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wild on this question Of free coinage.
He told how his wife went barefoot to
church in Missouri, before the crime
Of 1873. His grandfather went to see
his girl in a long-tailed shirt. Great
laughter.l 1t was the fault of the
Populist party that there was not
more money in circulation. The best
friend of silver was the man who up
held the gold standard TO circulate
silver under. He was friend of sill
YER because he wanted to hold IL up.
He was bimetallist. 1t was a sys-
tenn uuder which both coins were used.
Under free coinage only one would be
used. We had the gold standard since
1853, and IL was the only standard Of
the enlightened nations. Give silver
equal treatment. The silver party
was nothing more than fatsm. Free
coinage of silver would contract the
currency. No one who owed debt of
a horse, would fail to pay his debt
with a $l0-cayuse instead Of a $1,000
stallion, Every Popullst would do 1t
II he got the chance. He got back to
TO the ''crime OF 1873" He dssected
the utterances OF Mortimer White
head Tor Lighthead.) He rdiculed
his story Of the demonetized mules.
1t was an extremely silly story. Con-
gress did not say man should not
work 50-cent mules.
We had bimetalllsm now. Let us
adhere 20 IL, In 1892 we had larger
imports than ever In history. We did
more business than ever before.
Times'were good. Times got hard
ten minutes after Cleveland was
elected, yes, in five minutes. Bryan
never made free silver speech in
1892. The bankers were not million
aires. They did business with the
deposits OF the people. "My fellow
Republicans, who have fallen into
the Populist trap, pay less attention
TO the crime of 1873, and more TO
rectifying the crime Of 1892" ZAP
plause.l The next speaker introduced
was n young man who represented
Jackson county in the last legislature
and is now prosecuting attorney. He
proved that "boy orators" are as pop
ular west as east.
HON. JOHN A. JEFFREY,
OF Medford, spoke 40 minutes. lie
said that in 1892, the Populists had
made the money question the leading
issue in the state campaign in Ore
gon. A gold-bug would never meet
Issues squarely on fundamental ques-
tlons. There was no more inspiring
sight than TO see gold-bug moving
maiestically into action. Laughter. ]
Cleveland ignored the tariff question
as soon as elected. That was not the
issue and Republicans and Democrats
admitted IL when they united to re-
peal the only silver law first. Foster
got ready rs Harrlson's secretary OF
the treasury TO issue the bonds that
came out under Cleveland. The first
great demand OF the hour was to
unite the forces for victory on the
money Questson. IL was the duty
now To rally under the hecommon flag OF
freedom just as these veterans did in
1860 to save the country from traitors.
The old corpse of the tariff question
could not be rehabilitated, There
was more coined money than ever be-
fore in the history OF the country but
II was congested and locked up.
Because the Populists had prop
hesied hard times and they had been
true prophets, therefore the Popullsts
had brought on those hard times.
This was DR.. Geer's diagnosis. He was
not good Doctor, He was not log
ieal. Why had the Republicans and
Democrats put free coinage in their
state and national platforms IL they
did not mean ANYTHING hy itY The