Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-18
ADEMOCRAT TO REPUBLICANS
JUDGE TRIMBLE ADDRESSES THE
JAMES G. BLAINE CLUB.
Convincing Argument in Refutation
of the Free Silver Heresy-SOme
of William j. Br!an's State
mcnts Refuted.

The obliteration Of party lines when the
honor of the country is concerned was for
chilly illustrated last night when Hon. ].
Med. Trlmble. a lifelong and prominent
Democrat. delivered a speech on sound
money before the James G.. Blaine Club At
Turner hall
Hon. J. c. Horton one OF the most ex-
tensiye business men OF the city. made
speech, in which he resented the impress
sion that the people of Kansas as whole
We're a people of regulators. He said that
rhe prosperous farmers who, by industry
and frueality. had acquired homes, We're
not bowling for free silver: it was the
farmers who abandoned their farms to the
cookie burrs and talked politics, Mr.. Hor
ton declared :hat what the people wanted
was confidence and not calamity cries. All
Bryan men are not regulators. he said,
but all repudiators for Bryan. Mr.
Horton scored Mir. Bryan for referring 10
the East as the 'enemy's' country, and he
denounced Governor Stone for siurring at
Judge Black, Of this city, whom Mr.. Hor-
ton warmly eulogized
Samuel Epstein. county accountant, made
an exhaustive argument agao't the free
coinage of silver on the terms of the Chi
cago platform. Without the sign of a note
Mr. Epstein quoted whole tables of statis
tics. and showed by cold. hard facts the
absolute absurdity and impossibility OF
coming silver on such terms.
Judge Trimble then introduced and
was given rousing welcome.
81 am not here said Judge Trlmble, 10
talk RepublicaHism; am not here to fuse.
The Bryan wing of my party is engaged IN
the fusion business. There was tlnle
when / was proud 10 stand under the pan
ncr OF Democracy. ] am proud to do 50
Still hut / refused to take my stand under
the banner of the hybrid organization at
%
is presented ! want IL understood that am
for sound money and honest soyernment
when YOU sift il down. but the prospect 10
the debtor of being able to pay his debts
IN 80 cent dollars VINO are debtors: Most
of US borrow and NEST OF us pay promptly.
The ideal debtor is he who never pays
at all.
that are liable TO fuctuate. lsay that no
dollar is dishonest except that which has
dishonest purpose behind II. When the
inch rule and call it a foot. then it can
make dollar out of - cents, and no
men say We Will maintain the parity be
tween the TWO metals. They don't want
parity: they want a cheap dollar nder
under no Obligation TO stand behind the
silver dollar and il would inevitably, as II
always has. fall to It's bullion value We
have trouble enough now 10 maintain the
parity between our various kinds OF money.
With unlimited coinage il would be an ao-
S0lute impoSSlDillty. -
They tell the farmer that prices Will
rise and that he vii! get 81 for his wheat.
How viii II benefit him when he has to
pay 81 for goods that cost him % cents
now? How will il benefit the faborer if
he has TO pay Two prices for the neces>
saries of life unless his employer doubles
his wages, and is the employer liable to do
that? 1t would be sensible to build
mills 10 grind wheat free of charge as TO
build mints to coin all the silver in the
country free of charge.
They say that silver is really a 1Gl-cent.
dollar and that gold is really a 2o9-cent
dollar. Why should the farmer complain,
then, IL he gets 81 for his wheat now: This
free silver is a mere catch phrase and men
who suffer from hard times catch at il as
a drowning man catches at straw. The
government does not discriminate against
silver: ii is the man who refuses to take
silver. The government maintains parity
only by giving the holder of coin notes his
option I'm redemption coin. That is why
dollar worth only SO cents is worth in pur-
chasing power and debt-paying capacity 81.
Prices viii rise not because the value
Of commodities goes up, but because the
collar that buys them will go down. The
collar that the mine owner gets for a3
csats' worth of bullion Will be worth but
x; cents even though it be stamped a dol
lar by the government.
Judge Trimhles address was very warm
ly received and was frequently interrupted
by applause.
Hon. !. NJ. Patterson made a few re-
marks in favor of sound money.