The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-30
Common Sense OratOry.

are iHdhiHS IicW uuiIiileIS loi MN SNSAS
day. His speech at New York Monday
night, formally opening the New York
gubernatorial campaign, abounds In
telling points SO accurately presented
as to preclude misunderstanding. Let
us cite "a few illustrative quotations.
Addressing himself especially to the
farmer, he said:
You can understand the shape of the |
earth better by looking at a small globo |
which represents 1t than by looking at a |
green field which is only part of it, You |
can understand this silver question better |
by bringing it down to your own neigh |
borhood than by looking at that particular |
green field which Is located in the state Of |
Colorado. When the question is so re- I
duced and applied believe there Is not a |
farmer In America who will believe in the |
free and unlimited coinage of silver. If |
he owned one farm, fertile in the growths |
resulting from his toll, and his neighbor |
owned the one adjoining. rich in mineral |
resources resulting not from toll but from |
discovery, he would never for one mo-
ment contemplate the proposition that the |
mineral lying in the bowels of his neigh |
boris farm should be coined without limit.
without reason, into money which should |
measure the value of all the products of |
his labor and even his farm itself, and that |
this coinage should be done a the joint |
expense of both. and his neighbor should |
keep 1t all. If this Is not fair to single |
farmer, how can 1t be fair when the num- |
Der Is increased to thousands? If 1t is not |
fair to a ncighborhood, how can 1t be fair |
to the United States? And yet this Is the |
meaning of the free and unlimited coin |
age of silver
And again:
you have no bullion to be coined into |
money. neither have l: New York and |
Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, have
none, nor any state except Il few in the |
west, and yet this coinage is to be done |
by the government, and a few states of |
the Union where it is found, small in popu- |
lation, small in all resources except min |
eral, may have coined at your expense |
and mine all the silver bullion which they |
can dig, into money at twice Its value |
and keep the whole of it, Now where |
in that business arrangement is your
profit and mine? There is no suggestion |
that the farmer can have any part of the |
result unless he pays for it in the products |
of his farm. The bushels will contain Just |
as many quarts, the pounds just as many |
ounces and from sunrise to sundown will |
be just as long, and there Is no way in |
the world open to him by which he can !
then secure II dollar worth So cents for less |
corn or less labor than he can now secure |
a dollar worth 100 cents"
Then addressing himself to the la
borer he added:
Labor is nearer a universal basis of |
value than any other thing we nave to |
sell, but to make it available to the la |
borcr himself there must be some stand |
np,l t..1N 80 IL af
be retained. No mans labor of yesterday |
or last year can be preserved except by |
some representative or token of it, and |
money is the almost universally adopted |
agent for that purpose. Nothing In the |
world should be so anxious as labor that |
the token which represents it should be |
unvarying and reliable. The poor man on |
Saturday night distributes in various ways |
the labor of the preceding week. To every |
man who supplies his immediate wants |
he gives a part. The thrifty laborer may |
not spend until today the labor of some |
day last year. He has boarded 1t away in |
the dollar that represents 1t, and to him |
more than to any other person 1t Is I'M |
portant that that dollar should be worth |
ms nearly as possible when he spende 1t |
as much as 1t was when he earned 1t. |
No value can remain absolutely stable. |
Commerce, business production, supply |
istence prevent that, but the money that |
is least changeable is the best These |
values or accumulations may be de- |
stroyod or lost or reduced in various ways,
by theft or accident, or by failure of a |
bank. But l never heard until this year |
Il proposal to vote them away. If man |
Is robbed 1t is n crime and he may have |
redress. If bank fails and pays him |
only 80 cents on dollar 1t is a misfortune,
and II iS ~ uithnnt hnpn nf |
But If he votes away AZ cents of every dol |
lar II Is his own fault and he has nothing |
to condemn but his own folly. which will |
remain with him much longer than his |
money"
Finally we have this sensible and |
pertinent conclusion:
1.-THE business of the past few years has |
been stagnant because the country though |
great and strong. has been handcuffed TO |
a fatal policy. The time has now come to |
restore its freedom and to place ourselves |
again in the enjoyment of those comforts |
which our unrestricted industry Is sure |
to provide. Our business has been as COM
pletely beyond our reach as though 1t |
We're slowed away In vault set on time |
lock which took four years to run down. |
1t was our fault that 1t was locked llp four |
years ago. If it is locked up again now 1t |
will be worse than fault. We cannot |
claim that we have not had experience |
enough to make us anxious to open the |
safe. We need no remedy except such |
as our own patience and care can pro-
vide. We are well. We have no organic |
trouble. but we are slightly run down, and |
let us not make the mistake of taking any |
free silver patent medicines. What we |
need is not medicine. but exercise. If we |
had more to do we should have less time |
to consider how poorly Off We are"
The effect of soundargument brought |
home in this candid manner to COM |
plete comprehension cannot fail to he
beneficial. More and more is it be- |
coming revealed that the seemingly ac- |
cidental nomination of Mr.. Black at |
Saratoga last August was not accident |
half so much as a kind of political |
special providence.
-
General Palmer admits that he does |
not expect to get many votes. But It is |
quite a nice reward to get ones name |
In all the school histories of the future. |
Practical Christian Work.
We take the following from the |
Towanda Daily Review, from among
Its notes on the personnel of the Lacka- |
wanna Presbytery which has Just |
closed its fall session in that city:
A parson often seen on his feet during |
the sessions of presbytery is DR.. s. c. Lo- |
gan, for many years pastor of the First |
Presbyterian church of Scranton. ANY |
proceedings not In strict accordance with |
rules laid down in the Confession of |
Faith" IL sure to draw forth a vigorous |