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Cortland
Evening Standard, Monday, October 5, 1896.
GREAT ENTHUSIASM.
ROUSING
SPEECHES BY COLONELS BAXTER AND CARTER.
A
Monster Mass-meeting in Taylor Hall Saturday Evening in the Interests of
McKinley and Hobart; Sound Money, Protection and National Prosperity.
Cortland county always rolls up a good big
majority for Republican candidates and
principles, but this year it is evident that it is going to exceed all former
efforts in its majority for McKinley, Hobart, sound money and protection, and
will make the apostles of free silver and free trade wonder if they
really have any following left within the boundaries of the county. At least no
other conclusion is permissible after the meeting held in Taylor hall Saturday
evening. No one could be mistaken about the sentiment that controlled the
people who occupied every seat both on floor and platform and filled all the
available standing room at the rear and in the halls.
Previous to the meeting there was a short
parade headed by Horton's drum corps and a delegation of Normal students. The
meeting was called to order by A. S. Brown, chairman of the Republican county
committee, who introduced as the chairman of the evening Attorney B. T. Wright.
A male quartet consisting of J. B. Hunt, A. W. Williamson, C. R. Doolittle and
A. McNett was on the platform and with songs for McKinley kept the big audience
in a state of stirring enthusiasm and made evident the fact that the people
fully appreciated their efforts. A conservative estimate of the number at the
meeting would be 1,200.
After a few preliminary remarks Chairman Wright
introduced the first speaker of the evening, Colonel Archie E. Baxter of
Elmira. Colonel Baxter was frequently interrupted with bursts of applause. His speech
was a telling one. He roundly scored Bryan and his supporters for their lack of
consistency on the great national questions. He said in part—
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentleman: In what
I shall have to say I do not propose to appeal to your prejudices nor to your partisanship,
but to your calm and impartial judgment. You are now confronted with a grave
responsibility, and you will soon be called upon to decide a momentous
question. On your decision will depend whether this country of ours shall have
prosperity, comfort, contentment and happiness, or want, misery suffering and
woe. Four years ago when the Republican party surrendered the control of the
government our nation was prosperous, we were reducing our war debt, paying
pensions and maintaining our expenses without creating a heavy debt and
floating heavy bonds. Our credit was high; confidence existed between man and
man, enterprise and enterprise. The farmer, when he went out to sow and later to
bring his products to market, knew that the boys were engaged in the shops and were
able and willing to pay for them. The
wage-workers had plenty to do; furnace fires were glowing; the anvil had a merrier
ring than it has to-day; the music of moving machinery was making hearts and
homes glad and bringing joy and comfort.
On this sea of prosperity there came a tempter
who told you to come up to a mountain where flowed milk and honey, if you would
fall down and worship him: and you Republicans, a lot of you, got down on your
knees and worshipped. Since then you have been doing more cursing than
worshiping. Instead of being led to a land of milk and honey, you had been led to
a land where it was a pretty hard matter to even get milk for your coffee. Instead
of having a credit unchallenged and unparalled all over the world, our credit
has been doubted in many foreign countries. Right here in your beautiful city shops
have been closed because of this. What is true here is true of every town in
the United States. You no longer see the shining dinner pail go back and forth,
you no longer see smoke issuing from the smokestack, nor hear the merry hum of
the anvil.
When I think of you Republicans who did
that, I am reminded of the incident related of a gentleman, or rather a man who
went down to that place called Hades. The wanderer was met at the entrance by
His Satanic Majesty and was at once shown all through the place. As they went
from one corridor to another, the traveler noticed a great increase of heat.
Pretty soon they came to the entrance of a long, broad corridor, which seemed
to extend farther than one could see. On each side as far as he could see,
hanging on hooks in rows were the bodies of men. The traveler observed that
this corridor was much hotter than the rest, to him unbearably hot. He noticed,
too, that the bodies did not seem to be affected in the least by the heat and
his curiosity caused him to ask, "How is it that those bodies can hang
here in this great heat and still there be no trace of singed hair or of burned
flesh?" "Oh," said His Majesty, "That is easy to explain.
They are Republicans who voted for free trade, and who are too green to burn."
But you ask, "What is the remedy for
this state of affairs?" Be of good cheer, keep up your hearts. There may
be sorrow in the night, but joy cometh in the morning with Bill McKinley and
protection. One of the pressing questions of to-day is, whether we shall
manufacture our products at home and employ home workmen, or have our work done
in foreign countries by foreign labor. When one shop is closed here, there is
one opened abroad. During the thirty years of Republican rule the times kept growing
better and there never was a time when a dollar would purchase so much as at its
close. A protective tariff never put out a single furnace fire, never lost you
a day's labor, never made a run on a bank nor interfered with industrial
progress, but it made our wealth three times greater and made us the most
prosperous people on God's footstool.
