The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-14
6. H. B0thnndn & Co.,

rather close up in front got up and inform
ed the speaker that he had paid close at
tention to what he had said: to which the
speaker replying said that he had noticed
that with great pleasure, and thought that
the farmer must undoubtedly be ahead Of
his class in intelligence; in fact it had af-
forded him great deal of pleasure.
The Farmer-Nowy if l understand you
right We are and have been for some time
on a gold basis, and you really and honestly
think that for us people that is the best
thing?
The Lecturer-Most assuredly; no pros
perity can come to this country without It.
The Farmer-Will you please explain to
us, then. If this gold standard is such q good
thing why is it that this country is in such
a hill Of fix?"
'The lecturer said: Good friend, YOU
want to take into consider
That was all that could be heard, To
those near by the sentences of "a prohibi
tive tariff, which would bring an enormous
revenue. the trouble being away back
during Clevelands first administration,
when we had such a surplus . :. the silver
agitation. ..overproduction.. the great
abundance of money lying idle in the
OelAho tiAN aI SUCIl REMARKS were soon
drowned with: Explain that, will you?
Explain. it If you can: You can't do it!
And the tumult became impossible for the
chairman to still. The meeting broke up,
but was never adjourned, everybody going
home in that condition.
The next morning, however. among i'm
partial people, the motion prevailed that tho
farmer, who had only spoken 80 seconds,
i.au made more of an impression than the
honorable speaker who had spoken 80 min
utes at $40 a minute.
The little incident here described actually
occurred in a town in Indiana, the old
farmer in few words, taking the air out
of the philosophers rubber tire
In this communication have given some
Of the stock arguments of the brilliant gold
orators, who know all about the subject of
finance, most Of the phrases the reader IS
by this time undoubtedly familiar as they.
acting on the parrot principle, are repeat
ing them one after another. The actual
words used in some instances have indi-
Gated by putting them between quotation
marks, and were uttered assuming the
printed reports of them to be true. bv
Thurston, whose words Of truth anu WIS.,
dom" were listened to by an outgoing audi
ence in the Exposition building in Minneap.
oils Aug. :; Carlisle in his speech in Chica
go. April s; Foraker and the Republican
platform. while the logic convincing, dem
Onstrative and conclusive argument of the
Goliath Of the gold party are partly repro
duced In the first part Of this paper and
everybody will recognize them, I have nut
In quotation marks, and they are Edward
Atkinson's.
The absurdity Of this campaign is ridicu-
lous. Bourke Cochran, the Tammanv Hail
leader, coming to the assistance Of tina
man he berated so Justify In the senate
few years ago. The bull elephant of the
Republican party on float hitched IN
together in the great parade with the DEM
Ocratic jackass, Together we stand"
What God hath joined together let not
TWO REP- GGGGG
Bryan put (his) assunder' Cochran and
Gen. Washburn falling on each others bris-
kets and hugging each others anatomy OIL
and water mixing, the dove and the vulturs
occupying the same nest.
In 1888 there was "a plank in a. platform
reading:
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS IN
FAVOR OF THE USE OF BOTH GOLD
AND SILVER AS MONEY, AND CON-
DENNIS THE POLICY OF THE DEMO.
CRATIC ADMINISTRATION IN THE Eff
FORT TO DEMONETIZE SILVER"
1t seems that the names Of the parties
have undergone Transformation.