Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-10-05

account and not on Individual &C
count. 1t 10 cosasd under tro acts
Of congress and 10 made 90 good IS
gold. The govsrnmsat Gao ooly
maintain . certain smouat Of silver.
and that IL 10 doing today; bot when
il undertakes 20 mainsain all the
silver that comes TO tbs Mats 10 will
fail and the governments credit will
be gone. He put free silver iu with
free lunch. free vhiskey aud free
love. The thing that 10 very essy to
get 10 Of little value. he said. Tue
Two classes OF people who e the
most difficult 60 convince ~ TO the
error Of free silver are the bullion
owners and the people Who have
debts to pay. As an explanation Of
the condition of labor he said we
lice in an age OF chesPening pro.
ducts due to human ingenuity. The
cheapening process 10 shown in the
railroads improving locomotives and
cars and thereby increasing the car
rying capacity as we'll o. the speed
Of transmission The same 10 trus
of farm implements and factory
labor saving devices. II free silver
carried. We would have between
Nov. I and April I the creditor pur-
suing the debtor from daylight until
dark. all obligations and m~ortgagcs
would be foreclosed aud business
would he generally upset He dwelt
upon the hardships which he de-
clared would befall the railroads.
whose bonds in interest and princi-
pal were gold-bearipg and who would
ne obliged to accept silver Of dcpre-
ciated value and would therefore be
forced to suspend and nine-tenths Of
them would 60 into the hands OF re-
c~eivers. He spoke particularly To
railroad men and Of his personal ac-
quaintance with them ~ q class. de-
nouncing the charge that they had
been coerced.
Free silver was q bunco and conf.
ience game and IL was no won i-r
that the farmer had been singled on,
as q victim. lie spoke of the paras-
lei between silver aed wheat and
said that Just now wheat vas on the
advance and silver on the decline.
As to Gee. Asteeeo-
Then he took mp Gov. Alleged. re-
ferring sarcasticslly Ca the core.
sPondcnce between The governor aud
himself. OF the charges made by GER
tsia trades unions IN Chicago, and
held that . go. 900 plant had been
placed In the Joliet peaitentiary to
enable one man to do the wofi Of
i've. Il vas not the convict labor
that free aud honest labor protested
against; IL Was the opportunity 90
convict labor to cheaper the price Of
free labor outside where there are
families TO support. He had no per.
sonsl feeling against Gov. Alleged.
lie supported him loyalty four wears
.sgo-she greatest political oaease
which he ever committed. Gov.
Altgeld Was the first man % take sd.
vantage Of his Office for his oxa pccu- :
mary benefit. borrowing the stat.
funds. The speaker then enuas-t.
sted the several alleged hnsncisi of.
lenses Of the governor. lie had. Mr..
Forman said. taken thousand after
thousand out 81 the state treasury
and deposited them Ia Chicago bank.
Of which he Is . director. Gov. Alt.
geld never appointed . s~abordinat.
oser whom he did not have absolute
control, politically and otherwise
Mr.. Formsn said he did not ~
TO he elected. but he had evcry rea.
son to believe that he would come ~
near TO It as Gov. Altgeld.
Mayor Henry vollmer. O. Daven-
port. followed with a brief address.
assailing the Chicago platform. and
the candidates, Began and Altgeid.
The attendance was largely repre-
sentative OF republicans, and those
who went TO hear from Mr.. Formap
Q TRADE and fire eating arraigu-
ment Of Gov. Al'geld. found them
selves immensely mistaken. bat in
stead. in u large measure. immensely
amused, ~ his impeachment wa
q repetition OF what be hss said sed
tn which the governor has replied.
MI. formsu has . happy ~faculty
oil throwing . good deal Of fun into
bis speeches. and 1.-THE swamp fox"
OF Egypt was at his best in this re-
.P'ct Saturday night. He gave
place TO much ridiculs and sarcasm
rs well rs the side lights OF humor.
Gus yarns that creaied an uprosr and
hurt nobody.
The gold money democrats from
Davenport. who raised . flag sstus-
DAY night. came over { o the theatre
with . band while Mayor volmer was
speaking.
The old story Of Prometheus 10 Q
parable. Prometheus was ON terms
o = intimacy with the gods. From
them he stole ire aud gave it 70 men.
For this sin he was bound to the
ROCKS oil Mount Caucassus. and vui-
tures we're set upon him. They only
ate his liver. This grew again o.
last q II was Pecked away. Are his
suderiugs TO DC imagissds
Take . modern interpretation %
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