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ly their opposition to this free trade
heresy in the general election next No
vember. APPLAUSE and cries of I'VE can
hardly wait till election, Major.')
If there was, therefore, but one ques-
ton other than that of protection
against free trade, we have it just as
sharply drawn and as distinctively pre-
sented through the Chicago Convention
wing of the Democratic party as we had
it through the united party in 1892, and
triumph this year for the Chicago
platform would be a signal victory for
free trade and for the continuance of
free trade legislation, which has al
ready resulted so disastrously to the
American people and entailed upon the
Government deficient revenues and up
on the people diminished trade abroad
and starvation wages at home. (Cries
OF That's SOD
This wing of the Democratic party be-
lieveS not only in free trade, but it be-
lieves in free silver at ratio of 16 to 1.
(CrieS of Down with free silver. }
Having diminished our business they
now seek to diminish the value of our
money. Having cut wages in two, they
want to cut the money in which the
wages are paid in two; and we will not
have either one or the other. (Tremen-
dous cheers and cries of .Hurrah for
McKinley.o The other wing of the
Democratic party is patriotically stand
ing for the public honor and is opposed
to free silver because it believes that
such a policy would disturb existing
values. contract the currency of the
country by depriving us of the use of
gold and putting US upon silver basis,
thus creating widespread panic and
bringing to every American interest Sc
rious injury.
My fellow citizens, will he people
turn to that party for relief whose pol
icy has created the conditions under
which we are suffering and from which
they are crying out to be relieved? Re-
newed cries of No, never.O What we
want now is business activity and con-
fidence. With business confidence re-
stored money will invest in private and
public enterprises, and when so in
vested labor will be we'll rewarded and
the toll of the husbandman will be fully
requited. (Great applause) Without
confidence money will be boarded and
the wheels of industry stopped, and
what that means many of the men be-
fore me know. CA voice We have lived
on sunshine too longO
Then the farmer, the merchant the
manufacturer, the laborer and those of
other useful occupations alike will suf-
fer Gentlemen, confidence lies at the
foundation of active and successful
business operations. We cannot re-
store confidence by proposition to de-
base the currency of the Government
and scale down public and private obli-
cations. Such a proposition strikes at
the very life of credit and business. 1t
makes it harder to get money for legit-
innate and worthy enterprises by delib-
| erately proposing to pay back what has
/ been already borrowed in a deprecated
currency. (Cries of You are right.)
The people, irrespective of party,
will unite in defeating financial
scheme which will confiscate the par
| tial earnings of labor in the savings
/ banks and building and loan associa-
tions and the investments of the people
| in insurance companies, and l do not
believe that the American people will
ever consent to have the pensions of
our soldiers repudiated by single
!
plause.) The people want neither free
trade nor free silver. (Cheers) The
enc will degrade our labor, the other
cur money. (Appause) We are op-
posed. unalterably opposed to both of
them. We have tried the one in a mod
fled form with disastrous results to
every American home, and we are
strongly opposed to making an exper-
iment with the other. (Applause)
My fellow citizens, the people have
a chance this year to take the Wilson
law off the statute books and put a
good American protective law in it's
place Enthusiastic cheering and cries
OF They will do that all right.D which
will provide adequate revenues for the
Government and gladden. the home of
every American workingman. (Great
applause and cries of 'Hurrah for Nc
kinley.o They have a chance this year
to prevent free silver law from going
on the statute books and thus keep our
money Of every kind now in circulation
as good as gold and preserve our ma
tional name above reproach. tCries of
They will do that tooO
IF they do not improve the chance
they Will not have such another oppor-
tunity for four years. Does the work
ingman the farmer, the manufacturer,
want the Wilson law to remain on the
statute books four years longer
Cheering and loud cries of No, no.
Do they want reciprocity, which will
give us a foreign market for our sur
plus agricultural ana manufactured
products to remain off the statute books
four years more? Genewed cries of
No, no.O Do they want any law en-
acted which would compel them to re-
ceive for their wages and products dol
lars worth less than 100 cents? (Cries
of NOD
These are questions which every
voter in the country must answer in his
conscience, and by his vote next No
vegnber Gentlemen. what shall the
answer be? (Cries CT Elect Mckinley,
followed by tremendous cheering)
II thank you most heartily for this
call, for your expression of good will
and for the assurance which Mr. jack
son has given me of your unfaltering
support of Republican principles. 1t
VIII afford me sincere pleasure, | assure
you, to meet everyone of you person
ally" applause and cheering)
FLAG RAISING.