The Portland daily press., 1896-09-11

consumption. it goes q good ways TO.
wards explaining why the farmer Is nov
making as much money at present on
wheat. No, my friends, recollect thai
after all the dollar gets cheapest when
business is lively. Why, when my house
Is worth $500, and 1t ts hard times, ana
there gets to be good times and ooan
dence is restored, that house viii sell for
$40 600, it is because the dollars becomes
cheaper isn't it? II has become SO with
out any reference to coinage whatever
1t was SO in 1879 when business became
brisk and it went on in that way ana IL
will do it again II we ever give 1t
chance.
Another reason, or one of the reasons,
why they tell us that we ought to 60 10
silver basis is because China, Japan
andslndiaeare prosperous, and that tney
are making great deal of money WIN
cotton.mills there. Well, it is true they
have been making great deal Of money
been paying 20 or 80 per cent dividends:
How do you suppose that happenedS Is IL
because the Japanese are better people
than we are? Is it because they are
smarter workmen? Is it because they
are able to do better jobf Why, not at
all. The reason is perfectly simple. tney
work cheaper. and the prosperity OF the ne
upon the cheapness Of Japanese labor:
Do you want that sort Of thing hereS
Does any workingman want that sort
of thing here2 II he does, he can have 1t.
All he has to do is to follow those ger
tlemen, because they say that the reason
why labor is cheaper there in Japan Is
because the silver dollar has been gradu-
ally going down and the poor Jap
doesn't know it,, and he buys and sells
just as though it had not gons
down. The lower 1T goes, the better 1T
| is for the cotton mill man, who trans
lates his product into gold. II is pre-
cisely the same in Mexico in addition to
the fact that Mexico is more prosperous
than she was because she is more peace
full
I am amazed to see how much some OF
these gentlemen wandering through the
state, whose names never got into HIS
tory before, daughter and applausel D
how thoroughly acquainted they are will
the history Of ancient Rome. how much
they know about tho currency Of that
dead and buried country, how thorough
ly acquainted they are with all the De
tails Of life in Mexico; how much thel
know about the Japanese, and how wise
they are when they talk about wa
going to say France; but really.t hav'
dropped France and the stsalthy dem
onetization of silver both at once, be
cause they have both been worked out ant
hcwn to be suo b folly and nonsens
never by any chance drop into the his
tory of the United States.
7 Now the United States has beef
through all these things before. Whethe
, there oan be such thing as Internal
ional bimetallism. 30 as to employ th
L k~-.~ L. r.Sxyo 49, cA&ht
. ity, do not know. do know tina
very many eminent and sensible men II
this country and abroad have urged 1t
8 believe in its feasibility md believe ii
+. It's desirability; and think the Amer
t oan people are ready to Investigate ths
l matter. But 1T ID also fact that theI
!. IL no man Of skill who has made this
subjecu of study, either in America c
. in Europe. who Is bimetallist, who b
t lieyes that this proceeding of the Unite
States Is anything but the height Of 70
0 " from q bimetallist's point of view
which means that these gentlemen WI
have talkedof bimetallism are endeavorin
f to foist upon you something entirel
q different. They are undertaking to q,
! your votes on false pretences. Nov
j aentlsmen, you should not mistake abo,
5 that little vote Of yours, because In th
!. country political life is fashioned
i definite lengths.
A President is not elected until yc
got tired of him, else some reigns miRl
Be shortened. A President is elected 4
4 just four years. Death may reach hin
b but taxes oannot. daughter aud q
Il plause.) So, when you give your 70
"a You cannot repent Repentance will
,e denied you. though you seek it careful
v with tears. AS you make your bed
Y the next four years, 80 must you lie
d 1t, just as you have been lying the Ia
II fsur years where you made your bed
q 1892. (Applause.) That makes yo
"a vote of serious importance, and you mn
r Now one question want to ask you
Il this: What superiority has the silv
d basis over the gold basis, supposing tn
,e you have got to have one or the othe
Id Issit any more stablep History sho,
"a that 1t is less. Is 1t any more to be reli
70 upon in the business Of lifeP Histo
X shows the contrary. Where are the Mt
loo, China. Japan, India, on one sid
On the other is all Europe. Which
= you want to be Joined with? "Oh!' u
- say, I'VE want to get the Chinese trade
"a Well. l explained to you at Old Orcha
y, ~ about that. It is not to be compar
~ with. the trade that we have got, and :
II are trying to Inuss up N trade that '
sSs
-, y, other trade: and that is the stuff
:, which dreams are always made.
~. Why, you know we gave up the Unit
20 States market to get the markets of
n n world. We haven't them. You havsl
q noticed that we had them. have 20
(Applause.) And yet we threw over Q
y own markets for the sake of getti
~ % them. and they want us to throw
~ ~ our European markets in order to {
~ them. Well, I confess at one time
" " seemed to me that there might be som
u, thing doue until looked at the figur
70 =. No; think we had better stay with t
Christian countries; think we had b
n, ter convert the heather and not je
~ them. daughter and applause.)
of
a. You find. then. that you cannot IS!
ia upon any thing that you know. I'll
M the silver basis will be a better O.
IN Well, then, if it is not any batter, WI
,er do you want to 60 to 1T forf Recoll
nd that going there is thorny; going tn
nr ID going to be very trou blesome to y
,st Precisely how you will go there do not
dertake to be sure about. nan OF
nm guess, like the rest of the brethr
oh But it looks as though we never wot
an know what would be the fact about
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