Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-10-22

etc, and Chairman Davie stepped to
the front of the platform and said:)
"Grntlcmrn, ! trust there is none
here that will violate the hospitality
of our city. Those who do not wish
Ia hear may take the door. trust
all gentlemen present will give II
hearing to this distinguished guest
Col. Breckinridgr-My friends
statement, if he will allow me to say
81, is somewhat unnecessary; for |
am perfectly aware that there is nn
gentlemen present that is interrupt
ing mr at all tremendous applausr),
and il the invitation of my friend,
Mr.. DaVir, that he shall take the
door should he declined, il * prohn
bly, the only invitation t. take any
thing that that particular person
would rrfu e. IL il Ho light thing to
invite him Ia take anything.
WAS saying that in my Judgment
the mere election of Mr.. Bryan would
produce such state in the public
NINA as To the result of his lrgisla
ton that ii would he Immediately
followed 10y panic the like of which
We have never had in America.
We think We are in hard times.
We do not know how hard the times
were fifty years ago. when u Wing
Congress passed u bankruptcy bill.
We do not know how hard times may
bc until We compare them with 1870,
when Kentucky was riyen by the
distrcSscs of her people. And ] look
forward to the winter i'm our great
cities with profound sorrow, with al
most horror. if Mr.. Bryan is elected
AT the distress that the nottingham
and the poor will undergo. Nowayc.
no employment, no help save scant
charity. will br the fortune of those
who depend upon their wage. and
their wage d pendent upon business
enterprise, il il should happen that
this craze shall crystalizc into
election.
And it the debtor thinks he has
anything to gain. he il vastly mis-
taken. The creditor will know of
that election aS soon as the debtor.
The same telegram that brings the
news To the one will bring it To the
other. Mr.. Bryan can not he inaug-
uratcd until March, nor his Congress
called together until nearly the first
of April, nor the bill passed for some
time after that, and then the uncoin-
ed bullion must he brought to the
mint Ia he put into coin, and during
all that time the debtor is helpless.
No free silNcrs'oming to him, no in
ilation of the currency, hut tremen-
douS and an incalculablc contraction
gold boarded, silver reduced To its
intrinsic commercial value; paper
falling from its gold equivalent to its
silver value; contraction of nearly
two-thirdS of the currency, and how
can he sell? Who will there be To
buy: The Sheriff and the creditor
are free during all these waiting
months. The courts are open; the
foreclosure of the mortgage by sale
can not be stopped, and the debtor,
harricd by the creditor whom he has
tried to chisel, pursued by the Sher-
itf, his property sold i'm foreclosure of
mOrtgage-who will be benefited?
The very man he is abusing-the
man who, with ready capital, has put
il in safety into the vaults of the trust
company. He can draw il out, and
at the public sale of the Master Com
missioner or on the execution sale of
the Sheriff will buy at half or one
third its value that property which
the debtor might save il he had not
been deludcd by the false hopes of
spccious dishonesty. (Applause.)
Fcllow-citiZens, have | drawn the
picture too dark? Draw it for your
selves in the quiet of your home to-
night.
| have not discussed what may oc-
eur hereafter, after the panic is over.
We will not go to pieces. Senator
! Teller says that in twenty years, il
we have the free and unlimited coin
age of silver, those who labor faith
fully will do well. (Laughter.) But
We who have gray hairs about our
| heads do not want to wait twenty
years to have an opportunity, to labor
faithfully. (Renewcd laught|r.) And
there is scarcely any voter in all my
acquaintance, even if he he twenty
one years of age, that will care tO
wait twenty years for the chance IL
do well. Continued laughter.) And
that is the best prophecy of the man
who tried to divide the Republican
party; and have no doubt the wisest
prophecy that has been made on that
side. do not think it would be
| twenty years before the American
people, angered with their leaders
distressed beyond measure, would
revoke the action SO hastily and fool
ishly taken, and swing the pendulum
of monetary experiment too far to
the other side. They would set sill.
Yer aside forever. They would, like
the burnt child, dread that fire; and
the true medium ground of a gold
standard and the use of the double
currency would be deserted in the
blind distress of a bankrupt people
a starving working people, rather
than an honest system rightly based
upon true principles.-Col. w. &. p
Breckenridge, in his speech at Lou