The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-09-24
CATION FOR SILVER.
The Young Man Don't Know Why,
However.

A second move on the political
checker board was made by the BIZ
metallic club of this city last Friday
evening. Prof. T. j. Cation of Mime
| apolis was the principal speaker, al
though Your Uncle James Arnold was
billed for the occasion. The crowd
| was composed mostly of out-of-town
people, several of them being Demo
Gratis, who were delegates to the con-
vention on Saturday. A number of
Republicans we're present.
On the platform, besides the speaker,
we're H. N. Bell, president of the Lea
que, Your Uncle James Arnold, DR.. E.
L. Halves, P. F. Ryder, the latter of
Morgan, and one or two others.
Mr.. Cation has a good flow OF Ian
guage and talked for almost three
hours. He was introduced by H. N.
Bell. Mr.. Cation began by saying that
we are living in a wonderful decade OF
the most wonderful stage of the world.
We are progressive people who are
not satisfied to let we'll enough alone.
Free coinage of silver was struck down
in 1878. The people must decide as
jury. The cause, if right must win; if
wrong, they do not want it to win.
The opinions of people must be re-
spected when the Republic is at stake.
He said that there had not been
single declaration in favor of gold
standard up to the time the plank was
put in the St. Louis platform. The
institution of the gold plank was like
firing on Fl. Sumpter in 81. It is
foreign, British policy, and a heresy.
If the men of to-day who favor free
coinage are anarchists then the men
who framed the constitution we're an.
archists. The workmen wanted the
money of the constitution. The work
ing men, and the toilers of the soil
were the men who went to the war in
go. The Wall street men did not go,
but rather stayed at home and around
the halls of Congress, looking out for
their own money interests. And so
to-day it is Wall street that is trying
to suck the life blood of the nation.
If it was not for the sense of smell we
would not know that the old party
was living Mr.. Cation said he could
shake party just the same as he could
change his coat. The old party was
raging like bull in a china shop.
This is the first campaign in years that
lifts up the race. There were two
panics before the late war and worse
panic in 1898 and there never was a
panic with plenty of money. McKin
ley, he said, was like the doctor, who
when his patient was sick with GER
tain disease on his deathbed was ask
ed by his patient if he could not cure
him, replied that the disease was not
bis speciality, but that if the patient
would go into fit he could cure that
because he was hell on fits. McKin-
ley, be said, was trying to turn the is
sue of the campaign to the tariff
question because he was hell on tariff.
Since the income tax was knocked out
there was only one party on the tariff.
Open the minis to free coinage of sill
yer and prosperity would return.
Mr.. Cation then took fall out of
McCleary because he wonld not dis
cuss the issues IN joint debate. Nc
Kinley says it is better to open mills
but does not tell how to do it without
opening the mints. The bankers have
crushed nation whenever they could
put out notes. He then explained
the meaning of Is to l. The differ
ence, he said, between the two parties
was that the Republicans curse silver
miners and the Democrats do not
curse the gold miners. Mr.. Cation
said silver would rise just as sure as
the dead certainty of the election of
Bryan and the defeat of the Congress-
man of this district. If prices double
up everything doubles up, he said.
The fight was between the men who
toll and those who do not. If the
condition of things goes on much
longer the latter men of the east would
die off.
Mr.. Cation closed by saying that the
present campaign was parallel to the
one of go Then they had man at
the head of the ticket who was born in
Illinois, Abraham Lincoln, this time
it was Bryan who was born in Illinois.