The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-10-19

| say, SuNe Her tndt prlNhcge. tilhic
remarkable speech was as follows:
ITO begin with, gentlemen, have
lost all faith in the Populist party. II
has ceased to be party Of reform, IL
1t ever was one. do not wish to crit
icise the gentlemen Of this convention,
but I mean the Populist party as
whole. 1t Is almost entirely composed
of fault-fnders, men who are never
satisfied with anything. You know az
well as I do that We are having good
times, yet how many men In the Popu-
list party are willing to acknowledge
It? If you find one, ten chances 10
one he will say 1t is because Of sup
ply and demand or the late war, or
something else; the Government has
nothing to do with 1t. Now, suppose
this Is true. Just trace that same man
back to few short years ago, before
our last presidential election. He
would then have told you that supply
and demand had nothing to do with
the regulation of prices, and that moth
ing could bring good times with gold
for our standard money. You know as
well as / do how they told us that the
rich would get richer and the poo,
poorer; that we would all be slaves !
Mckinley was elected. Now we know
that was not the truth, for no man IA
more independent to-day than the
farmer.
q mn n i,ao g.
being idle now. There Is plenty OF
work and good pay. Factories by the
hundred have opened, giving men en-
ployment They earn plenty of money,
and can now afford to buy the farm
ers' beef and pork. All, yes, 1t is sup
ply and demand, but there wouldn't be
such demand were 1t not for our new
protection law enacted by our Repub-
lican Congress. Those men who trav-
eled over this country, persuading men
to join their so called reform party,
were false prophets. Would you con-
tinue to believe them? You had bet
ter trust the sure captain, who never
lost ship. When this Peoples indie
pendent party started as party of re-
form we were all anxious to JOIN IT.
We were honest enough to wish to be
on the side of reform, but, ain, gentle
men, time has proven that we don't
need free silver
Free silver will soon cease to be your
hobby, for we all now know that we
don't need that. They can't deceive
us that way any more. hope the gen
'lemen here assembled will reason In
your minds that the man who deceived
you once may deceive you again.
Many Of those who voted for free sill
'er didn't know what free silver
meant, and, believing that these Popu-
list speakers and papers told them,
bought it was their only salvation
They have been very pleasantly saved
Without It, and ought to know better
low.
Suppose a foreigner came to this
Ountry and he didn't understand the
English language, and some people told
i'm that he was slave; that he'd
ever get rich until cyclone struck
i'm.
"Why, IL he believed what they told
i'm, he'd probably pray night and day
or a cyclone to come. If he was wise,
ed first find out what cyclone
1eant, then he might come to diff
erent conclusion; but If he made no
tudy of the subject, no investigation,
( course he would never understand
Il ott Hnr hp
you'd learn to his sorrow what II
meant. and he would curse the men
Who deceived him.
"Now, these men who deceived us by
aging we couldn't have good times
Without free silver, were false prOph-
is. Let's not believe them any longerf
nut change our politics. Let's treat
hose gentlemen right who have
,rought good times to our door. and
Who have saved our country's honor
n time of war.
"You, gentlemen, who are favored
With the power TO vote, beg Of you TO
Tote sensibly. There is no one more
than the hypocrite. II
you believe one way and vote another
you are committing a sin before God
beg Of you to reason for yourselves
Ind then vote as you conscientiousiy
believe to be right, no matter what
,thers may think. Some people II they
ind they are wrong. won't acknowl-
,dge 1t, but truly honest, upright or
Christian man is glad TO confess his
mistake.
1--WE should not be foolish like the OLD
woman, that owned a goose which laid
4 golden egg every day. Her neigh
bors told her to kill the goose and she
would find 1t full of golden eggs. Now
this old woman was prospecting. but she
wasn't satisfied. so she did as they adj
vised her. She killed the goose, but to
her sorrow there were no golden eggs
10 be found; so she didn't even have the
goose left, because Of her foolish greed.
let us not do as she did, but let Us
be satisfied with the good times we
now have
ssYou all know now why will not