Thirty years ago, had you gone into a hardware
store and looked around on the shelves you would have seen goods, 95 per cent
of which were made abroad, where we sent our gold to pay for them, and to help
build up foreign industries. After a protective tariff of thirty years the
hardware dealer could buy that 95 per cent in America, made by American labor,
and thus help stimulate home industries.
The speaker then drew some striking contrasts
between prices paid by the wage-earner thirty years ago for necessities, and
the prices for those same articles after a protective tariff period. He painted
a fine word picture of the battle of Lookout Mountain in which he participated and
said that last year he visited the scene again. In the valley below lies a place
[Chattanooga] of 60,000 inhabitants, but he saw no smoke issuing from the factories.
He fell into conversation with a resident who happened to own one of the shops
and in response to inquiries as to the cause of its shutting down, said, "When
the Mills bill went into effect it closed all those shops and, although I am a
Democrat, I hope and pray that the Republicans may come into power again, that
they may start up.''
Colonel Baxter then went into a discussion of
the financial question, traced the history of silver legislation and explained the
meaning of 16 to 1. In 1873, said he, the silver mine owner did not complain,
as he does now, because then silver was worth practically as much as gold.
Silver is a commodity and an over production of it will bring its price down,
the same as any other commodity. Elect Bryan and the silver will drive gold out
of the market and put money on a silver basis. What is the result? A fifty-cent
dollar, the contraction of our currency by driving $600,000,000 in gold out of
circulation. How long would it take to replace this with our present capacity
of coinage? Twelve years coining $50,000,000 in gold each year.
What would such a sudden contraction of the
currency mean? A great many of our business men now do business on borrowed
money. They borrow it of the bankers and can give good security. The banker is
going to refuse to loan his money because under free silver the business man
cannot give a good security. Consequently
the business man has got to begin to shave down his expenses, and of course the
first men to suffer are the wage-earners.
Bryan went up and down the country a week
ago saying silver and wheat go together. Since then silver has gone down and
wheat has gone up. Thus is exploded another of his pet theories. Suppose all
the hens in the country go on a strike. Would not the price of eggs go up? What
does a hen know about silver? Suppose that everybody goes to raising potatoes.
The price of potatoes would go down. Why does wheat go up? Simply because there
is a promise of a smaller crop than usual. Why, my farmer friend, it is the
same old law of supply and
demand.
Lincoln said that we had no room in this
country for two flags. The Republicans and many Democrats say there is no room
here for the red flag of anarchy. Let us say that there is room here for only
one flag, and let that flag stand for a Republican tariff and an honest dollar which
is worth 100 cents in every part of the world.
Colonel Baxter closed amid tremendous applause.
A song from the glee club followed and then Chairman Wright introduced Colonel George
Carter of Virginia. Colonel
Carter was an officer in the Confederate army, but is now devotedly true and
loyal to the Stars and Stripes. He spoke earnestly for a few minutes, closing
with an urgent appeal to vote for McKinley and Hobart and thus exert a healthful
and wholesome influence over the whole country. The glee club sang another song
and the meeting closed with three big cheers for McKinley and Hobart.
PAGE
TWO—EDITORIALS.
The
Farmer and Free Silver.
Why should the free and unlimited coinage of
silver add one cent to what the farmer will get for what he raises?
He must use or sell his product. What he
uses himself brings him no money. He gets money from what he sells and
therefore needs customers.
Who are his customers? Not the other farmers.
They are his competitors. His customers must be men in factories and on
railways; men in villages and cities and people in foreign lands where food
products are required.
In the American market more silver dollars
will do him no good unless more silver dollars mean more American working men
employed at better wages who can buy his products.
I can see how a tariff that shall hinder
Canadian farmers from bringing hops, hay, butter, cheese and eggs across the St.
Lawrence might benefit the New York farmer. But I do not see how more silver
dollars will help unless these dollars set more consumers at work here at better
wages.
Now as to farm produce that is exported: When
our wheat, meat and corn get to Europe they come in competition with the surplus
product of all the farmers of all the world. At Liverpool and in every great
market of the world gold is the only standard of value. The American farmer must
sell in the foreign market for just as much in gold as his foreign competitor
will sell for, or he can not sell at all. So our free and unlimited coinage of
silver cannot help anywhere beyond our own boundaries. Our laws can run and be
enforced only so far as the United States extend.
