The Somerset reporter., 1896-08-13

How bosa@.,e tie manufacturer Is close
to cheap lab. III silver countries labor
is cheap and kept cheap by the silver dol
lar For my part do not want that kind
of prosperity | want a prosperity which
by good wages to all il shared by all We
want a broader life. broadening every day
for all our people
won't discuss the question whether the
free coinage # silver will raise 1t to par or
not. Very few people claim that it will,
and If they did could not believe them.
| WAS told IN 1sqo by two # the most
sincere as we'll as the ablest men that the
purchase Of /. stu. oo0 ounces month
would raise silver To PAR ael WHEN we did
buy II silver went down Hke lend Silver
men have not been good prophets In the
past
II. then. we are going Il haven dollar
inferior Il what we have today. what will
BE- the eject of II Higher prices. they
say. Mt fm everything Il Yau have
tloa in the savings bunk today. you can
get loo gold dollars from tie LINK II this
wild project sueeeeds aud wa are paid IN
silver, yOu vii get sloo hut they will be
SO or 81 or "a cent dollars Il you hive II
pension that must be scaled down. II you
have bond. that goes down too
Viii the waae Garner be any better off
What you buy will q up Will your wages
60 up too There you have experience to
guido you. Wages during greenbaek times.
measured in gold. did not 90 up as other
things did. They went part WY but not
all the way up, and were very slow about
that But wouldn business be better Tor
more money! Ii might he after a terrible
c~ash With bad currency. and then we
would haNe Il get buck a2ain. brandy may
Seem To strengthen, but plain bread and
hient arr the surest
aa9 w want Is not more money oot
more ca Money always comes win
0op''di % Hafe money MN ii9re thaii
We can us'i' Wing idit. We hdft Jhht eX
por1ea d II u IL Money l. the trai.slerrer
u eaPi9ai. al ha9faek a4a morse Is a
erahsieffsf al nay. Mafe ha}f2ehs vii
ieeef htahs it5f1 my, gtt more nay WI
REQUIRE iii7fe MY RACKS anu b SURF 10 Be1
eheiE
A'"N a' me AAs''
II | sei1 yeu ny house in Portland ar
morfaeazs. Il iar s., 50o ard send the result
to a Ma4SsllHTt "a STAT { al mine and 1t Is
speht All eoiae. back L. CISCO bank, lily
S5.onU worth ii capital Is i'll Washington
just Tie ssiHa Nnat this whole country
needs i g til from abroad, from the
whole Warla | expect some Of you will
be surprised aid ask whether the world OF
the lifted -tateS Is not inimense and
sufficient iaEeuse yes, sufficient, no
or capitol Is great, but the United
Stat i very much greater There are
millions OF s1gare miles and 7j,009, 100
of people aud undeyeloped riches without
stint But there il not capital enough to
keep -. 0gQ .eeo Of people ut Work When
are we the Lost ff6tberous2 1t is when
the -. eco, 600 ire all al work, and when
that happens we borrow of the rest OF the
world thousands Of millions of dollars
Let me give ynu one plain proof of the fact
that money comes with capital
In $50 we were prosperous Our PEG
pie we're all Mt work Consequently there
were good Wages. and wealth greatly In.
creased At that time the figures show
that in that year we had SlgO, 900, 600 Of
gold more than we had in fss2 Every bit
of that had been imported or kept, the
product of our own mines. 1t was busy
transferring this vast capital we had Dor.
rowed and that which we owed ourselvea
Now. just Is soon as this election is over
and the future position of the United
States Is assured. both IA. to money and to
the employment of our people, capital Is
ready To come 10 It's from abroad and from
our own people and we shall again be
prosperous
know this plain, temperate statement
does not seem so highly colored as will be
given by speakers who are not really re.
sponsibIe for what they say. but it has one
advantage--it will be found to be true
God keeps the future for himself Only
his eye can see in the fullness OF truth the
days to come, but he has left us some
glnpses of them in the past, and il men
will only take guidance from experience
they will us they can do in no other way,
show their superiority over the brutes
which perish
You and |, my friends, have been to-
gether for 20 years two.tIirds the life of
IA generation of men 1t would be Singh
lar if the past could give us no help in