Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-09-04
RED HOT REMARKS
Fired at a New England Audience by
Me. Lentz.
THE OHIO CONGRESSMAN TOLD
SOME PLAIN TRUTHS AT Ores
CENT PARK, R. l., YESTERDAY.
AN EXTRACT FROM HIS AID
DRESS.

PROVIDENCE, R. l., September a.
/ The first of the series of meetings ar
ranged by the New England Bimetallic
League in the interests of bimetallism
was held at Crescent Park this after
noon. The session was held in large
open area, the audience occupying the
| seats of the grand stand surrounding it,.
/ All around the platform on the outside
were the noisy money-making attrac-
lions OF Crescent Park. which mater
| tally interfered with the attention of
! the audience to the speakers and with
the ability of the speakers to make
| themselves heard.
/ The platform was decorated with the
national colors, together with those Of
Great Britain, Ireland, France and Gu
! ba. After Judge James P. Tarvin, of
Kentucky, Congressman John j. Lentz,
of Columbus, Ohio, was the next speak
er. His sarcastic references to Presi-
dent Mckinley, his arraignment of the
Philippine war, and his eulogy Of
! Aguinaldo as one of the greatest men
of the century, was applauded.
Congressman Lentz, of Ohio, spoke
in part as follows:
From Ohio we look to New Eng
/ land with amazement when we see the
! cringing servility of its masses to that
| plutocratic oligarchy which is more
arbitrary and more inconsistent than
any monarchy in Europe.
You will pardon me for telling you
that the thinking people of the Buck
| eye land are more than surprised when
/ they find that in this old New England
/ country, which for two centuries AFRO
! gated to itself the claim of being the
! educational centre and the intellectual
| hub of America, there are to-day so
many blind and servile followers of an
| administration which cannot quote a
| single thought, nor a single sentence
| either from Washington, Jefferson,
! Jackson, or Lincoln, in support Of its
| policy of imperialism and militarism,
in support of its British financial pol
icy, it's British colonial policy, and its
attempted British alliance.
''In Ohio, we have never accepted
! the doctrine, neither in the church nor
/ in politics, Of total depravity. We still
have faith and hope. We still believe
that truth is mighty and will prevail.
1--WE still believe that the Independent
and courageous manhood of New Eng
land, under such organizations as the
New England Bimetallic League, will
revive and perpetuate the right and
duty to think, as we'll as the right Of
free speech. We hope and believe that
! our combined influence with some of
! that choice and courageous manhood in
! the Republican party of New England,
! in their earnest work against imperial
ism, will ere long bring to public at
tention the fact that the same men who
were also identified with and in league
/ with plutocratic influences that have
made this republic a trust-ridden re-
public. so weak and PROSTATE that
neither the President Of the United
/ States. nor the Attorney General of the
| United States, nor the Republican ma
iority of the American Congress could
/ dare say a word at the extra session Of
Congress in 1897 in favor of the Demo-
| cratic amendment to the Dingley BILL
J to make null and void the tariff provis-
ions in behalf of any commodity, the
manufacture or production of which
might come under the control of the
| trust"
There was prolonged cheering when
Ex-Governor John P. Altgeld. OF HI
nois, was introduced Owing to the
fact that his address in New York on
Labor Day is to be devoted to a detailed
discussion of the monetary question, ne
simply dealt in generalities at the meet
/ ing to-day. He said in substance that
for years the people west of the Allie
| ghenies have looked with reverence to-
ward New England The New England
brains, ideas, literature and standards
! have shaped the destinies of the repuD-
| lie. It has looked for years as though
| their sons were to lower the old New
England standard and as though they
were going to forget the traditions Of
their fathers and bring everything down
to q low sordid basis. He said, how
ever, that he was glad 10 learn that this
was mistake and that mighty host
has arisen which will keep alive the
feeling of liberty in old New England.
There was a period in New England
/ history. he said, when the mills and
factories were running day and night
and market was found for everything
made. Then the people were all en-
ployed at living wages and were pros
porous. The volume of money in the
world at that time was twice the
amount in existence to-day, because sill
yer was issued at its proper ratio and
had its proper place in the monetary
/ uIans