The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-10-14

before. The farmer had better go in,
like the rest of us, for the prosperity Of
the country, which means prosperity for
us all. l am talking about people that
means all of us. These fellows are talk
ing about people that owe money and
don't want to pay. l don't belong to
them, and l don't want to belong to
them. (Applause.)
Honesty the Best Policy.
Now my friends, honesty is the best
policy, and the best policy because it is
honest. Why is honesty the best policy?
1t is because men have discovered by
experience that certain thing will pay,
and they have called it for short, honesty.
1 suppose the first idea men got of the
rights of property was when in some
cave or den of the world, before they
had clothes, and were seeking shelter in
holes in the ground, some fellow had
piece of raw meat, and another attempt
ed to take it away from him, whereupon
the first man struck the other on the top
of the head. Then he got some idea of
the rights of property. (Laughter.) And
if the blow was hard enough he got a
perfectly satisfactory idea, and he never
bothered with that subject afterwards
unless it was with smaller man. And
il has taken a series of knocks and blows
for six thousands years to put this idea
into us.
But" you say, there is the farmer
who borrowed the money when wheat
was worth dollar, and now it is worth
only fifty cents-he will have to pay
twice as much. Suppose he borrows
now and wheat goes up to a hundred
cents, is he going to pay double his
debts When this country is prosper
Gus, dollars are easy to get. When it is
depressed they are hard to get. So then
you see the man who borrowed dollars
when they were easy to get. would in
sist upon paying half price when they
were hard to get it. Yet he took his
chances the same as every other man.
We have to take things as they come, in
world where he lives side by side.
said to you that this fall in the value
of money will first affect the laboring
man, and in the second place will affect
all society and individuals, and will stop
business. But / have proceeded upon
the basis that we have gradual dissent.
1t might be we shall have a sudden
dump. Why, one Massachusetts man
has recently declared that we will have
"fiurry." Now that thing is what we
call panic. Have we not had enough
of that already Why, yes, we have.
Well, now, what is the remedy? My
friends, anybody who sells quack
medicine, always tells you that one to
six bottles will cure. Gaughter.) No
sensible physician ever told you that. |
don't make any promise to you. All
that can say to say is not drawn out of
my head 1t is drawn out of my knowl-
edge and experience. l say that what
men have done men will do, and how
long long it will take them, do not ven
ture to say. These depressions are not
new in the history of the world We
have them every ten or a dozen years
They arise out of the complex human
nature we have. Isuppose if you and ]
were to make a world, we would build it
like railroad foot to the mile,
straight up grade. We would go it at
that grade and think we had done well.
But human nature is not so. People
want to go 'up hill and down dale
Now, we were "up hill" in '92 and we
thought we would go "down dale" to
please ourselves.
Many Patriotic Democrats.
think we have gone far enough in
that direction, and we'd better climb a
little now, and l know that great
many Democratic brethren think so too.
/ want to say for them, and am going
to say it after election, just as say it
before, that they are doing high-mind-
ed and patriotic act, more high-minded
anu lllOlO pau bAoh Will OfCA OC
appreciated by the world. (Applause.)
Nobody but man who takes his politi-
cal happiness in his hands, and goes
against his party, knows how difficult it
is. 1t is easy enough for another man
to tell him to do it, but it is very hard to
do it. But then there will be enough of
them to keep each other company, and
after they get there they will find the
society so satisfactory they will never
leave. Naughter.) We Republicans are
not perfect, we are in no danger of being
translated, but we are just a shade bet
ter on the whole-just shade better for
the business of the country, and certainly
shade better just now.
Now have gone over the ground in a
very desultory fashion, and what | have
said to you thus far has been entirely ex-
temporaneous. But l want to say one
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