Semi=weekly graphic., 1896-04-22
ELOQUENT CARMACK TALKS FREE SILVER TO A LARGE AU-
 DIENCE. Under the Auspices of the Jefferson County Demo cratic Free Silver
 Club.

-ANtAe NNAAbOA CA AhC RIio OOl0- mercialAppeal, addressed crowd ed house at the Opera house last night on the subject of free silver, under the auspices of the Jefferson County Demo cratic Free Silver Club. The dis tinguished editor arrived in the city on the Cotton Belt 3 o'clock train from Memphis yesterday afternoon and became the guest of Hotel Truock.
 During the afternoon he was given a carriage drive oyer the city aud later visited the County Exposi- tion, at which he was much pleased. After his return from his drive the distinguished speaker was visited at the hotel by number of promi- nent citizens, by whom he was gived cordial welcome to Pine Bluff,
 The speaking at the opera House begun about 8 o'clock and when MT. Carmack begun his address he gazed on one of the largest audiences ever assembled in this city. The speaker was pleasantly introduced by Capt. N. T. Roberts, President of the Free Silver Club, and when Mir. Carmack walked to the front of the stage he was greeted by storm of applause.
 The speaker begun by expressing his indebtedness to friends for giving him an opportunity to visit this delightful city and mingle with the brave people and unterrified Democracy of this county. He ex- pressed his pleasure at seeing so many ladies present, whom he paid a high compliment, and said he felt confident that they ali favored a double standard, as it had been first established in the Garden of Eden when God said, "It is not good for man to be alone. "
 He said that he had come to dis cuss the money question, but admit ted his lack of practical experience with such subject, for it must seem little singular for an editor to dis cuss finances when he had had so little experience with practical finance.
 Our opponents would have you be- lieve we are attempting something new-something untried by experi- ence-but we are simply holding to the broad highway of old-to the conditions that prevailed before 1873-and we are advocating prin ciple, he proclaimed, that the Demo cratic party has been advocating for twenty years, though he failed to recite single declaration in a National Democratic platform advo, eating free silver at 16 to 1.
 The speaker had much to say about Col. Josiah Patterson and Secretary Carlisle, and referred to his numerous discussions with the distinguished Congressman from Tennessee-Mr Patterson.
 The distinguished advocate of the pale metal then entered upon an elaborate discussion of falling prices and read from numerous authorities, both English and American, to show that the establishment of values began in 1873 when the so-called demonetiza tion of silver took place. He claimed that up to 1873 there were rising prices, and since that time prices had fallen, profits had disappeared and idle and discon- tented labor roamed about the coun- try seeking employment. Carlisle and Patterson had claimed that dur ing that period prosperity descended upon the country like the dews of heaven, but it had not done so. If Carlisle and Patterson Were right every advocate of free silver should be classed as calamity bowler and Populite and should be scourged into silence or locked up in jail. If this argument were true, the speak CT claimed, it necessarily followed that protection also brought pros perity because during that period we have also had protective tariff. So far as he was concerned he de nied both propositions, and claimed that there was less prosperity-less wheat used per capita, although it is cheaper, less sheep, less horses, etc, less used per capita since 1873 because the people had had less | money with which to buy. The