Evening Star Newspaper, August 28, 1896, Page 10

10 THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, ‘AUGUST’ 28, "4895 TWELVE ‘PAGES. HARRISON'S SPEECH The Ex-President Opened’the New York Campaign Last Night. ee EXPOSITION OF FINANCE AND TARIFF Preceded by Chauncey Depew ina Ringing Address. = - ~ was packed o€ the opening an in that city by whose speech elec- opie who secured ed that at least prevented from seats. Repub- te prominence oc- in the boxes were nied by ladies. w was chairman of introducing the ex- last nig ef the rep ex: Preside trified the fi d the stage, and y others, acco: Chauncey Dep meeting, and In Mr. the President he made a speech 6f some length. He said in part: “There is a peculiar fitness In having the keynote of the most important canvass sounded by one of the ablest and the wisest <f the line of American statesmen. H:s presence is a republican platform. It 1s pri work and wages. The memory of admin ion and the beneficent conditiens which prevailed during its con- tinuance relieves the distress In which the eovntry has since been plunged, and is Chauncey M. Depew. full of hope and promise for the future. lays of theory and fancy and fol- almiy point to the four son and confidently sav sof sound money and the then prevailed with a dent will come again country when the y and of protection with another wise and ail Carrency Debasement. “From dawn recorded history 1 South America, d mal monarchies and ing their curre has lost its cred- industries have paralyzed, pover Mex dewn to petism publ Patriotism can ordi- ry travel upon par- utons are the safer verned where for the m: de on of natu- xhis of man, like ing the salvation of an effort to divide it rebellion, or an attempt on the national honor, national credit, then together, and there can then part'sanship and are in abeyance while patriousm of the na- Lberty, saving its s honor. Here, again, of experience and its Nati pnor Involved. “In this crisis, when the national honor, and all that that involves, the business, the employment and the prosperity of the country, is at stake, the republican party welcome with cpen arms the assi 1S * democrats who care more for country than for an organization h has been temporarily seized by the uous and evanescent forces of revo- of comm of anarchy and of repudiation. V We are fighting the platform which means all of those, we find that upon it is placed a ticket with one head and two ta to dely the one tall wagging farmer in the west and in h, “This effort to array one section against another by an appeal to prejudice and ignorance will be stamped out, not by bullets, but by ballots; will be stamped out not hy two millions of men in arms, but by the intelligence and the patriotism, by the knowledge that each section has of the other, by the feeling that we are one peo- ple and that our greatness is in our o1e- nes: ch will move to the polls a ma- Jestic army of 14,000,000 of voters. AM Equal Here. “There are no classes, thank God, in this country. There are no places of power or wealth to which the humblest boy may not aspire. Every President ince ington has come from the all our prosperous business men are of the people and have cimbed from the bottom. “The pre! that 100.000 bankers and money lenders will be at each one of the 100,000 voting places influencing or con- trollng the vote of 14,000,000 voters, that there have been in prior presidential or con ional elections, is an assump- tion more monstrous than the destruction of this earth by having swung around it the atmosphe ail of a flying comet. gold nfidence man,” who has been governing this country since the war, has paid off most of our national debt, has more than doubled the mileage ef our railways and telegraphs, and near- ly doubled the number of our states, has furnished homes and employment for 000.000 of people to live better than 30, Gwv.000 did before, has created the new suuth, has advanced wages and decreased the cost of living. A Confidence Game. “And what has the free coinage of sil- ver ‘confidence man’ done simply by the promise of what he do? Let the dis- tressed farmer and the unemployed mill- lons of the United States answer at the ee, y day I receive marked copies of Populistic papers attacking me as cne enemies of mankind because of of the New York Central nts as a lawyer. resident and Vice th started in hfe as I did, b no other capital than education and sion. We all three hustled for . for income, and careers. That the s of one is reputed to yteld larger < than that of the other two is not 4 a Gail Borden? Perfect $ iat EagleBrand Food Condensed Milk “Infant Health,” is a little book of lue that issent FREE on appli- N.Y. Condensed Milk Co. $ 7 Hudson Street, New Yor® Ger00090000 000 00000000000 regarded by law as either a reproach or | prove the cho'ce of a President who be- a misfortune. There are thirty-five thou- sand of us on the pay roll of that com- pany, and we neither want.to receive mon- ey worth half as much as that which we get, nor to be compelled to pay for the necessities of life twice as much as we pay now.” ‘The Mexican Parallel. Mr. Depew referred to Mr. Bryan's re- peated mention of Mexican prosperity, and said that he had just received a letter from @ railroad president in that country giving him facts in relation to wages and the cost of living, showing the Mexican employe to be far worse off than the American. Con- tinuing, he said: ‘Mr. Bryan is loudly calling for our in- dependence from Europe; independence from borrowing its money for developing our enterprises and employing our labor, which would mean also independence from the vast trade which is carried on between Europe and the United States. We cannot close our yorts and build a wall around us and be tsolated from the world, but we gu to a silver basis and then establish our re- lations with China and the orient. Tenny- son has said, ‘Better fifty years in Europe than a cycle of Cathay.’ Better ten years of vigorous, healthy, progressive activity than a century of paralysis. Better Chief Justice Russell with his magnificent mes- sage of peace and international friendship and commerce than Li Hung Chang and cheap Chinese labor. “Mr. Bryan is fond of talking about dy- ing In the last ditch and standing in the forefront, and making comparisons with dstinguished characters in history. Unless reason and patriotism have gone from the American people, after election he will stand in our history as the Casabianca of American politics. The People’s Hired Man. “We may accept the term while we re- pudiate the relation that the President of the United States is the hired man of the people. He holds his place for four years as the representative of the people. Dur- ing that time he possesses more power than any ruler in the world, except the autocrat of all the Russias. He can keep the coun- try disturbed or at rest. He may not be able to create prosperity, but he ean de- stroy it. He can create infinite distrust by the measures which he suggests or the quarrels which he provokes with foreign countries. The equivalent for this high of- fice goes almost as far as the principles be- hind the candidate" In conclusion, Mr. Depew contrasted the characteristics and qualifications of Mc- Kinley and Bryan, and then gracefully pre- sented ex-President Harrison, who was re- ceived with tumultuous cheering. When the applause had subsided, he said: Mr. Harrison’s Speech. “I am on the republican retired list, not by reason of any age limit nor by the Pleasure of any convention, but that the younger men mighi have a chance and that I might have a rest. But I am not a soured or disappointed or bed-ridden citizen. My interest in my country did not cease when my last salary check was cashed. I hoped to add to relief from official duties retirement from the arena of political de- bate. But the gentleman having In charge this campaign seemed to think that I might in some way advance the interests of those principles which are no less dear to me than they are to you by makiag here, in this great city, a public address. “I shall speak as a republican, but with perfect respect to those who hold different opinions. Indeed, I have never had so much respect for them as I have now, or, perhaps, I should say I ne had so mich respect for so many democrats as I have now. That party has once more exhibited its capacity to be ruptured and a party that cannot be split is a public menace. When ‘the leaders of a party assembled in Benjamin Harrison, convention depart from its traditional prin- ciples and advocate doctrines that threat- en the Integrity of the government, the social order of our communities, and the soundness of our finaaze it ougnt to split. A bolt from any party is now and then a most reassuring incident, and was never more reassuring, and never had better cause than now, but ‘hese democratic friends who are disposed more or less di- rectly to help the cause of sound finance In this campaign ought not to expect that the republican party will reorganize itself because the democracic party has disorgan- ized itself. . The Successfal Army. “The republican party, the republican voters, 1f sound money triumphs, as I be- lieve it will, must in the nature of the thing constitute the body of the successful army. We ought not, therefore, to be asked to do anything that will affect the solidity, the loyalty, the discipline, or the enthusiasm*of the republican party. “When the house is on fire—and many of our democratic friends believe that to be the present domestic situation— the tenant on the top floor ought not to ask the tenant in the basement to bury any of his. opinions before he joins the fire brigade, and our demo- cratic friends, who realize that we realize the gravity, the far-reaching consequen:es of this campaign, ought not to ask the re- publican party to reorganize itself, to put aside any of the great principles that it has advocated in order to win a vote. If their opinion is sincerely held, as they in- sist, it ought to determine their action for themselves without reference to what any- body should do. How Best to Beat Bryan. “And I submit to these gentlemen, for whose opinions I have the highest respect, whether, if it is true as they say that the success of the Chicago nominee would Plunge this country into commercial dis- tress and drag the nation’s honors in the dust there can be any question for such gentlemen but this: ‘How can we most surely defeat the Chicago nominees?’ "” Mr. Harrison then spoke of the Assault upon the Supreme Court and indicated that the logical result of the pronunciamento of the Chicago convention on this line was anarchy. He went on: “The atmosphere of the Chicago conven- tion was surcharged with the spirit of revolution. Its platform was carried and its nominations made in accordance with the incidents of frenzy that startled the onlookers and aroused the country. The course of the President was arraigned for enforcing the laws, and government by the mob was given preference »ver government by the law enforced b§ court decrees and by executive orders. The spirit that ex- hubited itself In this convention was so wild and strangely enthused that Mr. Bryan himself likened it unto the zeal that pos- sessed the crusaders when they responded to the impassioned appeals of Peter the Hermit to rescue the sepulcher ef our Lord from the hands of the infidels.” Pointing out the sequence of this figure, the speaker sarcastically inentioned the at- t tudes assumed by the various d«mocratic leaders at the convention, and continued: A Frensied Conventio: “All these things Indicate the temper in which that platform was adopted, and the spirit that prompted the nominations that were made. There was no calm delibera- tion. There was frenzy. There was no thoughtful searching for the man who, from experience, was most able to direct public affairs. There was an impulsive re- sponse to an impassioned speech that se- lected the nominee. Not amid such sur- roundings as that, not under such in- fivences, are those calm, .liscreet things done that will commend themselves to the judgment of the American people. “They denounce in their platform inter- ference by federal authorities im the local affairs as a violation