Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-29

Following is the stenographic report OF the
speech of Edward Rosewater of The Bee at
Wahoo, Neb., October 26:
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies' and Gentlemen:
/ feel highly gratifed to be in position to
address you tonight on the vital issues that
concern not only every citizen of Nebraska,
but the citizens of every state in the Ameri
can union. The most precious privilege en-
1oyed by American citizenship is the right of
every American to freely and fully discuss
Ill public questions that concern the Ameri-
tan people and then to express his free will
through the ballot box and have that will
executed as the edct Of the American
sovereign people.
While this Is perhaps not year in which
the great national questions are to be de-
termined, yet party divisions are made
largely upon the lines drawn by the national
conventions and based upon the edict Of
government in its relation to national affairs.
1t Is always, Of course, the right and
privilege of parties in opposition to the
party in power to oppose everything that
is done by those that are in authority; to
criticise freely and point out the errors,
mistakes and blunders with a view to turn
Ing them to their own advantage.
That is a privilege all parties enjoy. But
1t is not merely the province Of the OPP
position party to be content with pointing
out what should not have been done, but
rather to point the way to better things by
suggesting and introducing reforms.
Within the last three years marvellous
change has been effected in the condition
of the American people. Three years ago
the people OF Nebraska, in common with all
the people of the United States, were agi-
h,y; ct
business depression. This agitation was in
teneifed in this section of the country by
the general impovershment Of the producers
in consequence OF drouth and low prices OF
crops This condition Of affairs en-
couraged demagogues and visionarie'
to prescribe what remedies should be ap'
plied in order to restore the body polite
into healthy state and insure permanent
prosperity to the American people.
The silver Delusion.
The chief remedy. the paramount issue, a
their leader calls it, was that the mlnts o
the United States should be thrown VIDE oPe
and set in operation for the free and un
limited coinage OF silver. You were tol'
that when the mints were in motion the idi
mills and factories would Immediately re
open, money would again circulate freel
and business would again be active, II
order to make this theory plausible the
advanced the idea that the price OF silVe
regulates the prices of all other commouitles
particularly the price OF grain and the price
of farm products. They tried to make yo
believe that there was not money enoug
to do the business of the country. The
did not seem to comprehend that the con
gestion OF money in the bank vaults tn
money boarded in safety repositories, |
stockings and in the hearths. that the con
gestlon OF money that was not in circula
tion because of the want of confidence wa
the chief and the prime cause or the lack
circulation This nostrum recalls the quac
doctor who, finding that his patient is SUI
fering from congestion OF the blood and tht
arterial circulation is clogged, proposes