The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-10-31

NouutItu why i'll Lne WORTH Sucn II
man was sent out. They did not
know that Jim carried the sack
and distributed the pie" He is
a very important person and Moth
er" Hepburn does not let him get
out of sight.
During Mr.. Shoup's speech a
unique incident happened. He
had been talking largely to empty
benches when the strains of March
ing Through Georgia" Aoated
through the hall. 1t hearlded the
approach of the Silver forces who
had met at McC Wininger's Hall
to come in a body to hear the dis
tingushed gold bugs speak. The
Silver crowd came singing and
cheering for their favorites, Bryan
and Dubois, until they reached the
Hall where they filed in in an or
derby manner to pay respectful at
tention to the gold bug speakers.
When Mr.. Shoup concluded, Mr..
Hepburn was introduced. The
New York battery tried t. start up
some applause but it was a fzzle
and the audience giggled.
Great things were expected of
the great Hey burn, but his speech
fell flat. Hepburn is heavy in de-
livery as well as in averdupois.
He lacks magnetism. There was
not sparkle of wit in his entire
address. He was cold as a clam,
but his audience was colder still
and gave him the marble heart.
Hepburn is a corporation attorney,
now in the employ of Mark Hanna,
and did the best he could for his
client.
We have not space to go into all
his sophistries, but one or two are
sufficient. He undertook to show
that the crime of '73 was not a
crime-in short that the demonitiza-
ton of silver in '73 did not amount
to anything. We will not argue
the point with Mr.. Hepburn, but
we will put the words of Robert G..
lngerssoll against Heybuln's and
see whether it amounted to any
thing or not. Mr. Ingersoll has
said
silver was demonetized by fraud. 1t was an
imposition upon every solvent man, a fraud
upon every honest DICTATOR in the United States.
IL assassinatos labor. 10 was done in the inter
| est OF avarice and greed and should be undOne
by honest men. The farmers should vote only
for such men able and willing to guard
and advance interests OF labor
And John G.. Carlisle, whom the
McKinleyjtes are so fond of quoting
? now, said of the crime of '73: ut
has caused more misery than all
2 the wars, pestilences and famines
that ever occurred"
= Oh, no, Mr.. Hepburn You can
/ not make an intelligent audience
| swallow such stuff as that.
2 Mr.. Hepburn then undertook co
r apologize for following the gold
a bug band wagon. He tried to make
t out that he was a bimetallist, and
0 that McKinleyism was for bimetal-
r lism. The st. Louis platform did
e declare for a sort Of pull the
s wool their-eyes bimetallism
d but the merciless logic of William
J. Bryan has caused Mckinley ano
all Mckinley orators of national re-
pute to abandon bimetallism anc
came squarely out for the golc
| standard, Bryan's question, eff bi
| metallism is good thing, why
! wait England's consent?" has driv
en- the republicans to gold. On Sept
II. 1896, Maj. Mckinley said:
"If a gold standard deprived the American
toiler of a single days work or his family OF
single comfort, or reduced his wages, mad
II life harder Tor him. l would be against it. A
1t does not, and as it promotes the general pros
perity and upholds the national credit and hor
or, am for il and shall steadily favor il as Ion
as believe il is truly beneficial and advantage
Ons to our country
Bimetal'ism indeed
Mr.. Hepburn made fatal admis
sion when he admitted that tn
only man that would profit by fire
p coinage was the man who owne
= bullion.
That is all the people on tn
Kootenai desire to know in deter
mining between Bryan and Hanna
man. If free coinage will be ber
n eft to Che holder of bullion, it wi
at be benefit to the man who pro
O duces bullion-the mine owner,
st it is help to the mine owner, hur
te dreds of men will be put to work /
90 working the mines near Bonner