The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-08-06

that time to 1892 no city in the history Of
u like Duluths lAppiansa1. Then all ali at
once find your factories still and find
these great workshops you havesbuiIt I'M
occupied and find stagnation sahdsbank-
in the face; Do go away back to ,73 Is
find the cause? (Cries. Of mo, Nos. All,
boys have some sense about this; common
is good even for Duluth. Look awax BACK
away at.s back g , there? Nothing Of the kind
in so that something hit u.s. And do YOU
know that in 1892 these sophists these rhe-s
toricians. these fellows kept telling us
majority of the people heard it, and they
fell asleep listening to the sirens son ess
and dreamed it was delicious paradise.
ana then they voted for free trade and
aSLaughter). It is this same class Of fell
lows that run along that sort Of way that
s siv,s ssarted another cry Now it is free
SILVER; sound aWfully sweet, but if we
take take u We getit in the neck again. = YOU u
e el9r T e say Say, It can't be worse All
s uaes me e OF the time you will have tf
3Y fsia get free silver money. Why, the next
1 us fhig same me class of fellows viii
nonsense enough? Call halt It men n nag
Act along the great lines Of truth ana
honesty nor and ind out where were drift
5 nIs 70. i say to youltle third days Of new
november Americans will record 3. 1I1;ee3
I LOT that for all time will put this stir
NJ s.GeP ana 10 help US back to the great
nth ,y f, ana prosperity that brought Du-
Of 49, { - 'l'e = me OF q to the crime
- It 1 Is very beautif study, this finance.
moneys of the United States is and s thts
raIo petWeen gold and silver then was
r rha5 OF = to L Fifteen to1 not quite
YER and no W a9 tie On the side Of Sill
vas Vas that silver was worth little more
s si11ag old and gold went out and we had
It Is Is and TT They he 1readiusted it, put
douYe all gone to the store to buy sugar
4 aug you you We seen how they find the scales
a apo nlgh rn1s side too low that, and BAL
g old and silver: they didn't get it list
I Tlght and the result was that we didT,'t
5 haxe any silver in this country until about
California mines and in 1854 they Went ei To
VOTE Work and Just as they did in ,73. Limited
for s aSy o. silver as coin Nobody asked
Just a little silver for pocket nnnna .,ien
dime, a quarter, a half. a dollar. nerhsns
: d,s can sn remember in '62 how it began to.
It stpne 2s5 wen, up and up and up until
KS gress got together and passed this law
,I zn m had been working on this law since
"a T rheee Yea years before the congress Of
lar; fixed upon the various coins We have
IN IN gold and the silver coins, and amnne
s s11 silver coins was the trade dollar. You
and Japan In s there S Was ana % emma Ina
peIore congress to put back upon orr sta
f T'lte books the silver dollar; there it is:
That s an1la anae IL. now and It's all have
gay OF ), February, the year that MrSBiaine
ea snal st famous speech. was glad to
t Rear my friend Judge Norris. refer to it
1naa It seemed to me that Mr.. Blaine
was was coming back from the dead to an
sW e THESE men who try to make him out
hut drg his sIverite. It Is true that he sleeps
mats the double standard Of honor again
poys,gW when they quote Blaine It's t1e o15
th nc nor, gold honor that I want I want
speech Of Mr.. Blaine's. I want ia show
you, gentlemen, the action which he took
W 3Kead = minutes n t at lsastl:
coinage of silver? Why, we'd ali % info
me prok business: we would all %
Duy bullion and have it stamped $40. 600
IN pulwth 5inh thn real estate business
IN one pocket and a silver dollar In tha
4 Pm a man going to market would spend
Just after this wild conyention wh usrg
they lassoed their nominee for president
Gown there, the boy orator Of the Platte.
a. q TREND Zen came to me and says, Mr. Eus-
70 r.! you Wt soao 5s did Ms, Hs
and in the bank, and they ia talk SO much m1h
I'd better start now I drew out NV na6n -
ey and put it into the vault and I'm coins,
to TO-, let It stay there until this is all OVER
vail Street na fs1 tho the gold d. T amt
amos a1,e OF individuals who take their money
OUT and DO that But they come to US
ana say this III thing wont be. Charlie comes
along with his eloquence and throws .
stone up into the air and he says s'see T that +
g geung up op;,,o Mr. Eustis? It viii
know it will come down because q. III. ~
mad experience. We have all had ex.
P Ps;ra nee along these lines and we know
how !; millions Of men will act. Let r us be be
sensible and get down off your high horse,
- lie ToWne: and Frank Nye say see
rocket and will come down It will come
down! It will get mighty tired about
N NO na1' ss r sd Coed bye Dan! Good bye
still forever fare thee we'll 4 g - Z
met Chris O'Brien today. 1 said, Chris
s = ! saw you introducing Charlie Towne at
I ,estl, With VT your neck in the same yoke
with Charlie. Strange you can hitch up
two steers like that and work Sharmoni-
oaniy, an ana ne says It's all right; he
him. - 49, !. - YET. %
Is My Judgment about this whole thing is
Inat II is protection. When in 1892 they
put in their platform that apparently
harmless little phrase-that the principle
or protection was unconstitutional, it went
into into the very life and marrow of our coun-
try; Wonderful how sensitive and how
a aeeae IT is when it feels the disastrous
eHectss of the poison not of ',73 but Of 1872
It went to the marrow Of our industries
and prosperity. ses -
The principle of protection is illustrated
very nicely by the principle of the =evener.
That is something. learned on the farm
where was brought up Before learned
how to adjust it took the team out one
day to wark,and when they came in in the
evening the colt was tired and wouldn't
eat his oats. I though ,sHThere's Sometime.
wrong here, !" and I took that parallel bar
they call the evener and drilled another
hole In 1t so that it threw more weight
Of the load on the old mare and the next
night when Embarrassed him the colt
was fr1sky and ate his oats all right. And
It was the same with carrying water. We
e noys used to have to carry water on the
farm before we were big enopgh to carry
the pail by ourselves, so we would take
pole and hang the pail in the middle,