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Show TELEGRAPHIC Sucretury lti'Islow on tho Fiuuuccs. Cincinnati, 30. Secretary Briatow was here yesterday on his way to Washington, and visited the chamber of commerce, where, in response to repeated calls, he made a brief speech in which, after congratulating tho business men of Cincinnati on their determination to carry on their business busi-ness and return to the solid basis on which all prosperity must exist, he said: "We have passed through financial disasters greater in extent than almost any other people have ever su flu red and yet survived. But the tremendous tremen-dous energies and recuperative powers of our people have been equal to all emergencies; wo have not only survived, sur-vived, but wo intend to build up cur future prosperity on a basis more enduring en-during than ever. We have gone down almost to hard pan, but wo mean to come out without loss and to build upon a basis that cannot be shaken, I believe this is the sentiment senti-ment of the people of Cincinnati. I believe with you that there is no other real prosperity than that which looks to rebuilding on a foundation that cannot be broken. At all events, if any financial disasters do come upon us, it shall not be on account of any fault of ours. As I look at the financial finan-cial question, it can only be satisfactorily satisfac-torily Bolvcd by carrying out in good faith the obligations of the nation, according to the import of the promises prom-ises when they were made. After all that has been said and written on the great subject of our finances there is but one simple axiomatic truth that must nevor be forgotten, und that is that honesty must ever be the best policy. There can be no policy that has not the principle of honesty underlying un-derlying it that is worthy of moment's mo-ment's consideration by a commercial community. Our promises were made amidst dire necessity. Our faith was pledged in the midst of a struggle threatening our very national exiitence. Let us not forget tho honor that requires us to redeem those promises at the earliest practicable practi-cable day. The time has come when we must begin to do something instead of talking in mere glittering generalities. I am glad to see that the congress of the nation has at lost begun to feel the importance of the matter and that we have now some assurance that that body will recognize the proposition that the legal tender notes issued under the pressure of necessities necessi-ties must be redeemed in that which the world regards as money and when they are so redeemed all the promises o( the government may be so redeemed, re-deemed, and when this condition is satisfactorily accomplished our future prosperity will be beyond all doubt." |