Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-09-14
HEARD TILLMAN SPEAK.
THOUSANDS LISTENED TO HIS :AD-
DRESS THURSDAY EVENING.

DRESS thursday EVENING.
The South Carolina Senator Greeted by
an Enthusiastic Audie nee at Hazleton
Thursday Evening-Free Silver Had a
Big Night and the People Enjoyed It.
Carloads of North Side voters made
another journey to Hazleton on Thurs
day evening for the purpose of hearing
Senator Tllman, of South Carolina, de-
liver an address. This time they were
not disappointed. With thousands of
their fellow-citizcnS from other parts of
the region they congregated in front of
the Central hotel and gave him rous-
who is despiSed and hated by the money
powers of the world, because they are
unable to muzzle him, had preceded him
into the coal region, and when he APP
peared before the vast audience he was
greeted as the common people only can
greet Il man whom they instinctiyely
feel is a true friend to the principles
which will bring them relief.
Senator Tillman's remarks before be-
ginning his speech proper consumed
some time. He apologzed for his bro
ken voice, caused by so much outdoor
speaking the past month, but for the
statements which followed he had no
apologies to offer. Instead, he deled
contradiction of what he said, and it is
almost unnecessary to state that he was
not contradcted.
The speaker began at what he termed
the "a b c" of the money question,
showing what money is, its uses and
how it obtains its value. His explana-
tions of its various qualities were clear
and Ineligible, there was no mist sur
rounding his meaning, and when he
concluded on that point many of his
hearers felt that what they had then
learned was well worth the trip. His
reason, he stated, for making an eXhaus-
tive explanation on that particular por-
ton of the issue, was to enlighten his
hearers, claiming that what they have
read in the city papers in reference to
the subject has been false and untruth-
full in almost every respect.
He then went on to tell how the
| founders Of the government, the repre-
sentatiyes Of the two parties, when the
| question of money was brought before
them, agreed that gold and silver should
be the final redemption money of this
country, how the nation proSpered un-
der the bimetallic system, and how
bill was steaIthily passed through con
gress demOnetizing the white metal and
making gold alone redemption money.
The results of this act were vividly pic
tured by the senator, and his illustra-
tion of how money has been growing
dearcr every year since silver was
| stricken down was one of the clearest
that any writer or orator has attempted
to give the public in this part of the
country.
Likening the gold and silver of the
world to two plates of butter, one yellow
and one white, and asking the audience
to suppose itself as constituting all the
people of the earth, he described how
there had been sufficient butter for
every mans biscuit, and each could use
white or yellow, as he preferred, one
being as palatable as the other. One
| day a servant of the proprietor of this
great eating establishment is approach
ed by the makers and owners of the
yellow butter, and is bribed by them to
accomplish tho removal of the white
from the table. He, by underhand and
uneXplainable methods, performs this,
and in a short time the scarcity of
butter is noticed. Many of the eaters
find they must do without butter, or
sacrifice much greater part Of their
labor or products to get it, The point
was Illustrated so clearly, forcibly and
logically that every man present appear
ed to realized instantly how the demone-
tization of silver has affected the coun-
try
Senator Tillman asked who it was
that took away the white butter, Az
answer from the audience gave the name
of John sherman. Mr.. Tillman repeat
ed the answer, and then deliberately ac-
cused his colleague from Ohio of being
the mau who accomplished the crime of
1873. Speaking further upon the sub
iect, he told of how sherman was the
staunchest advocate of paying the
governments bonds and other obliga-
tions of in grcenbacks, the money with
which they were purchased, until 1868.
when he visited Europe. Upon his re-
turn he set to work diligently, and
though ballled a few times in his at
tempts to sell his country, he finally sue
ceeded in placing the United States on a
gold standard, and from poor man,
with no other known revenue beyond
his $1,000 per annum, he has risen to a
millionaire in less than thirty years.
From sherman he passed on to Presi-
dent Cleveland whom he openly accused
of debauching one-half the Legislators
with his patronage in his endeavors to
carry out the principles which the Re-