The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-08-29


TO you-that not one Of these professor
In foreign universities, not one OF thes
economists whose name and fame ar
| worldwide, and not one of those grea
financiers who have given days and year
Of thought to this subject, not one, ant
nobody except the leaders Of the moderi
Democracy and Populism, has venturet
to advise his own country in Europe 4
undertake that task alone. lAppiause.
The question Is this, and nothing more
Shall the United States, alone, under
take the free and unlimited coinage OF sill
yer at a ratio of 10 TO 1? "a few erie,
of ''yes' and no." and repeated cries OF
mo- Now. see you gentlemen oyel
there who called Eyes," and you gentle
difference of opinion upon this subject
Qaughterl, and to you over there wht
come to listen to me, you will listen dis
passionately, you will digest my argu
ments, and / hope finally that by the
time you have done so thoroughly that
you will be inclined to shout mo" with
the gentlemen who responded when you
responded. Cheering and applause.)
| Now, let us be entirely good-natured
about this. l am going to try to give
you the facts, and repeat it, the issue
Is whether the United States shall at
tempt to do that thing alone, In the
face of the controlling fact that every
| civilized commercial nation upon the face
| of the earth, except the Central Amer
| lean and South American states, years
| ago and before we did abandoned IT ut
terly And if shall succeed in con-
/ vincing any of our friends that we are
not in position to do ii without infiicting
upon the country and upon us all injuries
which it will take n generation TO re-
pair. | shall be more than rewarded
| for the pains that have taken, the OBJ
| servations that l have made, the studies
| have gone through and the reflections
Which have brought me to my present
convictions. (Applauseo
IT, Shall We Go Backward or Forwardf
Shall we, for our own interests stand
along with those nations with which we
have classed ourselves and who are lead
ing the march of humanity, or shall we
20 with Mexico. South America, China
and Japan. the rearward half of the
great army of human progress, and join
those imperfect and rudimentary civiliZa-
tons, which are an ocular demonstra-
ton that no nation ever undertook alone
the coinage of free silver that did not de-
prive itself of gold entirely. (Applauseo
And you have but to glance upon the
map of your school boy or school girl,
your little son or daughter, to see the
fact recorded there for the education of
youth, to know that every one of those
nations stands upon lower scale of
progress than the nations which have
declared the policy upon which the Unit
ed States now stands.
My fellow citizens. the warnings of his
tory are all against it. The present ex-
amples of nations who singly are endeav-
oring TO sustain themselves under n single
standard forbid us to enter upon vOy-
age upon. l was going to say, untried
waters, but no, upon voyage which we
can plainly see other nations are making
at the present time, where we can plain
ly view rocks of distress, the shoals and
quicksands of their course from the Sc
cure mainland upon which the American
people now stand. and from which our
opponents are attempting to lure them
by false lights and false alarms. Gap
plause.)
Now we have got to take facts exactly
as they are. We are not dealing with
glittering and glowing gencralties. We
are administering society and human con-
Germs; society, a being perfectly concrete.
infinitely practicable. somewhat selfish.
and l am going to appeal to the selfish
ness of this audience to know whether
they will assist in bringing about that
from the arts Of the gentlemen who are
attempting to mislead them.
Now. my friends. the world is divided
just as sharply rs it Is by oceans and
mountain chains. between the gold coun-
tries. who employ concurrently with gold
more silver money than all the silver
countries contain or circulate ZAP
plause.) say that the gold countries
of this world. including the United States
land call them gold countries for the
purpose not of definition. but of clear.
ness of eXpressiOn), employ and circulate
more silver than all the silver countries
of the world employ. contain or circulate.
l make another proposition. I appeal
TO- history and to contemporary facts
free coinage country is on n silver basis.
Isn't that so? (Cries of "Yes.") I make
another statement for you to think Of.
for | am not going to elaborate It'll am
going to get into the figures pretty soon
every gold country uses silver and gold
tions. Isn't that so? Cries Of "Yes.')
Isn't that so in the United States?
Cries of "Yes.') In France? Voices
"Yes.o l make another statement for
your calm and cool reflection, that no sill
yer standard country has anv gold mon
ey whatever. (Applause.) Don't take
my word for it. Go and investigate this
subject: l say that no silver country has
any gold money whatever. and you can
search from Mexico to Cape Horn and
find that this statement is correct.
Another stntement-and ! make it up-
on sense of my responsibility after an
exhaustive examination of statistics. in
vestigations and records-that in every
silver standard country wages are pressed
down to the very minimum of n wrctched
subsistence. II is so in Mexico. il Is So
in japan, II is so in South America. I
say that in every silver country wages
are pressed down to the very minimum
of wretched subsistence.
The Reasons.
Now II it is true Il will not 90 into
the reasons for it), but IL Il il true ms n
concrete. absolute fact. That no silver
country. no country which has adopted
the silver standard has any gold circuln-
ton whatever, I say that It follows that
the only practicable bimetnllism on the
nlanct is by the nations with which the
United States has classed itself. and II
is this himetallism in the United States
which the new Democracy and Popu-
lism are cndcavoring to destroy by sub
stituting silver recommendation. IAN
plause.) The bimetallism which this
country and the nations of which I have
spoken enjoy is the bimetnllism of fact
and actual enjoyment extending to that
full extent which human Judgment hui
man experience, human apprehension
| call 1t what YOU will--teach is the pro-
portion in which the metals can be en-
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