The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-08-21


Is IL free silver? The opening OF our mints,
the putting OF the credit of this country
In the worlds supply of silver, the attempt
to make something out of nothing, the old
story OF 80 cents on the dollar-is that the
trouble2 Four years ago that beggar In
Chicago was the customer of the potato
man In Iowa. -Four years ago he had
money In his pocket. He bought bread
stuffs and filled his stomach to its full.
To-day he has got nothing inside but
wrinkles. [Laughter.l Empty stomachs
are not good markets for American prod
ucts. ILaughter1
To-day they ask you people of this coun-
try to take free silver. because they say
that all debtors can pay their debts at half
price. Who are the debtors of this country?
L wish I had time to read you this state
Mountaineering paper.l There are In this
country 80 life insurance companies and $50
assessment life insurance companies. They
have policies on your lives and on mine.
What man do / see before me who has not
for years been investing his little surplus
earnings. what he could get, In the life in
surance policy-money that I'm the hour OF
need, when he was borne to his last home
and the widow in her weeds sat desolate,
would be paid to her by this life insurance
company. to make her remaining years and
those of her children less hard and ardu-
Gus? Fourteen million life insurance poll
cies In the United States. Think what that
means. You owe 1t to your people to
continue that condition OF finance. what
ever 1t may be. so that when you die your
widow and your child shall have dollars
paid to them that are just as good as the
dollar you paid for premiums from year to
year. [Applause.l
Advice to the Pensioners.
Every old soldier of this country who
draws a pension-750, 900 of them-owes It to
himself and family that the dollar which
he gets shall be the dollar that will buy Just
as much medicine for his child. just as
much bread for his wife, just as many
yards of calico for a member of the family
as the best dollar that this government
has ever supplied.
There are In the national banks Of this
country and In the savings banks over 90
COO,COO of people who have money on de-
post. Think of 1t! Who are the debtors
and who are the creditors? My country
men, tho most Infamous thing about this
new promise and this new policy is not
that they would open our minis to silver.
but 1t is that they demand that the gov
eminent Of this country shall pass q law
every man that has got dollar
due him to accept 1t in the cheapest dollar
that he can get to pay him In. [Applausel
Stop to think of that little while by your
firesides. They ask that law be passed
the laboring man to accept for
his labor the cheapest dollar that the man.
ufacturer can get to pay him with. Stop
and think of that!
ITO whom will this cheap money come
like downpouring blessing from God?
VIII II come through the poor man? 1t has
got to come through the fingers of tho
rich. The poor men of this country are
Lhe debtors. This promise that they shall
have cheaper dollars and dearer food is
like the old Mississippi fish trap-open at
both ends, It will catch 'em comm and
goin'.
Days of the War Pointed To.
my countrymen, stop and think of 1t q
and see where 1t ends. I sat in
the train the other night, and by my side
was an old German who told me of the
four years he fought for the flag, and how
he now owed another great duty to his
maintain the honor of its
financial integrity, which meant the well |
fare Of every American man and woman |
md child. But while we were talking q |
face leaned over from the seat behind, and /
he man said: Pards, I was Johnny
was in the rebel army. fought against |
your flag And said: What are you go |
ng to do about 1t now?' He said: L have |
got a chance now to fight for my country. |
don't talk cheap money to me:
paid $3.50 for O pair of boots once |
Laughter and applause.]
Suppose I went to a boot dealer In the |
,ity of Madison and said to him: We will |
BRING on a condition of things, we will pass |
l law, that will make boots $3.50 q pair
Wouldn't he jump at It? Wouldn't he vote !
hat ticket? But that bootmaker down In |
Tennessee who sold the pair Of boots for |
$50 wouldn't jump at 1t. Do you think he |
would? Why, he learned the lesson that |
heapness Of money doesn't help anybody; |
hat cheapness Of money means that put
ing in the pocket one half-dollar does not |
AXE tho place that the whole did before |
lie has learned the lesson of money-that
money is the measure of exchange of prod
let's. 1t is not the price, II Is the facility |
hat enables men who cannot deal directly
With each other, who don't want exactly
ach others products, to deal through the
of the measure. He has
earned that lesson.
To-day the one great promise Is that the
nan who is In debt can pay his indebted
ess at half price. Stop and think You
nen who owe $1,000 on your farm or on
our house-when Is 1t due?
Your mortgage is from two to three to
We years. The mortgage of the ordinary
nan In this country is coming due In two or
hree years. When that mortgage comes
ne, free silver is coined and the mine own
rs have built a pile of American dollars
ntil its apex reaches to the eternal stars.
When that mans mortgage is due, how
an he get dollar out of that pile? How
I'LL no get thousand dollars out Of that
lie? He can only get It in the same way he
Gus IL now. ne can only get IL from the Op- |
ortunity to get 1t. The mortgagors of this
ountry cannot pay for their mortgages in
day. fo
Reply to barrow.
After Mr.. barrow had presented his
ide of the financial question and adj
anced the usual arguments In its be-
alf, Senator Thurston replied as fol-
,ws:
MY fellow citizens. you have heard our
oQuept friend assert In so many words
nat he did not know what the remonetiza-
on of silver and its free coinage would do
% said In so many words; 1T is an expert
ent! And again, my countrymen, ask
ou who have tried the experiment they
Tered you four years ago, ask you
admit we better have little collateral
'curity this time? Applause and cheers.
What do we offer? We don't offer to
Dor cheaper dollars. The republican,
arty offers to labor O days work under
10 stars and stripes. [Great applause
y countrymen, IL you had taken this adj
CO and not given the foreign nations q |
rance to do the days work we Americans
ere entitled to, you wouldn't have this
eat distress to-day. tGreat applause.1
Q says he agrees with me that hundreds
thousands of men are out OF employ
ent In the United States. They were not
1S92-tapplause1-not a man of them,
lille the republican party administered