confined to the silver question. I quote
a few extracts from it:

"It has been said by many persons of both political parties that
this is to be a campaign of education. I believe it ought to be
so, for the leading questions involved are purely business questions,
affecting material interests common alike to men of all parties.

"Upon two great measures of public policy the Republican and
Democratic parties have made a formal and distinct issue, and these
are to be submitted to the people of Ohio in November, and your
decision will have a marked effect upon public opinion throughout
the United States. One is whether the holder of silver bullion
may deposit it in the treasury of the United States, and demand
and receive for it one dollar of coined money for every 371 grains
of fine silver deposited. The market value of so much silver
bullion is now about 77 cents, varying, however, from day to day,
like other commodities, sometimes more and sometimes less. The
other question is whether the policy of taxing imported goods by
the government of the United States, embodied in our existing tariff
law, known as the McKinley tariff, is a wise public policy, or
whether it should be superseded by what is called a tariff for
revenue only, as embodied in what is known as the Mills bill, which
passed the House of Representatives in 1888, and was rejected by
the Senate.

* * * * *

"I propose upon this occasion to confine myself mainly to a frank
and homely discussion of the money question, as the most pressing,
not that the tariff question is not equally important, but for the
reason that I can only do one thing at a time, and the money question
is a newer one, is now before us, upon which Republicans and
Democrats alike are somewhat divided. I wish to appeal to the
reason and common sense of the people who hear me, for that is said
to be the highest wisdom.

* * * * *

"Now, you all know that the money in circulation in the United
States--all of it--is good, good as gold. It will pass everywhere
and buy as much as the same amount of any other money in the world.
Our money is of many kinds--gold, silver, nickel and copper are
all coined into money. Then we have United States notes, or
greenbacks, gold certificates, silver certificates, treasury notes
and national bank notes. But the virtue of all these many kinds
of money is that they are all good. A dollar of each is as good
as a dollar of any other kind. All