The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1896-10-03

the last words I ever should be permitted
TO utter to an audience Of my fellow citi-
ZenS Of Milwaukee: The moment the minis
OF the United States are known to be
opened to the coinage Of the silver Of the
world, that moment will come upon this
people panic in the magnitude and hor-
ror Of which all other panics in the world
VIII be forgotten You drive suddenly
S62OOOO 600 out of circulation, contract TO
mat extent the currency. reduce TO that ex-
tent the per capita circulation, and what
IS or INFINITELY more consequence than
that you destroy the confidence in the
honor and credit of the United States and
its people, and what will became Of US?
Every man who has money out Will want
~ every bank viii call in its loans; every
factory will be closed; every mine will
smut down; every rolling mill will stop
and every furnace fire will be put out.
Most or our business is carried on with
borrowed money. Ruin. gentlemen. ap-
palling in its magnitude would come TO
every business circle. The men who are
or value in your community are not the
men who sit on the curb stone trying to
loan their money at usuriOus rates of in
terest; they are not the men who sit at
home and clip the coupons from invested
funds. They are the men who borrow
money; they are the men of enterprise.
they are the men OF energy; they are the
men who are applying constantly new in
Ventions. They are the men who are in
creasing the size Of the factories. who are
bringing new industries into existence aud
developing old ones.
Have you any doubt, can you have any
doubt, that the business of the United
Staets would be paralyZed? Why. gentle
men, the very threat Of it, the very sug-
gestOn Of it, the very fear that it might
be possible that We should go onto a silver
basis, in 1888 brought ruin to thousands in
Milwaukee; turned out from the factories
Of the United States and the industries
thousands and thousands and thousands Of
laborers and set them adrift in the Coun-
try And what them England and the
countries of the continent would flood the
United States with the product Of their
cheap labor. They would keep our indus
tries down. They have tried it once and
succeeded. Shall we give them such
splendid opportunity TO do it again? ICries
OF NO, mol | tell you the trouble is not
more money; the trouble is lack of conf
dence
You elect William Mckinley of Ohio
lgreat applausel, a man who in the morn
ing Of his life went out to battle for your
home and mine, man as clean and pure
and patriotic as any who ever marched IN
der our flag or entered the public service
a man, gentlemen. whose highest inspira-
ton is not for his own ACKNOWLEDGMENT
but for the elevation and prosperity OF our
people and the dignity and independence of
our government. lApplause.I While Mr..
Bryan has been travelling over this coun-
try, going like a 'plutocrat in special
cars, attempting to set our people by the
ears, the laborers, the old soldiers. citizens
from every staet in the community have
been tlOcking to the modest home of Will
liam Mckinley. IApplause.l No man can
fail to love the man for the lofty spirit
which has pere.isI his every utterance.
Has he sought TO set one class of our peo-
pie against another? He wants the mills
opened: not the minis. [Appause]
Gentlemen. there is another principle
involved in this campaign about which /
wish to speak a moment. 1t is very dear
TO my heart Upon this subject we part
company, for the time being with the
larger portion OF our sound money Demo-
cratic allies That is the pledge of the
Republican platform to restore a tariff law
which shall afford adequate protection to
American WOrkmen. our platform says,
as Gov Mckinley says. it is not a question
Of schedules, it is a question of principle.
The Democratic platform declares against
contract labor 1t is opposed as We are,
TO allowing men to be employed under con-
tract for a long time and unfair terms and
brought into the United States to be
brought in competition with our own labor.
We are just as much opposed to bringing
the men in boxes. in the shape of manu-
featured products, TO compete with our
people. The Republican party plants it
self on this platform, and on this platform
it Will stand and by this sign We Will con-
quer. That we will permit no competitive
product Of the labor across the sea to
come into our market to compete with
similar products Of our own labor. with
out making them pay for the privilege a
duty which shall cover the difference in
the wages paid over there and the wages
paid over here. Mr.. Bryan is very much
afraid of England. He wants US to be
independent of England in a financial way
but to be entirely dependent upon England
in an Industrial way. He SAYS We don't
want to talk about the tariff; I won't dis |
cuss the tariff: elect me president of the
United States. and let me put the country
on a silver basis. and then | will talk to
you about the tariff No you won't. Mr. |
William Jennings Bryan; it will be too
late. We would have then free trade
president. wouldn't We? Well, we won't.