The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1896-08-21
SOUND ARGUMENT
Geo. 4. Silsby Gives a Convincing Reply
to the Free Silver Speech Delivered
by 4. E. Hitchcock.
II Was One Of the B3st Addresses Ever
Delivered in this City by Mr..
SilSby.
Su NNE Min TINT
SHATTERED THE IDOL
The Speaker Attacks the nCrime Of 1879
and Shows that 1t Had Little to
do With Lower Prices.
. AND HE ANSWERED HIM.
Geo. A. Silsby Makes Convincing Reply
to Mr. Hitchcock's Speech.

to Mr. Hitchcock's Speech.
Tuesday evening the corn palace con-
tanned large crowd Of people to listen
to Geo. A. Silsby's reply to the speech
of A. E. Hitchcock of few days previ-
Gus. The Juvenile band rendered sew
eral selections on the street and also in
side the building. T. j. Spangler in
troduced the speaker to the audience
in few we'll chosen words and the
speaker launched at once into his sub
ject. Mr.. Silsby took up the main
propositions enunciated by Mr.. Hitch
cock and answered them quite conclus-
lively in a pat manner, frequently TAX
ing Mr.. Hitchcock's own ground to dis
prove the assertions.
In opening his speech last Saturday
night Mr.. Hitchcock said: 81 have
before me synopsis of Mr.. Crawford's
speech l do not come,
to in any way, come to issue personally
with Mr.. Crawford but simply to con-
trovert his reasoning. Mr.. Crawford
was very fair as far as he went, and
with one or two exceptions, he mis-
stated no fact. so far as 1 know" Mr..
Silsby agreed, entirely, with Mr..
Hitchcock's statement. Mr.. Hitchcock
referred to the barnacles on the keel
of ship, to the worm holes and the
rust, intimating that that was the case
with the republican ship. Mr.. Silsby
insisted that the barnacles had all left
the republican party and were in the
demo-pop party, such men as Donnelly,
Weaver, Waite, Llewelling, ad lib.
Mr.. Hitchcock read an article from
the Outlook by the editor in chief,
DR.. Lyman Abbott, in which the DR..
refers to an ideal civilization; such as
will be possible when the milleneum has
come and especially referring to the
submerged tenth" Of our great cities.
Mr.. Hitchcock said "Now DR.. Abbott
is not a politician; is not a partisan; he
tells the truth where he finds it. /
have no such paper as this (Out-
look.) He intends to talk the truth
and no party, no creed, no policy, un'
less he believes it to be the truth
Replying Mr.. Silsby read an editoria!
from DR.. Abbott's Outlook of August
Is. 1896, in which the DR.. in the strong
est terms espouses the cause of SOUND
money and in conclusion, says: 'The
Outlook desires to deal fairly with The
free coinage movement, but it regard
it not the less as involving grave dan
gers and inviting great disasters. I
is, therefore, absolutely opposed to it
Mr.. Silsby in discussing the allege'
"crime of 1873" said: That by the lay
of 1884, supplemented by that of 1853
silver was then demonetized, and tina
if the law of 1873 had been designed t
give the people only dear money, tina
law should have demonetized gold an
not silver; that from 184S to 1873 thi
country had produced of gold the mag
nifcent sum of ST., 240, $50, 900, while 70
the same period we had only produce
of silver SlS9, ,05o,0O0 or about one
4 seventh as much silver as gold; an
1 that silver was then worth Sl.O3 to
8 of gold; that by reason of its create
. value silver had left the country an
. refused to circulate as money; that
s had practically demonetized itself b
/ reason OF it's excess of value as bullio
4 oyer its coinage value; that if the la
s was designed to give the people onl
4 dear money it should have demonetize
/ the 81 ,240, 750, ,000of gold and only give
: us what there was left of the $3.50, 1850
/ 900 of silver that was more valuab
1 than gold. Mr.. Silsby agreed with M
: Hitchcock that sit makes no differenc