The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-23

speaks every day. I used to read him too. He is using the same speech with which he swept that remarkable convention at Chicago off it's feet, and thus these men stole the livery of the party of Jefferson, Jackson Tilden and Cleveland. But what is the crime that these men charge? It is the demone- tization of silver in 1873, That caused the panic of 1893 and '96. The crime of '73.
 "Who are the criminals? Thomas Jefferson, General Jackson, Thomas H, Benton and the men who came after these men, and concurred in their ideas are the criminals. These men are the criminals. There they stand, noble array of men, Who are the men who accuse them? Bryan, the Nebraska broncho; Watson, the untamed Georgia colt, and the sedate Sewall.
 ''Mr. Bryan came to New England and he had to turn his argument as we'll as his coat. He told the men who make the industries of this country that he would, if elected, make the sil- yer dollar, which is now worth forty nine cents, worth one hundred cents.
 "Now, let's see. was talking to a man who works on the track, The man said: 'Crowbar Jim and I have talked this matter over. CroWbar Jim says we get a dollar now. If Uncle Sam goes into the free coinage busi- ness and India, China and every other nation in the world dumps all it's sil- yer in here Uncle Sam will bust.
 MT. Bryan says that we do not want to follow any old worn-out European country. Well, I say we do not want worse currency than the old worn out European countries have
 Well, we tried it in continental times, but Bryan says those were our forefathers, they were not born on the Platte. But we tried it from 1860 to 1865 and with Lincoln for president, Grant for general, Farragut for ad- miral and the finest army and navy in the world, but we could not keep the paper dollars above thirty eight cents. It was not until the development of this magnificent country that Uncle Sam resumed specie payments and the dol lar was worth one hundred cents.
 At the close of the war the man who was getting $2 for his days work found that those $2 would buy but sev- enty-five cents worth of the stuff it would buy in 1S60 In other words prices went up about 200 per cent. 1 higher than wages did
 "In 1871 Chicago was burned to the ground. What has this great city done under the gold standard? She has risen from a heap of ashes to ten times her former greatness. MT. Alt geld said that the gold standard had led to the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer
 Now, what was the condition of things in 1873? The legal rate of in- terest was per cent; now it is Az and 5 per cent. The New York Central rail- road paid 8 per cent, now it pays per cent The New York Central 1 charges but one-half the rate of freight to the seaboard that it did then. IT 1873 we paid $100 per month to a loco motive engineer. In 1896 we pay $15t per month. We have been in the throes of hard times. What do we say is the remedy? Go back to the principles 1 that made this country the most pros porous in the world. Go back to these principles. What says Bryan? Wha says Altgeld? They say let's try free silver We'll, they remind me of the ole farmer who swallowed a potato bug and took Paris green to kill it.
 But they say, Give us Is to l.. Wha is there holy about Is to 1? We per l init everyone in this country to wor ship according to the dictates of hi conscience. Now, if anyone wants t, get down on his knuckle bones anC worship Is to 1, why let him do so But where is the divinity that shape. such an end? When Columbus discov. cred America the ratio was 10 to 1. Wh, should we go back on Columbus? Whel 1 the Pilgrims landed the ratio was 13 t, 1. Shall we go back on Carver ant Winthrop? Why, I can see the spirit of these men coming down here ant saying to this Bryan crowd When w said 13 ounces of silver were worth ounce of gold, it was so; but vol frauds, you liars; you want to have ratio of IS to 1 when the actual valu is 32 to 1.
 "The supreme court decided that tn income tax law drawn by the pop ulist congress was unconstitutional For this Bryan, Altgeld and Georg Fred Williams want the supreme cour abolished.
 There are two places where the poo man and the rich man must meet ol equality. In the secret ballot box anC the court room. The toiling masse should always sustain the suprem court of the United States.
 According to Bryan and Altgeld it you keep store, sweep it out your self, lock it up, build the fires, etc. you are toiler. If you hire a boy t to this you are an oppressor. Thirt. years ago the chairman of your tow committee was page in the assembl, at Albany. I was an assemblyman | According to MT. Bryan, MT. Macdon aid should still be a page. But, thanl | God, America knows no classes. MI | Macdonald has risen to a competency He is respected throughout your state He is an honored state official and al because he lives in America and not il Bryanica. We know no oppressors il this country.
 "All the witnesses Bryan calls upol arise and condemn him; but not st with the gallant major down there a his home in Canton. When Mckinley (eheering and cries of Good! Goodi