ment puts money in circulation and sends
il coursing through every artery of trade.
right!") The minis don't distribute il
in that way. (Cries of You bet they
don't.') Start the factories in full
blast and the money will flow from bank
and vault. The lender will seek the
borrower, not, as now. the borrower the
lender. Great cheering and cries of
That's right.D
"Start the factories and put American
machinery in operation. and there will
not be an idle man in the country who
is willing and able to work: there will
not be an American home where hunger
and want will not disappear at once;
great applause and cries of That's
right,'): and there will not be a farmer
who will not be cheered and benefited by
his improved home markets and by the
better and steadier prices for his prod
ucts. Renewed applause and cries of
place of debts. The wasted earnings of
the poor will he restored. \ surplus
will take the place of Il deficiency in the
public treasury (cries of That's right!');
plenty and prosperity will return to US
again: and do not forget. men and wom-
en- of Wood county, that you cannot coin
prosperity great cheeringl. and you can
not revive industries through the mints
Great applause and cries of That's
rightly They come through labor and
confidence. skill and enterprise, and hon
esty. and they will come no other way"