The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1900-11-01
ROOSEVELT ROUsER.
New York's Governor Warmly Wei.
coined in St. Louis.

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h City Afame with Republican
sentiment-Roused by Vice Press
tdentiaI Candidates Elo-
quent Speeches.
Gov. Roosevelt, vice presidential
candidate, met with such a reception
at st. Louis on Tuesday, October 9,
as seldom has been accorded a re-
publican candidate. The seating
capacity of the halls in which
the governor spoke was in the
aggregate $4,000, and they We're
every one of them crowded to the
very doors with people who stood
when there were no place for them
to sit 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
mercial interests of the city. The
Exposition Coliseum was crowded
at night in honor of Gov. Roosevelt,
who spoke a little more than an hour,
in the course of his speech saying:
"Mr. Chairman and You, Men and Wom-
en- of Missouri-My Fellow Countrymen: I
appeal to you less as republicans than as
citizens of this great country, for I feel
that in this year we have the same right to
appeal to all men, without regard to their
g. n0litioa1 mast q G va had in 1S6d-26 y-aars
ago. Then, as now, the issues at stake were
so great that they superseded all questions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 material side, the
moral side; the side of the greatness and
honor of the nation. Now, one moment as
to the material side. Ladies' and gentle
men, it is a bit difficult to know what issue
to discuss because our opponents change
the paramount issue SO often. I am per-
fectly 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 discuss economic and financial questions
when they do not dare discuss them them
selves? Take the question of free silver.
IT any of you are fortunate enough to know
whether Mr.. Bryan, if elected, will pay the
obligations of the nation in gold or in silver,
l wish you would divulge his 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 Atlantic
seaboard and in the Rocky mountains 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.
Silver Issue Not Dead.
Now, gentlemen, some people say that
the silver issue is dead. Silver canno be
dead when people are uncertain as to how a
candidate of one of the two great parties
would pay the obligations of the govern
ment. No issue is dead when you cannot
tell whether a creditor, or a pensioner,
whoever he may be-, is to get 48 cents or 100
on the dollar. 1t is lead to the extent that
nobody ventures to argue in its behalf.
we would care little as to the precise argu-
ments byswhich they reached the conclu-
sion that warranted that conduct.
"All I want you to DO from a material
standpoint is to exhume Mr.. Bryan's
prophecies of four years ago, and then for
yourselves compare those prophecies with
their signal non-fulfllment. The spirit
moved MI. Bryan and he prophesied. He
prophesied that unless you had free silver
the wage-worker would stand idle in the
marketsplace. That was the prophecy. The
fulfllment was that the wage-worker has
mad very nearly double as much work as
before. And he prophesied again. He said
that If we elected Mckinley the farmer
would find the products of his farm dimin-
ishing in value, but they have increased
from 15 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
he said if we had not free silver the depos-
it's of the savings banks would diminish,
and thew haua increa sod Ok per oant He
said that the amount Of money in circula-
ton per capita would diminish, and it has
increased from $40 to SIS.
Mistakes of Bryan.
$50 far Mr.. Bryan had been saying that
everything would go'down. He said mort
cages 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
MIN that we were prosperous, he an
swered that it was not the republican par
ty, but providence, that made us SO. Now,
I am perfectly willing to admit that there
has been a fusion between providence and
the republican party. The democracy has
fused with about everything else, but some
how or other it has never manage to con-
meet with providence.
Nov, gentlemen, l do not wonder that in
the hard times when things were looking
NAtS AAASA ~ L LIZ 6OuS.
1t has always been so since the day Moses
broke the decalogue. I do not wonder
when a man feels sick and does not know
what is the matter with him, and he can
not find out, that he should try a quack
medicine once; but If he tries it again, I
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-if
they want to do that, why, under the con-
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when they get back there, do not let them
advance the Observation-Disclosures
ed excuse. It is of no avail to,have good
intentions If we have not the common sense
to put them into effect. We must not mere
ly talk about things, but do them.
Appeals to Young Men.
II appeal to the young men; I appeal to
those on the threshold of their manhood to
bear themselves as their fathers and
grandfathers bore themselves in the old
er days. I appeal to you to see that this
nation does not shrink from its destiny;
that it treads its allotted path with cour-
age and a firm step. But, mind you, there
are 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 Americanism. That is not the spirit
that depends upon color, creed, or birth
place. 1t depends upon accepting a man
on his worth as a man. I see here, my com
rades, you of the dusky face, a brother of
those men with the white face, wearing the
button of the grand army. I saw men OF
your color in the Ninth and Tenth cavalry,
fighting valiantly at Santiago; and let me
here say that I think If 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
the wrongs of the men on whose breasts
may be seen the scars gained as they
fought for the flag, and who happen to have
been born in certain of our own states-I
think If he would devote attention 10 the
wrongs of the black American here, rather
than to the wholly %fanciful injuries done.
Taga2 bandits on the other side Of the
ocean,, that his work would bear more use