Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-10-16
The Man Whom RANKIN
Wouldn't Meet, Didn't Meet
Many Here. ~:
He Makes a Speech That Has
Little Argument for 1.
Silver. >,.''

RANKIN naO rcIu0eu ~ tucoI OCSS1
In debate. We do not know any
thing about this but II the challenge
was mode it ought to have been de-
clined. We should hate tn believe
MI. Rankina man of such fiend'sh
maligntty as to- delight In cruel
sports ur OF 80 little discretion as to
get himself into trouble with the
Humane s0ciety.
The speaker was introduced by II.
S. clyde and spoke for about an
hour and a half. Whatever CT iticism
may be passed on Mr.. Foster the
most rampant gold bug cannot
assert that he did not tell the truth
about one thing. He Raid he, did
not know much about the money
question and. by the. time the he got
through, his audience were firmly
convinced that he had told the
truth. This, however. Is about the
only thing he did prove. ,},..
The speaker took up considerable
time In asserting the existence OF
poverty in this country but forgot
to show how free silver would
mitigate 1t.
He told US that a Declaration OF
Independence was signed one hun
dred and twenty years ago and
thought it strange that the consent
of no other nation was asked, but
didn't tell us that when Jefferson
and Hamilton established a ratio
between gold and silver, they care
fully inquired what the market ratio
was In other countries and made
their ratio as near the general price
as possible.
Mr.. Foster thought 1t q mighty
mean trick for Mckinley to stay at
home instead OF coming the hoy
orator" act and was evidently still
more exercised because 80 many
thousands seek him at his house to
hear speeches delivered from his own
front porch instead of from the
platform Of a car.
He said the 53-cent dollar was
probably invented by the same man
who could make soup enough out OF
u shin bone to feed a thousand peo'
pie, and the analogy is certainly
striking bet " cen making q country
rich by cheap money and satisfying
q mans hunger by thin soup.
The speaker finally seemed about
to begin his argument and said that
by striking down one halt Oul
money the other half was made
more valuable. a.
He evidently had never discovered
that only 100000 silver dollars
were coined prior to 1873 and nearly
800, 600, 900 of gold 80 that II any part
was struck down it was only one
one hundredth instead of one half
but, as g. matter Of fact, none o.
these silver: dollars were ever iI
circulation. he also forgot to say
that 400, OO0,0 900 silver dollars had
been coined since 1873.
About this time Mr.. Foster ran
out OF argument and appealed &c
Lincoln, Blaine and other good Re-
publicans who are dead to corrob'
Orate his assertions, but none O1
them answered. They probably
thought that the history of their
acts and published utterances was
sufficient. as Lincoln was always
opposed to cheap money and Blaine
made one of the strongest speeches
against the vagaries of the free sill
verite ever delivered in congress-.
He said the Lord sent the free
silver wave, and therefore it would
not recede. His premise might be
true, but his conclusions do not
follow, for the Lord sent the plaques
upon Egypt, but afterwards re-
moved them when the people re-
pented Of their sins.
He then devoted some time to
assuring the people that there was a
chance yet for their candidate and
telling them that ifthey carried Ohio
Illinois and one or two other states
where they have no chance. they
would not lack much of a majority
The effort as d whole was such as
might Re made by a reasonably
intelligent man attempting to. speak
for the first time on q subject upon
which he was not informed. . The
attempts of the silverites to com
pare the speaker with Rankin made
it supremely ridiculous and were
anything but kind to Mr.. Foster.
st. Cloud JOurnal-Press: T. G.
Wing, of this city, but few weeks
ago wrote a 81 900 policy on the lif'
Of William Bosch, killed in the boiler
ovnlOsiOn at Rich Prairie Thursday