Evening journal., 1896-09-08
TELLER AT HIS OLD HOME.
The Colorado Senator Makes His First
Speech of the Campaign.

The Colorado Senator Makes His First
Speech of the Campaign.
MORRISON, Ills, Sept S-Sonator Hen
ry NJ Teller delivered his first speech in
this campaign in this place. The crowd
that assembled was variously estimated at
from 1900 to 5000 people. This is the
home Of Senator Teller He came to Nor
rison from New York state in 1858 and
formed law copartnership with Mr.. ii.
H. Jackson which continued until April,
1861 when he went to Colorado. His moth
or lives here, with four sisters and broth
or. These are the reasons why the senator
selected his old home as the place for max
ing his first speech of the campaign.
Senator Teller was introduced by K. w.
Payne, q one armed soldier and an ex-
Republican, who has been the clerk OF the
county for "a years He was greeted with
warm cheers upon his appearance and said
in parti
81 have been a student of the financial
question ever since ! have been in public
life, and that is within few weeks of
20 years. j believe, and think the his
tory Of this country will sustain me in the
assertion, that the most important ques
tion that the people of any country are
called upon to investigate and pass upon
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that countrys 1 believe that false moneta-
ry systems have done great harm to the
human race. / believe that the question
the American people are called upon now
to settle is of more Importance TO them
than any other question that has ever been
submitted TO Americans for their consid-
Grafton and determination. do not be-
lieve, however much there was at stake,
so much human suffering and so much
woe could have como TO the American
people if we had been divided and there
had been two republics established on this
continent instead of one as will come to
us If this great question now submitted to
you shall be wrongly decided and we
shall enter upon a monetary system that
| will probably last for all time, or at least
k there is danger that IL may, that is abso-
lutely unjust, and threatening, in my
| Judgment, not only the prosperity Of the
| people and the perpetuity of free govern
ment here, but free government in all 9TH
or countries because it must be true that
| If this great republic should fail to dis
charge the duties incumbent on a republic
and should go down in disaster and dis
tress there would be no further effort
made among men for the uplifting and
the sustaining of humanity. There would
be, in my iudgmnt, with our destruction,
the end of free government throughout
/ the world.
Not Question Of Personalities.
ut is a question not to be determined
| by personal attacks upon those who advo-
cate it, not by slurs, not by slander, not
| by abuse The American people are too
/ great and too wise and too good to settle
an important question like this upon such
/ points as 1 have named. We must settle
down in this campaign to argument and
reason.
"Why, in the name of heaven, should l
come here to talk to you now unless 1
have an interest IN your welfare and in
tho welfare of the American people9 What
interest have I in this country that you
have not got9 Somebody, some newspa-
per, may tell you that l am an agent of
the great silver producing people of this
country; that am directly and personal
IL interested in the production of silver.
Some of you have been my neighbOrs;
many of you knew me more than a gener-
alton ago. You know me in my yoeth and
in my early professional life. ! believe in
the years that l lived in your community
l established something Of character for
decency and truth. l have endeavored In
all my life public and private, to deserve
the commendation Of my fellow citizens,
because / was honest and truthful and
outspoken In my opinions concerning pub
lie matters, and let me say have no more
Interest in this question than you have. I
never mined an ounce Of silver in my life;
/ am not a silver miner; / own no silver
property.
Almost all my fortune be it little or
great, Is involved and invested in gold
mining In my state. / have been connect
cd with gold mining for 35 years, and if
had any personal interest il would be in
the appreciation Of gold. believe / need
spend no time discussing the question that
the financial condition Of this country is
not good believe that you take notice
Of the fact that in every part of this land
OF ours, after 81 years Of absolute peace.
with no foreign complications and with
no domestic difficulties, we are In greater
distress than we have ever been in tho
history of this land; that there are more
idle men, moro houseless and homeless
men, more men traversing this country
and begging for opportunities 10 labor
than at any other time in our history. Is
not that fact? Is it not true that the
condition existing here exists in every
country under the sun that has attempted
to maintain tho gold Standard We pro-
pose nothing now, no experiment, 40 un-
tried system.
1T is our opponentsswho propose sys-
tenn of finance that had only the support,
up to 1871, of two nations, and only two
one the great creditor nation Of the world,
Great Britain, and the other tho poverty
,tricken ana despised country Portugal.
That Great Britain did not feel the effects
of the gold standard and her commerce ON
trade arose from the fact that all the rest
of the world save Portugal were either
using the silver standard or the double
standard, silver and gold.
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