Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-10-18

say. gave her that privilege. Ninnie's
remarkable speech was as follows:
ITO begin with. gentlemen. have
lost all faith in the PopuliSt party. 1t
mas ceased to be Il party Of reform. il
it ever was one. | do not wish TO crit
iciSe the gentlemen Of this convention.
but mean the Populist party as
whole. 1t is almost entirely composed
of fault-tinders. men who are never
satisfied with anything. eYou know as
We'll rs | do that We are having good
times. yet how many men in the Popu-
list party are willing to acknowledge
1t? If you lind ono, ten chances 10
one ne 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 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 gol.
for our standard money. You know as
we'll as do how they told us that the
rich would get richer and the poor
poorer: that we would all hc slaves il
Mckinley was elected. Now we know
that was not the truth. for no man is
more independent to-day than Tie
farmer
"The lahoring man has no excuse for
being idle now There is plenty OF
work and good pay. Factories hy the
hundred have opened. giving men rnl-
ployment. They earn plenty of money,
and can now afford to buy the farm
ers beef and pork. All. yes it is sup
ply and demand, but there wouldn't he
such demand We're it rot for our now
protection law enacted by our Rcpuh-
lican Congress- ThoS" men who lyay-
eled over this country per~uadiny 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 n party of re-
form we were all ANXIOUS to Join it.
We were honest enough to wish to lie
on the side of reform. but an. 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. hone the gen
tlemen here assembled will reason i'm
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 Popr-
list speakers and papers told them.
thought it was their only salvation.
They have been very pleasantly saved
without it. and ought to know better
now
Suppose a 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 cyclone struck
him.
Why if he believed what they toldTs
AiiiAi' liV u III oi'diDlN IJid IllSIll ana 'liN
for a cyclone to come. If he was wise,
he'd first find out what a cyclone
meant, then he might come to n 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 ba ynI11 f1r t,n
who deceived him.
Now, these men who deceived us nv
saying we couldn't have good times
without free silver, We're false p"oph-
cts. Let's not believe them any longer.
but change our politics. Let's treat
those gentlemen right who hay"
brought good times to our door. ana
who have saved our country'S honor
in time of war.
You. gentlemen. who arc favored
with tn" power to vote, beg of You to
vote sensibly. There is no one NOR"
contemplate than the hyDocritr. II
yon believe one way and vote another
you are committing a sin before Cod
l beg OF you to reason for yourselves
anu lIcu NOlc as you toilStitiltlOllSlN
believe to be right no matter what
others may think. Some people if they
find they are wrong won't acknowl-
edge it, but n truly honest. upright or
Christian man is glad to confess his
mistake.
I'VE should not be foolish like the Old
! woman. that owned goose which Ii d
golden egg every day. Her neigh
bors told her to kill the goose and she
would find it full Of golden eggs. Now
this old woman was prospecting, but she
wasn't satisfied. so she did rs they al
vised her. She killed the goose. but TO
her sorrow there We're 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. bat Let us
be satisfied with the good times we
now have.
You all know now why WI not ac-
cept the noIIiI,# ION so kindly offered
me thank YOU she said rs 81. rs-
sumed her seat
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