The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-24

pie just now? They offer as preliml- nary the assertion that the times at present are bad, Well, times in 1892 were good. The people then made change in the administration of the government and here we are. (Ap- plause).
 The silver men put forth strongly that free silver is necessary to the salvation of this republic, this repub- lie, which has a gold basis as mat ter of law since 1S73 and as a matter of fact since 1884,
 There is much talk that there is not gold enough to pay the expenses of the nations of the earth. Mind you, of the earth, not of this country alone. The fact is that per capita we have be- tween $3 and $4 more in circulation than we had in 1873 The great nations with whom the United States trade chiefly are all on gold basis. On the other side are Mexico, China and Ja- pan. These are the two groups. With which shall United States ally them selves? With the great nations, the gold nations, or with the silver lands?
 "As for me prefer to have our repuo- lie ally itself with the great commercial nation.
 "Now how is a man to get money? In the old ways-by begging it, by DOT rowing, stealing, finding or earning 1t. How are the wage earners in industrlal New England to be affected by change from gold to silver?
 "The free silver men promise change of prices Change? How? How will it benefit the New Englander by advancing the price of everything he buys? His wages will not keep pace with the advance of prices.
 Look back to the paper currency of our civil war. That currency-b became | inflated, but wages did not keep the pace. The imitation was S9 per cent. and wages advanced only 43 per cent.
 Wages under gold have increased and he gets dollar of the greatest purchasing power. Look at any silver country and consider the wages there. Look at Japan, prosperous Japan, as the gentlemen on the other political side tell us, the men there get tweleve cents for ten hours work. The women get five cents.
 Look at Mexico and you will find { these similar facts. The truth is plain the world over that the silver standard and the lowest wages go together. l q am convinced that silver is not the vanguard to civilization. Are we l to lapse back to the condition of China and Japan and Mexico, or shall we keep in the front line of enlightened I progressive civilization? I prefer the latter.
 1 There are some friends of the boy :, orator here. Will they tell us why this | cry of Is to 1? It is not the ratio of Hamilton. The minting ratio was 15 to l. the commercial ratio is 31 to 1. Why not coin copper. It is more plentiful or steel? or iron? Where is the limit? ] q visited Maine some time ago. a state you have heard of and, may add have heard from. Applause and laugh ter)
 "In my travels I got into a conversa- tion with a conductor. He showed me several gold pieces which he had stow ed away in his inside pocket. I asked him why he carried them there, and this is what he told me: I cross the line every second day. Of course I get gold from the passengers Now, every time I get $20 in gold I turn in to the company $20 in paper or silver and keep the gold, for we never know what will happen, and gold is always worth the same
 "Who are the great creditors? Who | is the creditor class? The men that earn wages. Labor is not paid for in advance First the work, then the pay at the end of the day, week, month or three months. Such men are the cred- itors of the country.
 'Tkey would suffer more than any other class under a free coinage act In the consequent fiuctuation of money the men of Wall street would not suf- fer
 There is another side of this ques- ton that does not concern profit and loss. It is the nations honor We had to borrow over s200,0 900 in the past three years because our revenues were short during the prevalence of a reform system.
 "But we had to go into insolvency or else do it. Our president, a patriotic citizen, borrowed the amount needed, although I thought the contracts made in borrowing the money were extrava- gant.
 "The persons who lent the money paid it over in gold.
 They lent us gold; shall we pay them in silver? That woud be a stain upon the nations honor. It is nothing less than repudiation I want a presi- dent in the White house who will sus- tain the traditions of the office. I want to see the senate, which has played in the most unhappy part in the national legislation, reorganized, ready to pass any bill to replenish the treasury of the 1 United States, when it is needed, and a supreme court that will not be packed to suit every passing partisan.
 And that will be assured when in next November you seat William Mo- | Kinley in the white house."
 At the close of Senator Lodges ad- dress the audience called for Senator Hawley, who had been seated on the platform all the evening.
 The applause which greeted the sen- ator was deafaning. He was in excel lent health, and for several minutes he exposed some of the fallacious argu- ments of the silver orators. He spoke especially to the workingmen and gave them some suggestions to ponder on.
 The meeting adjourned a few minutes before 10 o'clock, and it was in the opinion of all that attended 1t the finest political rally ever held in the Hyperi-