The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-10-03
VETERANS RALLY.
War Heroes Proclaim Their Allegiance to
Mckinley and sound Money.

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Mckinley and Sound Money.
The old soldiers turned out in great
force Monday night, September 2l, and
filed the Auditorium at Chicago to over
flowing, the occasion being the inau-
gural of the Veteran Union League cam.
paign, during which Grand Army ora
tors are to visit - states in the interest
of Mckinley and sound money.
Speeches We're made by Gems. Howard,
Sickles and Alger. The address of
Gen. Sieasec being more at length than
those of the other speakers it. is here
| given:
"Mr, President, Comrades Ladies and
Gentlemen: ] appreciate my welcome by
this great audience. / have seen in II
proof of the profound and universal inter-
est felt In the present canvass. sometimes
In these days ask myself: Why is II that
] am taking part In this great debateT i
am an old man. past 20. Whatever ambi-
ton may have had is more than satisfied.
No party has anything to offer me that
desire or would accept. My race. in the
course OF nature. Is nearly run. Why need
take part in such strifeY My answer to
myself is: I could not help it, [Great APP
plause.l I could not look on indifferently
and see the institutions and welfare of my
country menaced by powerful political
lllt no Manu., Ieeple
though IL might be, TO avert the blow.
And therefore l am here to-night-not for
the first time before a Chicago audience.
j was here in your city In 1864 came at
the request of the greatest statesman and
the greatest ruler, Lincoln. lGreat ap-
plause.l / was or my way to the south
west on a duty of some Importance, and the
great martyr asked me If l would find II
inconvenient as a democrat. IA voice:
1.ouder.1
lN,,11 ,oI, hall
ILaughtcr.l I carnot measure my lungs
by your Auditorium. will do the best l
can to be heard, but the deaf people must
come nearer
The Chicago Platform.
"I gave something of vitality and body
to my country on the field of battle, as
your chairman has kindly mentioned.
Why should | not give what is left OF me
now to my country loud and prolonged APP
plause,l and for my country's force? Why
am / here, L ask myself agatha demo-
crat? LAUGHTER BY leinage. by tradi-
ton. by father and forefathers. from the
beginning of the government to this hour,
q democrat? Why am / here? Certainly
not because take any particular interest
In tariff, which makes my friend Howard
SO enthusiastic 1Laughter.l There are
many differences of opinion between the
republican party and myself and between
your illustrious candidate for president
and myself. and the tariff is one of them.
But, i say, III my house IS on IRE, should L |
stop and ask the flrcnen who came to put
IL out what they thought about the tariff?
Laughter and applausc.l Gen. Howard |
can keep his tariff notions and salt them |
down, and will salt mine down. laugh |
teri IA voice: / will go you'll But feel |
as your great Douglas. when ne wrote TO |
Lincoln Offering his services to save the |
union and flag: let me and my children |
have country 10 live in, and we will settle |
all political differences afterward,' Pro- |
y l..
read the Chicago platform with some |
scliciudc. ] had read great many demo- |
cratic platforms: l had stood on a good |
many of them. but ] was unable 10 recog- |
ni2e in the last Chicago platform any |
trace of the democracy once knew. TAp- |
plause.l | read about silver from the free
silver platform. | read about pcpulism |
from the populistic platform. ] read about
anarchy and mob rule-l won't say from |
any platform ever framed In this country. /
because UP to the day OF the Chicago plat I
form. no party in this country ever dared /
present for the approval az the American |
people thc doctrines Of anarchy. repudia-
tion. and mob rule tApplause.l
Not Good Policy for America.
81 read, as | told you, something about
silver. did not reid any recognized IDEAS
OF American finance 4 very good Plat
form for Mexico, about silver, for that
country is on free silver basis because 1t
cannot be anything else. IL would like TO
be on a gold basis, but ii cannot be. 4
platform that would be very well for Rus
sia, which is on free silver basis, because
for many years ii could not do otherwise. |
but II is struggling very hard to put itself
on gold standard platform. y very good
platform for the East Indies, or for China
But are we to go there 10 learn finance for
America?
MY old democratic friends are extreme
~ indignant IN these days that we should
have anything to do with England in the
way of money, but they do not seem to
have any objection at all to standing on
the same basis with China and Japan and
India and countries far more removed
from our civilization than England. I am
no great lover of England because England
Is not a very good friend of the United |
States. Not in financial matters, because
in trade there is no friendship: interest
controls the world OF commerce. and moth
ing but interest cen control II. The irri-
tation between England and America is |
political: their trade relations are more
intimate than those of any other two ma
tions In the world. But notwithstanding
this fact, we have had more difficulty In
settling our controversies with England
than with all the rest of the world put to-
gcther, and the volumes of our diplomatic
history when. written will -abe occupied +
nine-tenths Of them, byS-fhe discussion -
that we have had with England In regard
10 political questions. Nevertheless. trust
better days are coming; hope before die1
TO see treaty signed referring for all time
and forever every controversy between Is
the two branches OF the Anglo-SaXon race
to boards of impartial arbitration. lGreat
and cheering.l Little, as you see.
my political sympathies may go out TO
yet | recognize the fact that
there is very much in our institutions. in
our laws, in our ideas and habits and ways
Of thought, very much in common. And
our interests, commercial and financial,
are so interviewer, and the laws of trade
and commerce and of destiny have re-
quired It and made 1t inevitable, that 1t
be surprising to any intelligent
man that both OF these great commercial
nations. the two greatest in the world, are
standing to-day, as they have heretofore
stood and will ever stand, upon n great
standard, for their common interest and
tGreat applause and cheer
Ing.1
Challenge to Mr.. Bryan.
'Why should we go to silver countries to
learn finance? Is 1t in the interest of the
wase-earners2 / challenge Mr.. Bryan to
show me a country that stands on silver
basis where the workman receives one
fifth of the wages given to-day to the
American workmen. IApplause.l The