The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-06

mine. Yet am told there are alleged
Republicans who want 10 perpetuate

| poiicies-Son1e bank closed, some facto-
~ shut down, the fires on some forge
| or furnace extinguished, some railroad
| in the hands Of receiver, the sails OF
some ship furIed in our harbors, the
| mortgage on some little farm foreclosed
some manned and disabled pensioner
wearing the inky cloak OF despair.
with Bonded head and fading sight and
| faltering footsteps, marching to the
almshouse or the inhrmary II there
| are Republicans who WIFI seek 10 con-
tinue this policy, am not one OF them.
| (Cheers.)
The st. Louis platform IS not ex-
actly as l would Ike 20 have il. III
mad been writing il, the phraseology
would have been a little different. but
1t would have meant the same (Ap-
plause) II would have been a little
easier TO be swallowed and digested by
our sensitive friends who are disposed
on account of a misundersta ndine OF
terminology, to turn their backs on the
great historic period Of the nation.
The American people have been
learning the past four years; they have
had little else to do. Gaughter) They
have been enjoying a period Of enforced
philosophical and meditative reflection.
L nave had the opportunity OF meditat-
ing a little myself Claughter.) owing TO
your mistaken Judgment, my friends,
an error l hope you will repair at the
earliest opportunity. 0aughter) TIE
American people have learned that
the American iaborer earns no wages
on goods made in Germany and Eng
land (epplause.) and that It makes no
odds how much Of the necessarfs of life
a dollar Will buy IL they have not the
dollar TO buy with. (Applause) These
two invaluable precepts lie at the foun-
dalton OF the law and the prophets. I
would rather the products Of tbs loom
and forge were made at home, on wages
paid TO American labor, even IL the nee
essaries of life did cost a little more.
(Applause.)
Il once fell in with that vagary about
the markets OF the world. / now be
heve that the best market Is the home
market. (Applause.) The products
OF the farms OF Kansas, Illinois and
Ohio are so low because the power OF
the great body OF American people to
consume has been destroyed. Sonre say
IL is because of overproducticn; that Is.
there are so many barefOoted children
because there are too many shoes; there
are SO many hungry men because there
Is too much wheat raised. The truth
is that there can never b TOO much
food produced 50 long as there . hun
cry man. (Applause)
III, had my way now listen. for
might get back 10 the Senate) nothing
that can be raised or produced here
should be brought to this country until
ample protection TO American wages
had been secured. and ample returns 20
capital guaranteed. Cheers and cries
Of that's the stuff That's the kind
OF an American, q Republican, l am
(cries of That's the right kind TO be y
and il you see fit 10 send me back to the
senate that IS the kind OF legisla ton
1 shall work for"
At this point a voice asked: What
Will we do with our bags OF grain?"
Quick as a flash Mr.. ingalls, retOrted
"Why the hungry men will eat them"
(Applause)
Another voice called: Send them to
foreign countries
Mr.. ingalls, exclaimed: 81 don't care
about the foreign markets;
there Is not O. foreign country that !
would not sacrifice its own market 10 /
get into ours. (Applause) There is !
not a foreign country but appiauds the |
policy OF Grover Cleveland. There is |
not q foreign manufacturer but is sti- !
mulated by that policy and is filed with |
trepidftion at the certain prospects OF |
the election OF Mckinley. CCheers) /
Il believe IN a tariff for protection, |
but 1 should like 20 know what Is the /
sense of excluding the foreign product |
and admitting the foreign iaborer
(Cheersl Why protect the fabric and |
have free trade in men? The time is
coming when no man VIII be allowed |
to come here unless ne esta blishes the
fact that he is able and willing 10 be-
come a useful, intelligent and patriotic
citizen, and when no man viii be al
lowed to vote unless he can read and
write and speak the English tongue.
,Cheers)
1T has been said that the love Of
money is the rootof all evil. Money is
he vehicle and agency OF civilization,
out OF itself IL has no value. Melt all
he money and burn all the greenbacks
n the world and there will be no less
farms or stocks OF merchan-
Use or skilled labor or houses or cities
a voice: Not a bit') but civiliza ton
would disappear, a I'd we would recede
nto Tsarberism Or LEI one man collect
Ii the money IN the world and put him
n the middle Of the ocean. with no food
I
by the simeon. VINO would
se the richer, he or the poorest farmer
n Rice county. who has bread enough
or the morrow's meal or a roof above
lis head?
Money is only the representative o'
III values. When y is abundant and
table and sound and good, industry
hrives, prosperity wakes; when IL
drinks and disappears from circulation
industry languishes, enterprises become
and prices sink.
While l believe that much OF the
alhng OF prices in recen. years has
zen causei by the destruction Of the
apsc!ty OF the American people 10 con-
unle. 1 should be untrue 70 you 10
withhold my belief that some OF these
wills spring from defects in our fnan-
ial system.
Mr. ingalls, read from Benjamin Har-
ison's letter Of acceptance and his
messages of 1890. 1891 and 1892, showing
is desire % insure the continuance Of !
5ime5allic policy.
Inc Republican party" continued ]
II. ingalls,. is pledged 70 secure the
argest and fullest U.s. OF legal tender
liver money without disturbing the
quihbriUm % the two metals. CAp-
lause) Il was predicted that seventy
We millions OF silver could nos Be as
inflated. but I have seer six hundred /
lilhOns absorbed Go rot believe IN
nsoU1d money or Gehased currency.
want every dollar as good as every
ther dollar IN al parts % TIE T-nft-i
tates and II al the markets ~ the
rorld. Cheers consistent with the tar-
est sud fullest use % legal tender stan
ard silver money.
There are three ways OF getting mon
yarn =, have IL given 10 you OF seal :