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one Tears the exercise or federal power VINO
is not attempting the violation or federal
laws. We have had many strange persons
proposing themselves for the high office OF
president, but 1 believe we have never had
until now one who openly and publicly pro-
posed to put his will and
HIS OPINION ABOVE ALL LAW
and who proposed to leave the commercial
intercourse of this country to be paralyzed by
mobs. (ADplause)
Imagine, my fellow citizens, the state of
Illinois and the city of Chicago with Mr..
Bryan for president and Mr.. Altgeld- ZAP
pause and Kisses, and cries of Put him
outrD
Mr.. Lincoln-Don't put him out, we may
convert him.
Judge Flandrau-Don't put him out. but we
don't expect anybody to disgrace St. Paul
tonight. Great applause)
Mr.. Lincoln (resuming)-My fellow citizens,
was saying to you, imagine the condition
OF the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago
In which live with Mr. Bryan for president
and Mr. Altgeld for governor at the same
Time Imagine recurrence of the riots Of
1884 where would they end, and how would
they end? We have president, pledged in
ADVANCE TO execute no part of the power con-
1oeo TO MIN by the constitution Of the United
states to repress such a riot, and we in Illi-
nols would have governor who would do as
ne did before not scruple to exhibit his COM
plete sympathy with the mob and make a
mere pretense of executing the laws OF the
state II that is not anarchy 1 don't know
what TO call 1t. But, gentlemen, that is what
nois.
Now, along with all this hardly concealed
trend to anarchy, we are threatened, in ad-
cluon, with the enormous financial calamity
OF free coinage of silver at a preposterous
ratio In urging it, its advocates seem to
think that the common of this country
can be satisfied by rash assertions of beliefs
and of conclusions, in whose support no facts
are offered. and in whose support l believe
that no facts be given The question at
issue is of the most vital Importance to
all our people, and under it is obscured by
vague defamation, by appeals to an artfully
distorted sentiment, and by the false use Of
nomenclature of all kinds, all In ways which
can be exposed throughout, but which there is
no time for me to go into thoroughly this
evening. | shall only ask you to listen to me
while call your attention to a few falsihca-
lions which, as l believe, may have misled
some well meaning men, and am proud, and
l hope am right in believing, that all the
men or the United States are well meaning.
(Applause.)
If Mr.. Bryan's rectitude cannot be trusted
IN respect to the things which I shall men
ton to you, | shall not hesitate to ask you to
distrust his rectitude in everything. In speak
Ing to you shall try to avoid all guesses and
all surmises Of my own. I shall give you o. "
the simple facts on which l form my own
judgment. / shall ask you to consider them
calmly and quietly, whether. you are Demo-
Gratis or Republicans, and when you have so
considered them, it will be for you to say
whether the suggestions and deductions which
shall draw from them do not disprove the
most important assertions of Mr.. Bryan and
MI. Altgeld supported, as they are, by no
offered facts.
Inc IdCCS winch i propose TO give YOU are
the facts of history; they cannot be disputed,
there is in them only the true basis of
discussion in such contest is going on
before the people Of the United States today.
There is nothing more certain than that ma
tional conditions will produce the same ma
tional results in the future. as they have al
ways done in the past. A president of the
United States, in 1855, had a conference with
several statesmen Of the Southern confeder-
acy, who endeavored to urge upon him that
making of certain agreements with citizens
of the Confederated states while they were
still in arms against the government. He
replied to them that he thought there was
improperly in such q course. They cited and
urged to him the example of King Charles I.
OF England, who had made agreements with
his rebellious subjects while they were in
armed rebellion. The president replied that
what had made the most impression his
mind as to the history Of those times was
that King Charles l.. had lost his head.
daughter and applause.)
WHAT BRYAN is PROPOSING.
Not long before the issuing of the Declare
tca OF Independence, patriot of Virginia
addressed the representatives Of his fellow
quence and wisdom have seldom and perhaps
never been surpassed. To learn them by
heart has been part of the liberal education
of the youth of America for at least three
would only recall and follow and be guided
by the wisdom Of two sentences of that adj
important issue in this campaign. Patrick
Henry said: II have but one lamp by which
my feet are guided and. that is the eI lamp
of the future but by the past"
-. LAMP OF EXPERIENCE.
If every voter knew how often and in how
great countries the experiment had been
tried of making a legal tender silver cur
measured by the recognized standard of the
time, was less than It's nominal value, he
would have .the lamp of experience" and
mast how to he guided in the futIJra lie
would know that the experiment has always
failed. at all times, and in all countries.
always been accompanied by profound so
cial disturbances that have brought distress
to all alike. to employers and to employed,
and distress that bore most heavily upon
those to whom a little loss was a loss Of
nearly all. He would that if hope could
be held out for the success of such ex-
pertinent in this country, 1t must be upon
a theory necessarily false, that the people
of the United States are, in some unknown
and unexplained way, exempted from the OPP
Grafton of natural laws. under DEGREES of
kings or enactments of legislatures which
control and have always controlled the civil
lied world. 1t is perhaps not easy for every
tory, such knowledge for himself but If he
goes to seek counsel, as all of us must do
at time or another in cur lives, what
does he find? He finds concurring in advice
to him nearly all the men, whether Demo-
Gratis or Republicans, whose names are
widely known for prominence in any walk
=,
or clerical or professional, that those who
are not among them can almost be counted
upon the fingers of his hands, he finds on
the same side press united as it has never
been since the War Of the Rebellion when the
integrity of the country was at stake; there
is hardly lacking king on tR,n that side one
would go for counsel in the most
serious anxietes of life They do not give
him improved and unprovable assertions
They do not pelter him with phrases which
tickle his vanity-perhaps because there is
implied in them that he is sufficiently intelli-
gent to get a sensible meaning out of words
from which all sense has been exclued by the
speaker-(applause), they give him historical
overwhelming flood will drown American
as surely as it will drown an Englishman or a
Frenchman so surely the same conditions
will have the same effects upon the people
of America that have always had among civ
iized nations everywhere Applause)
Now, gentlemen. let us look 5at some of
the statements, the vague and rhetorical
statements of Mr.. Bryan, and in one or two
cases of Mr.. Altgeld. l shall hope to be not
too long in OBTAINING you. 1t is stated by
system-(hurrahs for Bryan and Altgeld).
Judge Flandrsu-Now, gentlemen, be quiet;
don't disturb the meeting.
Mr.. Lineoln-It is stated, in apparent So
berness, that our monetary system is bring
ing the country to ruin. Let look for
moment at the facts The people are un-
rency by the act of 1873. In fact, my fell
low citizens since 1873 we have increased
the currency by the addition to it of more
than one thousand millions Of dollars. 1t
is Mr. Bryan who, in fact, and perhaps in
ignorance, proposes by his course to con-
tract the currency, for inevitably the first
result of the adoption Of free silver coinage
would be the fleeing from this country OF five
hundred millions of gold currency and the i'm
mediate reduction in value of the thousand
millions of paper and silver currency that we