Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1896-10-29
SHALL We WAIT9
For EngIand's Consent Before
Restoring Good Times
in This Country.
J. NJ. Quinn Delivered an Ele-
giant Address to a Large
Audience.

The Armory was packed 70 The doors
Wednesday. to hear J. n. Quinn Of
Butte, Mont, spsak on the money quss.
tion. The band was out and plsysd
several SELECTIONS before The meeting
and were oomplimentsd By Mr.. Quinn
during his speech. The speaker vss
introduced BY n. D. Williams aud spoke
in part % follows:
The republican osators toll you that IL
ths frss coinage Of silver u restored, you
will b paid for your whsat 10 50 cont
dollars, and shsn in tho next breath they
ssy that free coinage would double the
profits Of the mine owners. The two
ere contradictory and cannot both bs
true. II, % We claim, tree coinage will
restore the former equality Of the metals,
then there can be no such thing % 50
cent dollars. It 10 not true that Mon.
tans and the other mining states are
more interested in this question than
you are in the agricultural states. do
not wish to boast, but Montana is not
suffering from the hard times on account
of the demonstration of silver, in the
way that North Dakota has suffered from
the forcing down OF the price Of your
wheat. It is true that If the silver
mines now idle were in operation We
could give employment to an army Of
men who are now idle in the agricultural
states, but we have no idle men of our
own because as soon ~ our men get out
Of work they leave the state. Living
costs too much for idle men to live in
Montana. We believe in paying good
wages and in Butte We have the best
paid, best dressed and best fed lsborers
in the world. Our city ordinance fixes
tho compensation Of laborers at 93 per
day. We ore not askine for help for
our own cake, but By the restoration of
the free coinage Of alvsr we can put
OO,000 men TO work IN Montana and The
other mining states within OK wesks,
and North Dakots will Get jnst . mueh
benefit . wG shall, because that means
over half . million mouths TO b ted.
and W look 10 the agricultural states to
supply the food. It means that we will
need your dour, your butter, your eggs,
your cheese, your meat and your other
products to feed this half million people,
and yet these republican orators from
the east try to make you believe that
your interests and ours are sntagonistic,
and that it would lmpoverish You to
have Montana prosperous.
We have heard . great deal from the
republican orators in thus campaign
about the Mexican dollar, but it 10 sn in
suit 70 compsre..the United States to
Mexico a. if the only difference between
us was that they had free coinage while
we were deprived Of that benefit. II
that wss tho only difference then by the
the adoption Of free coinage in thus ooun-
try and the adoption Of the gold standard
in Mexico or China, the Chinese and the
Mex,cans would become our superiors il
this republican argument was true.
I have read q speech in which your
Congressman johnson expresses his fear
that if free coinage be adopted the saw
ing banks and the insurance companies
will pay their obligations in silver and
still have more silver left than there 10 in
the whole world today, which he is
afraid would be great injustice to the
widows and orphans, For some reason
it is always the case that few weeks be-
fore election the Office holder is very
anxious about the welfare Of the widow
and the orphan. Congressman johnson
is entitled to the prize as the champion
mathematician, and ::you ought to give
him leather medal. Until I read his
figures on this point, could never un.
derstand how he figured out that he
could raise 80 cent wheat, which state
ment Of his has done North Dakota so
much harm in the east.
Another argument extensively used
by the Roldbug papers, Is that free COIN
age would raise the price of what the
man has to buy. The New
York world in an imprisoned appeal to
the operatives of New England, asked
them III they intended to vote for free
coinage which would raise the price Of
wheat" What are You North Dakota
farmers going to do? Are you going to
vote against free coinage and raising the
price Of wheat? The truth is that when