The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-29
LODGE STATES SOME TRUTHS
MAKES 4 sTEYE OF BKYAN,s SpE.
 CIOLS PIE-1S.

s"o Spethers-mr. Lodge Refers nt Fre-
 qneut Intervals to the Boy Orator.
 Shows That at Least One Truth Has
 Dawned on Him - Speaks About Our
 Foreign Policy Especially Toward strup-
 gling Cuba.
 New York, Sept. 2a.-A big mass meeting was held tonight ir Carneg,a Music hall under the auspices of the republican county committee. General Benjamin F. Tracey, ex-secretary of the navy, presided. General Tracey was loudly cheered. While he was de- livering the opening speech Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts came in and was greeted with prolong- ed applause. Congressman Black. the republican candidate for governor. was cheered loudly. MT. Black made an address, which was frequently ap- plauded
 Timothy L. Woodruff, candidate for lieutenant governor, then spoke. The next speaker was Senator Lodge. who was received with applause. He spoke. in part, as follows:
 No American should be elected to any office who speaks of any part Of the United States as the 'enemy's country There is no state where state pride and loyalty are stronger than in Massachusetts, but we believe that Massachusetts is no more our country than are California or Florida, or Maine. To speak of any portion of the republic as the 'enemy's country k. to manifest that evil spirit of section allsm which was buried by four years of civil war. The revival of that spirit is abhorrent and the use of the phrase 'enemy's country odious everywhere. seems more odious, more monstrous even, when applied to the city of New York than anywhere else.
 This is the great commercial me- tropolis of the United States. Through the port of New York ebbs and flows the great tide of foreign trade. Here most of our revenue is gathered; here are distributed the products of the country. What is 1t that makes New l - VI n s,i Sese NClI WAdt uOGS Ter DTOSs perity rest? New York is our greatest seaport and our greatest manufactur- ing city. Hither come people from all parts of the Union and all parts of the world for business, for pleasure and for trade, and yet it is not on her manufac- lures nor on her commerce nor on the coming of the stranger within her gates that the wealth and the power and the prosperity of New York really I depend.
 The prosperity of this great city de- bends on the prosperity of the United States, not on the prosperity of a por-s tion of our great country, but on the welfare of the whole country This is | the great nerve center of American bus mess. Every event that happens, no matter how trifiing, no matter in what remote corner it occurs, if it effects American business and American pros- | perity, it comes tingling back along the fibers which stretch into every state and every county and is felt here In the great center, where all the threads meet.
 'Is it to be supposed for one moment that New York desires the ruin of the western farmers? It would be just as reasonable to say that New York would like to see the Hudson river dry up and her great harbor become a barren stretch of sand. The prosperity of the western farmer is the prosperity of New York and of all the east. Therefore it is l that we turn to him and say, for our l sake and for your own most of all, do not be led away by the spacious appeals | of professional friends to juggle with rhe currency of the country and bring l ruin to business.
 Tn 1892 the democratic party propos- cd to make every one happy and pros- porous with free trade, by which, they said, prices would bc lowered and the purchasing power of wages thereby in- creased. You have tried tf,at experi- lnent and know how you like it; but mark we'll, salvation was then prom ised by the lowering of prices. and they still kept that policy in their plat form. But they have produced now another policy, which Is to make us all rich ard prosperous by free silver, which is 10 raise prices It is difficult to see how those two policies can work together, but to the populistic mind all 1 things seem possible and all consradic- tions logical
 "They propose to the business men and the wage earners of the east, and they ask for votes and power on that ground to improve our condition by raising prices, not by increasing the de- mand, but by playing tricks with ths 1 currency.
 '"The only value of money Is its pur- i chasing power. If & man has the pur- chasing power of his wages ,reduceds his wages are reduced. and in an in- sidious manner which ne can neither meet nor counteract. If prices rise arti- ficially wages are reduced, and their own argument for free silver is tEat | they will raise prices by adopting that policy. Tbey propose to throw open the hints of the United States to all the world and allow any one who has got fifty cents worth of silver bullion to bring it to our hints and have it lstamped one dollar and made legal tender. They say that when you thus stamp fifty cents worth of metal it will | be dollar. You can no more make ff- ty cents g. dollar by calling It go than you can make a populist a democrat by calling him so.
 'aThe boy orator. among the many pearls of speech which he has been streWing along the railroad lines of