The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-02

been known in the history of this coun.
| try. That handsome young conoress-
man, George Fred Williams, ia going
up and down through New England
preaching that reputation is honest.
Even democrats ought to pray over
| such a statement as that before they
cast their votes on the third of Novem-
Der next" daughter and applause.)
1.-The democrats say we haven't
money enough, but all we need to do,
even if such a statement is true, is to
adopt the spirit of Mr.. McKinley's let
ter of acceptance, published to-day,
which says it is better to open the mills
of this country to the labor of the
United States than to open the minis
OF America to the silver of the world,
and we will have money enough. Gap
plause.) To the working men of this
country say that the price of labor is
the last thing to be raised. They can
raise the price of your rent, the price
of your shoes, your clothing, but the
price of your labor will only be raised
through strikes, lock-outs, sorrow and
suffering"
Speaking of the silver dollar or its
equivalent in paper, Mr.. Gallinger said:
1.-The democrats say that it is the stamp
of the government on dollar bill that
makes it good, but tell you it is the
promise to redeem is what makes it
good this world over. l agree with
Bob Ingersoll when he says it is not
the stamp of the government that makes
bank note good, but because it can
say every morning know that my re-
deemer liveth.' If the populists should
ever get into power they would give us
money that you would have to take to
market in bushel basket, while you
would bring home your provisions in
your vest pocket. (Great applause and
laughter.) The United States govern
ment will pay its debts in the same
kind of money they were contracted in.
Take the pensions. believe in them
and 1 have worked for them, and it was
one of the proudest moments of my
life when just now your distinguished
townsman, General Stephen Thomas,
took me by the hand and said, 1 never
met you, but know you for what you
have done for the soldiers (Long-
applause.)
"Let there be danger of silver
in the United States
and there would be run on every
national bank and every savings bank |
in this country. The millions of
American securities held abroad would |
be dumped upon the market, and
financial panic, such as we have never
seen, would occur. 1t is fortunate in |
this campaign that the republicans are |
not fighting their battles alone. Thou |
sands upon thousands of good reliable |
democrats, who are democrats still, and |
will be when this battle is over, will |
vote this year for Mckinley and Ho-
bart. Bryan is not only a free silver |
man, but he is free-trader. He voted |
in the senate for free wool and free
granite. Remember this, men of Barre |
and Montpelier. He voted to strike |
down your most important industry.
In Manchester, N. H., where 1 was the
other day, there are eight thousand
men and women out of employment,
begging their bread to-day. 1 tell you
from the repeal of the Mckinley bill |
than came from the Civil War. l ap-
peal to you, citizens of this the greatest |
nation onthe face of the earth, to be sure
you cast your vote right in Novem-
Der next. 1t is the proud boast of |
England that her morning drum-beat
sounds around the globe, and that the
sun never sets on her possessions. |
Some wag has said this was because |
God was afraid 10 trust England in the
dark; but be that as it may, we are the |
greatest nation on the face of Gods |
green earth to-day, and we, as citizens
Of this country, ought 10 stand by it in
every emergency. The loyalty and
patriotism of the American people are
in this fight, and that loyalty and pat
riotism will take care of the republican
majority next November"
The meeting closed with three cheers
for the speakers, for Grout and Fisk,
and for Mckinley and Hobart.