The San Francisco call., 1896-08-23

year they Will give to the Republican Natlona!
ticket an unrivaled Republican majority.
[Cries of tWe will do that right'l Nor am !
surprised, my fellow-citizens, that this is so.
We have had three years of bitter experience
under policy which the Republican party
has always opposed, and there has been moth
ing in that experience to win US to that policy,
but everything to increase our devotion
to the old policy of protection which STANDS
opposed to it. [Applause.l Twas glad to meet
my distinguished friend, Colonel Jackson,
with whom Iserved in the Congress of the
United States, aid to again hear his eloquent
voice, as / have often heard in the halls of the
National House, speaking for the great doc
trines of the Republican party, the success of
which involves the highest prosperity and
welfare of the American people (Cheers.l
Ny fellew-citizens, THE earnest thought of
the people this year is directed to the present
condition OF the country and how best to i'm
prove it. This is the thought of every mind
and the prayer Of every soul. Nobody is salts
fed with our unfortunate business condition,
AMI the great body of the people want and
mean to have a change What shall the
change be? Shall ii be the continuance of the
present Democratic party under another,lead- /
ership? [Cries of mo, no."l A leadership sd-
vocating all the policies of the Democratic
party which have been injurious TO the Amer
lean people and rejecting all which are good,
wholesome and patriotic and which have re-
ceived the approval of the people of the coun-
try? [Great cheering and cries of "No."l
The wing of the Democratic party which con-
trolled the Chicago conventio is just as much
in favor of free trade as the wing of the Dem
ocratic party in control of the National ad-
ministration. [Applause and cries of ''That
is so."]
Most of those prominent in that convention
were conspicuous leaders in the assault upon
our industries and labor made by the Fifty
third Congress. They are devoted 10 this un-
American and destructive policy, and were
chiefly instrumental in putting upon the stat
ute books tariff legislation which has destroyed
American manufacturing, checked our for
eign trade, and reduced the demand for the
labor of American workingmen. loud cries
of ''You are rightPl 1t stands opposed to reci-
procity, too, the splendid results of which
were so signally manifest during the admins
tration of President Harrison. Applause
The people of this country have condemned
the policies of this party, in these particulars,
in every election since 1892. [Cries of That's
sop and applause.l They are only waiting
now for q chance to register again, and all
along the line unitedly express their oppos-
ton to this free trade heresy in the general
election next November. [Applause and cries
of "We can hardly wait till the election,
MajorP'l
II there was, therefore, but one question
other than that OF protection against free trade
we have it just as sharply drawn and as dis
tinctively presented through the Chicago con-
vention wing of the Democratic party as we
had it through the united party in 1892, and
a triumph this year for the Chicago platform
would be signal victory for free trade and for
the continuance of free-traae legislation,
which has already resulted so disastIousiy to
the American people and entailed upon the
Government deficient revenues and upon the
people diminished trade abroad and starvation
wages at home. [Cries of That's SOL This
wing of the Democratic party believes not only
in free trade but it believes in free silver at q
ratio of 16 to l. [Cries of tDown with free sill
ver"l Having diminished our business they
now seek to diminish the value of our money.
Having cut wages in two they want to cut the
money in which wages are paid in two; and
we will not have either the one or the other.
Tremendous cheering and cries OF "Hurrah
for McKinley."l
The other wing of the Democratic party is
periodically standing for the public honor
and is opposed to free silver because it be-
neyes that such policy would disturb exist
ing alues, contract the currency of the eoun-
try by depriving US of the use of gold and
putting US upon q silver basis, thus creating
widespread panic and bringing to every
American interest serious injury.
Ny felIow-citizens, will the people turn to
that party for reliei whose policy has created
the conditions under which we are suffering
and from which they are crying out to be re-
Heved? tRenewed cries of i'No, never."1 What
we want now is business activity and con.
fdence. With business confidence restored
money will invest in private and public enter
prises, and when so invested labor will be
} we'll rewarded and the toll of the husbandman
rui1 ha frVlf tod nj Z
without confidence, money will be boarded
and the wheels of industry stopped and what
that means many of the men before me know.
IA voice "We have lived on sunshine too
long."l
Then the farmer, the merchant, the manu-
Iacturer, the laborer and those of other useful
occupations alike will suffer. Gentlemen, con-
fdence lies at the foundation of active and
successful business operations. We cannot re-
store confidence by proposition to debase the
currency of the country and scale down pu plic
and private obligations. Such a proposition
strikes at the very life of credit and business.
1t makes it harder to get money for legitimate
and worthy enterprises by deliberately pro-
posing to pay back what has been already bor-
rowed i'll deprecated currency. lCries of
you're right"l The people, irrespective of
party, will unite in defeating a financial
scheme which will confscate the partial earn
Jugs VI lhDOI III Luc shNluSs DhnkS ana OulIQ-
ing and loan associations and the investments
of the people in insurance companies; and
don't believe that the American people will
ever consent to have the pensions OF our SOL
diers repudiated by single farthing. [Great
cheering and applause.l The people want
neither free trade nor free silver. lCheers.l
The one will degrade our labor; the other our
money. GApplausel We are opposed, unal-
terably opposed to both OF them. We have
tried the one in a modified form with disas-
trous results to every American home, and we
are strongly opposed TO making an experiment
with the other. [Applause.l
Ny fellow-citizens, the people have a chance
this year to take the Wilson law off the statute
books and put a good American protective
tariff law in Its place. [Cheers and cries OF
"They will do that all right, u which will pro-
vide adequate revenues for the Government
and gladden. the home of every American
workingman. [Cheers-l They have chance
this year to prevent a free silver law from
going on the statute-books, and thus keep our
money of every kind now in circulation as
good as gold and preserve our National name
above reproach. [Cries of "They will do that,
tool If they don't improve the chance, they
will not have such another opportunity for
four years. Does the workingmsn, the farmer,
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