The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-16


| respect I am reminded of the Mississippi
boiler and a 9-foot whistle. Every time he
| blew the whistle he exhausted the steam
| and stopped the boat.
In no campaign, not even those prior to
the war, has there been such grave Ques-
tions at issue as In this one. Today issues
that nre most momentous and Of FAR
reaching influence are at stake. II they
| are decided rightly l believe this country
will enter upon a c0reer Of prosperity that
shall melt away AN Of the delusive theo.
| ries and Ideas which have been advanced
| by our opponents in this campaign. In
the presence of such a grave crisis as con-
| fronts us party lines should sink into IN
| Significance 1t no longer matters whether
a man Is Democrat or Republican,; but
| is he a patriOt--that's the question. When
Sumter was fired upon men forgot that
| they belonged to one political division or
| the other but animated by a common Inn
pulse they went forward to preserve tho
Union. Today, when a blow Is aimed at
social order, Individual honesty and public
| honor it is equally important that they
should forget party and again stand TO-
| gether rs patriots for the good OF their
| country.
am glad to say that all over the United
| States tens of thousands Of Democrats are
standing side by side with Republicans Tor
the preservation Of the integrity and the
| prosperity OF their beloved land.
We are told by the silver advocates
| that because Of what they call a crime
perpetrated in 1873. in the alleged de:
| mOnetization Of silver. We have SUFFERED
| only way to escape these ills and get
! back TO prosperity is to enter at once
| upon the free coinage Of silver al u
| to ].
| Is it true that we have suffered such in
describable ills? Why, my friends. the
period from 1870 to lS90-and l speak OF
those years because they are census years.
and therefore We can give exact figures
| oil h,tf nf hos Uaa
| the alleged crime of lS73-is the most pros
porous period which any nation has ever
| enjoyed in all history from the beginning
| of time down to the present. In those 20
years this nation more than doubled its
| entire savings and Its distributed wealth
In 1870 our total valuation was $500 o.Wo, :.
| OOV: in 1890. 1t was SG5,OOo0 0oo.Wo Was that
| an indescribable i'll? During those years
the increase in the wealth and savings Of
| Great Britain and France and Germany,
with 125,00o,Oc0 of population, was $4,000, !,
| OOD,GOO, and our increase. with only 6o.ooo@9
| of people. was $35.W0VOO,Vn. more than
| that of all those nations put together.
SONIE PERTINENT FACTS.
In lS9: Mr. Mulhall. the great English sta
| tistician, the highest authority on this sub
| 1ect now living, calculates that the earn
lngs of the great empire of Great Britain
| in 1890 were $6,i0OOOO,U and that the
same year were sl2,Uo.OOV.oU. or double
| those of Great Britain. (Applause.) in
1870 there was paid for labor in the United
| States the great sum of $1,000, ,UO.OoV. IN
| other words. the earnings of labor in the
United States In that year We're greater
| than all the earnings of labor and capital
put together In Great Britain, applause J
| London IL said to be the financial center or
| the world, and so 1t is. 1t holds the ac-
cumulated capital of centuries, and yet
| such was our advancing prosperity in this
| country that in the year 1890 We paid to
labor alone in this country more than the
,eipx. ,tS,xyy In ,1 mi n n M
| accumulated wealth in the entire empire
| OF Great Britain.
Why, In that year We were manufac-
turing in the United States one-third Of
| all that was being manufactured In all
the world. one-third in this nation of 3d.
| 01.0OJ of people. With the world contain
ing population of l,5OOOOO,WV We were
making one-third Of the manufactured
products In this country alone and prac-
ticaGSy. as We had little export, We We're
not only making it, but We were using 1t
and consuming 1t. We were the greatest
producers and the greatest consumers that
the face Of the sun has ever looked upon.
In that year the sun as 1t rose over your
Atlantic coast in the morning and spanned
| every day the great arch of this magniti-
cent Republic. and sank at night beneath
| nation actually $S,0OO00O richer than it was
the day before. The American people
| were actually making and storing up, put
ting into savings banks and investments,
combined work of labor and capital more
than a thousand millions OF dollars year,
and vet We are told that that was period
Of indescribable ills, because Of the de-
monetization Of silver in 1873.
| The best-paid, the best-housed, the best
clothed, the best-fed. the best-schooled
people that this world has ever seen! Why,
those years from 5000 miles to l75,O0j
miles, and our railroad tonnage in 1890,
with only, 100000 people was equal to
pie We began a century ago with prac-
tirally nothing. and yet in 1890 we had in
this country one-fifth Of all the savings of
the world.
r,o ,nor1asa 'n" o. -, ~ a.,.. nn osri 81
me lnGreass in tne oeposl5s IN our gay!
isss iSaS Dahs Mi.niM tne periou from is'O 10
iSsv ahtteasea nmtii an 40 tne entire deposit was
post being only % about $50. SO The Savings
OF the We Horking M people increased that Pc
s,oa nr 'i;Tc|TW III GS;v me most complete an.
Hwu,, MI. NJ Snattniah, & 10 tne cnarge Wnien
a'aue' .nat tne ricn are growing rlcher
ana ane poor are growing poorer. Is when
ua we .ememDer tnat tne number OF our saw
thsst nr,na ueposnors ineneasea re- sec curing
dnaoIits dnao IeI'ot py more tnan z.WV"O. ana tne
s,,oh w. Vie M0 o,mer country ever saw
suEm Hrae nLnceht prosperity.
| shS tuese YEARS me condltlOnS were
matnhiess prnsnart,,, pue Wnen am told that this
mas niaieniess prosperity sprang alone from
such M causes: l am minded to answer lit
victory ~ Ticonderono uiI raho ahter tHe sreat
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war led the Green NIo,,nta,r ~ ,me hevoiutionar! h
elorious and man,iaCamt a.so,;,s noHs III .na'
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the capture Of Fort Ticnndapr,ors aud tn .i
and his bovs n,aced the vnnnv 49, an' ~. ne he
Ranuhlic W;hera tha Rr;,,sb as H"s ,,,, ~ tne Sn
fore and 40 WAS verv nrnnar s ot,oe Waeu .he, ne
magnifcnnt ,;otor,, phoi,,,i phopi, aiter tna'
| ,,;as ,,.ns TIA d. .nan EiNus ser
th Eite mas me,o III heishpornG church. and
tha nau,s nrS ,ba n noaS raooh Wy 'nene M ~, ~
The ppuin;t and he tSoutaSS ~ w Was ~, ai
the f.orT bad haan nn tho A,n.riHn, 'e u Ia .aa
thot IL na% .,,ver ,,nt ~, ILL ,ne ~ Siue
arms ,hat ~ raosn III, ~ ,he A.nsrIca. I.i,
;n p,o,,dy .sts om % -. It's iils oNerw W hslili. SIN
r.er S apJ III ~, thas 1 sres s,1oIy nay pesI
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mn trno.ta,,. 5 W III % III pvM. Ss'.ihe vsly
impatient uluer IT. Sdlu, W Oulu you mlnd