The San Francisco call., 1896-10-29
EARNEST TALK
FOR FREE Sill YER.
A. B. Morgan and w. p.
Stradley at Metropoli-
tan Hall.
Political Economy and Financial
Questions Discussed at
Length.
GEN. HARRISON DENOUNCED.
The Ex-President's Rec Mt Article in
the Forum Magazine Violently
Criticized.
GEN. HARRISON DENOUNCED.

Judge w. 2. Lawlor, chairman OF the
California Silver Campaign Committee.
called the silver mass-meeting to order at
Metropolitan Temple last night. He in
troduced A. B. Morgan, a student from
Stanford University, as chairman of the
evening.
Mr. Morgan disclaimed any credit for
himself for what he was about to say. He
explained that he was in a great degree
rejecting the opinions of Professors Ross
and Powers of Stanford University, who
have devoted great deal of attention to
the questions of finance and taxation.
Resenting the accusation that support
ers of Bryan are anarchists, Mr.. Morgan
said that this charge is generally founded
on the plank in the Chicago platform
which criticizes the Supreme Court for
overturning the income tax. He ex-
planned that all the Democrats want is to
have another Congress pass another in
come tax SO that the Supreme Court will
be compelled to act on the question again,
in the hope that by that time the court
will be changed and that the law will be
upheld. This would not be a new thing.
When greenbacks were first taken before
the United States Supreme Court they
were declared to be not legal tender, but
the Republicans managed to get the thing
changed around so that at last greenbacks
were decided to be legal tender.
Ex-President Harrison denounced that
plank of the Chicago platform, saying
that the Supreme Court was never criti-
cized before. He forgot the greenback
cases and the Dred Scott case, which caused
so much criticism. Even in the recent in
come-tax case the prevailing opinion was
carried by only majority OF one. JUS
tice Harlan in dissenting opinion de.
clared that the decision of the majority
was public calamity, and criticized the
other members in caustic style. Yet he
mas not been called an anarchist for say
ing much more than the Democratic plat
form said.
Reputation, Mr.. Morgan insisted,
would not follow the reconciliation of
silver, but he thinks that the keeping of
the gold standard. which is the Repubi-
can plan, would inevita bly, lead to repu-
diation, since the rise in the value of gold
OF itself increases our debt $500, 900, 600 a
year. At this rate it will be physical
impossibility to pay the debt, and repu-
daiion must inevitable follow.
Ex-President Harrison's recent article
in the Forum, wherein he argues on the
financial question, was denounced by Mr..
Morgan as ''dastardly false"
Walter P. StraGley, when introduced,
announced that he had just returned from
the sou hern part of the State and that he
felt sure great wave of Bryan majorities
would come up to Thachapi to meet the
deep stream of Bryan majorities that
would sweep from the northern part of
the State, and he warned his Republican
friends that it would be useless for them
to stem this majestic current with Reed.
Quoting from the words of Abraham
Lincoln wherein he said he foresaw dan
ger to the Republic on account of the
growing power of wealth, Mr.. Stradley
said that this brought him to the thought
that the present campaign has deeper
significance than the settlement of ques-
tions OF taxation or finance. He believed
that the paramount issue of the campaign
is the perpetuity OF popular Government
in the United States and that this de-
pends on the success of the people in
placing the man of their choice in the
Presidential chair.
"We have lost lot of Democrats in this
campaign" said Mr.. Stradley, "and we
have gained some good men in their
places"
Monopoly of money, Mr.. Stradley de-
clared, is a great menace to the Natio n,
and because the Democrats seek to break
this monopoly they are called revolutions
lists. He for one admitted that he was in
favor OF a peaceful revolution to be
wrought out by the ballot-Dox.
President Cleveland in trying to main
tain gold reserve of 500. 600 900, has
plunged the country into $262, ,000, 900 addi-
tional debt. But the goldbugs cry out
that our gold is constantly leaving us and
forget that we actually owe abroad about
S., 600, 600 900.
The amount of gold actually in existence
is not more than $4,000 .000. GOO. OF
course gold is going from US and will con-
tin ne to go from US until our debts are
paid, but on bimetallic plan we will have
something to fall back on-namely, silver.
Reconciliation of silver would actually
benefit the silver mines of the West, Mr..
Stradley said, and he was glad of it, for he
believed that the prosperity of the miners
would bring good times to everybody.
He took the position that if the United
States should rehabilitate silver it would
compel England to do the same in order
to keep us from cutting into Its trade in
India, China, Japan, Mexico and South
American countries. After that other
nations would join, and we would have
international bimetailism, but interna-
tional bimetallism by voluntary consent
of nations he declared to be an irrldescent
dream.
Mr.. Stradley said he believed that the
voice of God had dictated the writing of
the Chicago platform and had called out
tor the Presidential nomination "that
matchless orator, that second Lincoln,
that sterling tribune of the people, Will
liam Jennings BRYAN"