of the Constitution uf the United States and a crime against free institutions. Mr. Tillman in his speech ap- proved this declaration. It was intended to be in words a direct congemnation of Mr. Cleveland as President of the United States for using the power of the executive to crush out of way every obstacle to the | free passage of the mail trains of the Unit- ed Staies and the interstate commerce. And, my friends, whenever our people ap- leves he must ask Governor Altgeld, or any other governor of ary other state, per- mission to enforce the laws of the United States, we have surrendered the victory the boys won in 1861. The Constitution. - The ex-President gave a brief outline of the relationship between state and federal authority with special reference to this matter, ard proceeded: “My friends, our fathers, who framed this government, divided its great powers be- tween three great departments—the legisla- tive, the executive and the judicial. It Scught to make these independent, the une of the other, so that neither might over- shadow or destroy the other. The Supreme Court, the most dignified judicial body in the world, was appointed to interpret the laws and the Constitution, and when that court pronounces a decree as to the powers of Congress, or as to any other constitu- tional question, there is hut one method upon which we can disagree, and that is the method pointed out by the Constitution sto amend it to conform to our views. That is the position teday. “You are to arswer, my fellow-citizens, in all the gravity of a great crisis, whether you will sustain a party that proposes to destroy the balance that our fathers in- stituted in our system of government, and wherever a tumultuous Congress disagrees with the Supreme Court, and a suoservient President is in the White House, that the judgment of the court shall be reconsidered and reversed by increasing the number of Judges and packing the court with men who will decide as Congress wants them to. A Dangeroun 4 ult. “I cannot exaggerate the gravity and the importance and the danger of this assault upon our constitutional form of govern- ment. One of the kindest and most dis- criminating critics who ever wrote with a foreign pen about American affairs, Mr. Bryce, in his ‘American Commoawealth’ pointed out this danger, that the Constitu- tion did not fix the number of the Supreme Court judges, and it was possible for a reckless Congress and a reckless executive to subordinate and practically destroy the Supreme Court by the process I nave just described; and the Englishman, after speaking of this, says: ‘What prevents such assaults on the fundamental laws? Nothing but the fear of the people, whose bread, good sense and attachment to the principles of the Constitution may be gen- erally relied on to condemn such a perver- sion of its powers.’ “I do not intend to spend any time in the discussion of the taritf question. That de- bate has been won and need not be pro- tracted. It means that ft might run on eternally on theorctical lines. We had had some experiences, but they were historical, remote, and not very instructive to this generation. We needed an experience cf our own, and we have had it. It has been a hard lesson, but a very convincing one, and everybody was in the schoul house when it was given. Mr. Depew, whose ab- solute accuracy and verity when he tells a story you can all bear witness to, In telling that story of our talk on the White House steps, did an unintentional injury to my modesty. From Prosperity to Panic. “In 1892 we had the most prosperous times, the most general diffusion of pros- perity, the most universal participation ip Prosperity, and the highest mark of pros- perity we have ever attained as a nation. Now, what has happened since? Now, then our business prosperity was like the strong current of the mighty river; now they are like a fading spring in an August drought. “A panic in 1893 of most extraordinary character has been succeeded by a gradual drying up, less and less, and less, until uni- versal business distraction and anxtety pre- vaiis all over our community. I do not be- lieve there has ever been a time, except, perhaps, in the very heat of some active panic, when universal business fear and anxiety and watchfulness even to the point of desperation has characterized this great metropolis as it does today. Men have been afraid to go away for a vacation. They have felt that they must every day in this burning heat come into the city and watch their business. That is the situation. What has brought it about? Gentle- men, who is there to defend the Wilson tariff bill? Who says it is a good tariff mcasure? I don’t believe a democrat can be found today that says it is. Mr. Cleve~ land repud:ated it. It was so bad that he would not attach his official signature to it, and it became a law without it. He said it was full of incongruities and ine- qvelities. And it was a better one than he wanted to give us. A Question of Revenue. “It has failed to produce revenues enough, supplemented by our internal tax- es, to maintain the government. There has been an annual deficit approaching $50,000,000 every year, and the national treasury has beer continually in a state of embarrassment. Our manufacturers, left without adequate protection, have been successively and gradually closing up and petting out their fires. But not only has this produced such an effect, but it has practically contributed to the financial de- pression that we are in. “The maintenance of the gold reserve up to $10,000,000 by the government for the redemption of our notes was essen- tial to confidence In the stability of our finances. When the government reserve runs down people begin at once to say: ‘We may come to the silver basis; gold is going out; the reserve is going down,’ and this fear is greatly increased. But how can you keep a gold reserve of one hurdred millions when you have not got one hundred millions in the treasury all told? How can you maintain this gold re- serve for the redemption of notes when you have an annual and continual deficit in your income not equaling your