Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-15
IN FAVOR OF is TO I.
Iowa Bimetallists in Convention al Ocs Moint $
-Chairman's Stirring Speech.

this morning, when PROVISIONAL Chalf
man Amos SteckeI called the non-par
| tisan state convention to order ana IN
troduced $. II. Bashner of Waterloo
as temporary chairman. Upon assum-
| ing the chair, Mr.. Bashner spoke as
| follows:
Gentlemen of the Conventions These
| are stirring times: times in which the
ear Of patriotism inclined to the earth
hears the heartbeats of humanity;
! times in which the cohorts Of organized
| greed and sons Of liberty are arrayine
| for the final conflict. on the one side
| is the dcpotism of monied aristocracy;
| on the other the knishp of the masses.
| The fundamental doctrine of popular
| government is that YOU can always
| trust the people. and when submitted
To them calmly and dispasSionately
| no question has ever been settled
wrong. AS God chained the last gen
| Grafton to the redemption of the slave,
also | believe He riyets on this the
emancipation of labor The statutes Of
| this nation as Scion said of the laws
of Greece, which spider web-lke hold
| the little bugs while the big ones
break through, must be repealed and
people enacted in their stead. Until
ths is accomplished there can be no
peace. II is war to the knife and the
knife to the hilt Compromise is worse
than defeat
What is the difference whether the
masses are pierced with bayonets and
bullets in lone mighty onslaught or
slowly ground to starvation under the
heels Of normal condition, when Il free
press and free speech are throttled
when patriotism blinds the eye Of JUS
tice and party slavery paralyzes the
hand OF power. We cannot make a
nation onc-half Bibles, free schools
steam engines. improved machinery.
and the other half, scrfs. The hope Of
this nation for 20 years and its hope
still Is the Intelligence and conscience
of the people
The decentralization action of 1873
which took from silver its legal value
and destroyed its parity with gold at
the ratio Of ID to |. will undo the far
reaching evil when Internationally re-
peaied- Silver. re-estalished as money
of final redemption at the existing
commercial ratio. can never raise sill
Yer bullion above the present dead
level Of low water prices. England, the
gold producing nation of the world, in
lSi6 established the gold standard with
about 10 per cent. of the ratio of the
worlds production Of gold in her ia
V0r. AT that time She established the
gold standard. and in 20 years cornered
the gold market. dictated prices and
ecame the creditor nation OF the earth
If the United States Joining with
MEXICO producing as they do the
great bulk Of the worlds s,lnnlv of
.il,-.,. l,,i1;,, .t.,,,i1 ...t1;.,. ~
oHfSi ""iiioh, 9ii"uiu eStdpHSh the ifee
coinage OF SILVER at the ratio OF 10 to
l. il is only a question of time when
+ba .ft...,. ,,,,.4 1T,
~" - "''''" = 81 iieitu
ana from the position of debtor she
would bound into a creditor aroone, tha
,,.,,i,, 80 -, -,
800 ~ IL u"
the Western hemisphere established an
i unifnru, hasis III f,a, ,.,,;,,.,,. MI,
-. So. ~ "'a'a - ne Noiiiase ~ soiu
ana SILVER at our present legal ratio,
no man at any spot within commercial
roach Of ON. s,rr.s. - ti,,,., -
'''t'c t'iii'N eu
from ldIocy. would take one cent less
for an ounce of silver than It's legal or
,ni,trao, vatro ard ~, ,,a,i., e
~ panty VI tue
Two metals would be unqUcStionab |
-.,,ta,, o,,l -, -,
49, 81" news oul SHOUTS
as mas been predicted, the vast in
crease in the foreign local volume
vould ca ,natariall,. i,,.,re.... ~, ..,-.'-I
'' i> i''''' VIZ supply |
ol soid III western Europe as to make |
ii cheaper.
The axportatio,, Of ,,o1{ ,.o,11 ; |
The demand in Ar1oric., -. Y, ~ 80 |
make it dearrri Chrancr einJ1 hjnN l,i,, an1
lrarer silver in Ap,cri, 7,,,it ~ f.Tf oi'er
eyifalIe. Inv nf roynn1,',,o "oUin p' IN n /!
rxjsfinf, liz, r,,l -, -. W. 9dt me
ana dts,, hnth ~ th| oail.''I 1919 EatuV
lr..,,1 nintagn r.'tjo ,1,I,,E, ~ ~ 81 ny riie
.ssatt;4I yvant of no ti,,, !; ~ " /. ~ |
i,el}tirne Win tbo ,,.eni'. - 'pitiiie lcldl
,I,irinr "a. tions m. 80, 'u. t.oH pio-
We n,,.d mn, tradS9 srt U'i r ouuStS |
its,.,.s ,,., 10 ~, tii'.s 'iic NttN"i
ice,iti,,,,tn ,,t,,,,,.i P'onueurS Both |
f,5gt, h, , la i9'9 ,,it StNuid1!e m
fast .,.,I ,.,s:.'st ~, w. ~ notuei = iht
nro,,artt' I|. ~ ,''1 y ut"tlilS
money holders have ceased oneratinDs