The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-30

thinking that any something Will do. A sick man in proper cases had better take medicine. but he had better be careful what medicine he takes, There are some political orators who think if they can draw d e-colored picture 1t ought to convert a continent. What rosy picture we had painted for us in 1892! What millions we were to ex- pect, We were to sell in the dearest and buy in the cheapest market. We were to have both ends of the bargain, We took their word for it and here we are. And now the least credible part of these same gentlemen are smearlng the canvass with another picture for which they want us to pay another four years, or perhaps ten, of this na- tions life. Men deceived once are hu- man; men deceived twice by the same men are fools.
 There is another class of political oratory which deserves reprobarion-- the oratory which paints the energy in deep black. If anybody had curiosity to see what I said of our opponents In 1892, they will find that I did not ven ture any denunciation which depicts one tenth of the evil which has hap pened. When told you two years ago what we republicans would do f chos- en I drew no picture, but simply said to you that all we could do would be to prevent evil. That we did, and 1t takes a good deal of sense sometimes to do no evil. We tried to do better, and had the democrats from the north risen above party for good, as the six silver senators sank below party for evil, the revenues of this country would have been equal to its expenditures, | and we should have been two years | nearer prosperity. Greeting you this 1 time with the same frankness, am | bound to say that the evil which has 1 come to us by an unwise revision of the tariff has been greatly exaggerated by 1 one of its consequences-our loss of l revenue. Had there been no deficit, | then $100 900 of borrowed gold would | have carried us through the crisis safe and sound. As it was, the constant drain of the deficit, continually con- 1 founded with the redemption of gold, l has so afflicted the imagination, of our | people that confidence cannot com | mence to be restored until our revenues equal our expenses.
 Periods of depression are common | to the human race. Doubtless you and I think that if we had had the world to make we would have had human prog l ress arranged on continuous up- 1 grade, ten feet or better to the mile. But God knows human nature more perfectly and knows we never could l stand such 1nonotony. and must go up l hill and dowh dale. But while depres- | sions are common, they have their az l gravating causes which must be re- moved Then when confidence comes prosperity follows. How l think that 1 can be reached I will tell you soon l Meantime, let us see what is pro- posed by those gentlemen who, within the last two months, have discovered l a new cure for all the ills flesh is heir l to. and who proclaim, as they did four years ago, that they alone hold pros- perity in their grasp.
 ''Their remedy is the coinage or sll- I yer. IS to 1. What does that mean!
 Heretofore, whenever gold and sill yer have stood together it has been al 1 the market value. When we tried te make gold and silver circulate together we have always married them accord l inc to their market value. To-day we find them, not 16 to l, but 31 to l, anc we are going, they say, to lift silver te l twice it's value, not by the universa sense of mankind, which alone makes l values, but by the statute of the Unit l ed States, single-handed, against th' civilized world.
 "Why should the United States tr! to do this alone?
 If the characterization of silver is disease at all it is a world disease.
 defy anybody to find single argumen
 which proves that the demonetizatior
 of silver would be good for the United
 States, that does not prove that I | would be good for the whole world. l it is a world disease how can it b. reached except by a world remedy International bfmetaIlism, can under | stand, but this driving out of gold ant
 substitution of silver is only silve
 monometailism for the United States It is not bimetallism for the world ant a stable currency; but the shifting iron
 gold currency and civilized Europe, ant
 going over to silver and Mexico, Japan 1 lHuId anu Suiiid oll, pNAN S1tii" %i'N
 Japan, India and Mexico are prosper
 ous just now! Yes, but what kind Q
 prosperity? The prosperity of cheal
 labor, growing cheaper every day
 Manufacturers there may be prosper
 ous, and traders may be prosperous
 but the people are not prosperous a
 all Up here in Maine and Nev
 Hampshire paper pulp is made cheap
 How? Because the manufacturer ii
 close to cheap labor. In silver coun
 tries labor is cheap and kept cheal
 by the silver dollar. For my part l d.
 not want that kind of prosperity.
 want prosperity, which, by gooc
 wages to all, is shared by all. w
 want a broader life, broadening ever.
 day for all our people.
 f'I won't discuss the question whethe
 the free coinage of silver will raise i
 to par or not. Very few people clain
 that it will, and if they did I could no
 believe them.
 T was told in 1890, by two of the mos
 sincere, as well as the ablest silver men
 that the purchase of 100000 ounces month would raise silver to par, am
 when we did buy it, silver went dow
 like lead. Silver men have not beel good prophets in the past
 1 eff then we are going to have A dol