Birmingham state herald., 1897-06-11


 promising Speeches. which should be kept
 Second @ 'i because of sthe creeping paralxsfa of hbsf ess and-bitter want of the uneTaplays1.
 What said was addressed to Pennsyl- variians and much of 1t bore solely on state politics that have grown steadily worse thez last lew sy3ars. as is well known Mueh.sas | love. quie'tness and peace, ifs not possible for me to be in- different or silent in the present cond- ton Of affafiFs Neither can I take nor give cpfafesse 4nr these times canpaign speeeffEss are sofiiy empty shells without kernels However well mea nirg or who- ever It is who thinks he does good by them, must be forgetting that 100000 workmen ard thelr children are hurgrv. The man sprho' looks, for bread in such speeches will not have much to eat. The public heartkeannct be fired by eloquerce in tf.s way just row. for the powder of patriotism is wet with the tears of the sufferirgs uDemployeds Give me hold of somebady's hand who viii do something, not talk bout it month after month.
 "Ws ought to have a new. a better tariH but if we cannot get 1t let us sittle down on the cid ore and adjust ourselves to it as beat we can. If we cannot move out Of the old house we might build wing to it or add another story. Fer bette~ that than vexing uncert7tntles. A republican house has heen iu sesSion sirce last December and it's riddled bill stb1 losses about at the other end of the capi- tol. If thsre Is any through train to congress tine country w9uld shout for joy to see the tariff get aboard of 1t. If there ever wa oceasion1te put on a special, 1t is now
 s'If to be impatient is unpatriotic when the delays are go protracted and seeming ly unnecessary in adjusting these two great questions uppermost in the public mind, then I must be asked to be forgiv- en for miscounting the pulse of most of the people that I meet
 There are not a few who believe that since the war no such exigency fen upon the country as that which preceded the election in November 1696
 The Fpitft which moved the people then is stilI alive. It will neither be ignored nor dal1ied with. The tariff, money, economy of expenditures must be arranged fairly and promptly if we are to find conteatnenf or prosperity" MT wanamakentclosed, by saying:
 ITO. keep work for the six thousand and nl6re peIsons in my employ and turn away from the ,seyeral hundred who ap- ply daily and bog ,forithe privilege of la bor tdskeep the wolf from the door, drives me into a fever, and l must speak out Any citizen has that right. icannot sit on a fence with a stiff wind blowing and whfstie For prosperity, the vanished bird of beautiful plumagc to come back. She has baen gone five long years.
 How any can sliVe on forever in a thundersterm I don't know. Gathering ourselves together also on the monetary question can not be done too soon. There Is nossIse sending delegations to foreign nationS until we have some definite prop osition to make. Let authority be giv- en immediately for monetary commis- sion to determine what the United States wants tp dopp the money question, and then siet us go after it and get it as pralnAflN as possible '
 sfh5sfree-silver republicans will be no mean factor in the federal elections of 1898 and 1900. Tn Ohio, and several other heretofore strong republican states, they are actively and Systematically organ izipg clubs with the avowed purpose of openly cooperating with the democratic party. It is reliably stated that these clubs are being organized throughout the state of Ohio at the rate of fifty per week. While the free silver republicans aa,erthus n9arshallit1g themselves with the democrats, the latter are holdirJg conven- tions, indorsing the Chicago platform, pledging themselves to Bryan and nomi- sfatirg free silver candidates for the leg islatune, and requiring them to pledge themselves to support for the United States senate only such candidates as are known to. be avowed advocates of free silver