Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-20

try and experience had concluslvely in
dicated that this ratio could not be main
tanned in opposition to the well known
laws OF commerce.
Mr. Rosewater declared that n greenbacl
was no more money than a photograph was
a person or a bill of fare a square meal
IL was good for money as long as the gov
/ eminent was able 10 redeem It, But there
! might be such thing as that the govern
ment could not redeem them. II might
come within three weeks. II Bryan was
elected there would be a run on every bank
In the country. The panic might be car
r'cI to such an extent that every dollar
Of specie in the national treasury would
be drbwn out to redeem greenbacks. and
tbtre would come time when It could
redeem no more.
LABoRiNG MANS INTEREST.
II was emphatcaily to the interest of the
lahorlng man that the dollar which he re-
ceived for his labor should be good the
world over. Mr.. Bry1n claimed that the
present dollar was a 31O.ccnt dollar What
workingman would object to that? If he
received dollar that would buy 81 worth
OF shoes or groceries that was his good
fortune The question before the laboring
man was whether he would benefit most
by the free silver of Brayn or the protec-
ton of Mckinley. Mckinley proposed TO
put the money that we already had into
circulation and bring 1t into the hands OF
the laboring men by affording them oppor-
tunities for employment. Major Mckinley
plan had been tested and found successful.
How much longer were the people to ex-
pertinent on the theories that had always
resulted dsastrously?
The speaker showed how the manufac-
tured goods OF other countries had flowed
In since the repeal OF thu Mckinley law
20 throw American workingmen out OF en-
I 40 ell arI
tablished the duty which the foreign manu-
facturer was required to pay would again
be cut in two. and what hope would there
be for American Industries? The only thing
that would bring prosperity to the laborng
man was to start the mills and factories
of this country by laws which would af-
ford protection to American industries.
Continuing Mr.. Rosewater called atten-
ton to Mr.. Bryan's record as friend OF tho
laboring man. He referred to the great
Q strike. when armed Pinkertons had been
imported into the state. and read several
of the editorials in which The Bee pro-
tested at the time. republican legislature
and republican governor had passed a
law forever prohibiting the importation OF
these men During all this time Mr.. Bryan
was at Lincoln in the hotbed of the fight.
He had never said word in opposition
to the Pinkertons or in sympathy with the
laboring men whose lives were menaced.
Mr.. Bryan was a member of congress
during the Chicago strike in 1894. Con-
gress was In session at the time. He was
in a position to denounce the course fol-
lowed by the courts at that time. He could
have introduced a resolution of inquiry
or resolution OF impeachment. But he
had never uttered a word to indicate his
dissatisfaction with the conduct of the ex-
| ecutive or the judiciary or OF sympathy
with the laboring men whose interests were
concerned. When the resolution endorsing
tho course of President Cleveland was be-
fore the house Congressman Pence of Colo
RADIO had protested against that endorse
ment Bryan did not say a word. but now
| that he wanted the votes OF the laboring
man he proclaimed himself as their eman-
cipator.
He was equally loud in his denunciation
OF trusts, but during his public life he had
never struck a blow at them. When the
great antitrust convention met In Chicago
in June. 1898 several delegates were present
from Nebraska, but Bryan was conspicu-
ously absent.
There is man In this audience" con.
tinued Mr.. Rogewater, who was in the
employ OF the Burlington road in 1890 and
he tells me that one of the superintendent
Of the road came TO him and told him Ia
vote for Bryan for congress as against w
j. Connell. If he was so enthusiastic I'm
his opposition to the corporations why was
the Burlington road ordering its employees
to vote for hm?" Major Mckinley made
no Sucn boasts as Bryan, but he had done
Iincalculably more for the laboring men OF
America than Thousand organs ever
could.
HARVEST FOR BULLION OWNERS.
I Mr.. Rosewater proceeded to show how
much of the benefit OF free silver would
accrue to the bullion owners and how little
to the laboring men. II had been claimed
that free silver would increase the produc-
ton of silver and make work in the mines
Even II this be true how would the hand
tul OF extra men who would be thus en-
ployed compare with the millions Of men
and women in all the factories OF the
United States whom Mr. Bryan's policy
would throw out of employment?
In closing the speaker appealed to those
present to consider the problem that was
presented to them in the light OF their own
interests. II the voters believed that pros
perity would come to them through McKin-
ley. protection and reciprocity, they should
vote to that end. They should not allow
themselves to be coerced by their EMPLOYERS
on one hand, nor should they vote against
their own interests simply because their
employers were voting for them
John G. Kuhn was also warmly received.
He confined his remarks to the local is
sues and spoke first OF the Trasmlssissippi
Exposition. This had been made possible by
the personal efforts of Dave Mercer. who
had done more for this district than any
three OF his predecessors. II q firm em
pioyed man in its business and he did
well they kept him. and the same business
principle should be employed in this In
stance. 1t was also necessary that the
next legislature should make large appro-
prlations for the same purpose and this
could not be expected except from Jack
MacColl and a republican legislature
MIR. Kuhn referred also to the valued
policy law. which was republican meas
ure. He explained the working of the law
and the benefits which II brought 20 the
nome owners. Any man on the republican
ticket could be safely trusted to vigorously
oppose any legislation that menaced fra
ternal insurance or the valued policy law.
After this short speeches were made by
NJ +. Singleton, James Allan, Joseph Crow.
John Butler, Frank Burman and A. II.
Muraock' Candidates for the state legis-
lature.