The Red Cloud chief., 1900-10-19

say. gave her that privilege. Vinnie's
remarkable speech was as follows:
"To begin with, gentlemen, I have
lost all faith in the Populist party. 1t
has ceased to be n party Of reform. If
II ever was one. | do not wish to crit.
icise the gentlemen Of this convention,
but mean the Populist party as a
whole. II Is almost entirely composed
of fa~ult-finders. men who are never
satisfied with anything. You know as
well as | do that we are having good
times, yet how many men in the Popu.
list party are willing to acknowledge
1t? II you find one. ten chances to
one he will say it is because of sup.
ply and demand or the late war. or
something else: the Government has
nothing TO do with It. Now, suppose
this Is true. Just trace that same man
back to a few short years ago. before
our last presidential election. lie
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 l do how they told us that the
rich would get richer and the poor
poorer: that we would all be slaves IL
Mckinley was elected. Now we know
that was not the truth, for no man is
more independent to-day than the
farmer.
The laboring man has no excuse for
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
crs' beef and pork. All. yes. II is sup
ply II demand, but there wouldn't be
such n demand were it not for our new
protection law enacted 10y our Repub-
lican Congress. Those men who trav-
"lcd over this country, p%erSuadlng men
To join their so.called reform party,
were false prophets. Would YOU con-
tlntc TO believe them? You had bet
ter trust the sure captain, who never
lost n snip. When this Peoples indie
pendent party started as n party of re-
form we were all anxious to Join II.
We were honest enough to wish to he
on the side of reform. but, ah. 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
MS that way any more. | hope the gen.
tlemcn 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
yer didn't know what free silver
meant. and, believing that these Popu-
list speakers and papers told them,
thought II was their only salvation.
They have been very pleasantly saved
without 1t, and ought to know better
now.
suppose n foreigner came to this
country and he didn't understand the
English language, and some people told
him that he was a slave; that he'd
never get rich until a cyclone struck
him.
why. IL he believed what they told
him, he'd probably pray night and day
for Il cyclone to come. If he was wise,
he'd first find ont what a cyclone
meant, then he might come to a diff
ferent conclusions: but II lie made no
study of the subject, no investigation,
of course he would never understand
until n cyclone did strike him; then he
would learn TO his sorrow what Il
meant. AMI he would curse the men
who deceived him.
Now, these men who deceived us by
saying we couldn't have good times
without free silver, were false proph-
cts. Let's not believe them any longer,
but change our politics. Let's treat
those gentlemen right who have
brought good times to our door, and
who have saved OWE country's honor
In time of war.
You, gentlemen, who are favored
with the power to vote, | beg Of you to
vote sensihly. There Is no one more
contemplate than the hypocrite. II
You believe one way and vote another
you are committing Il sin before God.
| beg OF you To reason for yourselves
ana then vote as you conscientiously
believe TO be right, no matter what
others may think. Some people If they
find they are wrong, won't acknowl-
edge 1t, hut n truly honest, upright or
Christian man Is glad to confess his
mistake.
I'VE should not he foolish like the old
woman. that owned a goose which laid
n golden egg every day. Her neigh
bors told her TO kill the goose and she
would find II full of golden eggs. Now
's's old woman was prospecting, but she
wasn't satisfied, so she did as they ad-
vlscd her, She killed the goose. but to
her sorrow there were no golden eggs
TO bc found: so she didn't even have the
goose left, because Of her foolish greed.
LET us not do ms she did. but let us
he satisfied with the good times we
now have.
You all know now why | will not ac-