expenses? “The bond sales which have been made necessary by reason of this deficit—he- cause, I think, every cne will agree that as a financial problem, it is one thing when you have $00,000,000 surplus in the treas- ury to keep one dollar in three in gold, and quite another when you have only $125,000,000 in the treasury all told. jut I do not intend to follow this question further. I am quite as much, however, opposed to cheapening the Ameri- can workingmen and working women as I am to cheapening our dollars. I am quite as strongly in aye of keeping day’s works at home as I am gold dollars. If {t could be known tonight that the gallant soldier, that typical young American, that distinguished and useful statesman, Will- fam McKinley of Ohio, would certainly be elected President, how the bears would take to cover on the stock exchange to- morrow. Proud of His Party. = “My friends, as a republican I am proud of many things, but I can sum up as the highest satisfaction I have had in the party and its career that the prospect of republi- can success never did disturb business. “In connection with this financial mat- ter, do we all realize how important the choice of a President is? Do you know that as the law is now, without the pas- sage of any free coinage of silver law at all, it is in the power of the President of the United States to bring the business of this country to a silver basis? All he has to do is to let the gold reserve go, to pay out silver when men ask for gold, and we are there already. It is only because the President of the United States has regarded it under the law as his public duty to mainfain the gold basis, maintdin- ing that parity between our gold and silver coins which the law declares is the policy of the government, and because he has had the courage to execute the powers given to him by the resumption act to carry out that declaration of public law, that we are Trot now on a silver basis. I undertake, therefore, to say that if Mr. Bryan, or a man holding his view, were in the presi- dential chair, without any legislation by Congress, we should be on a silver basis in a week's time. “Three or four years ago, when I was in New York, some one of these reporters who sometimes hear things that are not intend- ed for them got hold of a remark of mine about the wild horses that Mr. Cleveland had to handle, and I simply meant by that what has been since demonstrated, that he did not have a compact or solidified party behind him; that the democratic party in Congress represented every shade of every ism that had ever been propounded in the country, and that he could not manage it. My prophecy has become a verity. They have left him. They abandoned him, end now as that caution was meant to indicate that we needed to look after our Con- gress as well as our President, this caution is intended to show you at this time that we need to look after our President if we would avoid the calamity of having this country put upon the Mexican basis of money. The Silver Question. “The sliver question—what is it? Do we want silver because we want more money, @ larger circulating medium? I haven't heard anybody say so. Mr, Bryan is not urging it upon that basis. If anybody-were to seek to give t! as a reason for want- ing free silver he Whuld be very soon con- founded by the fement that free silver would put more gold out of circulation than the mints of the United States could “pos sibly put in in yi of silver, arid that, ingtead of having thore money, we would have Jess. ‘What isit, th that creates. this_de- mand for silver? Ip'is openly avowed: It is not more dollars, hyt cheaper dollars, that are wanted. It is a,Jower standard of value that they are demanding. They say gold has gone up intil'jt has ceased to be a Proper standard of values, and they want silver. But how they want it? Now, my friends, there fg a great deal of talk about bimetallism,.of the double standard, and a great deal affconfusion in the use of those terms. ony wh is the use of the two metals as mondy where they are both used. By a doufjp, standard they mean that we shall have .@ gold dollar and a sil- ver dollar, which;shall be a unit of value for all property aga wages and eyerything that is to be measured. “Now, our fathers thought when they used the two metals in coinage they must determine the intrinsic relative values of the two, so that a comparison of the mar- kets of the world would show just what relation one ounce of silver bore to one ounce of gold, how many ounces of silver {t took to be equal to one ounce of gold in the markets of the world where gold and silver were used, and they carefully went about ascertaining that. Stilts Must Be the Same Length. “Now, what was the object of all that? Because they fully understood unless these dollars were of the same inherent intrinsic value that both of them could not be standards of value and both could not circulate. Why, every boy knows that it Is essential that the length of his stilts below the tread shall be the same. What is the law that governs here? It is just this simple law of human selfishness and self- Protection, that if you have two tnings, elther-one of which will pay a debt and one is not as valuable as the other. you are sure to give the least valuable. It {s just upon the principle that a man who can pay a debt with one dollar won't give two—precisely that. So that unless these two things maintain approximately the relative value that sixteen ounces of silver is worth one ounce of gold you can- hot make such doilars circulate together. The one that 1s more valuable the man wilt keep In his pocket or he will sell it to a bullion broker and everybody will use the other, “It is an old law, proclaimed years ago in England by Gresham, that the cheaper dollar drives the better one out. it has been illustrated in our history repeatedly It has been illustrated in the history of every commercial nation in the world, and anybody of half sense could see why it is 80. “Now, 80 nice were our people in try- ing to adjust this that they w. into decimal fractions. We say 16 to1. In fact, that {fs not the ratio. It