Then more silver dollars are no good to the
farmer unless they secure more employment for capital and labor here at home.
What is capital? It is the property of the
country available for business. Is there not plenty of such property to-day?
Show me anything that can be grown or made at a profit and I will show you ten
dollars waiting employment for every dollar that is asked. There are more farms
and farmers than will grow all that can now be eaten. There are more railways
than will carry all the freight now to be moved. There are more mills than will
make all the cloth that can now be sold. There is to-day more production than
consumption. There is in fact surplus of unemployed capital.
Then it is not more capital that is needed.
Nor is more labor needed. There are strong
men waiting all over this land for chance to work for daily bread.
We need employment for this idle labor just
as we need employment for millions of idle capital.
Will or can the mere coinage of new silver
dollars give this employment?
Put on your thinking caps for one moment: Will
anything employ capital, except the reasonable certainty that some profit is to
be made out of its employment? What you and I want is to get that reasonable
certainty of reasonable profit.
Will anything employ labor except to start
the mills and mines where men can work? With work will come wages and with
wages will come good times.
Will free coinage do this?
The Chicago convention last July threatened
free coinage. What mill has opened since then? How many have closed? That
convention terrified capital; closed struggling mills; raised the rates of
interest; denied relief to honest business; forced employers into liquidation and
workmen into idleness. The simple threat of free silver has cost this country
hundreds of millions of dollars since the middle of July.
We want restored confidence—not soap bubbles,
dreams and nonsense. Whenever we have had Republican pluck we have had
Republican victory, and times have always been better under the Republican rule
of common sense than under Democratic theories and Democratic incapacity.
THE
EASTERN QUESTION.
An
Austrian Correspondent Insists That It Has Been Settled.
LONDON, Oct. 5.—The Vienna correspondent of
The Daily Mail declares that the agreement of the powers for the settlement of
the Turkish problem, which this correspondent announced last week he had good
authority for publishing, includes the formation of an Armenian zone in the
Turkish empire on the basis of the Jewish pale in Russia, the powers
guaranteeing the safety of the Armenians therein, with the idea that the zone
would become the germ of a new Armenian state.
"The active operations," this
correspondent proceeds by saying, "will be undertaken by England, France
and Russia, while Italy will co-operate if necessary. As far as England is
concerned the harbor of Smyrna will play an important part in the final
settlement."
The Constantinople correspondent of The
Chronicle says that the Ottoman bank and the Credit Lyonnais are sending large
quantities of securities to Paris for safety.
He says that the American and English ladies
in Constantinople are helping the women and children in the suburbs and
hundreds attend the American mission house where each receives 4 francs and a
bundle of apparel.
A Claim
for Indemnity.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 5.—During the recent
massacre at Hasakeny the American mission at that place was pillaged in the
absence of the missionaries. The latter have now handed to the American legation
here a claim for $2,000 indemnity. United States Minister Terrill is doing his
best to collect it from the Porte, but doubts his success in doing so.
AT ST.
MARY'S.
Father
John [McLoughlin] Completes Twelve Years of Successful Work in Cortland.
The change in the hours of Sunday-school and
vespers at St. Mary's church Sunday is
a success so far. There was a large attendance at Sunday-school which was held
at 9:30 A. M. in the hall under the new part. The teachers are requested to
meet at 7:30 o'clock on Wednesday evening to locate the classes. More seats will
be added during the week so that all will be arranged by next Sunday.
As Sunday was the twelfth anniversary of
Father John's coming to Cortland— first as assistant pastor and afterwards as
pastor—he spoke a few words in the evening on the subject, calling attention to
the thorough good feeling that has always existed and does exist between the
pastor and his people and to perfect unanimity in sentiment throughout the whole
congregation regarding all church work and briefly referring also to plans for further
work in the future.
BREVITIES.
—Attention is called to some political
statistics in the Homer letter to-day.
—Syracuse university was defeated at
football Saturday at Ithaca by Cornell. Score 22
to 0.
—The Loyal Circle of King's Daughters will
meet with Mrs. Brown, 48 Union-st., Friday, Oct. 9, at 2:30 P. M.
—The Cazenovia seminary football team comes
to Cortland Saturday, Oct. 17 to play a return game with the Normals.
—"Happy Bill" Daniels gave another
of his enjoyable parties in the armory
Saturday
night. He will hold his next one this week Saturday evening.
