The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-30

ing, Messrs. Reed and Guild addressing
Il gathering of several thousand people
who came from all quarters to hear
the first public utterance of Mr. Reed
since the national convention. The
speakers We're greeted with great Ell
thusiasm. Mr. Reed spoke as follows:
Two months ago no man of any stand
ins would have risked his reputation as
4 prophet by hinting the slightest doubt
of Republican success. Now there are
those who tell US thar all things have
chan"rd. This may be so, but to me 1t
does not Seem probable. II would b. un-
wise, unjust and seiiseess TO confound The
Democratic organization with individual
Democrats.
When stephen A. Douglas declared, after
sumter was fired ON, that "thencetorth
there could be but two parties patriots
and traitors" he won the respect even Of
foes ana AN imperishable place in history.
We shall certainly welcome all such men
today not that they are TO be Republicans.
Tor the. viii not he but because they are
patriots, for that they must be-
There are some political orators who
think that il they can draw u rose color
in the picture 1t ought to convert a con-
tinent. What rosy picture We had
painted for us in 1872. What millions We
We're 10 expect. We We're to sell in the
dearest and buy In the cheapest market
We took their word for it. ana here we
are. ana now the least credible part of
these same gentlemen are smearing the
canvas with another picture for us, they
want us TO pay another four years. or per-
haps ten. of the nations life
MEN NOT TO BIZ DECEIVED TWICE
Men deceived once are human: men de-
c-ivtd twice by the same men are fools
| am bound to say that the evil which
has come to us by AN unwise revision of
tarin has been greatly aggravated by one
OF its consequences-ou loss of revenue
The constant drain of the deficit contin-
ually confounded with the redemption of
gold. has so afflicted the imagination Of
our people that confidence cannot COM
mence TO be restored until our revenues
equal our expenses.
Let us see what is proposed by those
gentlemen who within the last two
months have discoverd new cure for
all the ills flesh is heir to. Their remedy
Is the coinage of silver at II to |. What
does that mean? Heretofore. whenever
gold and silver have stood together it
has been at the market value. When we
tried to make gold and silver circulate to-
gether we have always married them ac-
Cor1ing to their market value. Today
We find then. not IL to !. hut 81 to |, and
We are going, the, say, to lift the silver
10 twice value,not 10y the universal sense
of mankind. which alone makes values
but by the statute of the United States.
single handed. against the civilized world.
Why should the United States try to do
this alone? II the decentralization of sill
yer Is a disease at all 1t is world dis
ease. How can 1t be reached except by
world remedy? International bimetallism
] can understand, but this driving out of
gold and substitution of silver is only
silver monometallism for the United
States. 1t is shifting from gold cur
rrncy and civilized Europe and going over
to silver and Mexico. Japan. India and
China.
If we are going to have a dollar inferior
to what we have today, what will be the
effect OF it? Higher prices, they say. Not
for everything. If you have 800 in ;he
savings bank today you can get 100 gold
dollars from the bank. If this wild pro-
ject succeeds. and you are paid i'm silver,
you will get the $lo0. but they will be 20.
or 60. Or 7O-cent dollars. II you have
pension that must be scaled down. If you
have bond that goes down. too. What
you buy will so up. Will wages go up,
too? Wages. during greenback times
measured in gold did not go up as other
things did They went part way, but not
all the way up, and were very slow about
that.
CAPITAL FROM ABROAD NEE,DED.
What this country needs Is capital from
abroad In the United States are millions
of square miles and "a, 100000 Of people and
undeveloped richly without stint. But
here is not capital enough to keep "a. 900. 900
of people at work. We are most pros