The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-08-03

new YOrK papers were worse yet, but
don't suppose that much oaii be expec ted
from the honest sheets of a city that
would have been considered a plague spot
in old Sodom or Gomorroh.
l have not been as severe with the re-
porters as l should have been, and as
their tranegressions would Justify, as
their ahappy suggestion OF calling our
school bf instrGctidh Sunday school in
oliues me to DO B&eroifnl We read that
praise God, and in this instance what
was intended for a reproach will turn
out to be a means of grace.
Then Farmer Mclaughlin said he was
ready for questions, and if nobody had
any ne would ask one. Then he read an
editorial from the Boston journal and
asked if there was anybody in the room
who believed. Nobody said so, SO Mr..
Mclaughlin said he knew
IT WAS FALSE.
1t was an article on Brazil, and its
financial history and Mr.. NJ had copy
Of some report of British commission
which apparently oontroverted the
Journals statement. He is going to
write to the editor of the journal and
point to where he is wrong, SO the matter
will be Strengthened out all right.
The questions commenced in few
moments and Mr.. Mclaughlin, resting
on the laurels of his opening effort called
on Mr.. W. H. Sargent to answer, but
Mr.. Sargent at first declined, saying he
had talked good deal the week before.
But as the questions came thicker and
thicker from scoff1ng gold bugs William
H., oouldn't stand it and leaped into the
arena with 16 to stride and opened
the silver batteries and it was Sargent
show from that time onward. In fact
Mr.. Sargent appears to DO the whole
bone and sinew of this campaign of
education, and with occasional brief in
tel walls when some other members OF the
consulting faculty uncovered TRUTH"
he stopped only for breath and questions
for two hours.
The questions discussed covered tre-
mend field. 1t is impossible without
occupying a whole newspaper to give
anything like a report Of the matter that
was gone over. Statements and questions
fell over ench other in such
LIGHTNING FASHION
that 1t was impossible to caloh but few
of the gems Of thought.
The burden of Mr.. Sargent's argument
seemed to be that "free silver at 16 to ~
would mean higher priced commodities,
higher real estate, higher everything but
money, and money cheaper. The more
dollars the better, and the more dollars
the cheaper the dollars Rents, pro-
visions, coal, wheat flour everything
would be higher except money, and that
would be cheaper and plenty of it, OF
course the money in the savings banks
would be cheaper, the earnings Of the
laborer would be deprecihted, but that
wouldn't matter. Money would be so
plenty he could get more easy enough.
He couldn't buy SO much with it, but
there would be SO much money that
there would be plenty Of manufacturing,
plenty of work, a good price for the
farmers wheat and everybody would be
happy except the blood suckers of Wall
street. He was of the opinion wages
would increase proportionally with the
ohsapening of the dollar, but admitted
wages would be slower in increasing
than comm Oddities in rising.
Gold had few strong friends and they
drove some golden nails into the silver
shield that had not been removed when
school broke up.
D,1eI.o~ MoTrr-L1... o.,u..xssl
you couldn't ruin this educational in
stitution
ON WIND
and invited the various 'bngs'' to chip.
One scoffer wanted to know if Brother
Nc would have any constitutions acruples
against accepting n national bank bill
which they had been declaring "had
nothing behind itl' The chairman said
no, btit the scoffer kept his bill, so the
Pepulist campaign was saved the defling
intrusion Of d bank note which the
issuing bank, never did, never would
and never intended to redeem"
China and it's silver policy played quite
an important place in the discussion.
After adjournment somebody suggested
that as it was the fad now to instruct
Chiuamen in Sunday school work it
won Id he good idea to get them inter-
este1 In the Populist school too. 1t
would be great card. An exposition by
a native Celeotia1 on congenial subject
say: "So.sorry oame".. or 'Why did
I ever leave home. mother. and free
silver" would be very edifying."
1t was suggested that probably the
reason the western silver congressman
and senators had invariably voted for the
prevention of Chinese immigration. was
that they thought it cruel to allow them
to leave the benefoent atmosphere of a
silver country of cheap and plentiful
dollars, in the belief that they were CO.
ing to land of the free, where they
would soon grow rioh, when in reality
it was land suffering from the iniqui.
tous gold standard its throat in the
clutch of the murderous banks, and blood
cuclYiI,ry copifa1iot1 and yph hare .,n1v tho