Evening star., 1896-08-25

Gratis with that bill. The one they finally
passed was a vastly different one. But the
mischief had been done. The shock had
stopped business. Then came the income
tax, unconstitutional and destructive, de-
clared so by the Supreme Court, and then
the attendant deficiency. That deficiency
has been breeding sore ever since. That
deficiency and the way 1t has been man
aged has scared and frightened our people
beyond all reason. What are four hundred
million dollars increase of debt to a nation
SO rich that one of its big railroads on half
its lines can lose twice as much as paid the
whole revenue of good Queen Bess in the
days of her highest glory. and never pass
coupon or refuse a dividend? Why has
this four hundred millions frightened us so?
Because the government has refused either
to raise revenue or separate the deficit
from the redemption of greenbacks Had
the House revenue bills of last session
passed Congress and become a law, the
country. with full hope in republican ad-
ministration in the near future. would then
have started upward ard onward.
But the condition has been peculiar.
We have a three-cOrnered triangular gov
ernment- Everybody has been in the
minority. and hence nobody has had any
responsibility. and We have drifted sailless
and rud dierless. but, thank God, with a
stout ship. stouter than ali the winds that
blow When next you put that ship IN
commission. had yCu not better have a
harmonious captain and crew. all of them
men who have been to sea? 1 know that
the four gentlemen, MesSrS Bryan and
Watson and Bryan and Sewall have been
at sea for many years. but that is a diff
ferent thing.
Confidence Must De Restored.
eve must restore confidence. How can
We restore confidence? First by putting
anarchy down and all manner of disturb
ance. Peace and a stable government are
the first necessity. This is borrowing
and a lending world. No amount of de-
nunciarion of money lenders. no wild talk
about Wall street, which, by the way, is
the greatest money borrower in the world
will ever put down that fact. Enterprises
are carried on by the united confidence of
men of money and men of brains Bring
this thing home to yourselves and then
You will understand it. If you had money
or any other capital you had earned your
self or your father had left TO you. or
even II you had won in the luck of lot
terry. would you let it out to everybody on
earth who was liable to give you back
only part of it and want to call it square?
IF you Were a business man. would you
make things a gold basis and sell them
on credit to a people who We're trying to
see If they could not pay you on a silver
basis
with the defeat of the Bryan-Watson-
Sewall combination will come certainty of
the repayment of capital borrowed at
home and abroad. certainty that business
enterprises will have firm foundation
and 1897. with its attendant years of sue
cess. Will lift us to another height of sue
cess where perhaps another set of misguid-
ed citizens. forgetful of the past, will way
lay us, and We shall have to beat them
again.
Remember that this contest today is
not between bimetallism and monometal-
lism. That subject would bear discussion.
This contest is between silver monometal-
lism. which We have not, and gold mono
metallism. which we have. That subject
will not bear candid discussion.
Not "a Sectional Contest.
This contest is not between the east and
the west There can be no such contest.
Our interests are identical. With their
growth comes our growth. We cannot so
on alcne- We have sent our children out
there. Our money is there. No misfortune
can happen to them that does not happen
to US. We here have full esteem for the
pioneers of the west. and rejoice in their
prosperity. Every wise man agrees that
beyond the Mississippi lies the great wealth
of the days to come. In the final develop
ment of this wealth We are all interested,
and We in the east are not the unwise men
70 believe that We are not concerned in the
progress and future of the west. UE-
founded sectional differences are without
excuse. and it will be woe to those who try
to foment them. The west is too vigorous
not to find out the truth, and it is too val
liant not to follow it when found. What the
west needs is loanable capital which will
develop its resources. No part of this
Union is so concerned in restoring conii-
dence as the undeveloped territory. The
south, too. has a similar interest But
they are busy down there just now assert
ing their rights and keeping down the ne
gro. If they could be persuaded to look
after their interests. what happy country
this might be-
Better Times Coming.
In conclusion. Mr. Reed said:
These financial matters are governed by
natural laws. and take their course like the
rolling Of the round earth or the glitter of
the stars Suppose a man were created
full grown and set upon a solitay earth
facing the dawn. AS the panorama of
sunrise, the march of the fountain OF
light across the sky. the red sunset and the
black darkness came over him, what could
he make OF the termination of the gorgeous
pasentry of the skies? Nothing but dark
ness. desoiation and death, and a wild call
ing on the unknown gods 10 help him. But
the man who has from earliest boyhood
seen the sun disappear into the red west to
keep up another day may be ignorant of
kepler's laws and of Galilee's faith but he
KNOWS no greater certainty on earth than
the day follows the night. Il man who has
only seen 1893 might well wonder and call
for rescue. but We who have seen 1873 and
have read of 1s2J and 1851 in England and
ISL i'll America. know that We shall as
Suredly rise again to business and pros
perlty as that tomorrow sun shall rise
BE not deceived by false prophets. In
the west they tell the people that Maine IS
falteriHg. You and I know she was never
so steadfast- Here in the east they tell
us the west Is blazing with silver crosses
and IL crowned with silver thorns but
when the tug of battle comes the gallant
west. pcopied by our children will show to
the world that brothers true and tried
who nave fought SO many fights, shoulder
10 shoulder. in the great conflict of human
progress. will never be separated from each
other, or from that great party around
which clusters all the glories of thirty of
the most illustrious years of this country's
history"