The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 30, 1896, Page 1

Mr. Estee’'s Speech on the Causes of Hard Times. THEY CAME HERE WITH DEMOCRACY. Big Opening Meeting of the Na- tional League Quarters in Pioneer Hall. | ENTHUSIASM =~ WITH SPEECHES AND MUSIC. Democracy Found the Country Prosperous, With Factories Running and No Trampism. It Desolated the Nation With f Want and Famine. If Mo feel a pang vices been a protect the people of this country M. Estee ever had occasion to | pis! own acts, and it was the best Cups 3 aga usnas: it his ser- ican par'y had not gates of commerce and let foreigners into our American markets. but t American labor st home. ed forsign revenue principles posed protection 1o Amers | o the night at the Auditorium should cenvince il & g~ = & hin. that Repuplicans as well as republics 2 are got aiways uneratefal E.f*":ar: ::: The bouse was crowded with one of the | most intellizent and appreciative audi- meeting any- people were after all the standing room ed. clare they are for American labor, but they do not provide u_mr‘.:z- laborers with one day’s will be gold debts. Silver will the future, as it is now, chesp igh and so long ss the in- s and capitalisis ias 1o be zold coln, becsuse the demand for 1l increase and the demand for silver will decrease. man who works for wages and the farm- produce something for sale will be ;! money uniess they, mim& introduced Mr. guished Republican m you all know. When »ir. Estee came forward to the bankers, made contracts peyevie i3 the stage the audience rose to its | ot hen free coi greeted him with two rounds of | ¥ s cxy fox free coinage of It was 2 warm, spontaneous wel- | 5 e e nrpeiete end co horse whose colors | {1 ad good times generally and sent no money sbroad, then gold and silver would te at home, both circu! i But s possibly st a par- t the case, and = protection. | the increased demand for workers will increase the price of work. The means to pay tb orkers comes from the resuits of their toil and not from the amount of silver in cirenl: bor produces thi and the price the demsnd. d there will be good price. The things so pro- duced are the wealth of the country, and | gs sre sold money, as a is paid and received for =cure the producer a good price, s should be both good and abundant. Tuere never nas been a time when there was more gold and silver money in this country the last four years, and yet we are poor and hard times prevsil. Engiand is | t country in the worid, so far as | money can meke that country rich, and yet, | with abont half eur population, it has ten | paupers 1o our one. It is axiomatic that well- paid isbor makes s country rich, and it is | noi the smount of money in the vauits of the or in the pockets of 8 few rich men that wsa nation’s wealth. * * ® he Populistic Democrats demand the free the issuance of bon $262,000,000 by the en the laborers will have more to do, and | B! | The reason wh S coinage of silver so that the amount of our metallic money will be increased. But our answer is: The free coinage of silver will not, under present conditions, resuit in an increase of our metsl money, and will not afford a remedy for hard times, Decause we Canmot in- crease the amount of our coinage money by coining more si.ver, for when we coin more silver we will coin iess gold. It was officiaily stated By the Treasury Depsriment, in Anr this year, that lact yesr we cotned $43.933475 in wold and $9,069,430 in silver, aud (hst if our mints were devoted exclusively to the free coinage of silver we would coin $15,000,000 less monmey every year than now, because it takes nearly as much time fo coin a silver metallic money. Forty million dollars a year is the extent of our possible siiver coinage, and we now coin in goid and silver more than $53,000,000 s year, and so free coinage of silver will bring us less instead of more money, sod worse in- stead of better times. 1 believe in the largest possible use of both gold and silver, and in the free and unlimited coinage of both metals, but 1 am una.terably opi tgeither gold orsilver monometallism. I belirve in the free coimage of both these metals, for the reason that money we have, everrthing else being equsl, the better we are off; aud yet our banks may be full of money and our pockets empty. Good mouney and good times m' ogether. But alidoliars mus: b ever the free coinsge o monometallism, this wi ‘We cannot have one doi snother for the credit rich and snother for rica will ba sure 10 get the best dollar. cannot be 100 much good money, but there can be tco much cheap money. Ii will be no | remedy to exchange gold monometallism for silver monometallism. There can be no pros- | perity in lowering the standard of oar money. Money is not a thing one can eat or drink or Wear or use for any Durpese except &s aa ex- change for things, and =s a represeniative of valne, and when money does not represent yalue, then it is useless. The beuefits derived | from moner, like the benefits derived from | the use of snything else that mankind re- njure our cou or one dotlar for the | wants whest and ke gives you s dollar for the | wheat. - But su needs the wheat, but hasn’t got the dollar? Then he must work for | the dollar as the other man worked to produc> will not be som: can make sometl thing to do unlesssome man people produce the more wealth they sccumu- iste. The making of money follows the pro- | duction of things; for & peorle 10 prosper they must produce s grest deal, and the laws that most