The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-10-06

takes piece Of paper worth cent and
writes upon 1t u poem worth $50, that u
genius. II a man tekcs farm worth %
an acre and through years o! toll and hard
labor briggs 1t up TO Be worth $50 on aero,
that Is industry. II q man takes ham
mer worth rs cents Qnd earns ~ cents 4
day US carpenter, that Is hard work. II
man buys a yearling colt and develops 1t
into horse that can make record on the
track Of 90, that is judgment
II man buys an article for sl.50 and
sells 1t for 81 so that is business, II ma
ton takes So cents worth Of silver and
coins 1t into cartwheel and forces the
people to take 1t Tor dollar In payment Of
debt, that Is not financiering but highway
robbery, lapplausel.
Now the question Is arc we robbers or
notS are we going to allow seven states of
the Union and thirty-two silver mine own
ers for the sake of personal benefit to them
to bunco steer us9 and are we on the third
OF next month going to send to the White
House that matches statesman William
Mckinley? firmly believe we IRE going to
do this.
Now we will contemplate free silver,
whom it benefits, and what Its Popocratlc
candidates say about 1T. He here repeated
the story of the farmer who was going to
vote the FREQ silver ticket, and asked the
railroad agent whether tho Government
would deliver the froe silver ut his homo
or would he have to come for 1t. Mr..
Stlllwoll said: ~ hope to show you that
neither will they send it to you nor will
you get 1t II you come for 1t. The silver
mining men only will got the silver, and
the rest Of the country will have the
free. When was in Germany l saw q
number Of factories going up and ask
cd, How Is 1t this country seems to BIO so
prosperousp' He answered Since tho
Wilson Tariff Bill came In we have had
to enlarge our factories Isaid That
looks rs though YOU had tho trade and
we had tho free
Mr.. Stlllweli then called attention to
two placards on each side of the stage,
which stated as follows: 'Silver pro.
duced in 1895, 4f,o00,000 ounces price 81
cents per ounce" and resuming said I'VE
all know that an overproduction of wheat
puts the price down. have learned from
people who tried to interest me Iii silver
mines that silver can be produced now for
80 cents an ounce. To-day they can make
as much profit on silver at 81 cents au
ounce as they could at 81. 90 In 1870, when
material and labor were high; when the
ore had to be carried down the banks on
backs of mules and now everything about
the mines is done choaply and they say II
we could only get 81. 80 for our silver now
what snap it would bel They have done
all they can to make the workingman be-
lleve it was. horrible crime that was
committed IN 1873"
He then callediattontion to two columns
on the right of the platform representing
the silver coinage prior to and subsequent
to 1873. one barely 6 inches high and the
other Of the same diameter towering 10
feet. The relative proportions were so alb.
surd that everybody applauded, He said,
81 have this little block representing all
the silver coinage prior to 1873. We only
had about 20 cents apiece I'm the shape of
silver dollars at that time in the country.
They say we committed horrible crime
but If we got along with that we certainly
should get along with this there the
speaker tried to reach tho top of the tall
column) The theory Is II 1t had not been
for the crime, where would the pole be
now?
He then took round disks Of wood
painted to represent silver dollars. l want
to show you what Bryan wants. The
true value of silver Is 50 to /. Bryan
wishes us to declare that this stack of
dollars is just Us high MS 1t was before l
took this pile off removing half tho
pile) He says the country is suffering
because we do not declare that this pile is
not as high as it was before. People who
think this thing out know that If any
man undertakes to do such thing it
cannot but bring discred.t Many of my
friends say why did Mr.. Cleveland issue
bonds. We will say that this stack. (using
the disks represents 500 millions of
silver and this stack represents $40 mil
lions of gold.
BY tho Bland Allison act and the Shor.
man act we kept this stack of silver up us
high as that (thc height representing the
valued We could only use about sixty
millions of silver in the country aud
the rest was put into tho vault. The for
eign holders of our bonds said that country
is going to buy all the silver 1t can use and
they sent it over here, and wo kept plling
it up and they kept sending their sccurl.
ties over here and taking away our gold,
and when the reserve was low as it could
be Cleveland was obliged to rcplcnlsh
the gold with bonds. Bryan is now kick,