The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-09-20
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strlkingiy brilliant address oi the Man
Who WIN Succeed riynn IN the Next
Congress rrite Truths Ter-ely Put
Money Question Handled Ia
Nasteriy Manner-Impor-
tant Issue Toe chcd

Below is printed I'm full the greai
speecL delivered by the Hon. J. Y.
Callahan at Mulhall on Thursday.
September l7
Mr.. Callahan said; Mr. Chairman.
Ladies and Gentlemen. As | look ont
on this audience, am reminded that
this scene is doubtless repeated n thous-
and tonight in different parts Of this
! great and grand union of which we are
proud. Men and women like Won are
assembled TO hear the issues cf the day
discussed. As never before. doubtless.
in the history of this country. we. as an
| American people. are aroused. Never
before in the history of this nation
have we been able TO enter a campaign
like the one we are now entering. For
/ once the real issues are brought direct
! ~ before the people, Notwithstanding
! Mr.. McKinley's belief TO the contrary.
that the tariff is the issue. For once
the great masses OF the voters of Amer
lea are aroused against the classes; for
once the common people are aroused
against those who would make them
their slaves; for once the poor are ar
rayed against the rich, and on the side
/ of the poor is the Lord and Billy Bryan.
| applause
! As we look back over the history of
this grand country of ours and impair
! italy weigh the facts as they come be-
/ fore us. we discover that this country
advanced inch by inch. the people grad
ually gaining, the wealth being distrib-
uted amongst the hands of the great
masses. and although we had panics,
! failures, and occasionally, times that
were trying. nevertheless the general
! tendency of the country was upward
until 1878. Now don't misunderstood
mel do not mean TO state that at all
times we were prosperous. but l do
/ state without the fear Of successful con-
| tradiction that in a general way Che
| tendency of this nation was upward
until that time, and before / am
| through believe You viii be convinced
also. ! guess ] don't have to prove that
\ the general tendency has been down
ward since, but doubtless / will
Through an accident. so TO speak,
under the eXigencies of war, we hap
pened TO discover that initiation was a
blessings that TO have plenty Of money
meant plenty of work, meant high
/ prices for the products Of the farm
meant high wages for the laboring
man, and meant low interest for the
man that had money to loan. | say by
accident for the reason that we had
been taught in all the years past that
imitation was a mistake. Now, my
friends, I want TO ask you If imitation
proved n blessing, if limitation gave em-
ployment to our people2 II initiation
made us ont of debt and happy, as the
secretary of the treasury said we were
in 1866? / want TO ask tonight why
not have imitation three hundred end
sixty-five days in the year2 (Applause.) }
| The money issued To carry on the war
at the close of the war had given us
about $50 per capita With $50 per
capita / will state that our people had
employment wages were high. Now
want TO ask how many of you people
have asked that this volume of circula-
tion be contracted-hold up your hands
win you please, every man that sent up
n petition telling the congress of the
United States that you had too much
money and wanted il destroyed, hold
up your hands will youP no hands
up.) Did you, my laboring man, my
brother2 Did you, my brother farmer?
Did the business men of this nation pc
tition congress TO contract the currency?
| say, did you ask that the money be
contracted, that IL be destroyed? Not
one of you, but somebody asked that it
/ be done. Now, who was it? Undoubt-
edly IL was that man who had the dol
lar aud wanted its value advanced that
he might more easily gather unto him
self the good things of this life at the
expense of the other fellow. As "a re-
/ suit OF this the law was passed. Now,
| II You will give me your attention, /
wish to read some statistics on this sub
! ject-but before l start in want To re-
mind you that in order to carry their
! point they must secure as representa-
I finrag m aapfufN hp.
would be favorable TO carrying out
their scheme; and would not have you
understand me 10 brand every man that
voted for the contracting Of this cur
rency us being a villain or being dis
honest in any way; many men are easily
misled. And now before going further
4 want 10 say 70 you people, you farm
ers. that at the tune IN 1850, you owned
81 per cent of the wealth of this nation.
You owned IT, How much do you own
today2 How much of the wealth of
this nation belongs 90 the farmers? 4
fraction over II per cent now. Now
what does this tell2 Is il fact that as
a class we have become less Industrious:
that we are lazy, indolent, reckless In
business, or are we 10 look for the cause
in some other direction} We see the
effects; il is apparent or every hand,
and now we want to discover the cause.
My republican brothers. YOU men who
have talked protection for thirty years.
aud during which time, with protection
the laborer has been year by year
thrown on the people and thrown upon
the cold charities of the world, viii tell
YOU that free trade is the cause We
ask your candid and honest attention
10 this matter, and while we go through
this investigation, il you find that the
wrong lies at your door will YOU be
man enough TO come over and aclnOwl-
edge the corn, TO come over ON the
Lords side?
Another fact that just enters my
mind. Previous 10 the war 50 per cent
of the college students of the United
States went from the farm. How many
of yuu fellows intend to send your chill
dren 10 college on thirty cent wheat
raise your hands viii you? None
raised) Now while on this line let me
ask is il a fact that the farmers today
are less concerned about their loved
ones than were our grand fathers? Is
this the fact, or are we 20 look for the
cause iu some other directionf And
now we win take up the cause.
In 1856 the work of contraction began
and was pursued rapidly, and we want
you O. note right here and now how the
business failures increased from year
tosyear as the money volume was con-
tracted, and we want YOU TO note, too,
how tramps our American people who
are made tramps by eontraction-in-
creased as they destroyed the money