Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-06
NEBRASKA CITY TURNS OUT
Opera House Too Small to Hold the Crowds
Seeking Admission.
WATSON AND ROSEwATER THE SPEAKERS
sound Money Gospel Preached With
Telling Effectiveness to mn AS
scmblngc of Enthusiastic
Seekers After Truth.

NEBRASKA CITY, oct. Especial Tele-
gram)-One OF the most enthusiastic dem
onstrations Of the campaign was held at tho
opera house tonight. where an address was
delivered by Edward Rosewater. editor OF
The Omaha Bee, and Hon. John C. Watson,
candidate for state senator The house was
filled to overlooking and hundreds we're
turned away unable TO gain admittancc.
David Brown called the meeting to order and
introduced MIR. Watson. The speaker was
at his best and delivered a short but splen-
did address. replete with strong argument
and intorspersed with bits of catchy humor
which kept his audience in continual laugh
ter and applause. His happy references to
the firm adherence to logical system OF
finance by Grover Cleveland, Bourke Cock
ran and J. Sterling Morton were greeted
with cheers, but when he referred to Mr..
Rosewater as zone of the foremost citizens
OF Nebraska and an earnest and able cham
pion of liberty and sound money the ap-
pause was deafening, and it was some min
utes before the speaker could proceed.
Mr.. Rosewater was next introduced and
was given an ovation when he arose to
speak He brushed aside as unimportant
all Issues except the question of finance
and plunged into discussion Of that sub
ject with such energy and forvencc as to
elicit round after round or applause from
his hearers. He reviewed carefully the
coinage of gold and silver as money from
the beginning. following the history of the
old Oriental countries, England and the
United States down to the present time.
The speaker ridicued the theory of having
two standards of exchange coincd in DIFF
forent ratio from the relative commercial
value of the two metals and quoted from
the oldest and most widely credited writer's
on finance to show that such an idea was
rejected by them. All legislation in the
United States pertaining to the coinage Of
silver and gold was thoroughly discussed
and the fallacy OF the assertions of the
silverites in regard to the "crime of '73"
was clearly laid bare. Conclusive proof
was offered to show that silver was de-
monetzed in 1853 and the speaker chal-
lenged any one to controvert the correct
ness of the statement. and yet" said the
speaker. these Rip Van Wrinkles OF finance
are going about the country haranguing
the people about the secret, mysterious de-
monetzation of silver in 1873, when in
reality the crime was committed twenty
years before"
The disastrous effects of free silver
coinage upon the interests of the farmer
and laboring man were gradually and
logically portrayed, The Inconsistencies of
Bryans statement that falling prices are
the result of the appreciation of gold were
exposed, and to show that gold has not ap
preciated. that prices OF commodities have
always been regulated by the inexorable
law of supply and demand. the speaker
called attention to the advance OF 1878 per
cent in the price of cotton IL the last thirty
days and a 12-cent advance in the price Of
wheat in the last two weeks, while silver
has declined. The quantity of money in
circulation was shown to be ample for COM
merCial needs.
In conclusion the speaker urged his audi
tors to vote for a protective SYSTEM which
will provide employment for the idle labor
of the country and thus bring about re-
vival of the prosperous times which the
United States enjoyed under wise and benef-
cent tariff legislation by the republican
party,