The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-10-19
Magnificent Demonstration for ReDuD|CanS|I)).

here; you could not put him out to
save his life; you had better put him
up on the platform and let him make a
speech. daughter have explained
all that to you and if you cannot I'M
derstand my answer to you already
made, you are not as intelligent as you
look. daughter.
Our Credit UnequalIed.
Now gentlemen, in this same law
that we provided for gold standard
we authorized the secretary of the
treasury to issue two per cent United
States bonds, and to exchange them
for outstanding bonds bearing higher
rate of interest, and at last reports he
had exchanged $3.50, 900, 900 of those
bonds for the outstanding bonds bear
ing a higher rate of interest, and has
saved to this government over
IS, 600, 900 in interest, Now, under
stand that there was never a nation
on this earth except the United
States of America that undertook to
float two per cent bond, and we not
only foated it under Republican ad
ADMINISTRATION at 2 per cent, but it also
commands little premium Now
what kind of a country have we today2
Voice, 1.-The best in the world. ~
Yes, it is out of sight of any of them.
(Applause.) Now then, let me tell
you in few words. Last year we
raised more wheat than any country
in the world, we raised % per
cent of the worlds product !;
last year we raised ten times
more grain than any country in the
world, 70 per cent of the worlds pro-
duction last year we raised more cot
ton than any nation in the world, 70
per cent of the world production last
year we exported three times more
farm products than any country in the
| world last year we produced more
coal than any country in the world,
80 per cent of the worlds production
last year we produced one-half of all
the copper in the world and we have
six times more miles of railroad than
j any country in the world; and last
year we had the largest balance in our
treasury of any nation in the world I;
we had the largest expectation of any
nation in the world; last year and
this year we have the finest financial
credit of any country in the world +;
and today we are morally the most
powerful country in the whole world.
Today we are directing all Europe in
affairs of that great empire of China,
and Europe is listening to our voice.
Applause and cheers.
Now remember this, that that
growth has been in the last forty
years, and that during the entire forty
years the Republican party has been
! in power all of that time, less four
years, and remember that in that four
years the country progressed like a
crab, backwards Remember that
! under Republican administration and
legislation we had paid off. up to 1898,
81, 800, 900, 900 of the public debt and
were paying it off at the rate of five
millions a month. Remember that I'M
der the Democratic administration
we did not pay off single dollar of
the debt, but increased it at the rate
of nearly So, 600, 900 per month.
Now, remember that during the four
years the Democratic party put but
one important piece of legislation up
ON the statute books of the United
States, and that was the Wilson bill.
Do you think it is good idea for
them to try their hand once more?
/ (Cries of "Nop "Nor) Eighty per
, cent of organized labor in this coun-
try, when it was receiving good
, wages, when wages we're at their
highest purchasing power, so per cent
of them helped to elect Cleveland and
a Democratic house. What did they
do it for? They said they wanted a
, change, and they got it too, and it
was the only change they had for four
years. (Laughter). Now, you men
who work for living, do you want
any more change? Cries of "Nol"
"Nor') If you get one more change
and elect W. J. Bryan, I, like Bryan,
, will turn prophet, and say to you that
you will see a money panic in the
presence of which the one of 1898 will
pale to utter insignificance. am
obliged to you for your attention. ZAP
pl ause.
Senator Hanna Talks.
DR.. Driver then advanced and said ::
"Mankato today is honored by the
advance agent of prosperity, by the
grand marshal of that grand old party
of liberty, of equality before the law,
whether it be the white man of the
north, the black man of the south or
the yellow man of the Philippines.
He is the advance agent of all of these
things, and I am supremely happy to
introduce to you the Hon. Marcus A.
Hanna. who will now address this