Connecticut western news., 1896-10-15
SOUND MONEY RALLY.

most capacity Monday evening by an audience assembled from this and the adjoining towns to hear Hon. Joseph l.. Barbour, of Hartford, discuss the issues of the campaign. The hall and stage were tastefully decorated with the National colors. Portraits of Mckinley and Hobart were displayed on the stage. The Canaan Citizens band and the Glee Club were in attendance. The band played several airs before the speaking began. J. Henry Roraback called the meeting to order. The Glee Club then sang Marching Through Georgia" and .The Battle Cry of Free dom" and the band played selection. A number of gentlemen occupied seats on the stage The audience was very enthusiastic and the applause and laughter were frequent.
 Mir Barbour was presented to the audience by J. Henry Roraback as an orator who needed no introduction to any audience in the state of Connecticut. Mir Barbour was received with hearty burst of ap. plause, and he sp oke substantially as follows: The speech opened with a glance at the state of the country four years ago. In his message to Congress, December 6, 1892. President Harrison said "A comparison of the existing con- ditions with those of the most favored period in the history of the country will, believe, show that so high de- gree of prosperity and so general diff fusion of the comforts of life were never before enjoyed by our people," Never had work been so abundant or wages as high, whether measured by the curren- cy in which they were paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life. The last rays of the setting republican sun shown on a prosperous and contented people. The existence of this prosperity was admit ted and recognized by republicans and democrats alike and was so reported by Dunn. Trade was good, failures few, prices lower and wages higher than ever before, and American commerce reach ing out into every sea. But the people voted for change and they got it. II began with Cleveland's administration. One by one the wheels of industry stop ped turning. the furnace fires became ashes, and the smokeless chimneys rais ed themselves like tomb-stones over the graves of American industries. Mi Barbour illustrated the condition oi things by the story of the Irishman standing on the curb-stone with his hands in his pockets. saying, "Begorra, they tould me if I'd vote the Dimmy- cratic ticket wouldn't have to work, and, begorra, they wor right" Mi Barbour said that the prosperity was due to the operation of the protective tariff and reciprocity treaties and the change was caused by the abandonm eni of that policy. But he did not care tc discuss that question, because he claim ed the case was decided in 1894, wher the people voted to change back again to go back to protective principles The matter was res adiudicata. In that year an overwhelming republican ma jority in congress was elected. New York gave 0,000 majority, Pennsylvania 241, ,OO0. Ohio O.000. Michigan 100, 900, Kentucky 5000, and the combined re- publican majority was l, 200. 900.
 Mir Barbour then turned his attention to the Chicago platform. He should not stop to discuss the attack on the Supreme court, nor the denial of the right of the president to enforce tbe laws of the United States and protec United States property. He supposed it had been decided amid the thunder, of cannon at Fort Sumter, when Sher: dan raided up the Shenandoah Valley
 when Sherman marched through Georgia to the sea and Grant received Lees sword at Appomattox, that Uncl' Sam could go where he pleased. Tn, Supreme court ought by right to stand above the clash of party strife and par tisan influence. He should go to th' discussion of the claim that the eightl commandment was all wrong and ough
 to be reversed. Like the negro preach CT, who in beginning sermon on tn
 "world, the flesh and the devil" said
 1T shall pass lightly over the world, jus
 touch on the flesh and go straight t.
 the devil," he should discuss the cur
 rency question. Up to four month
 ago there was no issue in this state ol
 the money question. Democrats an
 republicans were in harmony on thi
 point in the two state conventions
 Both declared in favor of the gold stand
 ard and against the free coinage of si
 yer. The republican St Louis conver
 ton reiterated what the Connection
 democratic state convention had aG
 vanced in regard to sound money. Ou
 of over 1000 delegates only 2l left th
 convention with Mir Teller, when hi
 free coinage plank was voted down, an
 some of them have come back. The
 in September the Connecticut demo
 cratic state nominating convention reit
 erated the free silver doctrines of th Chicago convention. The issue is clea , ly joined between sound and unsoun money. The republican candidate the only one who can be elected, wi l will embody the principles of the Cor F necticut democratic convention of Jun,
 What is money? According to tl
 dictionary, money is medium of @, change and measure of values. TT . inconvenience of a system of barte l without money, was humorously d scribed. Money in itself is not valu ble. A man on desert island, with I