The San Francisco call., 1896-10-11

honor which her own misguided sons seek
| to cast upon her fair face. Thank, heaven,
| these deluded ones are few. The mass OF
American voters will undoubtedly rise In
| their m light and with the power of the bal
| lot guide. our country's destlnies into the
path of general prosperity and National
| honor"
/ rewarded by a loud and sustained burst OF
| cheering.
! The chairman announced that ex-Con-
gresham Frank X Schoonmaker of New
Jersey was to have spoken, but owing TO
| the lateness of the hour-it being after IL
his address would be postponed
| Cries of mo. no." go ahead" and
"Schoonmaker," with much cheering,
greeted this announcement, until Mr..
FELTON, was constrained to say:
''All right; | take it all back. Mr..
ScEoonmaker will speak.
The ex-Congressman was very brief In
opening his remarks :4e said:
am reminded by this evenings meeting OF
the old story of two oysters 1t is said that
once upon time an oyster, dressed IN his
Sunday best, sailed forth en- route to church
fair. AS he turned corner he ran against an
oyster friend, who he discovered was bound
for the same place.
the social may as well go home again. What
business have two oysters in the stew served
at q church fair?"
| feel pretty much as that oyster did Mr..
Butterworth mas stated my dearest principles
so clearly and so well that have nothing to
add, except my hearty Endorsement OF every
word he said. time in American history has
now come when new alignment OF parties is
imperatively demanded-a time when all
decent, respectable and honorable voters of
| this country should go upon one side and leave
the dishonest ana improvident and those who
would attempt to get something for nothing.
upon the other. If such an alignment
be made, and it seems to be the duty
of every person to bring 1t about, then
when the elections of next fall take place, the
American people will give to the world the
greatest demonstration of political morality
which ever has been witnessed by mankind.
Such an alignment. if made ought 20 array in
this Country at least 10000, 900 of people out
| of the whole 100000 upon the side of the
Nations honor and against the side OF the Ma
tfon's dishonor
If such an alignment takes place these 20,
OJO,OO0 people would practically say to the
world this thing: ''We are poor: we have had
| three years OF hard times, largely because We
have been either betrayed by our Government
or because through our Governments incom-
potency our business has been taken away
| from us aud been given to the Old World. We
are poor as consequence of this. None
| of us is earning a living and none of US
| is making living, and we are people who
| live generously, and we all need more than We
| ever needed before. Now, we have the power
| by suffrage to scale down our debts; we have
| the power by suffrage to thoroughly repudiate
| tleln IL we cDOOSe, anu not Only nave we the
power to repudiate or scale them oSn, but we
have the temptation to do this thing because
of the unnatural distress which we are to-day
| suffering and have suffered for three years
| Still. we are Americans, and we utterly refuse
| to repudiate one farthing or to scale down our
debts one cent"
If 70,000,000 people OF this country out of
the 72,000,000 represented by the votes cast
at next November's election should make this
declaration, it would be such an exhibition OF
morality as would astound even the Christian
nations of the Old World and make pagan ma
tions wonder what 1t is that makes.Christians
good. After such an exhibition OF mo-
rality as that can any one doubt that any
person in the Old World who has pound or
shilling to in vest would rather invest it
| among us Americans than any where else in
this whole world? So that, if the question
were not one of integrity and of honor and of
patriotism, it would still be one of profit, for
such an exhibition of political morality would
pay better than any single action which the
Americans, as nation, have ever performed
in the face of mankind.
Amid the plaudits OF the vast audience,
Mr.. SHOEMAKER resumed his seat, and,
after kind word of parting from Mr.. Fell
ton, the vast assent blage broke up with
three cheers for Mckinley and Hobart and
for the speakers of the evening