The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-09-29
LISTENED 10 LODGE.
Big Republican Mass Meeting in
New York.
SENATOR LODGE OF MASSACHU.
SETS PRINCIPAL SPEAKER.

SETTS PRINCIPAL SPEAKER.
A Logical and Eloquent Plea for RepubH
can rinciples-Candidates Black and
Woodruff Other Speakers.
New York, September :S.-A big mass
meeting was held tonight in Carnegie
Music hall under the auspices Of the Re-
publican county committee. Gen. B. E.
Tracy, presid ed. Gen. Tracy on taking
the chair was loudly cheered. While he
was delivering his opening speech, Sena-
tor Lodge Of Massachusetts came In and
was greeted with prolonged applause.
When Mr.. Tracy had concluded, he intro
duoed Congressman Black the Republi-
can candidate for governor. who was
cheered Loudly. Mr.. Back made an ad-
dress which was frequently applauded.
Timothy L. Woodruff, candidate for
lieutenant governor then spoke. The
next speaker was Senator Lodge, who
was received with applause. He spoke as
follows:
sHENRY CABOT LODGES SPEECH.
"No American should be elected to any
Office who speaks Of any part of the Uni
ted States as the 'enemy's ooun5ry.' To
speak of any portion of the republic as
the .enemy's country is to manifest that
evil spirit of sectionalism which was
buried by four years OF civil war.
s'Is 1t to be supposed for one moment
that New York desires the ruin of the
western farmers? 1t would be just as
reasonable to say that New York would
like to see the Hudson river dry up and
of sand. The prosperity Of the western
farmer is the prosperity OF New York
and Of all the east.
"They tell you that the price Of wheat
will rise If you 90 to the silver standard,
but do not forget that everything you
will buy will rise also, and remem Der,
too, what is far more important than
that, that if yon raise the price of your
wheat by artificial means you reduce the
purchasing power of our wages and our
salaries. Our prosperity. we gladly ad-
nit. rests in very large measure on that
of the farmers Of the west but their
prosperity depends also on us.
They say the times are bad. They
| said the same thing in 1892. It was false
UuGu. LII t6 bEu6 uOWs al 1GSS buHY pEu-
posed to make every one happy and pros
| porous with free trade, by which they
said, prices would be lowered and the
purchasing power of wages, thereby in
creased. Salvation vas then promised by
the lowering of prices, and they still
| kept that policy in their platform. But
they have produced now another policy,
porous by free silver, which is TO raise
prices. 1T Is difficult to see how those
| two policies can work together.
! "The boy orator among the many
pearls of speech which he has been
strewing along the railroad lines of this
country, said the other day that the
Mexican dollar was an honest dollar be-
cause it was worth exactly its bullion
value.
"How he stumbled on that isolated
truth do not kow, but it is true that
the Mexican dollar Is worth it's bullion
value, which is about 81 cents. and when
we go to free silver our silver dollar will
be worth it's bullion value, which Is
about 80 cents.
"During our war, when we had an in.
| f1ated currency, wages rose about 40 pei
cent while the average price of co1nmo-
dities rose about SO per cent. Therefore,
| there was net loss to labor Or a reduc-
tion of wages of about 30 per cent.
eff we go to the free coinage of silver,
we pass at once to the silver standard,
and gold disappears from. circulation.
There is no question of bimotallism In
this campaign at all. 1t Is merely q
question of whether we shall abandon
the gold standard and go to the single
silver standard or not. If you 90 to the
silver standard, you will receive fol
wages or salaries the same number Of
dollars that you do now, but they will be
worth only half as much.
"The boy orator says that the trouble
| with the gold dollar is that 1t has been
constantly getting fatter. In the process
it has certainly not affected wages ad.
versely, for the wage rate has risen
steadily since 1873. Therefore. under the
gold standard labor ia getting more dol
lars than ever before and of higher
| why labor should wish to make the
money which it saves and earns thinner
| than it is no W is.
s'The fact Is that the economic argu
| ment against free silver or any form o,
| cheap money is irresistable in the case o.
the wage Garner. and for that reason tn,
advocates of free silver have abandoned
reason and argument and substituted
therefore appeals to passion and to preju
dioe
"One of these appeals is that the goli
land. This CRY for Independence of Eng
land comes with poor grace from mer
who in the same breath propose to sacri
flee our industrial independence by
giving our market to England and tt
Europe under free trade and vast profit
to the silver mine owners, who are large
ly English.