, 1898-10-27

age and has grown to its present splen-
did proportions. What is the political is
sue in the state of Wyoming? Let US
see. You have no harbors and no
n%avigable waters. You have no COM
merce with foreign lands. You are so
situated here that every pro-
duct possible to the state of Wyoming
must find its market and its price, II
it finds them at all. in the United
States OF America. Your great re-
sources are, first: The railroad oper-
alton. that is engaged in carrying the
traffic of our country across the noun
tains and the plains. You have the
great cattle industry that feeds the
people of the United States. and the
capacity OF the people of the United
States to buy, the earning power of
the labor Of the United States in other
states, fixes, and always will fix, the
price of every Wyoming steer, and the
reason that your beef brings so much
better prices today than it did two
years ago is this: Two years ago the
average waist measure Of the Ameri-
Ican workman was four inches less than
it is today. Two years ago, the
ing capacity or opportunity Of the
American wage Garner from one end Of
the land to the other, was 33 1-3 per
cent less than it is today. You have
the great sheep industry. and your
market Is the United States Of Ameri-
ca. You cannot sell your wool on
foreign shores. The great ranges of
Australia and other foreign countries,
with its cheaper labor a produce
wool to fill the other markets Of the
world. And the reason that your
sheep industry Is profitable today Is
because the republican party repealed
the infamous Wilson bill and kept the
American market for the American
sheep.
You have a great coal industry un-
DERIVING the surface Of your soil.
Those deposits of coal have as
tonished the whole world. but the
market for your coal depends upon
1.-THE activity Of the railway locomotive,
which depends upon the question as to
whether or not the fires of industry
ARE blazing in the land. as to whether
Tor not the American sky is kissed with
the smoke of happy industry. For you
cannot sell your coal abroad, and If you
Isell 1t in the United States, at a reason
able price, 1t must be, and can only be,
because the industries Of the United
States are prosperous and active. You
can, by irrigation, and sometimes with
out, raise the various grains from the
ground, but your own immediate de-
mand throughout this western country
takes all that you can expect to raise
of this kind OF crops. So the result is,
that everything that Wyoming pro-
|duces, as I said before, must find a mar
ket. II at all, with the people Of the
United States, and its price will be
measured by the ability Of the people
of the United States to use your pro-
ducts and to buy them. You are, it ia
true. surrounded by many other states.
Over in Colorado, in Utah, in Idaho,
and in Montana, they have the gold
and the silver. the copper and the lead.
These, If they are to find a profitable
market. depend largely upon the de-
mand from foreign nations. But Wyo-
ming Of all the states IN the union,
now and forever. must measure her
prosperity by the prosperity of the
people Of the United States. There
fore. I say that Wyoming is more truly
than any other state in the Union, the
American state, and should love the
flag better and stand by 1t better, than
any other state.
What is the issue Of the campaign?
Is 1t the question of the free and I'M
Limited cionage of silver? We find thai
all over the land in most Of the plat
forms OF the opposition, but it is rare
ly spoken on the stump. We do not
hear 1t any more from the rostrum;
there is no longer the local failure on
the street corner preaching how to u
this government prosperously. The
only place l have heard free silver
talked this year was at a funeral, and
THAT was the proper place. We are all in
favor of doing the best we can by the
American product of silver. Many Of
us. like Mckinley. always stood in
ltovar Of the greatest possible use of the
American silver product; but, my
lcountrymen, unlike some Of the oppo-
%sition, we live and learn, and they
don't. We are still in favor Of any
American policy that will result In
benefit to the silver mining OF the
United States, but We are all unalter-
ably opposed to any financial theory
that will compel the American citizen,
or any other man ON the face of the
globe to take his pay in anything ex-
cept that quality of money 10 which
he entered into his obligation. When
4 citizen Of Mexico comes to the United
States with his dollar in his hand, he
comes ready to take Sorty-fve cents for
1t, and his apologies in the bargain. I
want the American dollar to 20 round
the globe. as the nag goes, honored end
respected by all mankind. When we
put the goddess Of liberty On one eide Of