The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-30

! WTW
SECRETARY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS
/ LATTA.
we'll gone, and | shall not speak to you
long. and will he entirely grateful to
you if you be good and kind and listen
to me without making too much noise.
| nave been away out where the fight
was the thickest, and where they
! measure the audiences not by opera
houses but by acres. ! have been in
! Indiana, and Indiana is all right.
! tCheers). | have been in Illinois. and
/ | want to tell you that Altgeld will be
showed under by over 100000 majority.
| Uireat applause and cheers). l have
( no more doubt to night than | have of
my own existance, that on next We'd
/ nesday morning that we will all be re-
/ joicing together in the confirmation and
| glorious celebration of the accomplish
( ment of the victory which will give
/ heart and courage To the American peo-
! pie i'm the election of Major William
! Mckinley. tGreat cheers and ap-
/ plause).
+ Still I am here tonight, almost on
( the verge of the election, and | am to
I speak TO YOU about and discuss the
issues of the campaign.
ISSUES OF CAMPAIGN.
The issues in this campaign were
raised and thoroughly discussed at our
/ convention. which met in ST. Louis,
and 1t was there we registered our de-
Vodon to the principles and trad ii 1rs
of our party, and we named the choice
of the American people for President
in the person of him who was only a
private soldier in the ranks, thirty
years ago when the flag of freedom
trembled in the sky.
THE convention which met at Chi
! cago. named a man who had never been
heard of before except as a mountebanli
and reciter. and there was an atmOs-
phere of socialism, anarchy and uproar
in that convention which boded no
good to the City of Chicago, or 20 the
people of this country.
/ They raised two or three questions
and the first they raised was the ques-
ton of money, and l am going to talk
to you for about five minutes on that
subject. General Latta, who is sitting
here by my side. says, that when he
was boy, very many years ago, as
] you can observe by his distinguished
appearance, that he wrote copy In
Il copy book, money is the root of all
evil At all events, money is what we
I are all after. We are all trying to get
| il. and IN this treat City Of Scranton
we are all trying to get it honestly
and all over the country they are all
trying to get it. honestly If they can
but still they're trying to get it
/ LaugEter)
"rhe first question that comes in my
mind this evening is What Is money!
Now. we have n great many statesmen
in this country. and you have heard a
great many of them. But what is
money? Mr.. Bryan has made III
speeches, and he has not told us what
money is.
ITO a great and intelligent audience
like this. ! presume ii is not necessary
to say that all the measures of value;
that all the wealth that we have in
this great city and county. and in oui
own beloved commonwealth. and in oui
country, and in all the other parts OF
America. and in all the world; it is not
necessary for me to say TO you that
the product of all our wealth. has been
and still is, and always will be the
product Of our labor. Labor is oul
wealth. and ! want to prove that prop.
osition to you. Long before the foot
of the white man came into this great
territory which has developed so mucf
wealth: so much of culture. and $,
much intelligence. you had all the ele
ments of that which you now
have, and more. Your noun
tains were filled with the coa
that you have here. and all tha
has drawn the great population that
YOU have. The surface of the eartf
III Al.
fertility of the soil untouched by tn,
hand of man was there waiting for tn,
magic capacity of labor to bring tn,
coal from the mines and to fell tn,
forests and to make them more use
full; to till the soil. and make it produc,
that which the necessity of man re-
quires.
DUE TO AMERICAN LABOR.
There is not a citizen of this grea
county or commonwealth. no mattel
how rich or how poor you are, who is no
indebted to your existence up to tn,
present time to the product of Ameri
can labor. 6Applause). Look at thi.
wonderful. this beautiful opera house
What built it? Not money. None,
never built this opera house. 1t wa.
labor. OCheers). Look at these won
derful structures. Look at the grea
f1Dlel dt W UliH ! am stopping
Ii was labor that built IL. Look at al
the fountains of wealth that have beei
made and are about you. All are tn,
product of labor. Now mankind ha
been destined by our great Creator (,
earn his bread by the sweat of hi
brow. When a being comes into thi
world up to the time he has an earnn,
capacity. he is living upon the labor o
some person else. some other man, o.
some other people. and when he comes
TO that period when he has some earn
ing capacty he becomes q consumer
and when he earns more than he con
sumes. he becomes a purchaser, ant
then lie is living upon the product O
his own labor or uDon the product o
some body else's labor.
You may take a yard stick and
yard stick is a measure of length I
does not measure value. A yard sticI
I NAV be made out of white oak whicl
! costs hut five cents. or il may he mad
of ivory and pearls. but it will measure
just the same. 1t is not n measure o
value. Vt is a measure Of quantity bu
the money that mankind uses i'm realit,
measures both quantity and value. bu
il is the quality of the value itself. GAP
plause.) So the intelligence of man
kind has fixed upon that which is tn
most durable and is the least change
able. and has from the foundation O
civilization up to the present time beel
| used as the measure Of value or ex