Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-10-23
HON. q. j. D/EkEMA,
ALMA,
Saturday Evening. oct. 81.

| lie land great stress on the fact that in
Japan there is Il great demand for work.
| ing men, but forgot 10 tell that the chief
reason Is their recent war with China in
which thousands of labOring men We're
killed or disabled and that she still has
TO maintain Il large army While the
average wages of the labOring man in
Japan is only from one TO two cents per
day III our money
That Japan has $50, 900, 0O0 in gold.
only SS4 300, 600 in silver and Of paper
money 100000 or PEI capita rcula-
ton of all three of only $500. This is
the condition TO which Mr. Stewart
invites you. The shrewd far seeing
statesmen of Japan understand the dis
advantages under which they labor
among the great commercial nations
and are preparing 70 90 on gold stand
ard. Mr.. Stewart did not refer to
Mexico, the country which has been
held up heretofore as the model of bliss,
perhaps too much light has been thrown
on the situation by the recent investi-
gators.
He next drew picture of the hard
ships Of the silver prOspector and miner
in the west. Declaring that no class of
men the sun has ever shown upon, have
gone through such privations and hard
ships And there We're men in that
audience actually moved to tears by
this pathetic story, whose fathers. or
perhaps they themselves went through
the hardshipS of settling GratiOt county
! The prOSpeCtOrs were men alone at first
! Here were women and children endur-
! ing cold, hunger and nakedneSs. There,
many Of the men were deSperadOes, who
as the country grew older. were either
shot or hung 10y the regulars, that the
! decent class Of people might live.
BY all means vote to benefit the rich
mine owner, who never proSpected nor
; delvcd in the mine, but who have
/ formed Il vast silver trust, TO secure all
the products of mines, and force the
government INTO turning into double its
value the silver. because somebody suf-
fered TO find the mines. Yes, you
grand old heroes and children of heroes,
who conquered the wilderness. and
made fair garden Of Gratiot vote to
| help these rich mine owners, pious sill
yer bugs of whom Senator Stewart is
! one.
He next glorified the Chicago conven-
ton, telling how the 600 and over as he
said a dozen times, in reality they Were
only 556 but veracity cannot be expected
of a man, whose stock in trade is exagera-
ton, stood firm against all the assaults
of the goldbugs, who came To the con-
vention richly dressed wear ng dia-
monds, stopping at the best hotels, and
! bearing the marks Of men Of wealth
who had got on in the world how they
gave them 10 understand that they
We're not wanted, and the SOONER they
got out the better. But he failed TO say
that these $40 men, for brains, intelll-
gence, knowledge of finance, statesman.
ship, character and reputation in all the
land and many of them over the civil.
lied world, were the peers of the best
this nation has produced, that they
We're Democrats, many of them the
brave leaders of the party for thirty
years. On the other side We're the
PopGlists, with sprinkling of anarch.
lists. Democrats of the Altgeld, Tillman
stripe, crazed with enthusiasm fired by
the weakest speech in print, that has
moved great convention in a century,
the elocution, the bell like voice of the
boy orator, and Mysteries did the rest.
We have Stewart 5 word for it, that il
was the greatest speech ever made
/ Shades of Demosthenes and Patrick
Henry preserve us, but then Stewart
says so, the world will be glad of the
information, even if Bryan did steal the
best, if most blasphemons sentence in
| it.
Finally a man who turns for the
sake of mess of silver potage, TO the
perversion of facts and with the venom
of rattle snake assails the men, who
have or do now fill the lofty positions,
whose honesty, integrity and upright
ness in public and private life is beyond
reproach, because his own schemes TO
advance personal interests have been
thwarted, who sneers at honesty and
honor if thereby material loss is suf.
fered, who stigmatizes riots, burning
and destruction of property, interference
with mails and trampling national laws
under foot is unfit for any office with
in the gifts of the people.