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| William McKinley. |
Cortland
Evening Standard, Friday, July 24, 1896.
MCKINLEY MAKES A GOLD SPEECH.
Addresses
Workingmen at the Depot at Alliance.
ALLIANCE, O., July 24.—Major McKinley attended
and took part in the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Mount Union
college of which he is one of the trustees, having come from Cleveland for
that purpose. The principal address was delivered by McKinley. It was a tribute
to the value of a college education and to the public school system also.
At the railway station an assemblage of
workingmen called for a speech. In response Mr. McKinley said:
"What we all want—no matter to what
political organization we may have belonged in the past—is a return to the good
times of years ago. We want good prices and good wages, and when we have them
we want them to be paid in good money. Whether our prices be high or whether
they be low, whether our wages be good or whether they be bad, they are all the
better by being paid in dollars worth 100 cents each. (Tremendous cheering.) If
we have good wages they are better by being paid in good dollars. If we have
poor wages they are made poorer by being paid in poor dollars.
"And, my follow citizens, what we want
more than anything else is to keep our money equal to that of the most enlightened
nations of the earth and maintain the credit and honor of the government of the
United States. (Great applause.) We are the greatest country in the world,
greatest in our freedom, greatest in our possibilities, greatest in our
opportunities— and we are too great to taint our country's honor or to cast
suspicion upon the creditor obligations of our government."
The
Shorter Silver Catechism.
Q. What silver standard countries have free
coinage? A. Not one. There is not in all the world a mint open to the free
coinage of silver at any ratio.
Q. Does not Mexico coin all silver brought
to her mints? A. Yes; but she charges $4.41 for each 100 coins, and the coinage
is at 16.51 to 1, so that she recoins European silver at a cost to the holder
of about 10 per cent and American silver at a cost of 7 per cent.
Q. Does not India coin free silver? A. No.
The mint was closed three years ago.
Q. Does not Japan coin free? A. No. The mint
closed some years ago. It coins subsidiary silver on government account, as all
mints do. The currency is Bank of Japan notes, $134,000,000, redeemable in full
legal tender silver coin. These notes correspond to our greenbacks of 1868,
except that they do not go below 50 per cent discount.
Q. What is the result? A. That the finances
are disordered. There is no security for business. There is no fixed standard
of value. The yen (dollar) is worth 53 cents in gold one day and 51 the next,
as the price of silver fluctuates in the market, exactly as our greenbacks
fluctuated.
Q. Is this true of all silver-standard
countries? A. It is true of each and all.
There is
not one in which business is not speculation, because there is no fixed
standard of value.
Q. What is meant by "a silver
basis?" A. That notes issued are redeemable in silver; that silver is the
money of final redemption.
Q. What is its practical effect? A. To drive
gold out of circulation and out of use as money, either as currency or as a
reserve for redemption, as it is now used by our banks and by the government.
Q. Is this a universal result? A. It is.
There is not a silver-standard country in the world in which gold circulates or
is used as money. The more valuable money is always hoarded or sold in speculation
as a commodity.
Q. Would not the adoption of free silver
coinage prove a measure of contraction, giving us less money than we have now?
A. It would. More than $500,000,000 in gold coin and certificates would be
immediately driven out of circulation or use as money. It would tax the
silver-minting capacity for ten years to make good this deficiency.—New York
World.
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| William J. Bryan. |
MR.
BRYAN'S PLANS
To Stump
the Middle and Eastern States—Mrs. Bryan the Trump Card.
LINCOLN, Neb., July 24.—The plans of Mr.
Bryan for the campaign are gradually shaping into something definite, and when
the committee of notification announces the date of the rally in New York at
which he will be informed of his selection as the candidate of the Democratic
party he will prepare a partial program of his movements. Senator Jones of
Arkansas, chairman of the National Democratic committee, is expected in Lincoln
within a few days after the adjournment of the two St. Louis conventions and he
will confer with Mr. Bryan as to the course of the latter during the campaign.
It is not likely that Mr. Bryan will spend much of his time in Lincoln after he
starts out on the stump. Democratic managers realize his value as an orator and
want him to take the lion's share of the work for the ticket which he heads.
His physical strength is such that he can make several long speeches a day
without fatigue and he has a record of delivering as many as five campaign
addresses of an hour each at different places in the congressional district and
then traveling fifty miles in a buggy to the next place in his itinerary
without sleep. Added to his physical endurance is the ability to slumber at all
times, and the shortest rest fits him for many hours work. He does not wish to
be spared during the campaign and his stump speaking tour is liable to be a
record breaker.
It is expected that Mr. Bryan will devote
most of his time to the states between the Alleghenies and the Rocky mountains
and he is not likely to return to Lincoln until just before the campaign is
over.
Mrs. Bryan will accompany her husband on his
trip to New York and New
England.
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| Israel Rickard. |
THE [VETERANS'] REUNION OVER.
EXERCISES
AT THE PARK YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.
Stirring
Speeches by B. T. Wright of Cortland and W. D. Bingham of Watertown. Mr. Israel
Rickard Present.
After the business session of the Nineteenth
New York Infantry Volunteers and the Third New York Light Artillery the members
of the association took the electric cars for Cortland park, where a large crowd
was in waiting. The exercises took place from the bandstand in the north grove.
President George E. Ashby introduced B. T. Wright of Cortland who delivered the
address of welcome. He said:
Mr. President and Comrades of the Nineteenth
New York Infantry and Third New York Light Artillery: By request of the
citizens of this beautiful village whose hearts are filled with patriotism, it
is a great pleasure to me to welcome the brave men who offered their lives in
defense of their country in its time of great peril and danger. You can look
back and recall the days when you rendered heroic service in behalf of the
Union and for the preservation of the flag we love so well. When we think of
those days it makes the cold chills run down our backs to recall the great
sacrifice made by so many brave men.
