Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-28

LuS HAIL. now 1ull OF sympathy they are
for him. Ny countrymen. I never spoke q
1alse word to the laboring man in my life
l have never sought to reach his vote or in
nuence by appeals to that part of his ma
conscience. I have believed. and believe
today, that any system that maintains the
price Of labor III this country, that brings
hope into the life Of the laboring man, that
enables him to put by. that gives him a
stake In good order in the property of the
country. is the policy that should be our
American policy. 1 have resisted in many
campaigns this idea that debased cur
rency could help the workingmen The
first dirty errand that a dirty dollar does
Is to cheat the workingman."
MI Harrison referred to the Senate in
quiry of 1880 into the relative prices OF
| In the history of our country, and quoted
| the results He then said:
They found that the enormous disparity
between the advance of the cost of living
ana the advance o. wages falls in exactly
with what we would conclude in advance
Laborers. men who work, whether with
head or hand. in salaried positions, would
90 well to take these facts to heart and
settle the question after that broad, deep
inquiry to which Mr.. Bryan invites you as
TO whether you want to enter into another
experience such as 1t had during the war,
When wages advanced slowly and tetii-
ously and the cost of your living moved on
SO swiftly.
Result of Contraction.
"A contraction Of our currency by the
exporting Of our gold and a readjustment
Of everything will result from this change
to debased dollar. read the other day
In paper most amusing description OF
the troubles of the ticket agent at Laredo,
station on the Mexican railroad, who
had to sell tickets to people who came
from the United States, with United States
money, going into Mexico, and then to peo-
pie who came out of Mexico and who Of
fered him Mexican money. He had large
book bound up with yellow paper, and he
had to cover one whole sheet in his calcu-
lation usually when he sold a ticket That
Is what would happen everywhere. Every
thing would have to be readjusted-the
prices of everything, the whole intricate
business adjustments of the country would
have to be readjusted, and while that pro-
cess is going on uncertainty would charac-
terize business, resulting in panic and dis
aster. Now, who viii get any benefit? Well,
the man who owes a debt that he contract
ed upon a gold basis and is able to pay 1t
with ffty-cent dollar He and the mine
owner who gets an exaggerated price for
the products Of his mine the only two
people or classes of people that I can see
that would have any benefit out of it.
My frieLds. the people who advocate
this class legislation. this legislation ia
vcrable to the mine owners, to double the
price Of the products of their mines, and
offer this temptation of reputation to the
better class, is the party that have for
twenty years been proclaiming against
class legislat ton.
Appealing to the Farmer.
They make a strong appeal to the farm
err They say 1t will put up prices. Well,
in sense, yes. Nominally, yes; really no.
If wheat goes from 30 cents to $40, the
price has been increased, you will say:
but If the price of everything else has gone
up In the same proportion, a bushel of
W. hoe h,rxy fDr Co.
sugar or coffee or farming implements, or
anything else that he has to purchase. If
that dollar won't buy for the farmer any
more or be better dollar than the one
We have now. where is the good TO any
body of introducing these fictitious prices
that are now real? They would work very
well for the farmer il the prices of wheat,
hay, oats and rye would double and
everything doubles, who is the richer
who is richer than he was before? Only
the man who bought when we had an
honest dollar and paid in the debased one:
only the mine owner, who uses this gov
eminent to add 30 cents to the value OF
every dollars worth of metal that he pro-
duces from his mine.
That is not even a democratic doctrin
1t involves the idea that this government
of ours shall pay not only its debt of hon
or, but that they pay the interest on it's
bends and the circulating notes in Ce-
based currency. My countrymen, this
country Of ours during the troubous time S
of the war may have had severe trials,
but these financial questions are scarcely
less troublous than those. During those
trcublous times had accumulated a
debt so large that many of our pessimistic
democratic friends told us we could never
pay 1T.
Shall 1t BE RepudiatiOnf
1--WE had had a currency which we We're
compelled to make legal tender and use
| that the Constitution might live; but no
sooner had the war ended than the great
conscience of this people declared the ma
ton that has crushed this great rebellion
| that has lifted itself in its pride ard its
constitutional glory to fearless position
among the nations of the Garth should not
continue to have deprecated and debaSe1
currency, and we walked up to resumption,
and we made the greenback dollar a par
dollar in geld.
Shall We now in these times, wher all
the ills we suffer are durable if we only
pass revenue bill that will generously re-
plenish the treasury of the United States,
| that will generously protect American la
| Dor against injurious competition and bring
! back again full prosperity to all our people?
Shall we now contemplate for moment, or
| allow to have any power over our hearts
| and minds this temptation to debase cur
currency and put it in its financial position
| alongside of the Asiatic countries or our
| weak and struggling sister republic of Mex
| leo? Does not every instinct Of pride. does
| not every instinct of self-interest, does not
every thoughtful, affectlonate interest IN
others, does not our sense Of justice and
| honor rise up to rebuke the Infamous prop
| osition that this government and its people
| shall become a nation and people Of re-
| pudiation?''
| Upon the conclusion Of Mr.. Harrison 8
! speech the vast audience arose and cheered
! for several minutes. When quiet was re-
| stored DIR. David J. Hill, president of
Rochester University, was introduced and
spoke at some length. There were then
| calls for Chairman Hanna, who made a
| few remarks from the box which he oc-
cupied. Upon demand Mr.. Edward Lauter-
| bach spoke briefly, and then the people
| called for Mr.. John Wanamaker, who said
| when some of us in other days saw the
| army invading our beautiful Pennsylvania;
| when the great tide of fire rolled back
| from Gettysburg, we never expected to
| live to see the day when the American peo-
| pie would again be marshaled for battle
| against common enemy. 1t is not war
| with bayonets and bullet. but 1t is a war
| of brains and business In the politics of
| the country, and we could not make bet
| ter beginning than we are making tonight.
l. The audience dispersed after giving three
| cheers for the national ticket at the re-
quest of Mr.. Depew.
A PAINTERS MISTAKE.