The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-09-30

yet So far as wages are lowered, 50 far
has silver contributed to manufacturers
profits But not even lowered wages, q
thing intolerable for our people, has start
ed production In Mexico.
What was Mexico once. and what Is she
now? Once she was the land of revolution
lists, Of fratricidal strife, torn asunder on
the ambition of any petty chief. Now.
under Porflrio Diaz, representing the grow
ing civilization Of his country, she Is the
land Of peace Not silver and dwindling
wages have revived Mexico, but Porflrio
Diaz and the civilization he represents
Let me venture TO say just here that mel
ther Mexico nor any other country will
ever have true prosperity until she has In
creasing instead of diminishing wages.
Wepassed Mexico's prosperity long years
ago, and no man In his senses will ever
want 10 go back to that. How we shall
meet the competition of the cheap labor of
oriental countries Is problem for the flu
ture, but this much we do know that cut
ting the dollar in two Is no solution what
ever, and that the permanent lowering of
wages here by any device will never be
tolerated by the people of America.
Not n Contest OF Sections.
Remember that this contest today Is not
between bimetallism and recommendation.
That subject would bear discussion This
contest is between silver monometallism,
which we have not, and gold monometal-
lism, which we have. That subject will
not bear candid discussion. This contest
also Is not between the east and the west.
There can be no such contest. Our inter
ests are identical. With their growth
comes our growth We cannot go on alone
We have sent our children there. Our
money Is there. No misfortune can hap
pen TO them that does not happen TO us
We here have full esteem for the pioneers
of the west and rejoice in their prosperity.
They are all brave and vigorous people
AS Burke said of the younger Pitt, they
are mot chips of the old block, but the
old block itself" Every wise man agrees
that beyond the Mississippi lies the great
wealth Of the days TO come. In the devel-
opment of this wealth we all are interested
and we In the east are not the unwise
men to believe that we are not concerned
in the progress and future Of the west
Unfounded sectional differences are with
out excuse, and 1t will be woe to those who
try to foment them.
The west Is too vigorous not to find out
the truth and is too valiant not TO follow
it when found. What the west needs is
loanable capital which will develop its re-
sources No part of this Union Is so con-
cerned in restoring confidence as the unde-
veloped territory.
The south, too, has a similar interest
But they are busy down there just now
asserting their rights and keeping down
the negro. If they could be persuaded to
look after their interests, what happy
country this might be-
xphn wi a
great name in history, made speech the
other day and showed that all the de-
monetization of silver there ever was was
made by the help Of Stewart and Jones of
Nevada and that free coinage of silver by
the United States alone will not and can
not cause any sIrcease Of our calamities,
but, on the contrary, would be the cause
and summit Of further sorrow. 1t Is curl
Gus to see what effect that had on the sill
yer men.
One Of them In Massachusetts lifted up
his voice and said Mr.. John Sherman has
told us Of no remedy for our hard times,
therefore the silver remedy which Sherman
proves to DO no remedy Is the only remedy.
OF course he did not use this language,
but that was the idea If there was any.
Just think OF the logic. A remedy proved
to be no remedy becomes n cure all because
John Sherman will not invent cure.
Beware Of False Prophets.
Is 1t true that when this world is badly
of we have all got to be in the slough of
despond until some great man invents a
remedy? Are we all to plunge into foolish
ness unless some great man hits upon
something sure? If the world has got to
wait for that panacea, let me tell you that
the rest of death Is flash Of lightning
compared with tho rest we are going to
take. IL there nothing In our idea that
the best sense Is common sense?
No, no, these things are governed by
natural laws and take their course like the
rolling Of the round earth or the glitter of
| the stars. Suppose q man were created full
| grown and set upon a solitary earth facing
the dawn AS the panorama Of sunrise,
the march of the fountain Of light across
the sky, the red sunset and the black dark
ness came over him, what could he make
OF this termination of the gorgeous pag-
eantry of the skies. Nothing but dark
ness, desolation and death and n wild call
ing on unknown gods TO help him.
But the man who has from earliest boy
hood seen the sun disappear into the red
west to light up another day may be igno-
rant of Kepler's laws and OF Galilei's fate,
DuU He hnOWS 10 RTcftttr CcTtdtuJy OIl
earth than that the day follows the night.
A man who has only seen 1898 might well
wonder and call on John Sherman or Mr..
Williams for rescue, but we who have seen
1878 and have read of 1925 and 1851 in
England and 1887 In America know that
we shall as surely rise again to business
and prosperity as that tomorrow's sun
| will rise
Be not deceived by false prophets. In
the west they tell the people that Maine Is
faltering. You and / know she was never
so steadfast. Here In the east they tell us
the west is blazing with silver crosses and
Is crowned with silver thorns, but when
the tug of battle comes the gallant west,
peopled by our children, will show to the
world that brothers, trushnd tried, who
have fought so many fights shoulder to
shoulder I'm the great conflict OF human
progress, will never be separated from each
other or from that great party around
which clusters all the glories Of 80 Of the
most illustrious years of this country's his
tory.