Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-04-03
THE TRUE COIN.
THE ADDRESS SATURDAY POS
SESSEO THE CLEAR RING.

Hon. w. 4. Jones' speech i'm OIyn,.
pia Theatsr ArOuses Much Enthu.
siasm-A Mastery Review OF the
Financial Situation.
Notwithstanding the Indictment
weather, and the fact that Saturday
afternoon is period that bushes,
men cannot afford to eliminate from
trade in these gold-standard times
about 300 people assembled to listen
to the address Of Hon. VIC. Jones
and their high appreciation wa.
evinced by the hearty applause with
which each argument was received.
Mr.. Jones is very pleasing speaker
and whan armed with the argument.
which his subject afforded, his effort
was simply an irresistible plea fol
peace, prosperity and happiness, con.
ditions which just now enlist every
sympathy OF the heart. He said:
Ladies and gentlemen of Thurston
For thirty years the people of the
United States have enjoyed substantial
advantages the like of which never fell
to the lot of any people OF the world
at any former period.
Never before was so great a number
of educated and instructed citizens
united under one form of government
and enjoying the advantages springing
from the use of common language
and the possession of free institutions.
They have been in the tranquil and
undisputed occupation of the grandest
natural Empire upon which the sun
ever shown.
A land whose shores are washed by
two oceans. and whose domain ex-
tends almost from the frigid to The
tOrrid zone, bestowing upon the
fortunate inhabitants every variety of
soil and climate; broad harbors,
majestic rivers and vast inland seas,
expansive enough to float the natives
of hundred worlds; valleys the
fertility of whose sun.kissed slopes is
sung at every banquet board to which
the product OF the vine brings cheer
incorporating plains and and rolling
prairies generous enough to feed and
clothe all OF Earth's children; gigantic
mountain ranges, the glory of whose
forests is proclaimed in every port
where commerce Tears q mast, and
whose ribs of adamant hide coal enough
to light and warm the world for
centuries; gold and silver to make the
miser's dream shrink to puny fancy !;
copper enough to rob the heavens of
their lightning and send it flashing in
obedient currents from capital to
capital, and iron enough to connect
the remotest corners of the world to-
gether with avenues OF steel.
Nor have they been compelled like
other nations to waste their energies
or squander their resources in the
maintenance of standing armies and
costly ornaments, nor to hedge their
magnificent heritage about with
cleaning bayonets in order to protect
their title, but they have been per-
mitted to enjoy it in absolute and I'M
disturbed tranquility without 50 much
disturbance as serious dispute, much
less the burden of a devastating war.
Nor have they been wanting in the
most abundant facilities to enable
them to garner in the rich harvests of
the field, the forest, the vineyard and
the mine. One hundred and seventy
five Thousand and six hundred miles
of railroads have furnished facile
arteries through which the rich blood
of commerce has flowed in an ever ex-
panding stream, and every lake and
river and harbor have throbbed to the
steamers wheel. The smoke from q
myriad chimneys has darkened the
sky, and the hum of uncounted
spindles has set to music the story of
our peoples untiring energy.
It would seem as the possession Of
such land by such a people under
such conditions could produce only
one result, prosperity. The sage would
tell you that at the end OF thirty years
of such conditions this land must Of
necessity be the home of universal
happiness and plenty; that such words
as poverty, discomfort, want, destitu.
ton and bankruptcy must of necessity
have been eliminated from our
language.
And yet in spite of all these ad-
vantages the year 1896 finds despair
brooding like vampire over this fair
land, our railroads in hopeless bank
ruptcy, our mills and factories closed,
our spindles stilled, our furnace fires
banked, want and restitution crouch
ing like gaunt hyenas at the firesides
Of our people, and the Sheriff duly
elected historian to write the annals
Of our time in the notices of sale that
crowd each other on the bulletin of
every courthouse from the Atlantic to
the Pacific.
Have I overdrawn the picture :?
[Cries of "No, no."] If any OF you
think 1 have, 1 will refer you to a cur.
rent cartoon which l cut q few days
ago from Judge. Here the speaker
exhibited cartoon represen ting Nero
gloating over the destruction OF Rome,
only Grover Cleveland personified
Nero and the United States Rome in
ashes. On one hand were our mills
end factories tumbling to decay; on
the other, our industries crushed and
inanimate. This he denominated .
Republican view of the situation."l
Continuing he said: A couple of years
ago we saw another cartoon. 1t was
Napoleon, regarding with gloomy sat
isfaction, the sack of Moscow. Like
the other cartoon, everything was ruin
and devastation, and the face that
frowned under Napoleon's hat was
that of our dearly beloved William
Mckinley. This was Democratic
picture, and they both show you that
there is no controversy about the fact
that we are not in a fourishing or
or prosperous condition.
THERE MUST BE SOME CAUSE
for such a N a pop, a 1o,,o ,toto of aT,;rs