is 88 plus. Now, that is the actual ratio. It 1s so near sixteen that we call It sixteen, but the men who made our silver dollar and our gold dollar were so nice in their calculation that they went into decimal fractions, into the thousandths, to adjust it accurately. A Matter of Fine Fractions. “Now, what do these people prop.se to 40? To take any account of thousandths? No. When the markets of the world fix the relative value of silver or gold at thirty- one ounces of silver to one ounce of gold they propose to say sixteen. Well,my friends, there has been nothing more amusing, and yet I fear that with the thoughtless it may have been in some measure mislead- ing, than the repeated declaration of Mr. Bryan that evergbody admitted that bi- metallism was a good thing—there is no debate on that subject—and that the de- bate in the campaign has come down to this fine point: Phe republicans say that we cannot have :ahis: good thing without the consent of Wnglind, and we say we can have it ourselves, and he has en- deavored to pivot-this great campaign with its tremendous issues: upon that pinhole. “We hear a great deal about the great resources and wealth and power of this country, and I do not-allow anybody to go beyond my appreviation of them; but what is the use of talking about that when you do not propose to put this wealth and power and influence ‘behind the silver dol- jars at all? As things are now the silver dollars that we have are supported by the government, and the government that Fup: ports this silversbuition has issucd these dollars on its’ own account—not for the ming owners—aniit nas pledged its sacred honor it would make every one of these silver dollars as good.as a gold dollar. And that s a powerful support. “Without it the disparity between these metals would at once show Itself in the markets, and there would be some sense in the talk which our populistic friends induige in when they speak of the power of this government, if they propose to put this power behind their free coinage. But they do not. They propose that the man who digs silver out of the mines may bring it to the mint and have it stamped and handed back to him as a dollar, the government having no responsibility about it. What Can Be Done. “But can we do this thing ourselves? Is it a question whether we will do it or ask gomebody’s consent whether we may or ask the co-operation of somebody? Not at all, I will tell you what this government can do alone. It can fix its money unit. It can declare by law what shall be the relative value of an ounce of gold and an cunce of silver, but it cannot make that lust declaration good. It is unquestion- ably fully within the power of this gov- ernment to bring this country to a silver basis by coining silver dollars and making them legal tender. They can do that. This gcvernment says you all take one of there dollars in discharge of any debt owing to you for a dollar, notwithstand- ing you may have loaned gold dollars, but it cannet say, and enforce its decree, if you should call out the regular army and navy and muster all our great modern skips and add the militia and put William J. Bryan in command of them—it cannot enferce the decree that one ounce of gold is the cqnivalent of sixteen ounces of sil- ver. ‘Not only that, not France and Eng- land and Germany can do that unless the markets respond. Why? You may make me take a silver dollar for a debt; but if I have bought my goods at gold prices ygu cannot make me give as many yards of cloth fcr a silver dollar as I have been in the habit of giving for a gold one. If I have a gold dollar in this hand, a silver one in that, and you declare ‘they are equal, and I can take the gold dollar to a bullion broker and get $2 for it, I know it is a Me. If I have nothing but a gold dollar, and sugar 1s twenty pounds for a dollar, I will not give that gold dollar for twenty pounds of sugar. I will take it arour.d to a broker and get two sliver dol- lars for it, and get the twenty pounds of sugar, and have one silver doilar left. ‘What Cannot Be Done. “So it 1s, my friends. We can of our- selves, cf our own wisdom, declare the unit of values. We can coin silver freely,but we cannot make sixteen ounces of silver equal to-one ounce of gold uniess {t is. “What is the next suggestion? It is, my friends, in the case of free silver, what is the financial and” moral equivalent of a declaration that 50‘cent pieces are dollars. They might just as well pass a law that 50 cents is a dollar. ‘That would not make it so, would it? It would be a legal dol- lar, but it would #ot buy a dollar's worth of ‘anything. What fs the effect of that? The merchant would take care of himself. “The workingnian ‘has got to consult somebody. He has to enter into an argu- ment. He his got'to get some other man’s consent before he can mark up his wages. Then’ there is the pensioner, those who are receiving pensions from this government for gallant deeds‘'dotle in the war, and others for the loss of the loved ones. He ‘cannot take his pension certificate and when it reads $$ make it read $16; h€ must wait for an appeal to Congress, and a Con- gress that is popwistfé in character would be cnsympathetic.’ He must make an ap- peal to Congress to have his pension raised to twice what it ;was before he is made equal. What can the depositors in our savirgs banks, the great company of wid- ows and orphans, the people of small mesns who are putting by a few pennies against a hard time in life, what can they do when this change comes? Can they take their bank pass book and where it says $10 write $20? Not at all. “Take the men who have life insurance. A man has providently taken out a policy that his widow and children might not come to want when the bread-winning hand was stricken in death. Can they where the policy reads $5,000 make it $10,000? Can the managers of these instit- tions make it right with them? No. This policy coerces integrity. True to the Laboring Man. “My friends, these men surely do not contemplate the irretrievable and exten- sive character of the disaster and disturb- ance and disruption which they are