Daily Kennebec journal., 1900-10-10
STIRRING ADDRESS.
Gov. Roosevelt Addresses I'm
mense Audience at St. Louis.
Sharp Arguments Greeted With Tu-
muItous Applause by Crowd.
Grand Parade Escorts Governor 10 81. Louis
Exposition Coliseum.

vast postum 'oIIStulIl WAS frDWIcC,
tonight, in honor of Gov. Roosevelt,
who spoke little more than an hour.
The governor was tired having ridden
in a parade given in the afternoon.
Later he was the guest Of honor at
luncheon given by the st. Louis Club
He was escorted from the Planters
hotel. in the evening, by Mayor Zei-
genhim, National Committeeman
kerns and other prominent Republi-
cans of a Missouri mounted regiment
and several thousand citizens in car
riages or on foot. The route of the
night parade was Illuminated by fam
beauX and colored fire. At the Coli
scum the governor was greeted with
tumultous applause. He was intro
duced by the mayor and was cheered
enthusiastically throughout his
speech, at the conclusion of which he
was escorted to the union station,
where he took his special train for
Chicago, whence, tomorrow morning,
he will start on his Indiana tour.
The governors address follows:
Mr.. Chairman and you men and
women of Missouri my fellow country
men: | appeal TO you less as Repub-
licans than as citizens Of this great
country. for l feel that in this year
we have the same right to appeal to
all men without regard to their poiti-
cal past, as we had in 1S64-36 years
ago. Then as now, the issues at stake
We're so great that they superseded all
questions of mere party affiliations.
Il have to ask you to look at just
two sides of these issues-the material
side and what is greater than the ma
terial side, the moral side. The side
of the greatness and honor of the ma
ton.
Nov one moment as to the material
side. Ladies and gentlemen. ii is a bit
difficult to know what issues to discuss
because our opponents change the par
amount issue so often. | am perfectly
willing TO meet them on any issue if
they will only let us know what it is
and stay long enough on it. Yet. after
all. what need is there for me to dis
cuss economic and financial questions
when they do not dare discuss them
themselves? Take the question Of free
silver. If any of You are fortunate
enough to know whether Mr.. Bryan. if
elected. will pay the obligations of the
nation in gold or silver, l 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 it on the At
lantic seaboard and in the Rocky noun
tains alike. We stand for it everywhere.
for we are fortunate enough to have
issues which DO not wear thin in any
part of the country. Now gentlemen.
some people say that the silver issue
is dead Silver cannot be dead when
people are uncertain as to how can
didate of one Of the two great parties
would pay the obligations of the gov
ernment. No issue is dead when YOU
cannot tell whether a creditor. or a
pensioner. whoever he may be. is to
get As cents or 100 on the dollar. 1t is
dead to the extent that nobody ven
lures to argue in its behalf But if
they paid our debts in As cent dollars,
we would care little as to the precise
arguments by which they reached the
conclusion that warranted that con-
duct
All / want you to do from a material
standpoint is to eXhume Mr Bryan's
prOphesies with their signal non-ful-
fllment The spirit moved Mr. Bryan
and he prophecied He prOphecied
that unless you had free silver. the
wage worker would stand idle in the
market place. That was the prophecy.
the fulfllment was that the wage
worker has had very nearly double as
much work as before. And he prophe
cied again He said that if we elected
Mckinley the farmer would find the
products of his farm diminishing 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 hap
pened among your friends.
And Mr.. Bryan prophecied again.
The savings banks attracted his atten-
ton. and he said if We had not gree
free silver. the deposits of the savings
banks would diminish: and they have
increased % per cent He said that the
amount of money in circulation per
capita would diminish, and it has in
creased from 20 to % dollars So far
Mr.. Bryan had been saying that ev-
erything would so down. He said that
mortgages would go up; and they were
the only things that went down.
MORTGAGES have diminished in amount
BY nearly 40 per cent. When these
things were pointed out to Mr.. Bryan
the other day, and it was shown TO him
that we were prosperous. he answered
that it was not the Republican party
but Providence that made us so. Now
/ am perfectly willing to admit that
there has been fusion between Provi-
dence and the Republican party. The
Democracy has fused with about ev-
erything else but somehow or other it
has never managed to connect with
Providence.
IF the people of this country want
to go back into the slough Of despond
out of which we have 50 painfully
emerged-if they want to do that. why.
under the constitution. it is their in
alienable right. But when they get
back there do not let them advance
the I did not it was loaded excuse.
1t is Of no avail to have good inten-
tions if we have not the common sense
tn put them into effect. We must not
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