The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-10-17
HARRISON HEARD.
Declares No Legislation Can Change the
Laws of Trade.


Declares No Legislation Can Change the
Laws of Trade.
Ex-President Harrison spoke at Music
hall, Cincinnati, October Z, to u mass
meeting of enthusiastic republicans so
large as to be unable to gain admission
TO the hall. When Mr.. Harrison mr.
rived the applause was unbounded. It
seemed as IL il would never stop.
McDougall. president. introduced Gen.
Harrison in n few words. Gen. Har-
rison said, in part:
Fellow Citizens: Let us be comfortable
I have had n suspicion for some time that
has settled tonight into a conviction. II Is
impossible to try TO keep the presidency
very long out OF Ohio. In this compaign
the republican party is fortunate in the
fact that II presents to the voters of the
United States ticket that in its first name
- great and wholly unexceptionable Gov.
Mckinley. who was named by the conven-
ton at st. Louis for president. is q man
whose personal character is irreproachabie.
Gov. Mckinley began his public life
by Offering himself when youth for the
defense of his flag In battle, and by bear
ing himself In scenes of danger and death
with intrepiiity and heroism He has had
q long public service in the congress of the
the front In that great body of the house of
representatives, occupying its most inn
portant positions in committee, and ac-
curing on the floor of the house party
leadership. lie is a marked man. Few
men can more forcibly or more attractive
L. address their fellow citizens. but he is
more and something else than an orator.
lie is man of action. and his actions are
before US.
THE second man on the national ticket
IS man of the highest character, man
who has conducted successfully large and
important business, man of fidelity,
and who holds in high measure rne con-
fdence of his neighbors and friends.
1T is n historical fact that when the
republican administration went out we
were in a time of great prosperity: the
country was prosperous to an extent that
never before had been attained. 1t is his
iorically true that since the democratic
party has been brought to leglslate the
country has gone step by step from this
pinnacle OF prosperity to the very depth
of business depression and distress.
las republicans the remedy we propose
Is that "A harmonious, well-adjusted, rev.
and protective tariff shall
he substituted Iapplausel; that the rev.
enues OF the government shall be made
a adequate 10 IT'S expenditure. We propose
that the necessity for bond sales to re-
plenish diminished treasury and TO re-
store a wasting gold reserve shall be rem
ediec ~ filing the treasury OF .hc United
States with definite revenue. We pro-
pose that the money of the country.
whether in It's various forms. silver and
gold, shall every dollar OF il be kept at
parity with every othe: dollar. We pro-
pose that there shall be no distrust ac-
The dollars paper or coin,
that this government enIits or authorizes.
We believe that these things will restore
the prosperity we have lost.
I'VE propose to maintain intact against
every assault the constitutional right 9nd
duty of the president of the United States
TO enforce all nationaI laws without ask
ing the consent of the governor OF any
state. We propose that the federal judi
cia,y shall be kept in the fun and digni-
fed discharge of every duty that the con-
stitution contides to II.
Now II is proposed TO coin silver dollars
at sixteen to one when the commercial
ra ito is thrty-one TO one. These men say
they are followers of Jefferson. MIR. Bryan
says we signed, proclaimed and made good
upon the battlefield the Declaration of In
We whipped the British at
Yorktown, and could do il at any appoint
ed place. Now, being a nation so power
fui, he says. are We to be Britains slaves
when we have cast off our political
shackles?
We'll, my friends. there are some things
that human power cannot do. The indi-
vidual cant do 1t. Nations cannot do IL.
and one of those things is 10 Fix the market
value of anything. Congress cannot fla the
market value of silver or gold, any
more than It can fix the market
value of wheat. There are laws of trade.
and all the legislatures In the world cannot
annul them. Now. Bryan's proposition is
that we shall have bimetaliism of Doth
gold and silver at the ratio OF sixteen TO
one: in other words, chat we shall have
by law a proclamation that man shall
give a dollars worth of something for
50 cents worth of something else. It is abb
solutely innossible. !"