Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-10-01

gentlemen, I intended to have finished
long ago. [Cries of: Go on, go ONT l
had prepared a speech, though I haven't
made any Of it. [Laughter.]
s'Who would it affect? You know per-
fectly well what the result would be. You
know that gold would go out of circulation;
it would go into hiding. Why, the very
thought of it has sent gold into hiding.
The adoption of that platform in Chicago
sent gold into hiding. The nomination
of Mr.. Bryan sent gold into hiding. The
news from Vermont brought some of it
out. [Laughter.] The news from Maine
brought more of it out; and the news from
the United States on election day will
bring all of it out. [Great applause]
voice-Hurrah for Bryan.
"Hurrah for who? don't know OF any
body in this country who needs 1t more
than he does.' [Laughter.]
Who the Sufferers Will BE.
"The dollar would be worth, as I said
before, it's bullion value. It might go up
some. 1t wouldn't stay up. Now who
would be cheated by it, Wall street? Wall
street! If there is a man on earth who can
take care of himself under all imaginable
circumstances it is Wall street man.
laughter There is no politician who
can change his politics as quickly as
Wall street man can change his attitude
as to the market. Bankers generally man
age to take care of themselves. There Is
a great deal said in this campaign against
bankers. The banking facilities Of the
United States are simply the wonder OF the
world. The banks are creditors of the
people. When I deposit my money In
bank the bank is my debtor. You put
your money in the savings bank and that
bank owes that money to you, upon de-
mand, in accordance with the terms Of the
book. I haven't the time to turn to the
vast fgures-I wish I had them-I always
get my papers mixed. [Laughter.l Here
it is There are 4,875,510 depositors in
savings banks in the United States. The
money deposited amounts to 81, SIC, 507, O23.
The average deposit is $371.36. That rep
by for rainy day. 1t is the sum saved
from a mans toll that he might give
better advantages to his children than he
had in his youth for himself. 1t is
sacred fund, the surplus of labor. What
do you think of that savings bank paying
you, when you had deposited gold, in So
cent dollars? That would be the result.
Building and loan associations, 5000 in the
United States, and representing $750,000,
900; yearly receipts $2O0,00OOO0. Split that
in two. For whose benefit? The silver
mine owners. [Applause.] Life and an
nuity insurance, 11,2S3,950 assured in the
United States; 25,S76,OSO benefciaries-
wives, children, brothers and sisters of the
assured. The amount insured, $12, 285, 604,
947. How many men are there in this
audience who have struggled, and saved,
and almost denied themselves the neces-
saries of life again and again and again
that they might meet the premium on
their insurance, for the benefit of the wife
and children when they should be taken
away? There is no fund more sacred than
that There is no fund in the United
states which gives a man more comfort
when he thinks of it than the investment
he has made for the benefit of those whom
he loves. What do you think of the in
surance companies of the United States
being permitted, in violation of the govern
ment's pledge, when you have paid your
premiums in honest dollars, to pay your
widow and your children, even though they
need it to keep starvation from the home,
in bastard dollars, all for the benefit Of the
silver bullion owners of the world?
ga total of 970,524 pensioners, paid $685.
the hill at a double-quick. At each re-
union or Grand Army encampment you see
how rapidly the old soldier is approaching
the muster-out. You see them fall in the
parade by the wayside You see them
tremble as they walk along, trying to be
to which they marched and fought under
our flag so many years ago. They fought
for you and for me in the days of the
war time, taking their pitiful pay in pa
per money. Now in the days of our wealth,
our strength, our prosperity, and their
their pittance in dishonest dollars? [Cries
of, s'No, NOT And all for the benefit Of
the silver bullion owners of the world.
National debt. 1 will leave that, but
I will tell you one thing, though. If this
government ever dishonors it's credit it will
never regain it, in your lives or mine.
When weak government is dishonest the
greater nation whips her to make her pay.
No greater nation can whip us to make us
pay [applause], and that is why we, of all
other governments under the sky, ought
to be perfectly honest; because we of all
other governments can least afford to be
dishonest. [Applause.] You don't want to
go back to your home in Germany or in
Norway, and I don't want, travelling across
the sea, to ever be told that the govern
ment of the United States is corrupt, dis
honest, and that Uncle Sam is a liar. I
hold up my head wherever 1 go abroad,
proud that I am an American, proud that
I am from the country of Grant and Lin
coin, a country OF unreasonable credit and
resources. For Gods sake serve notice at
the end of this campaign upon Mr.. Bryan
and upon Gov. Altgeld that the money in
which the United States will pay it's debts
shall be certainly as good as Mr.. Altgeid
collects as rental on the Unity building in
Chicago. GApplause.]
The Wage Question.
"People employed-and this is about
wages The wage earners are creditors;
it is a great mistake, gentlemen, to sup
pose that the rich men only are the credi
tors. I owe to-day the man who works
for me- / owe him from month to month.
am his debtor; he is my creditor. People
employed, 2,735,666; men and women in
the United States who work for wages
which annually aggregate 1881, 047, 500.
Tell me, is there any money in the world
too good for the man who earns it? [Cries
of: mo, NOT Did you ever hear before
a man complain because his dollar would
buy too much? [Laughter.] And yet the
proposition is to put the country on sill
yer basis, and pay these wages, how? In
silver money at it's bullion value. 1t would
put up prices, gentlemen; it always has.
In other words, it takes more when money
is debased to buy the products, but the
last thing that comes up is wages. / have
the figures here of what occurred during
the war Wages did not go up much, but
everything the laboring man had to buy TO
live on went up. That is the history of
irredeemable money, debased money, in it's
effect upon labor the whole world over.
took from The Evening Wisconsin yes
terday a statement of the daily fluctuations
in the value of silver in Mexico for week,
and it several cents. There is no meaner
robber on this earth than that thing which
over night robs a laboring man of part
of the money he has tOiled under the sun