Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-08-08
FREE COINAGE FACTS.
@. 8, barrow, of Chicago, Speaks
for Silver and Bryan.
In Debate with senator Thurston on the
Money Question the Chicagoan
Gives Uttcrance to Some
Terse Truths.

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At the Monoua Lake assembly
grounds, Madison, Wis, Friday, July
n. Il gathering of 10000 or l2,0o0 people
heard n debate between Senator John
VI. Thurston, Of Nebraska. who spoke
for gold, Mckinley and protection, and
e. $. barrow, Of Chicago. who spoke for
silver and Bryan. In his reply 10 Sen
ator rhurston an the various points at
issue MIR. barrow said:
'in the space OF an hour and n quarter !
am very sure that I VIII not be able 70
thoroughly and fully discuss the financial
question. | shall attempt to do Il as can
daily as possible. |. Ike the eminent sem
utor. AVE no other lutcrest excepting TIE
truth, No public speaker ever had any
other interest, YOU hnow-llauphter and
applausrl-no matter whether he holds an
otilcc or does not hold an Office. am
afraid | have no such authentic document
TO prove my cause as AN editorial rom
u Mckinley newspaper, or the testimonial
OF n bcggar on the street, Applause,
hut. without these, | Will attempt TO talk
TO an intelligent audience In as candid n
way as possibly can, and VIII csk Nou
mon md women not to determine this
question upon the words you can hear to-
day or upon the woris you can hear some
other day, but to take 1t home viii you,
consider II carefully. thoroughly, hon
estly,
ut IL nm important question; It is I'M
porlant to the welfare of every man AMI
woman and child OF the United States. 1t
A important TO the welfare Of every man,
woman and child In the whole world AS
well. | do not nov mean to cNagGerate the
Importance of this issue, | do not motn
to say It IL the only Issue before the Amer
lean people and before the world. l do not
mean to say even that IL Is the most M
portant issue before the American people.
i do not lhink that the settlement of the
free coinage of silver would ever do for the
American people what ought to he done
1 do not believe hat this and this alone
would ever lift from the American farmer
that load of debt and bondage through
Which he has passed through the 80 years
gone by. lApplause.l | do not believe
that this and this alone would ever ave
To labor that which b never had,
either under democratic hdminlslra-
tlous or republican administrations, either
IN the monarehical countries of Europe OF
In free America. This alone would not
give To labor that which 1t ought TO have,
or fun product of itR toll, l~Applausc,l
But II win do something, and II IL for that
something that | wish to speak about as !
sec It and believe 1t.
Chicagoan Wakes Sarcastic.
"Thc able senator has described the con-
dittons of the United states. lie says that
we have 'tramps on every hand, lie de-
plorca the distress of the farmer and the
distress of the lahorer, but to all OF that |
say amen. What does the able senator Of
fer YOU ns Il solution of the great calan-
ity IN which We suffer to-day? lie offers
YOU four years more Of gold cure admins
tered by Mckinley instead of Cleveland
and nothing else, loud applause aid
chcers.l The gold cure may be II good
thing for drunkards, but II Is Il mighty poor
thing for the American pcople-not only
for the American people. but for the people
of the whole civilized and unciHilized world
"a well-and yet In this crisis, when all
other issues are forgotten. when we nave
been called upon to abandon parties, as we
are called upon to vote upo tins question
alone, the most they say Is, We VIII give
YOU what YOU huve had. And Mr.. Cleyc-
land and all his satellites from washing
ton to Madison are supporting MIR. Me
kinlcy to-day, Applause and chters.l
what do We say to the American PEG
plc" We are told that We ask YOU To snil
out upon an unknown sea with neither
compass nor guide. and that We ask You 10
try u new experiment different from that
of any other town In the world; that VI
try an experiment and plead upon the
poverty OF the people TO ask them to let
us do IL. My friend, he who understands
hts question, and he who seeks to under
stand mis- Question before this campaign /.
closed, mus, learn the lesson that those
Who nsk for new experiments are the Other
sbls and no, MS. IApnlause.l We turn I,
>nu nrd we ASK You 10 bring the ship back
"a IN, m,nrIpg of the last 100 years, and
rl,rr A. where nl the statesmen of Amer,
lean have ever placed IL, and support tn,
financial policy which William Mckinley
supported until he became a candidate fol
the presidency OF the United States
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