The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-10-15
CONGRESSMAN
FRANK S. BLACK
Makes a Clear and Lucid Argument on
the Issues Of the Day 10
Rochester, NY.
POWERFUL WORDS OF SENSE
Aitgcld. TillmAn and Their Kind Make
Men Bol, Their Doors for Safety
our Present Condition Can BE
Greatly Injured.

ON October . one of the largest pOlit-
ical gatherings ever held in Western
New York was held at the city Of
Rochester The speaker Of the occasion
WAS Congressman Frank T. Black, the
Republican candidate FOR governor. His
speech IN certainly one of the best W
far delivered In the campaign. Il rs
here reprinted In full. both because
II II speech that every voter ought
to read and because II presents a con
trast IN lis whole tone and sentiment to
the ranting and ignorant harangues Of
W. ]. Bryan which ought to profoundly
impress every honest and earnest man
who feels mn interest IN the future OF
his country.
Mir Black spoke az follows:
Fellow citizens.--To the vast majority
OF mankind there Is no way open 10
acquire wealth or competence except by
persistent and continuous labor. Unless
n fortune has been Inherited. life OF
comfort without work Is a dream. Every
man cf business knows this TO be true.
Experience has proved It. and sensible
men when reasoning by themselves
reach the right conclusion In that re-
gard, There II little danger OF the prac-
teal man being misied when consider
Ing IN private his own affairs. The
danger arises when. by association with
large masses. under the excitemen,
which such association creates. he Is
led to forsake the guidance OF his sober
reason aud hope by the clamor and out
cry OF large numbers TO gain. as one OF
q multitude rewards which he knows
would be denied him alone Those who
are most eager TO tell you how to make
your fortune have never made their
own. aud those who know them best
believe they never will, Fortune-telling
as business is neither reliable nor
honest and &, cannot be made SO by
calling Il craftsmanship. or by enlarg-
ing the territory in which II Is op-
rated, or 10y increasing the number OF
those who engage in II. The man who
In these days Is hoodwinked by "A story
NJ riches acquired without labor is af-
nicted with such credulity as is more
likely 10 make him absurd than success
ful, and a method which will not oper-
ate well for one win operate no better
when that one joins a thousand others.
There are no more sensible people in
the world than the American people
Their sense and shrewdness are pro-
verbal the world over The individual
Yankee Is a man whom. in any sltua-
lion. II Ia hard to outwit, and have
never understood what has sometimes
become OF the shrewdness that marks
him as an individual when he joins q
company, There is no intelligent man
N the country who now believes that
he can improve his condition by giving
mis- notes. and yet II Is not many years
lgo that some of the most enlightened
states In the Union were carried away
by the delusion OF unlimited green
backs. The mistake we sometimes make
Is In allowing ourselves TO be swayed
by crowd composed OF those who. as
would not exercise upon us
he slightest influence, Tumult is neith-
,r argument nor reason. ana an ire
'ponsible persons opinion is no better
when supported by that Of a hundred
others equally irresponsible,
The spot where we are confused is
when We lose the Individual in the
,rowd, He knows no more in the null
.itude than when he went In. but his
voice serves to increase the uproar,
which often affects our senses.
We are in that dangerous position
low. The noise is dying down some
what, and as the crowd disperses we
discover many who, as individuals, have
never possessed our confidence. Some
" the leaders are men of bad repute.
There are Altgeld and Tillman. who rep |
'esent ideas that would cause every
,onest man in the country to bolt his
loors, and Bryan, who can never in
iplre widespread confidence until emo
ion Is considered a better guide than
'eason, and a large number of others
Who are sufficiently described by nam
ng their associates. These men We're
lever trusted in the ranks; why should |
hey be trusted as leaders? If every |
nan will carefully consider in his own
lome the conditions that surround him |
md the propositions made to him, II he |
will bring to bear his business sagacity |
Ind experience with conscientious
lesire to be fair with the rest of the |
world he will not go far astray in his |
His judgment is likely to |
,e better under the SOLDERING restraints |
# his family and home than under the |
of a mass-meeting. We
nay put 1t down as an absolutely safe |
'ule that whatever is not good for us
when alone is not good for us in COM
,any with others.
These considerations will aid us In de- |
,iding what to do with this trouble
lome question of our finance There |
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