New-York tribune., 1896-10-06
THE NEWS OF BROOKLYN.
STRANAHAN ON SILVER.
A BIG REPUBLICAN MEETING IN
THE AMPHION THEATRE.
EASTERN DISTRICT PEOPLE LISTEN TO THE SEN
AroR.s EXPOSITION OF FREE-OoINAGE
DOCTRINE-CRowDs. MUSIC AND
ENTHUSIASM.

| ENTHUSIASM
bis mass-meeting under the auspices OF the
| Kings County Republican Campaign ComnitIee
was held at the Amphion Theatre last night ne
! sneakers who were advertised TO be present ore"
| a large and enthusiastic crowd and soon aiter
/ the doors opened at 7:3O O'CLOCK the 'he"',,
was thronCed II was intended that this sho''
! be the largest Republican meeting OF 'ne can"
| pagn in the Eastern District. and the connia.ee
| put forth every effort TO make 1t success me
| theatre was beautifully draped with the American
| colors which hung along ;he galleries. anu
large crayon portraits Of Mckinley ana HOBART
were placed In conspicuous positions ABOVE 'he
| stage A brass band furnished the music an"
! when IL played the National airs the audience De-
J came inspired with enthusiasm and joined In sing
| ing them The Veteran Republican quartet sang
| n number o. campaign selections which were
! heartily appauded.
Nearly all the prominent city officials and heads
| of departments seated on the stage or III 'ne
| boxes The meeting was opened by CHAIRMAN
| Brenner of the Campaign Committee MT breh
ner introduced Controller George w Palmer as
| the presiding officer. Mr.. Palmer said i'll part:
! I'VE have gathered here tonight TO raise our
voices for the preservation OF a Nation winch has
| been handed down from George Washington. we
raise our voices in unison with most people OF 'hc
| country in support Of the nominees OF our party
! William Mckinley and Garret A. Hobart tro-
! longed appause) In this vast multitude OF citl-
/ zens those who formerly opposed us are "orhils
\ with u.s. shoulder TO shoulder against those VINO
would wreck our land and leave us plight upon
] the earth. But j prophesy that no sucH uiaaS'ei
/ will overtake us"
| The quartet then sang campaign song
| SENATOR STRANAHAN'S SPEECH.
Mr. Palmer then introduced Senator Nevada ~
Stranahan who was received with round OF ap-
/ plause as he stepped forward. He said in part:
The issue of this campaign runs above the or
dnary domain of politics. Never but once In our
| ifa1 fafG h1 an
! issue so strongly moral in its character as at
| present In 1860 the country was In more i'm
mnent peril than now. but who snail say that
| when we consider material prosperity TINS
J proposition to indulge In fiat money would not be
| mos, disastrous? For II we are TO have oS-ceht
| dollar it is Nat TO the extent OF Al cents
1T has been demonstrated that the Government
| Of the United States is sufficiently powerful TO
| maintain silver and paper money at parity win
| gold AS long this country is able TO redeem
every kind Of obligation in the kind OF coin demand
cd there will be no doub; of the ability of our Gov
! ernment to maintain silver on parity with gold
| But who shall say that. with the free coinage Of
silver the country will longer be able TO maintain
| that policy?
I'VE are told that in 1873 crime was committed
| by demonetizing silver. Never was there silver
dollar in the United States demone.ized. say
Every silver dollar issued by this country Is legal
tender In every par, Of this country to-day Nobody
discovered that a crime had been committed in 1919
until silver began to drop In price
"A good illustration OF what our silver friends
propose shall be able 10 do after free coinage
becomes a law, is that a who is able to lift a
bushel high his head Will then be able TO III, II
| at arms length
| Mr. Bryan told his audience at Madison Square
| Garden that the free coinage of silver would re-
suit in giving dollar good as gold II 1t IL
| TO be a dollar good as gold. who in the world
is going to benefit? 1t would be just such silver
day xth rly half G
In the West; Mr. Bryan tells the American Pe9pir o
tha! what they wan, is chsaper hr n1s dSara aon
dollar a deprecated dollar Now, which one, one oi
which has always happened everywhere else in
| the world under like conditions There Is not a
| corner this earth where it has not deprecated
MEXICO A SAMPLE COUNTRY.
Let us take the Government of Mexico as an
| illustration There is not single gold dollar In
! circulation in that country and cheaper dollar
has driven it The wase-earner does not re-
ceive one-third what the wageearner receives here.
sf snd when WI ns ns ges W ms eron dollar not even in
his own country And the history Of that country
face of the globe. The silver dollar of Mexico Will
| not buy any more after the Governmen, has put
s fore saWn Mas on aamped And and 'H Il viii be here
has been true "ny bcens ys
! bertha, silver would rise on a parity with gold
WATERING THE MONEY.
81 have said the farmers up in the central part
of the State that this Is proposition 10 water the
money OF the United States and nothing that ! can
devise so well expresses the idea 10 me as that II
| is simply a proposition TO dilute the money. When
| some dishonest farmer who takes his milk TO the
market or TO the cheese factory far foreets his
! duty 10 himself. his neighbors and his God as 10
| empty pail Of water into his mlkcan. II looks as
| If ne had more milk. The milk comes up higher in
| the can and the horse has 10 draw But when
the milk is put through the various processes there ls
no more than If he had not watered IT, When 1t Is
pressed into cheese there Is not much cheese.
and somebody is cheated The honest farmer has 10
| nut his milk against the man who has used water.
and is helping the other farmer fo- his water
at the price of milk. and II we have free silver the
farmer and the iabOrng man are going 10 be cheated
because they going TO have someihin that lookS
| as genuine as what they had before. but when they
go 10 the butcher and the baker they going find
| that II has been watered
Mr.. Sranahan followed by Lee Farchild of
I Seattle Wash. who made lucid and Interesting
| speech the silver question.
| pPESRYTERIA TO MEET