The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-09-04
SILVER MEN ON THE STUMP
ALTG ED, LENTZ And T1RVIN
SPEAK 1T PROVIDENCE.
Lentz EuIogizes Aguinaldo as One of
of the Greatest Men of the Century
Praise for rAnti-ImperiaIist sts-TilIman
Promises to Bring His PitchfOrk at
tho Meeting To-day.

Promises to Bring His Pitchfork at
tho Meeting To-day.
Providence, Sept. 3.-The first of the
series of meetings arranged by the New
England Bmetallic league in the in
terest of bimetallism was held at Cres-
cent park this afternoon. The session
was held in large open area, the audi
ence occupying the seats of the grand
stand surrounding it. All around the
plot on the outside were the noisy mon
ey-making attractions of Crescent park,
which materially interfered with the at
tention 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 Cuba. Mayor
George w. Greene of Woonsocket, pres
ident of the New England Bimetallic
league, opened the session with a few
Introductory remarks He then intro
duced as the presiding officer Colonel A.
c. Drinkwater Of Braintree, Mass, who
made a short address. Colonel Drink
water introduced as the first speaker
Hon. Homer S. Cummings of Stamford,
Conn, who outlined the principles of
democracy, of bimetallsm and of the
league which had arranged the series of
meetings. He was followed by Judge
James P. Tarvin of Kentucky.
Congressman John j. Lentz of Colum-
bus, o., was the next speaker. His sar-
castle references to President Mckinley,
his arraignment of the Philippine war
and his eulogy of Aguinaldo as one of
the greatest men of the century were
appiauded. He said in part: From
Ohio we look to New England with
amazement when we see the cringing
servility of it's masses to that pluto
cratic oligarchy which is more arbitrary
and more inconsistent than any mon
archy in Europe. You will pardon me
for telling you that the thinking people
in the Buckeye state are more than sur
prised when they find that in this old
New England country, which for two
centuries arrogated to itself the claim
of being the educational center and the
intellectual hub of America, there are
to-day SO many blind and servile follow
ers of an administration which cannot
quote single thought. not a single sem
tence either from Washington, Jeffer-
son, Jackson or Lincoln in support of
its policy of imperialism and militarism,
in support of it's British financial policy,
its British colonial policy and it's at
tempted British alliance.
"In Ohio we have c.-er 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
We believe that the independence and
courageous manhood of New England
under such organizations as the New
England bimetallic league, will revive |
and perpetuate the right and duty to |
think, as well 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 in New England in
their efficient work against imperialism
will ere long bring to public attention |
the fact that the same men who are in |
favor of imperialism and militarism are |
in substance the very same men who |
were also identified with and in league
with the pIutocratic influences that
have made this republic trust ridden
republic, so weak and PROSTATE that
neither the president Of the United |
States nor the attorney general of the
United States nor the republican major
ity of the American congress could dare
say a word at the extra session of con-
gress in 1897, in favor of the democrat
ic amendment to the Dingley bill to
make null and void the tariff provisions
in behalf of any commodity the manu-
facture or production of which might
come under the control of a trust
There was prolonged cheering when
Colonel Drinkwater introduced ex-Gov-
ernor John P. Altgeld of Illinois as the
concluding speaker. Owing to the fact
that his address in New York on Labor
day is to be devoted to a detailed dis
cussion of the monetary question, he
simply dealt in generalities at the meet
ing to-day He said in substance that /
for years the people west of the Allegha-
nies have looked with reverence toward
New England. 1t has been the New
England brains, IDEAS literature and
standards that have shaped the dest-
MES of the republic. 1t has looked for
a few years as though their sons Were
to lower the old New England standard
as though they were going to foget the
traditions of their fathers and bring
everything down too low, sordid basis,
He said, however, that he was glad to
learn that this was a mistake and that
a mighty host has risen which will keep
alive the feeling of liberty in old New
England.
There was a period in New England ,
history, SAID ne, when the mills and '
factories were running day and night ;
and market was found for everything /
that was made. Then the people We're /
all employed at living wages and were {
prosperous. The volume of money in Y
the world at that time, said he, was {
twice the amount in existence to-day, | t
because silver was issued at it's proper |
ratio and had its proper place in the f
monetary plans. s
The speaker argued that the remone- I
tization of silver would afford an OPP /
portunity for the wage earners to have 6
more money to spend and thus open up q