The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-20
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Sumter had been fired upon. Respect
them. Whenever you meet one of these
take him by the hand and make him
your friend He Is man worth know
ing.
Il am one of those who believe that
happiness begins at the bottom Of the
body polite; that when the common
people are prosperous and contented
the county at large must be likewise
so. If believed that the free and un-
limited coinage of silver would effect
this I would vote for it. l believe in
voting for that thing which will bring
the most happiness to the bulk of the
American people. l am lawyer and
/ am just so prosperous as is the COM
| munity in which l live. l share and
will in the future share in the general
prosperity of all.
"The American people in this cam
paign are called upon to settle most
important question. No one has thor
oughly mastered even its A Cs. 1t Is
| the most important question ever sub
mitted to the people. Three men forced
| this assure on the American people.
One Of them. whose name Is never
spoken anywhere except without deri-
sion outside of his own state, is Gov
ernOr Altgeld, the arch-conspirator of
free silverism; the man whose pOten-
| TALLY swayed and ruled the Chicago
| convention. Another is that black
guard from South Carolina. The third
is w. j. Bryan.
"If you had saved $500 would you go
to a tramp stealing a ride on a freight
train and ask him how you would in
vest 1t. or would you go to some pros
porous friend and find out from him
how you would use that money to the
best advantage? In this campaign you
are asked by the POpocrats to follow
Altgeld. Tillman. and Bryan and desert
the leadership and teachings of Lincoln.
Garfield. Blaine, Harrison. Sherman,
Reed, Cleveland, Carlisle and Whitney.
THAT CRIME OF 1873.
THE silverites started out with the
statement that there was crime COM
mitted in 1878 against silver. They
evidently did not know that prior to
1873 there was only $S0,000,000 in silver
coined in the United States and since
then fifty times as much has been
coined. Next they tell us that they
propose to take fifty cents worth of sill
YER and by stamping 1t 81. make 1t
worth one hundred cents. You might
take one of those long whiskered silver
shouters from the South, strip him of
| his clothes and stamp him all over with
| the sign "Daniel Webster" but you
wouldn't make United States senator
out of him. Or you might cut off his
usually luxuriant whiskers and label
them hay" but you wouldn't find a
donkey in this country ass enough to
eat them.
"rhey say since the demonetization of
silver prices have gone down. They
say, when there are no farmers around
to dispute their statements, that wheat
| has steadily declined, since this So
called crime of 1873. This is one of the
| occasions when you are justified In
| calling "A man a liar 1t is the only
answer to that proposition. They know
| they are telling you a falsehood, but
they must keep on telling it for on that
their whole argument is based-prices
go down when silver declines. If this
is so how do they explain that within
the last four weeks wheat has gone up
IL cents a bushel and silver has de-
| clined four cents an ounce. This thing
ought to be placed in the think tank
| Of every man in this country. 1t de-
molishes the free silveite premises; it
leaves them nothing to stand on.
They say again that the govern
| ment will take 412la grains of silver
which you shall bring to the mints and
stamp it 81. Then you can take this
dollar which cost you only 49A cents.
the present intrinsic value of silver
dollar and pay off your debts and
mortgages. Any of you got any silver
bullion? If not where are you going to
get it? There are only 10000 people
in all these United States who are in
terested in silver mining. l do not
think they will distribute the products
OF their mines among the other 7O,OOO,-
900 people.
'All this about the advantage that
free silver is going to be to the work.
ingmen is all talk. This is a false is
sue. 1t was put before the American
people to make them forget the past
| four years. Had they gone before the
| people with their issues of 1892 they
| would be buried so deep that the trum-
pet on resurrection day would not raise
| them.
THE matter with this country is not
the crime of Is but the crime of '93. I
don't know whether or not you are
| mining as much coal as in 1892. | do
know, however, that the people down
| our way are not burning as much of
your coal as they did in 1892. When I
left my town recently ! saw ten men
| on the river bank catching driftwood.
| They told me they were gathering their
winter stock Of coal. And these men
at one time could afford to buy their
fuel and buy it in plenty.
WANT HAS FOLLOWED.
You do not know here what suffering
has followed in the wake of this crime
| of '93. You have not seen the soup
hounses in the Kensington district of
| Philadelphia, where strong and at one
time quite prosperous workmen are to
be seen daily going with their pals to
get enough food to keep the wife and
little ones from starving. The loss of
| wages alone in my town of 10000 in
habitants is 100000 per month. The
| removal Of the duty from "shoddy" has
| caused the shutting down of every
mandatory of cheap cotton goods in
that part of the country. Those mills
| will stay shut down until this crime is
| righted by a return to protection and
| prosperity and your mines / assure
will not open up while those factories
are shut down. We can't consume your
coal unless we can afford to buy it. You
| can't mine 1t unless we consume it. As
Mckinley said it Is open mills we want
| not open mints.
The crime of false finance led to the
French revolution. The revolution now
being attempted will have possibly
i imperil this country vote the Demo-
cratic ticket
James j. II. Hamilton, the next
speaker, confined himself to q few re-
marks in rebuttal of the contention Of
the Democrats and they alone were
the friends of labor. He called atten-
tion to the fact that one of the causes
which called the Republican party into
being was the eradication of human
slavery, Democratic institution. He
also mentioned a few of the kindnesses
of the Democratic party. such as fiat
currency and free trade. and told how
| thew had bpnpfite1 the N-nrl,i n q ~
and proved Democracy his friend(D
]. Ball Osborne, Hon. John H. Fell
lows and Hon. John r. Farr. the next
three speakers. made but brief remarks
owing to the lateness of the hour, the
burden of their speeches being a plea
for united support of the entire
| ticket from Mckinley down,