The sun., 1896-08-26

redemption of Ereenbacks. We have been
could have been % broken ii like % pipe stem by pro- pro.
yidinG for the borrowing on short time certih-
instead of borrowing 1t for the gold fund indi.:
reey Sna o thus oT the ass o.
ing money to pay our debts, -.
p" Had the House revenue bills OF last session
with full hope Of a RepublicSn Administra.ion
in the near future. would then have started up-
ward and onward. ....
a TRIANGULAR MINORITY.
" But the condition has heen peculiar. We have
had three-cornered, triangular Government.
Everybody has beon In the minority, and hence
has been able 10 taEe Nns responsibiiitr. @ and we
have drifted sailless and rudderless, but, thank
winds that Blow when neSt you ma. sSp
into commission. had you not hetter have har-
monious Captain and crew, all OF them men
gentlemen. Messrs. Bryan and Watson and
Bryan and Sewall, have been at sea for many
While do not propose to offer any remedy.
for have not powerful Imagination and no
never happened, nevertheless venture to sug-
Eest that what has happened will happen again.
Ihe past is Tor the wise man the only guide for
the future. What man has done man will do.
WE HAVE MONEY PILED UP.
What we ought to do is to got back to the
sound basis OF mutual confidencc, We have
this country, the pied-up riches of fourteen
years of prosperity. The capital of all the world
richer In all those things which satisfy human
wants than ever in our history. Were capital
We have skilled labor to which we can pay just
wages. Our crops OF wheat and oats and corn
and cotton will be immense.
We have paid Oft n great debt TO foreign ma
tions by purchase of our returned securities and
our absorption Of them on a falling market de-
serves the wonder OF the world, or facilities to
manufacture goods we are full. Look at the
SUNDAY nsswspspe,s What ton. 81 SSgssr we
cheaper than ever before and more of it What
shall we doy Pursue our old course Of blum
| set capltai In motion? But how shall we set
capital in motion2
PUT ANARCHY DOWN FIRST.
We must restore confidence. How can We
anarchy down and all manner OF disturbance.
Peace ana stable government are the first
| world. That is a liked fact. No amount OF
| denuncntion of money lenders, no wild talk
greatest money borrower in tie world. viii ever
| put down that fact. Enterpri are carried On
by the united confidence OF men OF money and
Bring this thing home to yourselves and then
you VIII understand II, II you had money or
| your her had left To you, or any you had
won in the luck of LOT terry, would you let 1t our
| back only half of 1t and want to call y square?
How would you my farmer friend, like to let
! your story-and-a-haif house into Rshanty. spread
| sand over your arabic land. and burn up your
"O u lul. anu tucn mana l DaCk 10 you ulsuAu-
tied aud half ruined { How quick you would in
| vert SUCH u fellow.
| WOULD you LEND ON SUCH TERMS?
We'll, the man who has capital to let besides
first thing he wants TO know is. y i'll he get lis
| capital back, This same idea fills the mind Of
the business borrower. II Jordan or Alfred puts
| his property into the forest and makes lum ber
| and sells II on credit, he wants TO know that he
woa be pffa sSdad he I".1. es
the woods at all Now. put II to you AZ
men Of sense, plain men Of sense. would
man or set OF men. or any nation whie You you
knew was trying TO devise some way whereby
not, like silver man. uI.ders, and m currrDcy.
You may not oe able to daily with statistics. but
You YOU were businss, man would you orWi maze things
| on gold basi, and cell them on credit to peo-
| pie who were trying to see II they could not pay
| you on a silver basis?
| COLLAPSE or LAST bEcEMBER's BOON.
rs it not clear as MONDAY why men do not
lend capital and why men do not undertake
enterprise ! do not say that silver agitation
laws must be so made that the American people
/ mean 70 discuss, that. Just now our
first duty is with the silver question. My
reD-st il, too often. exptriencs Is the teacher.
Within this very twelve months we have Lad
distrust will do. In December so5. tis very
year there was a revival of business hope. Tho
iron bp,iness one OF the grea. indices Of pros,
schedule. began to revive. Some other indus
trtet followed suit and TEMPORARY hope went
| over the community. One great steel company
from 40 to so: Men VINO knew best purchased
began 10 show it'elf. Then came venezuela
and then what senator Brice called the petition
| day the iron mills had business beyond power OF
I suapytng wants. The next day they had mona.
| tainty paraiyzes II.
In 1870 we resumed specie payments. We
cerany @ W.s % ad Ws knew we Mere po Io
| our own work. Capitalists. savings banks, all
knew there was certainty OF honest repa, mrnt.
and business resumed its onward march; In
1897. with such change of tariff as will be
founded on business priDcinlss and have the
approval OF the people OF tho L ted States. we
shall again have the certainty OF doing our own
! work; With the defeat OF the Bryan WATSON
| Sewall com biuaton will come certainty Of re-
payment IL capital borrowed at home and
abroad. certainty that business enternrses will
have sound foundation. and 1897. with It's
attendant fourteen years of success. wi lift US
otrer set of misguided citizens, forgrtInl OF tho
past. will waylay us and We shall have to beat
n future prosperity that would reign unbroken
forever and ever. But history knows human
You will see that my statements are not
promises without limit You have seen exhibit
healthy world? You never will.
HOW GHOSTS SCARE PEOPLE.
"Onnc fgnotum pro mdgnifcO Is Latin. and
pretty old. and OF course we all understand II.
But | want to give you n free translation:
Everything we do not know anything about
always looks big.
THE human creature is Imaginative. II he
sees u tail disappearing over a fence he imagines
the whole beast. and usually imagines the
wrong beast. especially II IL is dark and wild
animals abouId suppose that all the kings
horses ana all his armed men never frightened
the people OF this world half SO much as ghosts.
and yet there never were any ghosts.
whenever we take n trip into tho realms OF
fancy we see n good many things that never
were. The safe footing in this world is on tho
things we know. II this nation follows the
silver people, what sure foothod is there any
wheref Has any nation ever succeeded in
what we are asked to undertaken Not one.
| Has any nation ever failed2 Mexico. supported
| by the great empire of China with 400. 0.0UO,O 900
OF people. has failed to lift silver above ITS
| market value | am well aware that we are
miRhter than Mexico or China. or both COM
bined But are not omnipotent. We are
| only part OF the world. We ecannot ada n cubit
to any mans stature. We cannot fx the price
| of wheat. Chicago, standing for tho whole
country. tried that once and WAS worsted In
the struggle. We tried to FIX the price of green
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