The Republican journal., 1896-08-27
Senator Frye in Belfast.
He Receives an ovation and Makes a Spiend,d
speech. The Opera House Filled to Overflow.
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Senator VIM. P. Frye is assured of haartv
reception wherever he may go in his native
state, and his coming to Belfast is ALWAYS
looked forward to with pleasure. This is a
tribute to him both as man and as nuhlic
speaker, and the size of his audience is only
limited by the capacity of the hall. Last
tuesday evening the Belfast Opera House
was hlled to overtiowing soon after the
doors We're opened, the audience includ-
ing large number of ladies' Mr.. Frye
was greeted with applause as he en-
tered the hall which continued until he
had taken his seat upon the platform. DIR.
j. M. Fletcher, chairman of the city COM
mittee, called the meeting to order and asked
A. e. Sibley, Esq, to preside Mr.. Sibley
accepted the duty in a neat speech in which
he sad that this was intended as business
meeting, and for that reason the sweet
music of the Belfast Band had been dispens
ed With He touched upon the opposing
platforms and the duty devolving upon the
voters and then presented Mr.. Frye to the
audience. This was the signal for loud and
continued applause.
Mr.. Frye began his remarks by A reference
to the evils which threaten the country in
the present contest, and which in his candid
opinion are greater than those involved in
the civil war. In 1892 we We're happy, we
We're prosperous, we We're blessed. Every
man who wanted work got work. Every
furnace fire was burning, every forge in the
land was sounding, every spindle was sing
ing, every woolen mill was running full
time. Every man who wanted to sell found
somebody ready to buy.
The farmers were prosperous. Wage earn
ers were never better paid since the world
began, and that with dollar of greater pur-
chasing power than ever before known. Such
was the state of affairs in 1892.
The Democrats came into power and
changed the tariff law. That same year 500
State and National banks closed their doors.
Millions and millions of foreign held securi-
ties were forced into our markets Money
went to a premium of % per cent, and it
was almost impossible to get money on the
best security.
One-third of our railroads went into the
hands of receivers. One-haf Of our wooden
mills became as dead as Julius Cesar. This
condition of affairs has continued. What is
the trouble? What has come over the coun-
try? Mr.. Bryan says the decentralization of
silver in 1873 is the cause of it. And in 1892
we had the banner year for prosperity in our
history. Theu this demonetzation of silver
in 1878 actually eaped in the air, doubled
over and dropped down on us IN 1892! What
a statement from man in public life! o,
Mr., Bryan, don't you forget more than you
ever lnew? Don't you forget that marvel
ous decade from 1880 to 1890, decade the
most marvellous III the history o. any nation
on the earth, which led Mulhall cold blood
ed, dlspaSslonate English StatlStlclan that he
is, to call attention to 1t as the most marvel
Gus decade in the history of any nation?
MI Bryan must have forgotten that in
1892 these United States had one-tiftb of all
the wealth of the world, and that over half
of it was made from 1873, when this crime of
characterization took place, to 1892. Mr..
Bryan must have forgotten that Great Rrit-
ain, Germany and France laid up from 1879
to 1892 >30,o0o 900 800, While the United
States laid up e3S 900 100000, or $4,000, ,000-
600 more than the three OF them. MIR. Bryan
must have forgotten that in 1873 our agricnl-
tural product was SON, ,oO0,000, while in
1882 it was 5000 ooo0o0
MI Bryan must have forgotten that from
1850 to lS92 we PAID OIL Sl,2de 100000 from
the national debt ana saved III interest >O9s-
0O,W0. Mr.. Bryan must have forgotten THAT
IN $500 our manufacturing product was only
half that OF Great Britain, while III 1872 1t
was twice greater.
He must have forgotten that Mr.. Glad
stone once sad IN pamphlet he published.
Our daughter beyond the seas may by and
by distance her mother, ana that he might
have written u " that she had dlstanced
the mother ana THAT the mother was lost IN
The dust raised from the wheels NJ the
daughter chariot oi magnificent progress
DR.. Bryan has diagnosed the disease from