The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-30
THINKS THERE IS NOTHING IN THE
GREAT UPRISING.
He Ridicules the Idea That in the Short
Space of Two Months Any Reliable
Remedy for the Country's Ills Could
be Devised-Says the Republican Party
Can be Depended On to Do What is
Right.

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county seat was the scene of the opening
of the Republican national campaign of
1876 People from all the county round
about came to town to listen to speech
by the Hon. Thomas b. Reed, and to con-
graduate him upon the prospect of his
denomination To Congress by the First
district Republican convention There
were present many people from nearby
sections of New Hampshire and Massn-
chusetts, Civ ne the occasion something of
the character of i'm interstate dcmonstra-
tion.
After the county convention has closed
It's labors, there was mass meeting on
the public square, ut which Mr.. Reed
addressed the large gathering as follows:
IF | were going to give good advice To
the people of the whole United States I
should take this time to do il. lust
now there are II great deal of froth and
foam IN the air, ana some time is really
needful to disclose clearly to every eve
how much OF ii is the result of tempo
rary breeze, which stills at nightfnll. and
how little there is of that ground swell
which shows that great elementary
forces are ut work. How very suddenly
this rush and stir has set itself into nc.
ton. Two months ago no man of any
standing would have risked his reputa-
ton as a prophet by limiting the slightest,
doubt OF Republican success. Four
years OF actual trial of the opposition.
under the guidance of it's best and twice
trusted leader, has left no shadow of
question as to public duty. Two months
have slipped away-har lly time to ripen
strawberry, much less n system of
1lnance-and there are those who tell us
that all things have changed, that these
very men who were being arrayed for de.
cent burial had burst the cerements of
the grave, and TRANSPORTED by some new
arrangement of crowns of thorns and
crosses OF gold, were to lead us to n new
happiness, and even repair all the dam
age they themselves had wrought.
1.-Two months ago, have already said
everybody conceded the election of the
republican ticket What has happened
since them Have the four years of his.
tory been blotted out? Not one scrar of
them Is our condition better? Rather
worse. We are all in bad way and
something must he done. Let us see
what Is proposed by those gentlemen.
who, within the last two months have
discovered Il new cure for the Ills thot
flesh is heir to.
Their remedy is the coinage of silver
at it, TO |. What does that mean Here
toiore when gold and silver had stood
together 1t has been ut the market value.
When we tried TO make gold and silver
circulate together we have always mar
ried them according to their market
value To-day we find them. nor
IL to |, but 81 to /, ard they are
going. they say, to lift silver to
twice its value, not by the universal
sense of mankind, which alone makes
values, but by the statute of the United
states, single-handed against the civil
lied world.
I'VE have money now. more than we
can use. lying idle. We have lust ey-
ported Il lot of it. Money is the trans
ferrer OF capital as IL hayrack and horses
are transformers of hay. More hay racks
Will never make more hay, but more hay
VIII require more hay racks. and is sure
TO get them.
w hen are we the most prosperous
1t Is when orr 5000, 000apeople are all AT
work, ana when that happens we borrow
OF the rest of the world thousands of mil
lions of dollars. Now just as soon as this
election is over, and.the future position
OF the United States is assured, both as
to money and to the employment of our
people capital is ready to come to us
from abrqait and from .our own people,
ana. we shall again be prosperous"