The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-28

l here" "All of my strength and my voice is not here"
 have sketched very hastily some of the evils that will result from this change to a debased dollar, a contrac- 1 tion of our currency by me exporting of our gold and q readjustment of everything. l read the other day in paper a most amusing description of l the troubles of the ticket agent at Laredo, a station on the Michigan rail | way, who had to sell tickets to people who came from the United States with United tSates money going into Mexico 1 and then to people who came out of Mexico and who offered him Mexican money. He had large book bound up with yellow paper and he had to cover one whole sheet In his calculation usually when he sold ticket. U4augh- 1 ter.)
 That is what would happen every where. Everything would have to be readjusted, the prices of everything, the whole intricate business adjust mentSof the country would have to be readjusted and while that process was going on uncertainty would character ize business, resulting in panic and disaster. Now, who will get the bene- | fit. Well the man who owes debt that he contracted upon a gold basis and is able to pay 1t with a. fifty cent dollar, he and the mine owner who gets an exaggerated price for the I products of his mine are the only two people, or classes of people that I can see that would have any benefit out of | ft My friaydc YnnnnIa WY adup- I cate this class of legislation, this legis- l lation favorable to the mine owners to double the price of the products of
 their mines and who offer this tempta- l tion of repudiation to the debtor class are the parties that have for twenty
 years been proclaiming against class
 legislation. (Applause)
 l They make a strong appeal to the farmer. They say it will put up prices. l We'll, in a sense, yes; nominally, yes;
 really, no. If wheat goes from 50 cents
 to s1.20 the price has been increased,
 you will say, but if the price of every
 thing else has gone up in the same pro- portion, a bushel of wheat wont buy for the farmer any more sugar or cof- fee, or farming implements or any,
 thing else that he has to purchase. If that dollar wont buy for the farmer
 any more or be better dollar than the 1 one we have now where is the good to anybody of introducing these ficti- l tious prices that are now real.
 It would work very well for the far
 mer If the prices of wheat, hay, oats
 and rye would double and nothing else
 would double, but If everything dou- bled who is the richer--who is richer
 than he was before? Only the man
 who bought when we had an ho rest
 dollar and paid in a debased one; only
 the mine owner who uses this govern
 ment to adi fifty cents to the value of
 every dollars worth of metal that lie produces from his mine. (Applausa) That is not evan a democratic doctrine.
 It involves the idea that this govern
 nent Of ours shall ply not only its debt
 of honor, but that it shall pay the in
 terest ( n it's bonds and the circulating ! notes in a debased currency.
 1 My countrymen, this country of OUTS, 1 during the troublesome times of the
 war, may have had severe trials. But
 these financial questions are sca. cely less troublesome than thosa. Duri lg l those troublons times we had accumu- lated a debt so large that many of our pessimistic democratic friends told us
 we could nev er pay t. We had a cur rency which we were compelled tn I make a legal tender and use so that the constitution might live. but no I sooner had the war ended than the great cnnscience of this people declar- l ed that tiie@nation that had crushed this great rebellion, that had lifted it., self in it's pride and it's constitutional glory to q fearless position among the
 nations of the earth, should not con- tinue to have a depreciated and debas-
 ed currency.
 And we walked up to resumption and we made the greenback dollar par I dollar ill gold. Shall we now in these times, when all the ills we suffer are curable, if we only pass revenue bill
 that will generously replenish the treasury of the United States. that will generously protect American labor against injurious competition and
 bring back again full prosperity to all l people. shall we now contemplate for moment this temptation to | debase our currency and put this coun- | try in its financial position alongside of l LIlG ftSldtlC COuIlLIlSS, UT OuI WGdh ana struggling sister republic of Mexico?
 Does not every instinct of pride does not every instinct of self-interest, does nto every thoughtful affectionate inter- i est in others, does not our sense of | justice and honor rise up to rebuke the | infamous proposition that this govern ment and its people shall become a
 nation and people of repudiators? | Prolonged applause and cheers)
 The many telling points in General Harison's speech, which he brought out l with unusual emphasis, were loudly cheered. The general was very force full at times and some of his periods were greeted with wild applaus The audience listened with marked interest remaining to the end, though the at- mosphre of the hall had become some l what oppressive. When the general 1 was about. to conclude shouts came i from all parts of the hall GO on, mo- body Is going out"
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