The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-09-17

which have always heretofore distin
guished the American people. TAP
plause.) Practically admitting that the
effect of the free. unlimited and indie
pcndent coinage of silver would be an
immense loss to the savings and re-
sources of our people and that its adop-
tion would reduce their social and in
dustrial condition, they seriously urge
that we risk this hazardous experiment.
Vermont has said, in tones that can not
be misunderstood, that she will have
nothing to do with that fatal experiment.
Great applause and cries of good.
good.O Indeed, they are urging
MS to attempt. by legislation, To
make 80 cents worth of silver
to pass current as a legal ten
der iOO-ccnt dollar, good for all public
and private obligations. The mere
statement of the proposition ought to lead
to its instant rejection, We can not by
law make every man honest but we GER
tainly will never make a law encouraging
them to be dishonest. (Applause) To
me the question of free trade is a quCS-
ton of humanity, the voice of labor
pleading for its own, and the question
| of free silver Il question OF pubic
morality. honor and good lalth, and ITS
| success would be Il blot on our heretofore
| spotless national credit. (Applausc.D
Obscure the real issues and it finally re-
solves itself into that, but will it prevail?
No. ] answer; forever no. lChecrS)
| The American people ms nation. like
| those of the state of Vermont, are on
tirely above so unworthy IN imputatiOn.
I (Applausc) A people that could, as
weak and struggling confederacy of less
than 100000 inhabitants. emerge from
eight years of blight and destruction and
| proceed Immediately to gather up and
pay off its enormous revolutionary debt.
| including the independence of all the
states, aggrcgating S135.OOO,OOO, or S21
per capita, at the time of its assumption.
| will not falter mt the present tcmpta-
| ton. Cheers and cries of that's right
! A people who could tax themselves to
cuuip and maintain the armies and
navics of the Union and continue the
most extensive and expensive war in his
tory. will not turn their backs upon the
soldiers of that war, nor seek to pay
their pensions in dollars worth only
half their face value, Great cheers
and cries of good, good.D
"A people who emerged from that war
with an Understanding debt of S2,3S2,-
600. 600 or $40 per capita for our entire
population in 1865. will not now. after
having honestly paid three-fourths of
| that great debt. and never will, either
directly or indirectly. repudiate one dol
| lar of it or cheaper the coin of pay
ment. (Applause.) A people who pro-
ceeded in good faith to pay off that debt
with such an unparalleled rapidity,
which it was estimated in 1888 up to
| that time they had had S123 for every
minute of every day of every year from
| 1860 to 1888. will not now falter bar
| gain or scheme to defraud any creditor
| of the government. whoever or wherever
he may be tremendous applause)
| "A people who had the satisfaction of
seeing that debt reduced to $685., 100000
on March 3. 1893, at the close of the
splendid administration of President Har-
rison (applause) will readily and quickly
meet the remainder of the old debt and
| all that has been made since 0aughtcr)
and pay it off, principal and interest, i'll
| the best money of the world and recog-
nized by civilized nations to be the best
ut the time of payment. CApplauseD
Just as President Jackson paid eff the
last revolutionary debt sixty years or
more after the first of it had been con-
| tracted. This, my fellow citizens of
| Vermont. is the faith the election in
your state inspires. In that verdict
see an unaltcrabe determination to re-
store the protective tariff system once
more to our statute books. Great
| chcering.)
vermont is an agricultural state, but
| ner keen, SagaclOUS ana honest larHlerS
know full well the value of protection
and its twin sister. reciprocity. zap
plause) They profitcd Ey experience.
They have examined their stock books
and their store books. and they have had
plenty of time to do it in the past three
years. and have learned that their prod
ucts have been worth less than mt any
time for long series of years. The far
mcrS of this county want Il protective
tariff applause and cries of that's right ;
they doO and they mean to have it.
(Chcers) SO. too, will our farmers
everywhere decide. They are naturally
conservative and their unerring sense
and common honesty will lead them
quickly to detect the fallacicS of free sill
yer, as they have learned the talsity of
the fallacics of free trade. (Applause.)
"Citizens of Vermont. | congratulate
you ON the example and courage of the
Green Mountain boys who fought nj
Bennington and Gettysburg. (Applause.)
Fellow citizens, | assure you that it
| gives me pleasure to welcome you here
to my home. l can not find words to
express my appreciation of the courtesy
and cordially of this CALL and it will
afford me sincere pleasure to meet and
greet each one of you personally" Gre
mcndous cheering and cries of "hurrall
for Maj. McKinley.0
Two thousand iron and steel workers
from Lorraine. o., largely of the Tom
Johnson Steel Works, arrived here al
noon.