The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-10-26

! 'hgf saw htA bhAN BAiNAANr's
remarkable speech was as follows;
"To begin with. gentlemen. I have
lost all faith In the Populist party. II
has ceased to be a party of reform, "
| 1t ever was one. do not wish to crit
| icise the gentlemen of this convention.
but I mean the Populst party as a
whole. 1t Is almost entirely composed
of fault-fnders, men who are never
satisfied with anything. You know az
well as l DO that we are having good
| times, yet how many men in the PopE-
| list party are willing TO acknowledge
| &c? If you find one, ten chances to
one he will say 1t is because OF sap
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 chat supply
and demand had nothing to do whh
the regulation of prices. and that moth
ing could bring good times with gold
| for our standard money. You know rs
well as DO how they told us that the
rich would get richer and the poor
poorer; that we would all he slaves "
Mckinley was elected. Now we know
that was not the truth. for no man Is
more independent to-day than the
! farmer.
''The laborlng 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
ers' beef and pork. All. yes, II is sup
ply and demand, but there wouldn't be
such demand were It 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 a ship. When this Peoples indie
pendent party started as a party of re
/ form we were all anxious to join NJ.
/ We were honest enough to wish to be
/ on the side of reform. but. all. gentle
men, time has proven that we dan't
need free silver.
Free silver will soon cease TO be yo.r
hobby, for we all now know that we
don't need that. They can't deceive
us that way any more. hope the gen
tlemen 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 ST.
yer didn't know what free silver
meant, and, believing that these Popu-
list speakers and papers told them.
thought 1t was their only salvation.
They have been very pleasantly saved
without it, and ought to know better
now.
Suppose foreigner came to this
country and he didn't understand the
English language, and some people told
him that he was q slave; that he'd
never get rich until a cyclone struck
him.
"Why. If he believed what they told
him, he'd probably pray night and day
for cyclone to come. If he was wise.
he'd first find out what a cyclone
meant, then he might come to diff
ferent conclusions: but If he made no
study OF the subject. no investigation.
of course he would never understand
until a cyclone did strike him; then he
would learn to his sorrow what It
meant. and he would curse the men
who deceived him.
"Now. these men who deceived us by
! ca vii NO oOnIHnff ho
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 our country's honcr
in time of war.
''You, gentlemen. who are favored
with the power to vote. beg of you In
vote sensibly. There is no one more
contemplate than the hypocrite. "
you believe one way and vote another
you are committing sin before God.
| beg of you to reason for yourselves
and then vote as you conscientiousIy
believe to be right. no matter what
others may think. Some people II they
find they are wrong. won't acknowl-
edge 1t, but truly honest. upright or
Christian man is glad to confess hes
mistake.
I'VE should not be foolish like the old
woman. that owned goose which laid
a golden egg every day. Her neigh
bors told her to XIII the goose and she
would end It full OF goldeneggs. Now
this old woman was prospecting but she
wasn't satisfied. 80 she did as they adj
vlsed her. She killed the goose. but to
her sorrow there were no golden eggs
TO 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 ne
be satisfied with the good times We
now have.
"You all know now why will not 40.
cept the nomination so kindly offered
mo I fhanE vot, - aho said a el,o -.