Show HARD TIMES BEFORE the republican party has for 30 years pursued its ita policy of rule or ruin and in both it has succeeded it has certainly ruled as the increase crease e of millionaires on the one hand and tramps on oil the other furnish ample evidence and it has come so near quinin ruining a the financial standing 0 of the country that there is no fun full about li i this republican doctrine of enriching one class it at the expense of another of centralizing wealth till tile the masses of the people are arc powerless in the hand of gold bugs has caused two panics since bince that party came into power one in ill 1873 from which tho the country did not recover for five years and the other in 1803 01 which tile t ne countey is now struggling 0 01 owing to tile the fact that a democratic administration began in 1893 republican orators and editors geek beek to tit the blame blaine atom their own owl party chobo laws were in force when i lien the panic came on and are yet vet for that matter but in 1873 isai there was no other part parly in power for them to hide behind arill and blame the eloquent republican leader 1 robert G ingersoll 0 whose voice has been heard in every republican national convention for 30 year said gaid in ill concerning 1 tho the first panic of republicanism no man mail can call imagine L all al the languages 0 of tile the word cannot express what the people of the united states suffered uffer cd from 1873 to men who considered thern themselves selves millionaires found that they w were ere bg beggars ars men living V in palaces supposing n they hall had elou enough ii to give sunshine to the winter of their adiv age alippo supposing ing 0 they had enough to have all the they loved in affluence and comfort suddenly found that they were mendicants mendi ants cants with bond stocks mortgages all turned to ashes in their aged trembling hands the chimneys n grow grew cold the fires in furnaces went out the poor families were turned adrift and the highways 0 of the united states were crowded with tramps into the home of the poor crept the serpent of temptation and whispered in the car of poverty tile terrible word repudiation I 1 want to tell you that you cannot conceive of what the american people suffered a as they staggered over the desert of bankruptcy from 1873 to 1879 we are too near now to know how r grand rand we were tho the poor mechanics said N 2 xo 0 71 th the C ruined manufacturer said no tile the once millionaire raid faid no nio we will settle fair we nye will agree to div whether we ever pay or not and ana we nye will never soil the american nanie name with the infamous word repudiation |