The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-01
Given an Enthusiastic Reception
At Colorado Springs.
Addressed 5000 People There
On Silver Question.
WHY HE is A BOLTER.
Republican Party offered No
Remedy For Evils.
StagnatiOn Has Always Existed
With the Gold Standard.

] Colorado Springs, Sept. 1.-Senator
| Henry NJ. Teller delivered last night
| in this city the only speech that he VIII
give in the state of Colorado in this
| campaign. Long before the hOur OF
opening the doors an immense throng
numbering thousands crowded the
streets leading to the hall in which the
address was to be delivered. When
| Senator Teller rose to speak over 5000
| people occupied every available space
in the Coliseum and a thousand more
| crowded the outside of the hall and
| cheered from time to time.
Senator Teller was given a regular
ovation when he arrived in Colorado
Springs this afternoon and later at the
Antlers hotel.
The scenes which greeted him at the
opening of the meeting beggared de-
| scription. This city is called the hot
bed of Mckinley sentiment of the west
and the meeting last night was all the
more remarkable for that fact.
Senator Teller was introduced by
Mayor Plumb. The senator was
greeted with prolonged applause and
cheering. He said in part:
Such a gathering here tonight
shows that the people Of this section
are interested in the issue now before
you. come to talk to you not princi-
pa1ly of the silver question but of a
remedy for the existing evils. I do not
charge that anyone is less patriotic than
am because he differs from me. We
differ as to methods. 1 have been at
tached to that great organization, the
Republican party, have helped create
it and give it form. 1t was dear to me
because believed it stood for the best
principles, the greatest agency for the
promotion of the greatest good. Do
you believe I have taken myself out of
it except at the bidding Of my enlight-
ened judgment and conscience?
(Cheers.)
I come to make my defense, if de-
Tense is necessary. I honor your par
TALLY in choosing me to that great
body, the congress of this land. There
has been no interest that so touches
the welfare and prosperity as the mon
etary standard. BrON ght, as I have
been, to think on this question, I have
been brought to break away from the
old party. I do not believe that any
relief is to come on the money question
through the Republican party. AL
though elected as a Republican I did
not serve that party alone through
these years. served all, Democrats,
Republicans ProhibitiOnists. I have
broken away from that old party be-
cause of a heresy a thousand times
worse than the heresy of free trade.
We must do our duty to the financial
question, for if we settle it here we will
settle it throughout the world. (Cheers)
If we could strip this question of par
tisanship you would find a great ma
jority of this country in favor of BIZ
metallism. The free coinage of both
metals is no new theory. 1t is a sue
cess and it is not a failure. We pro-
pose no doubtful experiment. We ask
that we return to the prosperous
times of 1873. From 1892 to 1873 there
was not an hour when the minis of
this country were not practically open
to every ounce of metal coming to
them. We are told that Jefferson stop
ped the coinage of silver dollars be-
cause Of the shrinkage Of the curren-
cy- That is true, because they were
being exported. But half silver dollars
were coined and they were legal ten
der. Not one man in thousand knew
that silver had been demonetized two
years after the act of 1873. I have not
talked of the crime of 1873. No Amer
lean citizen knew of it. That act was
formed and promulgated by an enemy
of the human race CCheers.)
4 think we all agree that it was an
unfortunate act. Think of it, twenty
three years of constantly falling prices.
Our seventy million people ought to be
the happiest people on earth. I find
them poverty stricken. I find one
third without means of supporting
themselves. I tell you, after twenty
years of thought and study, that our
trouble arises from a deficient none
tary system. 1 find that every other
nation that has abandoned this stand
ard is in the same condition of pover>
ty- In 1886 a commission was ap~
pointed in England to find what was
the matter with her stagnated trade
1t reported in 1888 that in every country
where a gold standard exists only pow
erty and stagnation existed. Every
gold country of the world was suffer-
ing in 1888 and it is now infinitely
worse
Il am asked what country has pros
pered on the double standard. Take
France. She maintains her 5000 900 900 |
or silver with $500, 900, 600 of gold. Ger
many was prominently PROSPEROUS nm
to 1873. when she abandoned silver and
took to a gold standard. Prior to 1873 |
there was not a man whose opinion
was worth weight who did not declare |
that silver was the only stable money. I
We say that silver is the stable money |
of two-thirds of the world today. India |
went to a silver basis and mas made |
more progress since 1885 than she did |
in the previous 500 years. President |
Diaz and his councillors say: We do |
not want to see the United States go to |
free coinage because we could not ad- |
vance as we are doing now
I do not care who it is that says
that the coinage of silver will drive out |
gold. To him 1 say that such a person |
denies history (Cheers) They say if /
you go to free coinage you 90 to a so /
cent dollar. want to see so cent dol |
lar The Mexican dollar is not a so |
cent dollar. It is a 100 cent dollar. |
When the Mexican dollar reaches the
United States it is worth but so cents |
because it is simply silver bullion If
you give all the forms Of money-the |