pro- posing tor all of us in all our business a: fairr, great and simple. Take the labor- ing man, how full of sympathy they are for him. My countrymen, I never spoke a false word to the laboring man in my life. I have never sought to reach his vote or in- fluence by appeals to that part of his na- ture that will pollute the intellect and the conscience. I have belfeved, and I believe today, that any system that maintains the es of labor in this country, that brings se LIVER CLOGGING. When Your Stomach Clogs Your Liver See to Your Digestion. Not one person in a thousand knows that the lope into the life of the laboring man, that | cause of bilousness is the clogging of the Mver by enables him to put by, that gives him a | the potsons of indigestion. Nor that the only prope: stake In good order in the property of the | cure for it is a tonic to aid the stomavh. country, is the policy that should be our Americar policy. I have resisted in many A campaigrs this idea that a debased cur- rency could help the workingmen. The But modern medicine declares the trath of it. ‘nd the Shakers have proved it by the wonderful success of their Shaker Digestive Cordial. first dirty errand that a dirty dollar does} One of the most important uses of the liver is to is to cheat the workingman.” Mr. Harrison referred to the Senate in- arrest and destroy all poisons which try to find their way Into the blood. When it's clogged, it quiry of 1890 into the relative prices of | can’t do this. commcedities and wages at different periods in the history of our country, the results. He then said: and quoted | Undigested food ferments and putrefies in the fomach. and the poisons of putrefaction clog and “They found that the enormous disparity | Pflyze the liver, after which they find thelr way between the advance of the cost of living | ito the blood. and the advance of wages falls in exactly with what we would conclude in advance. Laborers, men who work, whether with head or hand, in salaried positions, would do well to take these facts to heart and settle the question after that broad, deep inquiry to which Mr. Bryan invites you as to whether you want to enter into another experience such as it had during the war, when wages advanced so slowly and tedi- ously and the cost of your living moved on so swiftly. Result of Contraction. “A contraction of our currency by the exporting of our gold and a readjustment of everything will result from this change to a debased dollar. I read the other day in a paper a most amusing description of the troubles of the ticket agent at Laredo, a station on the Mexican railroad, who had to sell tickets to people who came from the United States, with United States money, going into Mexico, and then to peo- ple who came out of Mexico and who of- fered him Mexican money. He had a large book bound up with yellow paper, and he had to cover one whole sheet in his caleu- Jation usually when he sold a ticket. That is what would happen everywhere. Every- thing would have to be readjusted—the prices of everything, the whole intricate business adjustments of the country would have to be readjusted, and while that pro- cess is going on uncertainty would charac- terize busiress, resulting in panic and dis- aster. Now, who wiil get any benefit? Well, the man who owes a debt that he contract- ed upon a gold basis and is able to pay it with a fifty-cent dollar. He and the mine owner who gets an exaggerated price for the prodvcts of his mine are the only two people or classes of people that I can see that would have any benefit out of it. “My frie the people who advocate this class legislation, this legislation fa- vcrable to the mine owners, to doubie the price of the products of their mines, and offer this temptation of repudiation to the better class, is the party that have for’ twenty ycars been class legislation. Appealing to (he Farmer. “They make a strong appeal to the farm- er, They say it will put up prices. Well, in a sense, yes. Nominally, yes; really, no. If wheat goes from 50 cents to $1.20, price has been increased, you will say; but if the price of everything else has gone up in the same proportion, a bushel of wheat won't buy for the farmer any more’ sugar or coffee or farming implements, or anything else that he has to purchase. If that dollar won't buy for the farmer any more or be a better dollar than the one we have now, where fs the good to any. body of introducing these fictitious prices that are now real? They would work very well for the farmer if the prices of wheat, hay, oats and rye would double and nothing else would double, but if everything doubles, who is the richer, who is richer than he was before? Only the man who bought when we had an honest dollar and paid in the debased one; only the mine owner, who uses this gov- ernment to add 50 cents to the value of every dollar's worth of metal that he pro- duces from his mine. “That {s not even a democratic doctrine. It involves the idea that this government of ours shall pay not only its debt of hoy or, but that they pay the interest on its bends and the circulating notes in a ce- based currency. My countrymen, this country of ours during the troublous timcs of the war may have had severe trial but these financial questions are scarcely less troublous than those. During thos treublous times we had accumulated a debt so large that many of our pessimistic democratic friends told us we could never Pay it. Shall It Be Repadiation? “We had had a curency which we were compelled to make a legal tender and use that the Constitution might live; but no sooner had the war ended than the great conscience of this people declared the na- tion that has crushed this great rebellion, that has lifted itself In its pride ard its constitutional glory to a fearless position among the nations of the carth should not continue to have a depreciated and debasei currency, and we walked up to resumption, and we made the greenback dollar a par dollar in gcld. “Shall we now in these times, wher all the ills we euffer are curable if we only pass a revenue bill that will generously re- plenish the treasury of the