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ment to bring this country to a silver
basis by coming silver dollars and MAX
ing them legal tender. They can do that
This Government can say you shall take
one of those dollars in discharge of any
debt owing to you for dollar, not
withstanding you may have loaned gold
dollars, but it cannot say and enforce
its decree-lf you should call out the
regular army, and muster our great
modern ships and the militia and put
William j. Bryan in charge of them
it cannot enforce the decree that one
ounce of gold is the equivalent of but
sixteen ounces of silver. daughter and
cheers) Not only that, not France and
England and Germany can do that un-
less the markets respond. Applause.)
We can of ourselves, of our own wis
dom, declare the unit of value. We
can coin silver freely, but we cannot
make sixteen ounces of silver equal to
one ounce of gold, unless it is (ap-
plause) for it is not, unless the merch-
ants take it at that rate.
What is the next suggestion? 1t u.s.
my friends, in the case of free silver,
what the financial and moral equivalent
of declaration that fifty cent pieces
pass law that fifty cents is dollar.
That would not make it SO, would it?
1t would be legal dollar, but it would
not buy a dollars worth of anything.
What is the effect of that? The merch-
ant would take care of himself. man
keeps a store down here on Broadway,
and that law is going into operation to-
night. He summons all his clerks and
h1,xr fyx-Aro FIVE 1tc r
ellis, and before he opens his store in the
morning he has marked up his goods
to the new scale. He can do all that
But there are great numbers of peo-
pie, numberless people, who enlist our
interest, and some of whom enkindle
our sympathies, who cannot use the
pencil. Take the work of a man. He
cannot go to the payroll with a pencil
and mark it up. He has got to consult
somebody. He has got to enter into an
argument. He has got to get some other
mans consent before he can mark UP his
wages. Then there is the pensioner,
those who are receiving pensions from
this Government for gallant deeds done
in the war, and others from the loss of
beloved ones. He cannot take his pen
sion certificates, and when it reads SS
Iidhe II Itdu .SIO NE DluSl AT lOl til
appeal to Congress, and a Congress that
| is Populistic in character would be un-
sympathetic. (Applause)
Take the men who have life insur-
arce. When the policy reads $1,000.
can they make it read $4,000? No.
| Can the managers of these institutions
| make it right them? This policy CO.
erces integrity. (Applause) Take the
| laboring man: how full of sympathy
| they are for him. My countrymen, 1
never spoke a false word to the labor
| ing man in my life. (Applause) 1
| have never sought tc reach his vote or
| influence by appeals to that part of his
| nature that will pollute the intellect
| and the conscience. l have believed,
! and | believe to-day, that a money
| system that maintains the prices of la
| hor in this country, that brings hope
| into the life of the laboring man. that
| enables him to put by, is the policy
| that should be our American policy.
| (Applause) / have resisted in many
| campaigns this idea that debased cur
rency could help the workingman. The
| first dirty errand that a dirty dollar
does is to cheat the Workingmen.''
/ Mr.. Harrison quoted the statistical
results of the Senate Committee which
il 1880 made inquiries as to the rela-
! tive prices of commodities and wages
| at different periods, particularly dur
| ing the war, and his deduction was that
they found an enormous disparity be-
tween the advance in the cost of liv-
| ing and the advance in wages falls in
exactly with what we would conclude
in advance.
| Continuing, he said: 81 have sketched
very hastily some Of the evils that will
| result from this change to a deba Sed
| dollar-a contraction of our currency
| by the exporting of our gold and re-
adjustment of everything. Now, who
will get any benefit? Well, the man
who owes a debt that he contracted
upon a gold basis and is able to pay
it with a fifty-cent dollar He and the
mine-owner who gets an exaggerated
price for the products of his mine are
the only two people or classes of peo-
pie that would get benefit"
The many telling points in General
Harrison's speech, which he brought
cut with much emphasis. We're loudly
cheered. His different humorous ref
erences to Mr.. Bryan and the silver
theory won him shouts of laughter
The General finished at $50 o'clock
amid great cheers. Three cheers and a
tiger were then given for the ex-Presi-
dent, followed by three more for Nc
| klnley.
Chairman Depew in a few appropri-
ate words then introduced David J.
| Hill President of Rochester Univers-
ity. He spoke briefly.
There were loud cries for Hobart
Mr.. Depew stopped the clamor quick
ly by saying: Mr.. Hobart is not in
the hall"
There were calls for "Wanamaker.' -
and then loud calls for Hanna"
Mr.. Hanna at first responded bv
standing in his box and bowling, but re-
newed calls decided the National Chair
man to speak his thanks for the greet
ing. He said: 'In response to your
greeting 1 think it is but proper to say
that the keynote has been sounded, and
that the campaign is now wide open. -
Cheers of approval rang out as Mr..
Hanna resumed his seat.
Cries for Wanamaker decided that
gentleman to step TO the speakers table
and make a few remarks. The ex-
Postmaster General received a ffatter-
ing ovation.