The Forrest City times., 1896-10-16
SOUND FOR SILVER.
senator Cannon Tells Why He Favored
 Free Coinage.

9th, on the silver question, and told why he withdrew from the republican party. He said:
 MT. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: I appear before you to-day, in this hall and in this cause, because I believe this year exactly as I believed last year, that cheap coat makes cheap man: that the American people deserve a return to better prices for their products. that our political efforts should be to upllft our own people and not those in lands across the sea.
 This audience, as is evident, is com posed Of people representing all shades Of political opinion so far as former divi- sions were concerned. To the republicans who may be present I desire to address myself particularly, and l shall take for my text quotation from a recent utter ance by gentleman who stands TOW in the full glory of publicity, the candidate of the republicans.
 "'This year I bid you obliterate party lines and old party distinctions and unite | in sustaining the country and it's honor l and stand for the maintenance of law and 1 order and public tranquility, and a return l to the policy that will take care of the American workshop and the American market and protect them from the work i shops and the markets of the old world.
 That Is good doctrine for republicans l The time has come to obliterate old party l ties, to eradicate party distinctions. to cast l off If necessary party fealty and to defend | American production and American mar kets against alien competition.
 Tarin Is Not Sufficient.
 But mere protective tariff is no longer sufficient for these purposes. While dur 1 ing the generations we have been guard l Ing ourselves of first the producers of the i old world. as we understood it. during the l past 23 years. there has risen from the l ashes still older world and from the l sepulchre of the orient power now threatens our producers and markets as l they have never been threatened before. When I saw men marching to-day under 1 yellow banner, recalled that the dragon l or China Is on yellow field. [Cheers. l Marching for China's advantage in Amer ical The gold standard means 100 per | cent. bounty export on all that the orient can send us. Protective tariffs will be un- availing so long as this money injustice shall continue.
 My friends, I am protectionist by re- iigion almost [applausel, but while I hold seat in the senate of the United States l will never vote for general tariff bill unless accompanied by money justice to 1 the people of the country. GCheers.l am willing to see the laborer of this coun- l try, the farmer the worker in the shop, the accountant fin the office the lawyer, each one share his loaf with the whole country. but am not willing that protec- tion shall take a slice off one end of the ioa1 and bad money laws take a slice off another end of the loaf. tApplause.1
 Party Ties Must Be Broken.
 My friends, this money question has always been, since man began the use of money, the question of civilization. believe with Maj. Mckinley, whose words have taken for my bject that we should now forget party affiliations in our devo- ton to law and order and public tranquil Hty while the masses of the people are be- ing dragged through the mire. Why is that tranquility? Then the south was tranquil l before the war, and should not have been disturbed. The old nations are tran qull when few control the many l'Hear. Then law and order are simply | the reign of an undisputed autocracy A mere handful of people. Applause No. law and order are not empty words. This | declaration would make 1t appear so. We are to have law and order and be tranqul by permitting the robbery of the wages 10 continue without remonstrance. [Ap- | plause] Law and order and public tran tuiility are secured when the people have | Justice and know that they have justice. lApplause.l
 My friends. I had not expected that at any time in my life there would come the 1 necessity of voting the democratic ticket | tLaughter. had believed, and had hoped that the republican party would keep so | near the people of the United States that it would do their will, and desire to do l their will But when 1t turns its back upon all the doctrines that 1t has taught | when It turned its back on protection | when it turned its back on high prices | Voice: That is so.' and great applausel; when 1t turned its back on all the doctrines that it had taught. and when it consented | to a method of politics that no man Is safe while 1t prevails-I mean the method | hv uh tch tha lat .st Louis Gappla usel-I had to discard with grief of heart my old affilia tions. ICheers l 1 Considering now, however, the methods by which this campaign Is being conducted l thank God that there Is a chance to vote 1 the democratic ticket, and for an honest noble man. Prolonged cheers.l I thank God that there is one party in the United | States, no matter what it's method, that | has the courage to declare the truth be- fore high heaven lCries: Hear. hearrl | and l thank God that there was one man too poor to buy delegate to convention that could get nomination. lGreat ap- plause.l
 My friends, l would be pleased to dis cuss at length these many questions, but l there are others present here who should be heard. I will put 1t into little parable If you will allow me to. Voice: Don't make it too small and laughter.]
 Makes Use of a Parable.
 "Once upon a time. in the dim ages past 1 and in a distant land, there was a king who ruled by right divine over all the people and over all the country between the two oceans and the two poles. And | by virtue of his autocratic power he made | it law that every man who would live | should toll. and that every man who would enjoy should labor. that every man who would have wife and children must sup port them; that everyone should be privi- legged to choose his own vocation, one to work in the field, a second at the forge, | another at the mill, but that the product | of the people of all the land should be in Interchangeable, one kind of product for an- other kind of product. but before any ex- change could take place between one kind of commodity and another kind of com modity all these things must pass through a certain gateway, which was set up in the 1 country, and the space was wide between the pillars, and the arch over the pillars was high, and the people passed their com modities through and freely exchanged one with another within that land.
 And certain guardians were set at the | gatwey, and they were wise men and keen men, and, after little time, seeing that all the product of all the people was most freely measured, they said: Let us In the night time narrow the gateway a