United States, that will generously protect American la- bor against injurious competition and bring back again full prosperity to all our peopl=? Shall we now contemplate for a moment, cr allow to have any power over our hearts and minds this temptation to debase cur currency and put it in Its financial position alongside of the Asiatic countries or our weak and struggling sister republic of Mex- ico? Does not every instinct of pride, does not every instinct of self-interest, does not every thoughtful, affectionate interest in others, does not our sense of justice and honor rise up to rebuke the infamous prop- osition that this government and its peop! shall become a nation and a people of re- pudiation?” Soi Upon the conclusion of Mr. Harrison's speech the vast audience arose and checred for several minutes. When quiet was re- stored Dr. David J. Hill, president of Rochester University, was ‘introduced and spoke at some length. There were then calls for Chairman Hanna, who made a few remarks from the box which he oc- cupied. Upon demand Mr. Kaward Lauter- bach spoke briefly, and then the people called for Mr. John’ Wanamaker, who said: “When some of us in other days saw the army invading our beautiful Pennsylvania; when the great tide of fire rolled back from Gettysburg, we never expected to live to see the day when the American peo- ple would again be marshaled for battle against a common enemy. It is not a wer with bayonets and bullet, but it is a war of brains and business in the politics of the country, and we could not make a be! ter beginning than we are making tonight. The audience dispersed after giving three cheers for the national ticket at the re- quest of Mr. Depew. A PAINTER’S MISTAKE. Cause Confusion in Demo- cratic Ranks. The democratic national convention to meet at Indianapolis may not bother much about it, but it might want to get out an injunction if the managers should see a sign which has been placed over one of the main doors at democratic headquarters here. The sign is nearly as big as the door and reads: “National Democratic Com- mittee.” The man who painted it intended to make It “Democratic National Commit- tee,” but did not think of the transposi- tion of words. After all it doesn’t make much difference. —____-e-_______ Naval Movements. The Navy Department is informed that the Alert has arrived at San Francisco, and the Alliance has sailed from Southampton to Lisbon. ——__—_-2-+____ AUCTION SALES OF REAL ESTATE, &o Tomorrow. €. G. Sloan & Co., Aucts., 1407 G st. n.w.—Sale of honschold furniture, ete., on Saturday, August 29, at 10 o'clock a.nr; also, at 12 o'clock, horses, carriages, bicycles, large iron safe, ete. Rateliffe, Sutton & Co., Aucts., 920 Pa. ave. nw. —Sale of furniture, horses, carriages, harness, etc., on Saturdxy, August 29, at 10 o'clock; also, at 12 o'clock, horses, carriages, harness, ete. Walter B, Williams, Auct., 10th and Pa. ave. n.w.—Sale of household furniture, etc., on Saturday, August 29, at 10 o'clock a.m‘; also, at 12 o'clock, horses, carriages, harness, etc. 8. Bensinger, Auct., 940 La. ave. n.w.—Peremp- tory sal2 of horses and mares, ctc., on Saturday, August 29, at 10 o'clock a.m. Thomas Dowling & Co., Aucts., 612 E st. n.w.— Sale of houschold effecte on Saturday, August 29, at 10 o'clock a.m. Also, at 12 o'clock, horses, car- rages, harness, &e., &c. It May proclaiming against | 3134 M St., Georgetown. - morrow, Here is the true explanation of all the distressing Gisorders and complications caused by indigestion. Shaker Digestive Cordial is the only tonic cordial which aids the stomach in a natural way to digest {ts food. By this means, it cures indigestion, re- stores the ver and frees the body from poison and disease. Headache, dizziness, neuralgia, sion, weakness, bad taste, fe stipation, loss of appetite, anaemia, rheumati¢m and many other disorders are relieved and cured by Shaker Digestive Cordial. At druggists. Ten cents for a trial bottle. Write for book to The Shakers, 30 Reade York. mental depres- AUCTION SALES, TOMORROW. GOODS At Auction, 3134 [1 St.N.W. Seft22 | Begining TOMORROW AT TEN s2oe28 AM. UNTIL SEVEN PM, we will 2222s ; entire stock of A ce ceee Most. This xtock 222222 attractive Mue of Milli 22222 Hosiery, Underwe arses, 2adds Waists, Not Jackets and ececee Goods, “Your own’ prices will 95222 be enough for us. Bring your lunch £22228 and spend a profitable day buying S222 % sirable goods at half price and Ie ce see Pa. ave. cars pass the door, M. Samstag, Auctioneer, It Peremptory Sale of Horses Horses At Public Auction. Washington Horse and Carriage Ba- zaar, No. 940 Lou= isiana avenue. To- Satur=- day, morning, August 29th, at 10 o’clock, will be sold within the bazaar, for Mr. Wm. Shoemaker of Chambersburg, Pa., a carload of Horses and Mares, extra workersand fine drivers. Stock to suit any busi- ness. All will posi- tivelybesoldtothe highest bidders. ALSO 20 head of Horses and Mares censi ginla, Maryland and this cit of use. We call the es- ed from Vir- » to be sold for want pecial attention of| the public to this} so. peremptory sale. S. BENSINGER, Auctioneer. THOMAS DOWLING & CO., AUCTIONEERS, 612 E st. nw. On SATURDAY, ‘ST TWENTY-NINTH, 1896, at TEN O'CLOCK A.M., we will sell, within cur ‘auction rooms, n of Household Ff fects, Walnut and Cherry Bed Room Single and Douvle Oak’ Bedsteads, Sbuck and Hair Mattresses, t Gounters, Oak Wardrobe and Folding Bed, lot of Capned ¢ ALSO, AT TW! ‘O'CLOCK, Horses, Carriages, Harness, ete. ate WALTER 1. WILLIAMS & CO., AUCTIONE! HOU *DING ETC., AP OUR SALES Ke COR. 1WTH AND PA AVE. N.W. «Successors to Rateliffe SATURDAY 3 AUGUSTE: TWENT INTH, AT TEN O'CLOCK, AT OUR SALES ROOMS, 920 PI NW. FURNITURE, HORSES, CARRIAGES, HARNESS, &e. “ALSO, By order R. 8 Property Clerk, LOT ABANDONED AND 8° PROPERTY FOR: THB POLICE DEPAITMENT, By order Daniel Murphy, ‘Trustee, LOT HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, €ARKIA By order W. F. Salter, Constabl HORSE, BUGGY AND) MakNESS. ALSO, HORSES, CARRIAGES, HARNESS, &¢., IN FRONT OF THE ROOMS, AT TWELVE O'CLOCK S : It RATCLIFF Ky SUTTON & ©0., ©. G. SLOAN & ©0., AUCTIONEERS, 