The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-10-20
ROOSEVELT ROUSER.
New York's Governor Warmly Wei.
coined in st. Louis.
She City Aname with Republican
observation-disclosures by Wee Pres
IdentIaI Candidates. Eio-
quent Speeches.

publican candidate. The seating
capacity of the halls in which
the governor spoke was in the
aggregate $1,000, and they were
every one of them crowded to the
very doors with people who stood
when there were no place for them
to cit and who hung far out over
balconies when there was no stand
ing room from which to see the dis
tinguished guest of the republicans
OF st. Louis. In national politics the
city was republican in sentiment,
according to men in both parties who
are closely in touch with the com
mcrcial interests of the city. The
Exposition Coliseum was crowded
nj night in honor of Gov. Roosevelt,
awfiorspoke little more than an hour,
in thu course Of his speech saying:
..Af. Chairman and You. Men and Wom-
en- of Missouri-My Fellow Countrymen: 1
appeal TO you less as republicans than ms
citizens OF this great country, for Feel
that in this year we have the same right TO
appeal TO all men. without regard to their
poIiticalpast. as we had In 1876 years
ago. Then as now, the issues at stake were
10 great that they superseded all questions
of mere party affiliations.
''I have to ask you to look at just two
sides OF these issues-the material side, and
what is greater than the material side, the
moral side: the side of the greatness and
honor OF the nation. Now one moment as
40 The material side. Ladies' and gentle
men, II Is a bit difficult to know what issue
TO discuss because our opponents change
the paramount issue so often am per-
fectIy willing to meet them on any Issue, II
they will only let us know what 1t Is, anc
stay long enough on 1t.
yet. after all. what need is there for me
to discuss economic and financial questions
when they do not dare discuss them them
selves? Take the question OF free silver.
II any OF you are fortunate enough to know
whether Mr.. Bryan. II elected will pay the
obligations OF the nation In gold or In silver.
wish you would divulge this knowledge,
for Mr.. Bryan won't. There is no doubt
about where we stand. We are for the gold
standard. and we are for 1t on the Atlantic
s,aboard and in the Rocky mountains alike.
We stand for II everywhere, for we are
fortunate enough to have issues which do
not wear thin in any part of the country.
silver Issue Not Dead.
"Sow, gentlemen some people say that
the silver issue is dead. Silver cannot be
dead when people are uncertain as to how
candidate of one OF the two great parties
would pay the obligations of the govern
mcnt. No issue is dead when you cannot
veil WnptntT u VI DtllSlOIlNi'
whoever he may be, Is to get As cents or 100
on the dollar. IL is dead to the extent that
NOBODY ventures to argue In Its behalf.
. But IL they paid our debts In Ascent dollars
we would care little as to the precise argu-
mcnis by which they reached the conclu-
sion that warranted that conduct.
IAN want you to do from material
standpoint is to exhumc Mr.. Bryan's
prophecies of four years ago, and then for
yourselves compare those prophecies with
their signal non-fulfllment. The spirit
moved Mr.. Bryan and he prophesied He
IrOphesied that unless you had free silver
tho wage- worker would stand idle In the
market place. That was the prophecy. The
fulhIIment was that the wage-worker has
mad very nearly double as much work az
before. And he prophesied again. He said
that " we elected Mckinley the farmer
would find the products of his farm dimin-
iShing In value, but they have increased
from Is to 60 per cent. In different products.
You do not have to take my word for any
thing of this. Simply look at the statistics.
or find out what has happened among your
friends.
And Mr.. Bryan prophesied again The
savings banks attracted his attention, and
hc said If we had not free silver the depos-
its Of the savings banks would diminish,
and they have increased g per cent lie
raid that the amount of money In circula-
tion per capita would diminish, ard 1t ha,
increased from $50 to SIS.
Mistakes of bryan.
80 far Mr.. Bryan had been saying that
everything would go down. lie said mort
cages would go up and they were the only
things that went down. Mortgages have
diminished In amount by nearly 80 per cent.
When these things were pointed out to Mr.
Bryan the other day, and II was shown to
MIN that We were prosperous, he an
Swcrcd that II was not the republican par
~. but providence, that made Us so. Now
"A. H..
has been fusion between providence and
the republican party. The democracy has
fused with about every thing else, but some
how or other IL has never managed to CON
meet with providence.
Now, gentlemen. do not wonder that In
the hard times when things were looking
pretty black men turned to strange gods
III has always been 50 since the day Moses
broke the decaloguc. ] do not wonder
when a man feels sick ard does not know
what Il the matter with him, and he cam
not find out that he should try quack
medicine once. but II he tries II again,
must question his intelligence.
"If the people of this country want to go
back into the slough of despond out of
which We have so painfully emerged--it
they want to do that, why, under the CON
sttution. II Is their inalienable right. But
when they get back there, do not let them
advance the T-did-not- know 1t was load
cd excuse II Is of no avail to have good
intentions If we have not the common sense
10 put tb an into effect. We must not mere
1y talk about things. but do them.
Appeals to Young Men.
~ appeal to the young men: ! appeal to
those on the threshold of their manhood to
bear themselves as their fathers and
Grandfathers bore themselves In the old
or days. | appeal to you to see that this
nation does not shrink from Its destiny:
that II treads it's allotted path with cour-
age and a firm step. But. mind YOU there
arc two things to be kept In mind about
that In the first place. we should tread
that path as Americans. In the spirit OF
true Amercanism. That II not the spirit
that depends upon color creed. or birth
place. IL depends upon accepting a man
on his worth as man. I see here. my com
rades, you OF the dusky face, brother of
those men with the white face. wearing the
button OF the grand army. l saw men of
your color In the Ninth and Tenth cavalry.
sighting vaiiantly at Santiago: and let me
here say that think II Mr.. Bryan would
devote less attention to the imaginary
rights. or. rather. the imaginary wrongs,
of the brown man who Is shooting at our
soldiers In the Philippines, and more TO
she wrongs Of the men on whose breasts
may be seen the scars gained as they
f..r q he Nae aKA NO. at,f,ap tn ha