But we in Cortland know you to-day as we have
never known you before. We want to make your welcome just as hearty and just as
full as we possibly can. Only four members of your organization reside with us.
They are George E. Ashby, William S. Barker, William H. Martin and Henry R.
Greenman. We love those men, we respect them, we honor them. Then all hail,
comrades. I am here in the name of the citizens and am authorized to give the
town over to you. We have not a golden box in which to give it, but we give it
just the same. We surrender to you, as many another has done, but in a far
different way and under far different circumstances. We welcome you with
gratitude, with a sense of honor and with cheerfulness. I say welcome, thrice
welcome, the town is yours.
Comrade W. D. Bingham of Watertown was then
introduced and he spoke for a few minutes as follows:
Mr. President and Citizens of Cortland: When
the soldier laid down his arms after the war, returned to his Northern home and
resumed his occupation, no such spectacle had ever before been witnessed. There
was some apprehension expressed lest so many thousands of men fresh from the
scene of battle and from camp life might work disaster, but no such crisis ever
came. A man is a better citizen for having been a soldier. The soldier has
learned to obey; having fought for the maintenance of the constitution and the
laws he has as abiding a respect for them as the man who made them. In 1860 the
population of the Union was 31,500,000, now it is 70,000,000, then there were
thirty-four states; now there are forty-five. The American soldier has much
cause for self congratulation for his achievements having made such progress
possible. But we soldiers must not get egotistical. However, the most valued
treasure in my possession is the thought and the realization that I too am a
soldier.
Immediately after the war we soldiers met infrequently,
but later and now we meet more often and have formed permanent organizations.
In imagination we live over again those stirring events of years ago. But our
enjoyment is mingled with sorrow for we with each recurring year miss some
faces and our ranks are gradually growing thinner. Comrade Wright, in behalf of
the Nineteenth New York Volunteers and Third New York Light Artillery, I beg to
return to you and to the citizens of Cortland our hearty thanks. I hope that we
may leave with you as pleasant recollections as we shall certainly carry away
with us of our reunion in your beautiful city.
Comrade Martin Edgcomb then took the
platform and briefly outlined the life of Comrade Israel Rickard of Cortland,
who occupied a chair on the platform. Mr. Rickard enlisted in September, 1861, at
the age of 61, as a wagon master in the Seventy-sixth New York Volunteers.
Later he served as a private in Co. G. of the same regiment.
Mr. Rickard was asked to say a few words and
he arose amid loud applause. He said:
Comrades, ladies and gentlemen, I stand before
you to-day as a monument of God's mercy; my age has been lengthened, but I am
on my feet well aware of my inability to say anything. I am no orator,
gentlemen, but my heart is as warm as it was in '61. My comrades, if it was as necessary to-day as it was in
'61, I don't know but I should have the vivacity to go again. I feel very
grateful that I am permitted to see this glorious banner waving here; it is
known throughout the world; all nations know it and revere it and we all feel
that it is a safeguard to us. Gentlemen, I thank you, but there is no use in my
trying to say more, I am not an orator.
When Mr. Rickard had closed three loud and
hearty cheers were given for him.
Secretary Greenman then gave a short history
of the regiment, or rather of the two for they were consolidated in 1862.
A selection by the Cortland City band closed
the exercises of the day and all took the cars for the village, the
excursionists returning to Auburn by special train over the L. V. R. R. at 7
o'clock.
NOTES.
Comrade Judson Sennet came from San Diego,
Cal., to attend the reunion.
Mrs. Stewart, the widow of Lieutenant
Stewart, was in attendance. The scene at the park when she pinned the association
badge upon the breast of Comrade Rickard was a pretty one.
Many were the happy chats the old soldiers
had with one another. One veteran as he alighted from the Lehigh Valley train
yesterday morning grasped Captain George E. Ashby by the hand and said,
"Why, George, how glad I am to see you. I have not seen you since '72."
For the success of the reunion great credit
is due to the four resident members of the association: George E. Ashby, W. S.
Barker, William H. Martin and H. B. Greenman.
The Auburn band accompanied the excursionists
and played several very fine selections both before going to and at the park.
The playing of the Cortland City band was of
course excellent.
Comrade Rickard refused an offer to ride
over on a car saying he had not much to do and was not in a hurry to get there
and so would walk over. He walked the whole distance and on the way crossed the
electric car bridge [where the Elm Street bridge crossed the river].
The reunion next year will be held at
Auburn.
With few exceptions the excursionists were
entire strangers to Cortland, but were very favorably impressed with the town
and with the park, which all agreed was a beautiful place.
Mr. G. F. Beaudry who has the refreshment
privilege at the park was liberally patronized yesterday. He is the right man
in the right place.
Mr. D. M. Totman, one of the superintendents
at the park, was very courteous in looking after the convenience of the guests.
Several Cortland families took luncheon at
the park yesterday.
THE
GEORGE REPUBLIC.
The New
York Journal Offers to Give $5,000 to This Cause.
The New York Journal generously offers to
give $5,000 to the George Junior Republic at Freeville if the citizens of that city,
rich and poor, will furnish $15,000, making the fund $20,000. The Journal protests
against letting the children grow up in the streets without education or moral
training, and commends the work done at Freeville. In the course of its appeal
The Journal says: "The citizens of the Junior Republic are happy, well fed,
well clad, and well housed. Their days are passed in the pure country air and
the percentage of illness and iniquity is consequently extremely small. But the
farm on which the model community is located is too limited in area to admit of
more than a small fraction of the children that should get the healthy
training. There are about two hundred, where there should be ten thousand
little folks learning to be good men and women.
If $15,000 is subscribed to the Journal it
will make it $20,000, and with this sum an enormous amount of good will be done."
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