1407 G ST. UPRIGHT PIANOS, MIRRORS, MANTEL CaB- INET, OAK AND WALNUT BOOK ¢ PARLOR GRATE, FOLDL WRITER, WALNUT AND SUITES, OF! IRN AND ROCKERS, MATTRE KEW RUGS 4 ROOM FURNITURE, HALL i NOTS, PICTURES,” BRIC-A- KITCHEN GOODS, &e. ON SATURDAY, AUGUST TWENTY-) 1896, AT TEN A.M., Ww G st., we will sell the alw . ALSO, AT TW VE M Horses, Carriages, Bicycles, Large Iron Safe, fc C. G. SLOAN & CO., Auctioneers, au27-2t 1407 Gat. FUTURE DAYS. WALTER B. WILLIAMS & CO., AUCTIONEERS. REGULAR RA LUNCH R00} AT AUCTION. ON ‘TURSDA’ T, 1806, AT HALF at the lunch rooms, No. .W., Counters, Chairs, Lanch ‘Tables, “Paris Range, Linol Cookery aud the contents of abont five rooms of Household Foriture, Bedding, ete. Femme GoD. ALTER B. WHAIAMS & CO. au2s-St ‘ i “Auctioneers. AUCTION SALES. PUICKE Dare. RATCLIFFE, SUTTON & CO., AUCTIC GBuccessors to Rarciitie, Darr & Co.) VERY DESIRABLE THKK-STORY AND BASE- a WITH BROWN- aie cal " 4 AY of SEPTEM- CLK PM. we auction, in frout of the Lor UARE 788, Fronting 18 fect Uy 6, ou ‘of 45.96 feet, running je alley in rear. This auitention of parties in ureh of a desirable home or an investment, being uated In one of the best sections of the’ south et. Terms very liberal and sta sole. $200 required upoa suzidads KATCLIFPE, On Sionday, August 31, At 10 A. M., I will offer at Public Auction for Cash, The entire contents of the Store No. 1024 Conn. Ave., And consisting of STRICILY High-Graae Bicycies, Bicycle Sundries, Racks, Partitions, &c. NO FAKE WiEELS. R. W. Bisnop, Assignee, M. B. Latimer « Co., Auctiuneers, inden TOMAS DOWLIN & OO. AL vl TION FP PRAME HOUSE NO. 91% Ththbi, wil wLEN T AND ik TRUSTEES’ SALE MABTEEN 4H ROKTHWESS. Default having occurred under deed of trust, dated October 20, ISG, and revu-ded in Liber 1307, folio 317 et seq., of the Dist of Coluuiein dand records, the unders, sale, at TUES- MISC, wis oer tor At wIk per cout per ane 3. A eynmit “Ot $100 ove T with with, 5 be at tisk and : BA . Truster, ner . RALS uw RATCLIFFE, SUTTON & € (Successors to Ratelitl Special and Per- emptory Sale of the Entire Con= tents “Hillman House,” 226 North Capitol St. COMPRISING ABOUT SIXTY OOMS, ALL NEATLY FUIAISIIED, ALSO OFFIC RNITURE, PIANO, ETC, to take pl oa The pre ON TUESDA FIRST, COMME: « AM. to which the attention id hing is on 8 CASH i&dbs | RATCLIF au . SUTTON & ©9., Aucts. THOMAS DOW & CO, AUCTIONE ae TRUSTEES’ SALE OF FIXTURES OF BARBER SHOP, LOCATED AL 94 D SPREET NORTH. WEST By virtue of a deed of trust ded in Liber . 2072, at folio et seq. of the land rds for the Distriet of Colim Jat the request of the bolder of the note rty and I Mirror, five (om . sre Barber Chairs, one Ouk Tuble, one Cash Registe Window Curtaii Stinds, five Cu Boller, one Awuing. deliers, complete. fixtures, Mai WM. G. KNOX, W. ANDIE! BOYD, Tras . AUCTION! rr & Co.) au22-10t RATCLIFFE SUTTON of trust duly recorded Im the iand and or Ne 2087, fol nde for the Di request of tue part signed trustees will o lowing de- scribed land and pyr . situated In the county of Washington Di-trict of Columbia. and 4 eignated as lot nine (9), in clock five Gi, tn Ivy cording to the recorded subdivision theres office of the surveyor of the District of « together with all the improvements, One-t ‘rd cash, the balan: with Interest at six per « rights, & in ‘one ‘and ent per annum, ty sol terms of sale are from the day to resell the property at *he risk and cost defaulting purchaser, after five days’ ment of such rxile in som in Washington, D. cording at the cost « LBONAK JOHN A. RATCLIFFE, SUTTON & 6¢ ‘Successors to Ratcliffe, Darr & TRUSTEES’ SALE OF A BARRY FARM SUBDIVE: DAN AVENUE. By virtue of a decd of trast, Liber No, 2028, folio 328 recorded in of the land records for the Die at the juest of the part under- signed, trastees, will offer ic auc. thon, tn front of the Y¥. THR FOURTH DAY OF Init, AT | HALF-PAST FOUR ¢ the following bed land and jn the county desig- nd Howard, - Elizabeth, : livision on file veyor of said District in Liber 2, follos one 11) and two ‘one acre of ground, more or less, together with the Improvements, ‘rights, &c. Terms: One-third cash, the balance in one and two years, with interest’ frum the day of sale at six per erat per num, secured by deed of trust on the property sold, or all cash, at the option of the purchaser. A deposit of $100 required up acceptance of bid. If the terms of sale are m complied with in 15 days from the day of sale the trustees reserve the right to resell the property, at after the risk and cost of the defaulting purchase 5 days’ advertisement of such resale in so Paper publisbed In Washington, D.C. ancing and recording at th LEONARD C. JOBN A. PIER au24-d&ds TRUSTEES’ SALE OF TWO-STORY DWELLING NO. 147 T STRI WEST. By virus of 2 deed of trust to us, dated Octo- BRC Nor’ ber 1, 1805, and recorded in Liber No. 2066, at folio 128 et seq... one of the laud recorus ia, and st request District of Col holder of the notes sc ned trustees will se the under- premises, on 1896, AT HAL! No. 73 of fa: vision, In block subd! ris of Mt Port Royal, known a+ addition to Le Droit Park, in the county of Washington, District of € with the improvements thereon. T ing offered Subject to a decd of 1 aze Juve 10, 1898, and Interest thereon {ro une 10, 1896. ‘Terms of sale One-fourth cash and the balance in two (2) equal Installments, with interest at 6 per cent per aunum, payable tn one and two years, te be secured by cond deed of trust, or all cash, at the option of the purchaser. A deposit of $106 will be required at the thme of su sof sale to be complied with within t 2 will be cesold at the risk and oo of the WIT BARNE DAVID MOORE, tees, 629 Fost 20) LOTS SALE OF PL nw. T will sell, by public auction, at t K. Fulton, 1215 Pa romney TUE DAY, SEPTEMBER FIRST, “AT TEN (CLOCK AM.” all the Unredeemed Pledges in bis store upon whieh due one year or ing of 35 fiver and Filled Chains Lockets, Studs, Cum Ib Links Pins, Ee id and Seal Rings, Medals, Bndges, Coins, and Eyeglasses, Solid Silver aud’ Plated <- Violins, Clocks, Umbreli e 7 p.m. dally until all the bots are sold. Ticket hold ee take motice. B.K.PULTON, Pawabroker