The Princeton union., 1896-08-06

i That Is what Mr.. Blaine says Then he
5 goes on and tells you that to coin silver
I4a e. Lne n ratio OF 16 to when silver was
worth 81 cents on the dollar would be to
/ TOD the iabor1ng man, and to rob the la
/ boring man would be to cheat the creditor
OF the government and would be to place
i people tell you that they are bimetalIists.
ask you to read that speech. It is more
than could tell you II I should speak
! the way they read that speech-that IL
4 the way that speech has been read to you.
] Another thing-the statute law Of parties
i Is the party platform. The same iugglery
has been had with that The first sent
ence they read to you. s
On that platform the Republican party
declared, as It declares today-pledges It.
SET sef tq real s, h1metallism-to net the only prac
sentence that what they mean is that ey-
cry dollar Of our money, either gold or
paper, shall be the equal of every other
i dollar, and that the whcle credit of this
4 government shall be used to maintain q
parity between all the dollars Of our re-
public pub fba That is what the platform says.
! platform ought to know that the.
standard then was a gold dollar I
a;a ask atf,,ll the a. same question about that
! Suppose that as an attorney, should go
into court and read to the judge on the
bench q part of statute which, when
what the words read would seem to mean.
What would be said Of me then? AS bad
as reading part of a decision. Now, my
| Republican friends, those of you who have
been switched off, some of you, believe,
| honestly, who have been switched OF
into this free silver cant by such argu-
ments as those, ask you, in all fairness,
if you have been deceived in one thing,
may you not be deceived in other things7
He who has deceived you in one thing
you in all things I tell you, fellow CIT
izens-I say to those Republicans who
stood with me in 1S94-I say to them-your
place is IS IN NTH the kepubiiean party You
be in any other place, and I ask you to
come back to that old Republican party
under whose banner you have always
fore. I say if men will follow those who
have deceived them once, that they de-
serve to be. deceived always. That Is what
publican friends, my good Republican free
silver friends, so called, when I was boy
lived down in the Southern confederaey.
was born there. My people were all
there. We lived down there, and at that
time when that magnificent struggle was
going on to preserve this old flag, there
couraged; and they thought that perhaps
they had made a mistake, and in the
darkness of the night they would creep
over to our side, and when they got over
pat them on the back and say: Good
boy, good boy. You have come over to
fight fight for liberty: you have come over to
the confederate uniform on them. Now,
I have been told this by a young officer
from the military school, who was an
boy, you have come over to fight for the
cause of liberty and they would put the
best uniform they could find on them-the
very best-and they fixed them up in
companies and in regiments, because
there were a good many of them at this
one time when these desperate battles
many of them that were afraid that the
them oVer ana gapnh hly rghtt ght They RE9nghad a
them, and they regimented them. and
they put them with the other boys, but
after a while they were afraid OF them.
they had deserted from one side, and
were afraid of them, and they sent them
back, set them to building bridges and
managing the wagon trains and doing ev-
erything else but fighting in the front. and
they called them the Galvanized Brigade
Now, my Republican friends, when your
zeal for the cause of Republicanism is
that that cause Under which we all fought
two years ago-when you are afraid per-
haps you have made mistake about the
good old principles of protection, reci-
this republic, and you are a little afraid
that the Republican party is not going to
be able to succeed with those principles.
and you are beginning to hesitate and to
doubt, and some of you have, perhaps.
gone over, and some of you are, perhaps,
thinking Of going over, some of you have
already, perhaps, put on the uniform OF
the Populists, and some of you, perhaps.
think that the Populists are going to win
to you fellow citizens, I say, while as yet
publican party. Do not belong to the
Galvanized Brigade. (ApplaHse.l they
may put you in the front now, but IL
be guarding the wagon trains and making
reads. It will not be very long before you
will be equally despised by the old boys
with whom you have fought In the past,
and by your new found friends.
Now, fellow citizens, I have already spo-
ken too long. (Cries of .Go on This is q
battle for principle. It is a battle in which
| is represented our honor It is battle in
which is represented our very homes.
For my part, I owe a little money. i
| borrowed that money, not in 1873, and
will guarantee that there isn't a man In
this audience that owes debt that he
owed in 1873. I borrowed that money when
every dollar of our currency, paper, silver
I-I scorn-to pay single dollar OF that
money back without 1t being as good a
dollar as borrowed: scorn to pay any
has given me a good dollar. and say
! that that is a principle of every honest
| laboring man of this country, of the hon
est bushes man OF this country; o, try And a., now,
go through this city, and the business
men, the men who borrow money VINO
4 owe money, the men VINO nave 10 DOtTOW
money, the men who owe it by the hum
dreds, who are supporting our Institutions
they all scorn the idea that they shall pay
their debts in deprecated dollar The
business men of this community are aroused
as they never have been aroused before.
They are not the capitalists Of Wall street.
i They are not the Jew bankers of Lombard
I street, but they are the men who support
i your lumber mills, who support your
1 wholesale houses, and I guarantee that
every one Of them is today for sound
i money-every one of them. They are the
men who support your wholesale grocery
i houses, your wholesale shoe houses, your
lumber mills, all your enterprises that
l give work and wages. Those men say to
1 you today-and they are not bankers,
they are not brokers, they are not Jews
i of Wall or Lombard street-they are the
4 best men OF this conmunIty-they stand
here today and say: DO nothing that win
Il dishonor us In the eyes OF the whole
lcommercial world. =
q Now, my labor friends, my friends, if
i there are any here who belong to the La
Il Dor party-We are all 1aboring men-l
II guarantee that / work as hard as any OF
81 you every day-not with my hands, but my
work Is hard and tryfng-it IS hard for me
to make this speech had to gather up
this material IN a short timeI say to my
friends, my labor friends, that before this
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