Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-10-01

destructive because Il even threatens the
honor OF the nation. Not satisfied with filing
our prisons, not satisfied with filing our aims
houses, not satisfied with filling our cemeter-
les, they come before the people with a still
more delusive and destructive doctrine. II
is one that will people the internal regions
Well | read in the book of Proverbs that
shell and destruction are never satisned,,--
And also read in that book of wisdom. that
"the man that flatters his neighbor will spread
net for his feet, - and that is applicable 10
certain candidate that is asking for the fran
chise of the people OF this nation this fall
Four years ago they told us that prices we're
too high; that we were paying too much for
what we consumed; that we ought TO buy
cheaper. This fall they say things are too
cheap. That the free and unlimited coinage
of silver will bring prices up; that the people
will be enabled TO get more for what they
produced, they say it will bring up the price
OF farm produce. Let us see. In 1894 there
was raised in this country 10000, 600 bush
els of potatoes and the price here averaged
about 80 cents per bushel; in 1895 there was
raised in this country 400, 000,O bushels of
potatoes and the price here averaged about
10 cents per bushel. Do you think the free
and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio OF
16 to | would have brought the price up TO
so centsS Nothing but a legislative enact
ment compelling the people to eat about three
times more potatoes than they could possibly
hold could have brought the price up to 50
cents. These regulators say 1t will raise
wages. | think they mean the wages of sin.
Now If there is class on this earth that
have more sympathy for and interest in than
another il is the wage Garner, and il thought
free silver would better their condition
would vote for IL. And believe to better
their condition would better the condition OF
all classes in this country. But my fellow
countrymen there is something more danger.
Gus than free silver If Bryan and the spirit
that was manifested at the Chicago conven-
ton get control of this government You ask
me what it lisp / say to you, go read their
party platform and see the assault they make
on federal authority. Go read their party
platform and see the assault they make or
the federal courts. Tell me il you can the
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difference between state rights and state
supremacy. My soldier boys you know what
state rights cost this nation. Tell me if you
can the difference between the spirit that says
the Federal government has no right to put
down riot and insurrectiOn within its borders
when the business of the government is being
intefered with and the spirit that fired on For
Sumpterin 1861 The spirit that controlled
the Chicago convention was the sentiment OF
Tillman, the gentleman that proudly boasts
that he halls from the state that first seeded
from the union. The spirit that controlled
the Chicago convention was the sentiment o.
Altgcld tie governor that pardoned out o.
prison the anarchists that had been convicted
of murder in the Haymarket riots in the city
of Chicago. The spirit of that convention
was so grossly un-American that the patriot,
and the statesmen of the party cannot ant
will not support its platform nor its candi
dates.
My fellow Republicans, we have got tC
answer every delusive sophstry that it II
possible for human genius 10 invent Let III
not underestimate the enemy. We have ar
rayed against us every element that Il
undesirable to society, every element that il
un-American. Therefore let the motto of tn,
Republicans of this state and of this union il
this campaign be "e-pluribus unum," an,
"God save the Republic"