The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-10-31

The voice or true democracy was ncaru AT
Odd Fellows Hall in this town on Saturday
night last when large audience in which
were many ladies, assembled to hear the
issues of the campaign discussed by four
gentlemen whose records as lifelong Demo-
Gratis commend them to the confidence and
respect of their party brethren. Dr. r. c.
Mackail Of this town presided and in intro
ducing the speakers said, that the principles
OF the Sound Money Democracy were the
principles that had actuated the Dem nra,.r
party since tho days of Thomas Jefferson.
Messrs. Connolly and Pcrot both made Wig
orous speeches in which they showed that
the great Democratic leaders had always
been warm advocates of IL stable and secure
currency. and pointed out the disastrous
effect. Of silver irer coinage upon the inter
est of the workiucn.en and farmers.
In presenting Mr.. SnScrly DR.. MncEaI
said:
you all know the speaker whom ! am
now about to introduce. Mr.. Singerly is not
citizen of tHs county, but of our neshbor-
ing city of Philadelphia He came here ahodt
sixteen years ago, and in that time has in
vested in Cecil county about Sl000,000 He
addresses you as practical business man,
not as a campaign orator, or in any other
capacity, but to represent to you what ne
believes to be the true and honest interests of
all classes-business men, farmers, lahorers
and mechanics. There is no man in this
county who has done as much for its material
interests in the last fifteen years as William
NJ. Singerly.
He came here about II years ago and pur-
chased an old, broken-down paper mill, and
started it. He then came to the town Of
Elkton and built n magnificent pulp mill
here. That enterprise has grown until his
daily pay roll is from $500 to 5000 for his
employees alone. This does not include his
salaried employees In the course of one
year his pay roll alone amounts to 3lG5.00o.
At Providence paper mill he has huit VII
lage for his employees.
Mr. Siugcrly knows, if any man knows,
what is the true policy in the interests of
capital and labor. You cannot separate thcsc
two interests. They are united, as dependent
upon each other. as any two things upon the
face Of Gods earth. Capital without labor
is useless, and labor without capital is as Il
stagnant pool until capital comes in aud
stirs its waters. Mr., Singery could not hpFe
built these mills if he had owned the wealth
of the earth, without employees. without bis
capital labor could not have been employed.
Now. my friends. do you think Mr.. Singcrlv
has taken tho stump this year to advocate a
policy which is adverse to his own business,
and if not to his own business, then to any
other enterprise within the power of man to
carry on? He himself started in Philadelphia
on salary of 80 week. and he is now
paying out thousands of dollars week as an
employer OF labor. therefore ask for him
this evening from you patient hearing, and
am sure you will not only be gratincd, but
will he instructed.
Mr.. Singerly spoke as follows:
MR. sINGERLYs ADDRESS.
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen.
After the well-mcant and kindly-inondod
introduction Of your chairman. while apprr-
ciate il. 1 cannot altogether say that 1 an
pleased with it. did not need an introduction
to the people OF Elkton and Cecil county, com
mending my business or my properties here,
as they are entirely n business investment
based upon business principles.
/ came here tonight ut the invitation Of
Doctor lIackall. am here tonight as Il jg-
lone Democrat. believing in all the priuri-
pies and traditions of Democracy, to speak to
you us one Democrat to another, and us Il
business men and 10 wOrkingmen, Upan the
great issues of this which | think is one of
the most, if not the most, important presi-
Dental campaign | have eyer seen. | believe
that the crisis now before the American people
means the perpetuation or the extinction of
republican government. | think that this
nation is now upon trial, whether the Govern
ment. created by our grandtathers, ma',
tanned by our fathers and handed down to rs.
shall be maintained by us and handed down
to our children and by them to our grand
children, or whether anarchy and revolution
shall prevail.
A COMMERCIAL QUESTION.
This campaign has resolved itself into the
one question of free and unlimited coinage of
silver; and as that has been explained to you
very thoroughly by the preceding speakers, [
shall uelaln you pul Il very lItle WHlit. L
want you to understand thoroughly what is
proposed bv the free coinage of silver. The
relation between gold and silver is entirely a
commercial question, just the same as the
relative prices of wheat and corn. From 1884
down to the present time the ratio according
to the coinage laws of the United States has
been upon basis of 16 ounces of silver to
one ounce of gold, whereas the real CONNER
cial ratio between the two metals today is
about so of silver to one of gold.
The silver dollar of today, which we all
accept consists of so cents of silver and SO
cents of faith it Is the faith In the United
States Government which makes il worth
one hundred cents. Another dollar of the
United States Government, which is now
withdrawn from circulation and which has
no faith in it, the trade dollar, has SO cents
worth OF silver The legal dollar you accept,
but you will not take tho trade dollar. be-
cause tho Government guarantees to make
the fifty cents in the other dollar good. The
trade dollar originally was the real cause of
the alleged crime OF 1878, and not the demon