Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-08-20

after the contentious. Of history have ceased
to rage about his acts and his memory,
that will remain star-bright forever, it was
his action, when the pulse Of business beat
low, when commercial intercourse was cut
of by rioters in Chicago, by which upon
principles and precedents laid down by
George Washington one hundred years be-
fore, he raised the strong arm of the
United States to restore law and order In
this country. Applause and cheers.)
This act is covertly (and coyertly Is too
mild world denounced in the Chicago
platform. More than that. IT there is an
institution i'll this country or in any nation
upon which the stability Of government de-
ponds, the very Keystone Of the great arch
upon which the ranged empire stands, it is
the organ and function of final decision that
must exist somewhere in all governments
1t is the courts Of our land where men Sc
questered from political concerns and po-
lltlca1 ambitions, holding the scales of ius-
tice even between contending passions and
contending rights. decide for their fellow
citizens what the Jaw is. And for more
than one hundred years the supreme court
of the United States has sat in that ex-
allied position, midway in the capitol of the
nation between the senate and the house
of representatives. typical Of the embodied
law, and of its sublime capacity to re-
strain either, and it has done more to con-
which it occupies, was going to say, than
all the statesmen whom this country has
ever produced. (Applause.) The Chicago
platform strikes at that court, strikes at
all courts, and enunciates its Inalign
prophecy of the reorganization of that court
and alt other courts, if necessary. to COM
pell them to register the fitful and passion
ate and regulating edicts of mistaken and
misguided parties.
If there was another thing which the veter-
ans Of the last war thought they had
achieved and which the loyal sentiment Of
the North thought it had achieved, it was
the Obliteration of all sectionalism in this
country. We were to have no South, no
North, no East, no West any more. The
whole country was to be unity. But in
these later days, we see the solid South
coming up to the banks of the Ohio and
the Missouri as before the war, with sec
tional demands upon an economic issue, pre-
cisely as before the rebellion. And now,
with the pitchfork of Tillman stirring up
the doctrine of state rights with the bomb
of Altgeld in the denunciation Of our courts
and of President Cleveland thrown under
the very fabric of our government, they
have chosen to put forward an issue some
thing which touches most Immediately the
conviction, the passions, the cupidity and
the honesty of men, and which in itself
our prosperity than all the causes combined
that l have mentioned. The Democratic
party, as now organized, has joined the
Populist party in bonds of unholy wedlock,
upon the demand that the United States
shall take position upon the currency Of
this country which I. speaking to you I'M
der the responsibility of man who is
speaking to his neighbors, say that l be-
lieve is fraught with more disaster to this
country that the greatest foreign war could
possibly bring aabout. (Applause.)
And that is the subject that 1 have been
asked to talk to you tonight about. am
going to do SO, as l said in the beginning,
not with any attempt at decorative speech,
not denouncing any men who may choose
to differ from me, for l tell you, my fellow
citizens, that many and many a thousand
men who differ from US to-day on this mat
ter, one year from now will be wondering
why and how they came to do it. Gap
pause. shall give you facts and figures.
shall not draw on my own maginati0n
for my facts at ALL The facts that shall
give you will be impregnable. 1t is for you
to judge whether the deductions l shall
draw from them can be refuted.
Now, what is the question? For correct
understanding of the question is always the
first step toward the solution of any con-
troversy. The question is not whether there
should be free and unlimited coinage of sill
yer in the minis of all the nations, by the
consent of the principal commercial nations
of the globe upon ratio to be agreed upon.
That is not the issue. We all might agree
that when that is brought about, as it Will
be, if the United States conducts itself with
judgment upon this question it would be an
excellent thing. The Republican party has
pledged itself in Successive platforms to la
Dor to bring about that international igree-
ment. Many of the most advanced thinkers
upon financial questions in both hemis-
pheres are advocating. especially in for
eign lands, the resumption of the coinage
of silver by united action of nations who,
long ago, independently of us, and uncon-
trollable by US. suspended or limited the
further coinage of silver But l want to
say one thing to you. TINT not one of these
professors in foreign universities, not one
of these great economists whose name and
fame are worldwide, not one of those
fnanciers who have given days and years of
thought to this subject, not one and nobody
except the leaders Of the modern Democ-
racy and Populism has ventured to advise
his own country to undertake that task
alone. Applause.)
The question is this, and nothing more:
Shall the United States alone undertake
ratio Of 16 to 1? "a few cries of eyes,
and NO." and repeated cries of ''No.')
Now you gentlemen over there who called
yes and you gentlemen here who called
''nO," illustrate the difference of opinion
upon this subject Qaughter), and toyou over
there who come to listen to me, you will
listen dispassioaately, you will digest my
arguments, and hope that by the time you
have done so thoroughly you will be In
clined to shout No with the gentlemen
who responded when you shouted. Cheer
ing and applause.)
Now, let US be entirely good natured
about this. am going to try to give you the
facts, and repeat it, the issue is whether
the United States shall attempt to do
that thing alone. in the face of the controll-
ing fact that every civilized commercial
nation upon the face of the earth, except
the Central American and South American
states years ago abandoned it utterly. And
if l shall seucceed in convincing any Of our