The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-10-13

nc coheu silver OF the world cannot COME
because 1t Is worth more ut homa Th are
is but little coined silver in the world that
coud come here. Let ne Illustrate. YOU
nave silver dollar. Why don't YOU sell
1t for e5 cents? because IL is worth one
EUrded. Why doesn't .ance' silver rome
here under under free coinage? Because
lt IS worth cents more al home than it
would be here Under free coinage at Is to
l. (Applause) And what Is true of French
silver is true of almost all the coined sill
yer Of the world. Why wouldn't me 'cnan-
disc silver cCme9 Because it is worth more
in the form Of merchandise than it will be
worth at our minis. The labor applied to
1t has SO enhanced its value that it could
only be melted at loss. How about the
annual product2 1t can't all come. because
other. nations must have tneir share, and
we simply would have to take what other
nations did not want. Bur IL we stood
ready to take it all. we would fix a price,
anu they would Duy ut the price which we
liked. Applause, and cries. ''That Is
right All, but you say that there Is
danger of an increase of supply Of silver.
Yes, that is another one Of those incon-
sistencies, my friends. (Laughter.) They
tell us that under free coinage you will
have 50-cent dollars, they tell us that law
adds nothing to the value of the metal,
and that under free coinage you will mere
~ stamp a piece Of silver now worth 50
cents into a dollar worth so cents: and
they Will tell you that that wonderful
profit will wonderfully increase the pro.
ductiOn of silver that we can't take care
OF the output. daughter and applause)
II it is true that free coinage converts
90 cents worth of silver into a dfty-cent
dollar, then, my friends. there will be no
more stimulus to maintain under free coin
axe than there is now. l believe. however,
that under free coinage we will raise the
value of silver to $1.20 m ounce. measured
In gold. That means, however, that the
value Of gold, measured by commodities,
will come down towards silver. while the
value of silver bullion is going up to 1t.
tApplause) But when that is accomplished,
and when you have given back to silver
what YOU took away from silver, when you
have given to the mine owner the same adj
vantage that he had from the foundation of
this government down to 1873, when you
have done that, my friends. there is no
reason to believe that there is going to be
such flood of silver as will embarrass the
people who need money. applause and
laughterD You tell me there Is possibility
of a flood of silver; admit It, Everything
Is possible. You would be astonished If you
stopped to- think how few things are alb.
solutely impossible. Laughter.) Why, 1t
Is possible there may be flood of gold. Our
opponents estimate how much gold there Is
In the ocean, and 1t Is barely possible that
somebody may And way Of going out into
us with flood of gold. Laughter) But 1t
isn't probable. Qaughter) | say all things
are possible. When it commences to rain it
is possible 1t may never stop. Uaughter)
But l have known it to be so dry that peo-
pie had actually prayed for rain, although
they knew If it ever commenced 1t might
never quit. Iaughter) But why haven't
they been frightened? Because they look
back over 5000 years of history and they
see but one flood. and they say, eve will
take our chances" Naughter) You tell me
there may be a flood of silver. l admit it
Is possible. But | ask you to look back
over 5000 years of history during all of
which time they have used silver, and they
have never had even one flood of silver in
all that time daughter and applause.) We
base our opinion of the future upon the
past Our opponents are expecting some
thing to happen which never happened in
the history of the world. You can't point
to nation that was ever deluged with sill
yer to the injury of the people. They point
to states-nations-on a silver standard. 1t
is true Mexico is not as far advanced as we
are; but, my friends. don't blame 1t to
silver standard. Mexico is further advanced
than it was ten years ago, and that cannot
be said of any nation that uses gold Ceres
Of Good" and applause( And If you want
to know what the effect of the gold stand
ard Is on nation, when we apply to gold
the same reasoning that we apply to silver,
Turkey has a gold standard. 1 say you
have a chance to see what a gold standard
can do. Aren't you proud of the work Of
a gold standard? (Applause) They say If
we have free coinage we shall approach
Mexico's standard. Maybe If we keep the
gold standard we will approach Turkeys
standard. applause and laughter) But,
my friends, l must not detain you longer.
l want to say one word TO Democrats. l
want to say one word to Democrats before
1 go. / am not going to say one word to
prevent any Democrat from doing what his
conscience tells him to be right; but want
to say this, that if any Democrat is going
TO leave the Democratic party, | want him
to find his reason in his head or in his
heart. and not In his pocketbook. (Great
appause) If he finds his reason in his
pocketbook l want him to be man enough
to say that that is where the reason is.
and not say it is because all the rest of
the Democrats have become anarchists all
a. once. (Applausc.) If q Democrat is con-
nected with a trust, and loves the trust
more than he does his country, let him say
so. and we will bid him God-speed. Great
applause.) If he is tied to some corpora
ton that is afraid that there will be en-
forcement of law. If there is any Democrat
who is connected with a corporation and
prefers to retain his connection with that
corporation rather than to stand with the
Democratic party in its efforts to bring
the government back to the position of
Jefferson and Jackson, let him say so, my
fl ends. (Applause.) And more than that,
let not these Democrats who go console
themselves with the thought that this is
but a temporary disagreement. Let them
not console themselves with the thought
that they will separate fro now and
come back hereafter to ume positions
of command. applause, and cries of
Never, never.'o Let them understand
what this contest means. This contest is
not for an hour or for a day This contest
is the beginning of struggle that shall
not end until this government has been