—Miss E. Venette Stephens died at 2 o'clock
this afternoon at her home, 18 Tompkins-st.
The funeral will occur on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
—Inspectors of election can now obtain
copies of the new election laws from Town Clerk
E. C. Alger. There are several changes in the law relative to their duties.
—Repairs on the telephone lines have been
completed so that the company can now handle all business, both local and long
distance messages the same as before the storm.
—New advertisements to-day are—Dey Brothers,
carpets, page 8; Warren,
Tanner
& Co., coats and capes, page 7; C. F . Brown, cough Elixir, page 6; Glann &
Clark, being shoed, page 6.
—Jerry Willis was fined $3 in police court
this morning for public intoxication. James
Jackson of Auburn was up on the same charge, but sentence was suspended during
good behavior.
—The Black Diamond Express on the Lehigh
Valley road is drawn by locomotives which have recently been equipped with
chime whistles, which distinguish them from ordinary passenger engines.—Ithaca Journal.
—A regular meeting of Grover Relief Corps.,
No. 96, will be held to-morrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock sharp. Assistant Inspector
Mary M. Puffer of Binghamton will be present to inspect the corps. Every member
is expected to be present.
—The services for Bible study, being held in
the tent at the corner of Main and Miller-sts., are to continue during this
week and over another Sunday. Meetings every night at 7:30 as usual, and on
Sunday at 3:00 P. M.
—It is rare indeed to find ripe strawberries
growing at this season of the year in this climate, but Mrs. George Stevens has
them on her farm east of the village, and not only that but she has plants
containing at the same time blossoms and green and fully ripened berries.
—Mr. H. M. Kellogg has received the
following telegram from Mr. J. C. Puder of Savannah, Ga., who with his wife and
daughter sailed from New York for their home on Wednesday morning after the great
storm, "Arrived safely Friday night. Very little damage to my property."
—A Cortland business man who was in New York
a few days ago speaks of the great number of McKinley and Hobart banners which
appeared everywhere there. In some cases on Broadway there were several in a
single block. And at the time it was officially stated that there were only two
Bryan banners up in all the city. What is the trouble with Cortland that it
does not fall into line and get up a McKinley banner?
HOMER.
Gleanings
of News From Our Twin Village.
HOMER, Oct. 5.—O. B. Andrews spent the day
in Syracuse.
J. J. Murray, left town this morning for New
York City.
Harry
Pierce returned from Lisle this morning, where he has been spending Sunday.
The pupils in Mrs. Hunt's room in the academy
this morning were rejoiced to learn that their teacher who spent Sunday in
Marathon, had missed the morning train and they were given a holiday in
consequence. Mrs. Hunt will return by the afternoon train.
Mr. John S. Merrill, who has been spending a
few days with friends in Truxton, returned home to-day.
Mr. and Mrs. Linus L. Paddock of Utica spent
Sunday at the home of Mrs. Paddock's parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Heberd. They
returned home to-day.
Mrs. Fred Corey left town this morning for
her home in Springfield, Mass.
She
accompanied Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Paddock to Utica, where she will remain a few days
before proceeding to her home.
Miss Maude McDiarmid spent Sunday in
Syracuse as the guest of her friend, Miss Alice Kellogg.
W. A. Kellogg of New York City is in town.
Y. P. S. C. E. prayer-meetings at the Baptist
and Congregational churches this evening at 7:30 o'clock.
Epworth league prayer-meeting at the M. E.
church at the same hour.
Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Gates and Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Miller and family have moved to Preble, where they will reside in the
future.
Burr Johnson, who for more than a year past
has been in the employ of Thos. Knobel, has resigned his position. On account of
the light [barber] trade Mr. Knobel has decided to allow the place to remain
vacant.
Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Coughnet and family are
preparing to move to Syracuse.
The Republican canvas of District No. 4 in
the town of Homer, which was completed on Saturday, is as follows:
The total number of votes to be cast in the district
this year is 443; last year 419; Republican 305; Democrats 93; Prohib. 10; doubtful
35. Last year—Republican 235; Democrats 145; Prohib. 11; doubtful 28. This is the
strongest Democratic district in the tow; but there is not a silver Democrat or
silver Republican within the limits. There are nine McKinley Democrats.
The result in District No. 3 is as follows:
This Year—Republicans 162, Democrats 70,
Prohibition 5, doubtful 15.
Last Year—Republicans 140, Democrats 55,
Prohibition 5, doubtful 13. There are ten McKinley Democrats in this district.
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