The herald., 1896-09-01
is STILL A PROTECTIONIST
Tariff and a Gold Standard Cannot Go
Together
If All Forms Of Honey Will Be Given the Same
Functions All VIII Remain
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| COLORADO SPRINGS, Col, Aug. 81.
Senator Henry NJ. Teller delivered to-
night in this city the only speech which
he will make in the state of Colorado in
| this campaign. Long before the hour of
| opening the doors an immense throng,
| numbering thousands, crowded the
streets leading to the hall in which the
address was to be delivered. When Sem
| ator Teller rose to speak over 1900 peo-
| pie occupied every available space in
the Coliseum and throng crowded the
outside of the hall and cheered from
time to time.
Senator Teller was given a regular
ovation when he arrived in Colorado
Springs this afternoon and later at the
Antlers hotel. This city is called the
hotbed of Mckinley sentiment Of the
west, and the meeting tonight was all
the more remarkable for that fact.
Mr.. Teller said in part:
They say if you go to free coinage you
go to 53-cent dollar. 1 want to see
53-cent dollar The Mexican dollar is
not a 50-cent dollar. 1t is a 100-cent dol
lar. When the Mexican dollar reaches
the United States it is worth but so
/
you give all the forms of money, the
greenback, the silver, the gold dollar,
the same functions, they will all remain
side by side. and one will not depreci-
ate until all do. do not want to go to
silver basis alone, but if we have to go
to one metal, then let it be silver.
(Cheers.)
They say you will get relief through
the Republican party. At the conven-
ton in st. Louis that party voted down
all the measures that were proposed for
relief. l left the convention. Do you
suppose that ! would have left that or
ganization if L could have obtained re-
lief through that party? (Cries of mo,
no")
1t is said that Mckinley is not gold
man. 1 have known Mr.. Mckinley for
twenty years and believe he will be as
strict in the enforcement of the plat
form adopted in st. Louis as Cleveland
has been on his plank. I am a tariff
man; l am a protectionist; but tariff
and gold standard cannot go together.
(Cheers.)
During twenty years of public life I
have been pleading that it is the duty of
the government to see that labor re-
ceives fair compensation for it's toll
What does the Republican party now
do? Proposes on one hand to put prices
up with protection and pull it down with
the gold standard. / want the prices
which ruled twenty years ago. 1 want
the American farmer to work at profit.
You need not be afraid of the 50-cent
dollars after living under the 200-cent
dollar. Can We afford to try this expert
ment? The Republican party says that
we can try it when all the leading ma
tions of the world say we can. Is not
this question the paramount one? Can
we not lay aside all party lines and vote
for Bryan? (Cries of Yes, yes.D
I have never met man in public or
private life his superior, Mr.. Blaine not
excepted. Some say he has spoken dis
respectfully of the supreme court. 1t is
merely statement of a Democratic
principle. I remember how Abraham
Lincoln criticised the supreme court on
the Dred Scott decision. (Cheers) 1
have heard the supreme court severely
arraigned in congress The end of this
government is near when we cannot
criticise that which we think wrong,
even the supreme court.
The speaker next discussed some fea-
lures Of the income tax and its constitu-
tionality. At its conclusion he again
touched on the Republican party and
the silver question in general terms.