New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-07-22

the commodities to be measured, it will
take . less quantity Of the commodities
to command the dollar. If the quantity
Of units to measure the commodities Is
small, it will take 9 larger quantity Of
commod dities to size up against the dol
lar( applause.
.That is elementary. Reason can ar
rive at 40 other conclu clusion as q result,
Although civilization since the dawn Of
history had used the two metals of gold
and silver, they call us silverites. We are
not silverites. We are for the money OF
the American people. As Blaine said,
that which was money before the con-
stitution as well as in the constitution,
gold and silver. (Applause.) Until greed
said, that that which has always been
money should no longer be money, these
two metals had constituted the measure
of the world in the comparison of prod
ucts, in the standard for deferred Fay
ment and in the exchanges one was
striok ken down.
sIt was not accidental. It is imma-
,terial tc lis here and now whether twas
done by stealth or the result of indiffer-
encc- probably both. Ipay no attention
to those stories. It is a fact that it was
domonetized; it Is fact that it was done
methodicslly in Europe prior to its be-
ing done here. The reason that it at
tracted no attention here at the time was
because we were on greenback basis.
Coin was not current, but however it was
brought about it was done. The result
has been disastrous, That which Lad
been the money of the world, upon which
its development, its industries, its hopes,
its aspirations have been builded and
were based, was removed, because the
measure had been lessened, because prices,
the expression of the equation between
the units of money on the one side and
the aggregate of commodities on the
other were reduced from day to day.
The fall Of prices set iu, and from that
day dates our misfortune, misfortune
that has not been as great as it would had
the American people been less Industrious,
less wealthy, and less courageous,aad had
had less resourceful country. But it has
been disastrous enough. I am no calam-
lty howler (laughter), and don't propose
to be. y
.sMy friends, as Methodist friend of
mine remarked the other day, there IS
no harm in telling the truth. He says:
i don't take any stock in this calamity
bowling business He says, That is sa-
tan's objection to Methodist camp
meeting Now | believe in telling you
the truth. Why, you ride from the little
town that I live in, New Ulm, to this
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magnificent city call ours a city at
home, but hardly dared to do so here
you see the most fertile fields; you see
the most bounteous crops; you see the
most Industrious population that there.
is in the world, not only the men, but
the women and the children. They all
work. (Applause.) Why, it is a pleasure
to look at Gods green fields and the
burden they bear; but when you stop to
think, and when you come here to see
the factories Of this magnificent city, the
enterprise oflts citizens gathered from
the corners of the earth, living under cur
blessed institutions in peace and harmony
and goodwill and good neighborhood
when you think of all this wealth
and think that men and women and chill
dren here go -hangry, those. on the farms
have less of the comforts than they ought
to have, we know something is wrong.
There is block in the wheel ofexchange.
Why can't you artisans exchange the
products of their handicraft, the cunning
Of their hand for the industry Of our peo-
pie on the prairies2 Is there not some-
thing wrong? We knowit, and we feel
it, and we have not only the wisdom,
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