The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-10-12

tics Will show 1t, II you are to pay in
creased wages, how are you going to do It?
Mills are standing idle because OF the
shadow of the Chicago convention is upon
it. What would the substance be? In one
month the Pennsylvania railroad lost 81
250,OOO In a minute To men of brains this
means something One candidate says that
he has studied this matter, and II free sill
ver carries there will be furry" That
means panic. Mills will be
closed. Have they not been closed
long enough now? We want no moro pan
les in this country This is big country,
but there is a limit to what even 7O,O0O.OO0
people can do.
When We try the free silver coinage at
1G to /, when the world is selling and buy
ing it at 80 to /, We will fail.
If the rest of the world can teach us any
thing, then let us learn. While the United
States is great in wealth 1t Is greater In
possibilities. This new wealth can be Sc
cured only by the use Of active wealth.
Men pay 100000 to open a silver mine be-
fore they get a dollar out. The United
States to-day has not one-tenth the capital
in the United States necessary to develop
its vast wealth. There are people ready TO
loan us the money and take the risk. Now
some of you say that they will take the
money, but they will try TO pay it back In
JV-ceut dollars.
We have reached a point where to de-
velop the United States requires a great
deal Of money. Can We get IL under such
circumstances? Can We force the world
to take our silver. There is a rule that
every man will pay his debt In the cheap
est kind CT money which under the law
viii satisfy his debt.
By the free coinage law we go to a sill
yer basis We want to get az near as
possible to fixed quantity for standard.
Gold is the nearest to it that we can get.
and We have had it for sXty-two years,
MisfOrtunes have come to this country,
not because of this, but of other things,
The Democratic party proved itself inconl-
peteut. They lad no common ideas,
They were held together by the one Idea.
that they were opposed to the Republican
party. When they got into power they
were governed by the majority, and the
majority came from the South. and
southern men as a whole never had a
business education. The South has not
hal business; it is limited in it's number
Of railroads.
The Northern Democrats and the South
ern Democrats did not agree on what was
the best business policy. the elections
since then have shown the Northern
Democrats to be rebllting the Democratic
maIoriiies. They have remained at hotie.
The workingmen in this contest should
remember before they divide that some
-h. h. l1I ,n tyt5
Is secured then they can fght over it.
1t will be for the benefit Of this country
to increase the wages of the sslary-earn
ers Of this country. Let them be in
creased JUS. as rapidly as the wOrkmen
and salary-earn.rs learn to appreciate the
luxuries Of this life 1t is claimed that
times ars hard, They have been worse.
A few years ago it would have been i'm
possible to have collected such an audi
ence as the one assembled here tonight.
We are going to continue to progress.
When We have disposed Of this question
We viii have taken long Gtep toward
progress.
1t would not hurt to have a good bust
ness tariff. Then we would have ten or
a dozen years Of prosperity and then we
would do something foolish and cause an
other depression. But each time the
wave Of prosperity is higher and the de-
presssion is lower. Judging OF the fu-
increasing prosperity, which will carry us
higher than We ever were before.
WILLIS AND HOFFECKER.
Congressman Willis in answer to cals
made few remarks in which he made