encourage such produeticns are the laws that most benedit the people ana create the most weaith. | We must have ?mreflion first, and more money will come afterward, and thus protec- tion 1s the safest and surest mesns of secaring o the Americanfpeopie. A protec- National necessity. afford to trade off protection even for bimetailism. | It goes without saying that the real strength of the Bryan Democracy is the Solid South. £} uth is for free it producing por silver and free tra esuse they suppiy the world with cotton their chief market is Engiand. Tuey peid in gold. They want cheap silver money at homwaso they can pay their laber with a 50-cent dollar and thus make & profit of the izbor that pro. | duces the crc%; and they want free trade be- | cause as they buy the most of the articl-s the: consume they wish to buy from cheap-labos countries and thus punish the manufact of the North in their country. In & word, they will sell what they prod for gold, psy ibeir labor in siiver, ruin Ame: Qusiries and destroying our own and by pat- ronizing foreign cheap labor snd introduce into American polities ihe results of a pevnage worse than the old-time slavery. The South- uce the can labor. No man can trutbfully deny that we had good times under protection without iree sil- bave protection. We want our wool and our fruits and our rsisinsand all the produetsof our farms well protecied sgainst foreign com- petition and then California will be a pros- rl’ous State. Take prunes; it costs the Cali- oroia producer a cent s pound to transport them to & New York market, while it cosis the French producer bat = quarter of a cent a pound to transport his prunes to the same market. The French izborer gets from 30 to 35 cenis a day for his labor; isborer gets $1aday. By reasonm of American competition the price of prunes in the New York mearket has been lowered 100 per cent in tem years. Witheut protection we cannot compete with France. It was a mistake to cut down the tariff on prunes or on amy other product of the farm. Protection is the founds- tion upon which all American prosperity rests, because American Labor must be iayored by American law or it will be of tbe same valge as foreign labor and our people cannot live on foreign prices for American labor. In this connection it is & most instruetive ' fsct that there is nosilver moncme:allic coun- try where labor is well paid, Look a: Mexico, Colombia and other silver States on this con- tinent, and then look at China, Japen, India and Russis, which are siiver countries. The Erm of labor in every cae of these countries from 100 ta 500 per cent beiow that in the United States. There is no enterprise, no_re- wards for labor. They never see goid. Thney have no conception of bimetallism. But Mr. { HON. M. M. ESTEE Brysn tells us that American ingenuity is & rotection sgainst the competition of cheap Fbor. re tried this with k the ;Jhiuele, but our ingenuily Was DO mal for their cheap br:e'n and muscle, and we prohibited their ust as we il have to probibit p mouey from coming here. The Tnited States is in no sense s ches > country. This is & new and an expensive civiization. So long ss England dictstes our tarif aws she wiil easily control our fiuancial policy and diciate the prices charged for what we buy abrosd and what we seil abroad. She con- trols the money of the worid, but she cannot control the resources « f the world. and so0 there is an irrepressiole conflict between the two at English-spcaking peoples—E- gland and ica. Both eountries are seeking in- dustrisl supremacy. England imports neariy sll her breadstuffs, all hcreou:fi most of ner fruit and meats and weol, and all of Ler sugar, wines, brandies, teas and coffee. And Eneland must pay for them ip eituer money or taings. Jf we have a protective tariff .ess of her :hiu, mdmeolmwy—m come here. Bfi tries 10 comtrol the prices of these articles. She does this in two ways: First—By dictating the revenue laws of the country she buss of, and ste%?d‘;)y controlling the monetary sys- tems world. Being a creditor nation she adopts ‘ot the debtor, and | mechanic by building up for-ign in- | ver and we will have good times again if we | the American | dollar as it does to coin s twenty dollar gold | piece; and therefore, we would coin less | S i ern Demoeracy never was friendly w Ameri- | poor. If we do, the | There | Republican Mass-Meeting in the Auditorium, Where Hon. M. M. Estee Spoke on the Subject of “Protection and Free Coinage.” Hard times mes Republic, and oft#n inspire revolution. Itis fact that the clonds gather thick smo dsri over our country wheneuer tnere is 8 Demo- tbe wheat; but in order to work for the dollar | cratic administration in power, beeause that he must have an opportunity to work, and he | means hard times. ‘Do I oversiate tire fact: cannot have an opportunity to earn a dollsr | unless there is something to do, and there { & message sen: to Conzress, said: “In the midst of sasa by hiring this man who | our menuisciures suspeded, our pul wants to earn a dofler. Toen itis the produc- | retarded, our private enterprises abandoned, tion oi things that makes money and causes a | and thousands of useiul laborers threwn out country to be prosperous—the more things the | of employment and reduced to want. Under these conaitions a ican may be required.” James Buchanan. when be was Presiden: Al | secessi | was not an issue. | benesit of the free coinage of silver and of free | | trace. B The single snd only question now i | eleet MeKinley. get well of dy. How can we hopeiofinda or give employment to one | Do they propose any ration | conditio. s? Nation to be left in such hanfs? Is it wise to trust nd America is both & borrower of money and ] the present state of affairs with further ller of produ 1t And sos protective tariff | cal power, and sccept as law Dew prom quires, depend on the opportuaity for iis use, | wil gjone save us irom her dominating influ- | future good times? The Republican party is snd the value of the thing used. | ence.’ Give us proteciion and we. control | the party of 'dpmh.,naflw pw‘:'c&m l‘o-lneflmunmnounmnhx Ame markets (gc both mouey and things, | there esh be no prosperily and ihere can be 20 gei lsad uniess be e sometning € v= us protert| 3 “iimes aod then { prosperity without creditand no credit with- Zor it; for iisiance, you ran take ove Dundred | Ameriea will be to adoot anv semsibie | out homesty. b pounds of wheat 10 & man who has money and | inancial or revenue system of our Own. great sim should be to give labor s bet- sreslways perilous ina 3 . s Gas always been the poiicy of the Ameri- iple to dignify Jabor, and this isso be- can casse under our free insitutions lsbor isour only eapital, snd because the wosker of to-day mey be the statesman or capitalist of to-mor- | row; we bave no privileged ciass. Al Ameri- | eausare workers. Our laws have to be made we find | works | to it the independent and intellizent mean- hood of the American people. American labor | has to be better paid than the labor of say | other eountry, and this cannot be done unless | labor is protected, and you cannot protect iabor unless you protect waat labor produces. Way should we puta roof on our own house to keep the rain off others while we stand out in the storm? Every year makes protection more and more & necessity. In recemt times foreign trans | portation Ris become so chesp that our home | markets_and our home iabor esn oniy com- pete with the cheap labor and the cheap-labor countries of the world by the imposition of lsrger import duties on ail foreign articles brought here for sale, becsuse they can be brought here so cheaply. All over the world every producer is looking for & market for his produeis. Every human being is looking for something to do, and be is crowding and jostling his- neighbor in purszit passed plent was then requir Revolution and | Toe free coinage of silver | We then enjoyed the ful! | followed. You see the result of free trac r present conditions? W The people do n is disease and toe edy g the dose that has made the Nation appeal to suck men as Aligeld pd to the criminal eiement an they staft up one factory Afherican laborer? relief for present i honor of the Is the financik the party which aloue is responsible for | Continued on Second Page. of { guests in royal style to-day, receiving the Hall Where the Republican National League Held Its Republican Throngs Rally at. Los Angeles and Pasadena. OVERFLOW MEETINGS OF | ENTHUSIASTS. 'Voters Applaud the Speakers and the Oakland Alliance Marching Club. 'FOR PROTECTION AND SOUND Eloquent Addresses by Hon. Samuel M. Shortridge, Distriet Attorney Barnes, Ex-Mayor Davis of Oakland and Other Califor- nia Orators. | | that will give the workingmen of the country employment. Los Axcerzs Orrice or TeE Carl, l 1 328 South Broadway, Los Axcrrss, Cal., Aug. 29.) The special train was mel thirty miles Pasadena and Los Angeles entertained | grom Jos Angeles by President Frank P. | the Oakiand Alliance sna its invited | ¥jingof the MeKinley Club and Delegate | Kirkland, who were the committee of re- ception. They bore to the Alliance the { good will of thousands of Los Angeles Repubticans and the friendly creetings of the McKinley Club in particular. The day’s programme in Los Angeles began early. Members of the McKinley Club, anxious to cement the union be- | visitors with great spirit and cheering the | sentiments of the orators at Pasadena in | the afternoon snd in the great pavilion {here st night. Hagzard’s pavillon was | taxed to its full capaciiy, and Pasadena | | reminded one of the old-fashionea circus ; days when the multitudes turned ous, or | of the times of Clay, Webster and Cal- | tween north and south, met at their elub- | boun when barbecues were the rage. | roomsat 84 . and made arrangements { There were fully 350 people on the piat- | o receive their guests. | form at the Los Angeles meeting, and the | It should be borne in mind that there | avdience consisted of Repablican dele- | was no attempt to get up a noisy street | gates from all sections of the county, 83 | hurrah in the afternoon or at night, the | well as of prominent citizens of Los An- | chief street feature being the splendid { geles. 1t is the general verdict that there | gyclutions of the Alliance. The great | bas never been such a meeting as that of | event was the monster meeting. Republican ciabs from all partsof the | to-night in the history of the coanty, and | the teliel isquite common that Los Ad-| county were present, among them delega- | geles is likely to remain the bamner| tions from Pasadena, North Pasadena, | coanty of the State in its ability to roll 0p | Compton, Pomons, Riverside, Monrovia, pleasing Republican majorities. Every | featare of the ceremonies showed that the | people are moved by genuine enthusiasm. | Santa Monica, Lordsburg, Wilmington, Covina, Azusaand other points. The city | clubs were all on hand in full force. 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