Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-08-27

voice, as / nave OIIGH HcdiN - -
halls of the National House, speaking
for the great doctrines Of the Repuohcan
party: doctrines the success OF when IN
yolve the highest prosperity and welfare
of the American people 80,
The earnest thought OF the people thlS I
wear is directed to the present condluon /
of the country and how best to improve
it. This is the thought OF every nilld
and the prayer OF every soul. NoOoay :
satisfied with our unfortunate business
condition, and the great BODY OF the
people want aid mean TO have chanSe.
What shall the change be! Shall II DC
the continuance Of the present Demo
cratic party, under another !eadershlP
TCries of mo, no. leadership advo-
eating all the policies OF the DefnoeFatic
party which have been injurious 10 Tue
American people?
The wing OF the Democratic party
which controlled the Chicago convention
is lust as much in favor of free trade as
the wing OF the Democratic party III con-
troll of the National Administrator
Most OF those prominent in that conven-
ton were conspicuous leaders IN tie as
sault upon our industries and laocr MADE
bv the Fifty-ihird Congress. They arr
devoted to this un-American and de
structive policy and were chiefly IN
strumentai in putting upon the statute
books tariff legislation which has de-
stroved American manufacturing, cheek
ed our foreign trade and reduced the de-
ruand for the labor of American Work
iuqrnen. 1t stands opposed to reclpro-
citv. too, the splendid results OF wnich
were so sigua1sy manifest during the adj
rniuistration of President Harrison.
The people of this country lave con-
demned the policies OF this party IN these
particulars in every election since 1892.
T1hev are only waiting now for chance
to register again, and all along the line,
unitedly their opposition to this free
trade heresy in the general election next
November. GApplause and cries OF we
can hardly wait till the election,
Maior."l If there was, therefore, but
one question-that of protection against
free trade-we have it just as sharply
drawn and as distinctively presented
through the Chicago Convention wing
of the Democratic party as we had 1t
through the united party in 1892; and
triumph this year for the Chicago plat
form would be signal victory Tor tree
trade and for the continuance OF tree
trade legislation, which has already re-
suited 50 disastrously to the American
people, entailing upon the Government
deficient revenues, upon the people
diminished trade abroad and starvation
| wages at home.
This wing Of the Democratic party be-
lieves not only in free trade, but 1t be-
lieves in free silver at ratio OF 10 TO /.
| TCries of Down with free silver. Hav-
| ing diminished our business, they now
seek to diminish the value of our money.
Having cut wages in two, they want TO
cut the money in which the wages are
paid in two; we will rot have either the
one or the other.
The other wing of the Democratic
party is periodically striving Tor the
| public honor, and is opposed to free sil-
yer because it believes that such policy
would disturb existing values, contract
| the currency of the country by deprivinS
as of the use OF gold, and putting us up
on a silver basis, thus creating wide
spread panic and bringing to every
American interest serious injury.
NY fellow citizens will the people turn
| to that party for relief whose policy has
created the conditions under which we
are suffering and from which they are
CRYING out to be relieved2 Cries OF mo,
no; never"l What we want now IS
business activity and confidence. With
| business confidence restored, money Will
| invest in private and public enterprise,
| and when so invested labor will be well
| rewarded and the toll Of the husbandman
| will be fully requited. Without CONN
| dence money will be boarded and the
| wheels of industery stopped, and what
| that means many of the men before me
know. A voice: eve have lived On
sunshine too long" Then the farmer,
| the merchant, the manufacturer, the
| laborer and those of other useful occupa-
tions alike will suffer.
Gentlemen, confidence lies at the
| foundations Of active and successful
business operations. We cannot restore
| confidence by proposition to debase the
| currency of the Government and scale
| down public and private obligations.
Such a proposition strikes at the very
| life Of credit and business. 1t makes 1t
| harder to get money for legitimate and
| worthy enterprises by deliberately pro
| posing to pay back what has been already y
borrowed in a deprecated currency.
The PeoRls irrespeetiAYa iAYadalitciafi ri ~ ychefhe en-
| which will confiscate the partial earn
1 lUpS Oh ldDOT III lI1c SdtiHSo DdIfNo dii
| building and loan associations, and the
investments of the people in insurance
companies; and do not believe that the
American people will ever consent to
| have the pensions of our soldiers repudi-
| ated by single farthing.
The people want neither free trade nor
| free silver. The one will degrade our
| labor, the other our money. We are OPP
Il .1vyn tSx NJ
them. We have tried the one in modi-
| fed form with disastrous results to every
American horne, and we are strongly OPP
posed to making an experiment with the
other.
My fellow citizens, the people have a
chance this year to take the Wilson law
off the statute books and put a good
American protective tariff law in its
place which will provide adequate rev.
cnues for the Government and gladden.
the home of every American working
man.
They have chance this year to pre-
vent free silver law from going on
the statute books and thus keep our
money OF every kind now in circulation
as good as gold and preserve our nation
al name above reproach. If they do not
improve the chance now, they will not
have another opportunity for four years.
Does the workingman, the farmer, the
manufacturer, want the Wilson law to
remain on the statute books four years
longer? loud cries Of Mo- DO they
want reciprocity, which will give us a
foreign market for our surplus agricul-
tural and manufactured products, to re
main off the statute books for four years
morc1 (Renewed cries Of "No." Do
they want any law enacted which would
compel them to receive for their wages
and products, dollars worth less than
100 cents2 (Cries of "No.") These are
questions which every voter in the coun-
try must answer in his conscience and
by his vote next November.
Gentlemen, what shall the answer be2
(Cries Of ELECT Mckinley" followed by
tremendous cheering.l
The resignation of Hoke Smith, Secrc-
tary of the Interior, which has been in
the hands of the President for the past
five weeks was accepted last Saturday.