The Portland daily press., 1896-09-04
CHEBEAGUE AWAKE.
Republicans Men Out in Force Last
Evening.

Robt. T. Whitehouse and e. c. Mitchell
of Portland the Speakers-Great Epthus-
iasm Shown.
Great Chebeague, Sept S.-It is very
evident that the good citizens of Che
beague are fully alive to the great prin-
oiples at stake in this important cam
paign for the preservation of national In
tegrity and the oountry's honor. They
turned out in large numbers last evening
and filled the school house hall to COM
pletion to listen to Robert Il. VIII its-
house, ESQ.,, and Z. @. Mitchell of Port
land discuss the issues of the campaign
There was large attendance of summer.
residents from Boston and Portland at
the meeting.
Mr.. O. H. Hamilton presided and re-
sented the speakers who were warmly
received and frequently interrupted with
hearty applause.
| Mr.. Whitehouse said in substance:
1t is time for indepen dent thought and
| Independents action. Party lines are
broken down, 1t is no longer question
between party and party but between
atriots and anarchists. Thomas Jetfer-
son and Abraham Lincoln if thew were
with us today In the flesh as we trust
they may be IN the spirit could Join
hands across the same platform.
| The argument of the free silver adyo-
Gates is in brief that the demonstration
Of silver by the act of 1878 was the cause
of hard times, and that the remonetiza-
ti0n of free coinage is the cure. All
this talk about the act of 1878 demonet-
izing silver and causing hard times has
been SO thoroughly refuted by the news
papers of the country that it may be re-
garded as a prioked bubble. During the
30 years following the act of 1878 when
we were having the fall in prices which
they claim was so ruinous, we accumu-
lated over 40 millions of wealth, and
In 1892 have acquired one-fourth of the
total wealth Of the world and tho highest
standard of living among the masses ever
known to mankind. The chief causes
of the panic of 1893 and the hard times
since were the insufficient revenue, tn Q
loss of our protective tariff and the
fear that the government being compel
led to purchase 81, oOo 900 ounces of silver
annually would soon be obliged to re-
deem all it's obligations in silver and it is
the same fear increased by the threats of
free coinage legislation that ia today
paralyzing the industries of our country,
rendering capital idle and closing our
factories.
Thi free coinage of silver which they
| offer us as the cure for hard times will
not do any one of the things they
claim for it. 1t will not raise the price
of silver, 1t will not give us better
standard of value nor half so good one
as we have. 1t will give rise in price
all around through depreciation, which
benefits no one but brings hardships to
many and most of all to the laboring
man who of all men should have an hon
est dollar and chance to earn 1T. Free
coinage offers lis nothing but distress,
dishonor. What then have we to offer to
rescue the ship of state. We offer a tariff
which will give this government suffi-
oient revenue to pay it's bills, which will
enable us to do our own work for our
selves without competition with lowered
standards of living, VIII ich will give us
back our reciprocity treaties and above
all weloffer an honest American dollar
which shall pass for its value side by side
with the prouoest coinage of the world.
Once let it be known that our money
standard it not to be attacked and pub
lilo confidence will be restored. Capital
will come forth from Its hiding places,
mills will open their doors, the prosper
ity which was ours in the last 30 years
more and this country will resume it's
progress toward that glorious destiny to
which 1t has been appointed.
Mr.. Mitchell when introduced spoke
especially to the young voters. men who
could not remember the famous years of
'73 but who had read and studied history
and found in it no glaring account Of
the terrible crime then alleg ed to have
been com mitted. The young men who
has not lived long enough to pass
through crisis in the finances of and
currency of the nation could only be
guided by the record Of history and the
advice of his elders and superiors. And
the evidence of the former was against
free silver coinage, while the opposition
of nearly all the statesmen Of the age was
equally as strong. The young voter must
apply his common sense. He must decide
whether 1t is wise to be lead by Bryan,
Altgeld, Tillman, Jones, Watson, Har-
vey, Donnelly, Coxey and the rest of the
great horde Of silver salvationists or
follow in the footsteps of such peerless
Americans as Blaine Garfield, NICK inley
Cleveland, Dickinson, Villas, Watterson.
Brye. Dingley and Tom Reed and the
great army Of patriots who value their
country's honor better than personal
preferment.
The speaker alluded to the magnifloen t
industrial march of the country under
Republican rule from ~ to 1913 and
urged that the voters If American re-
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