The evening times., 1896-10-13
CALLS IRELAND CYcLOMC
Baltimore Free Silver Priest
Made an. Address.
THE ARCHBISHOP
Father Hannah Says the st. Paul Pre-
late Is Wrong-He Offers to Find u
Dozen Flaws IN the Recent Ad-
dress-StrOng Advocate OF Bimetal-
lism-Created II Sensation.

nan of 81. MartinS Catholic Chulch, ullon
avenue and tayctte street, created some.
thing Of "a SENSATION last night by appear
ing at the hail or the Unltea CaUGoIc Lit
erary Association of Plus Memorial Church,
Schroeder street and Edmondson avenue,
ana delivering Lecture uLnoiuInS the doc
trine of the free coinage OF silver, and in
cidentally rappnig Archbishop Ireland of
st. Paul, Mimi, for calling upon all citizens
to support the single standard and Mckin-
ley.,,.- ..,...-,.
Father Hannanis the first Catholic clergy
man to publicly appear in a political dis
cussion, a nd he says that in times like these
every man ought to get down from his led
estal and t:fRe ar interest in what is going
ON about him.
AT the outset he said: at is, indeed,
battle Uf the standards; not bloody war
OF the roses, red and white, but a bloodless
battle of the standards, silver and gold.
The free people OF a free country are divid-
ed into hostile camps"
he did not leave his position doubt
fui, for he declared: "As for me, l am
proud to range myself with the masses.
Not that would array the masses against
the. classes, =, ,but,..as ore Of class,
of every man TO be a man-aye, n man
Of the people, AMI for the people"
FALL IN THE PRICE.
Speaking of money he said: "Appre-
citation in money means fall in the price
OF commpdities, Depreciation Of money
means rise in the price of commodities.
Dear money means lower prices; cheap
money, and cheap money is undoubtedly
the best money, means higher prices.
Dear money is1he, worst money for the
generality of people, because IL is harder
to get'
Again: ...When, the volume of currency
is lessened or made smaller there is con-
traction; when the volume of money is
increased. OF made larger there Is infla-
ton. Between initiation or contraction you
must make Il choice. Which do you pre-
fer. More money or less money; more money
for you, more money for your friends
and relatives, more money for your com
muuity and for your country, or less
money!
b you will notice." he said, that 1
dwell ON the quantity of money, rather than
the quality, whereas at this time ii seems
TO ne n question Of quality "a sound dollar.
l cannot get gold dollar. not one. Last
year / went to the United States custom
house and could no get one gold dollar.
Gold dollars, the unit of value. must be
bought in a curiosity shop. They are worth
more than one hundred cents.
.'If any man. be he the President Of the
United states or the honorable Secretary
the United states is unsound and dishonest.
,, .,ts mt
ing dishonesty with the people of the
United States, and claim that If the sil-
yer dollar be tinsound and dishonest now
il was not unsound or dishonest in the
time of Washington, Hamilton, jefferson
and Andrew Jackson. but 1t was dishonest
. and unsound when John Sherman denonc-
tized silver in 1871
NOT AN ALARMIsT.
As to the argument that only the silver
mine owner would receive the profit. he
said: Add one hundred millions TO the
money circulation. and all OF us become
richer by so much per capita. Substract
one hundred millions from the money in
viii you be richer or poorer?
Evidently poorer"
IL am not an alarnlist." said he. II can
solemnIy assert before God and man that
/ have studied this question conscien-
liously. l have burned midnight gas; 1
have, pondered over tooks with the ther-
mometer at almost loo in my room at mid
night. and as a convert to the cause; as one
who in the beginning thought gold was
right and silver wrong, l now declare my
adherence TO bimetallism. You may find
a flaw in my argument. Find 1t il you can.
And when you have found it will reward
you for your Industry by finding bakers
dozen in the article published this inorii-
ing by the cyclonic archbishop of st. Paul
He Is honest so am I but he is wrong, and
We are right"
After referring to Archbishop Ireland,
whom he called one of his dearest friends,
he said that his assertion that Archbishop
Walsh's statements do not apply to the con-
ditiCn in this country is rank and to say
that even the Sherma n law was not able to
keep the price of silver up was .'one OF
the grossest -miSstatements he had ever
met.''
Concluding, he said I'VE need all our
gold nd all our silver for legal-tender money,
and even then there will not be enough.
There is plenty of room for paper, too.
Wisdom demands that we give to silver at
the mints the same rights that are given to
gold-rights that will make it equal in
money functions to gold, at the ratio fixed
by law of 16 to 1. This can only be done
by free coinage OF silver, as well as Tree
coinage Of gold"
BOSPHoRUS FULL OF CORPSES.