and differ with each other on
every subject. I assume that you are either Republicans or Democrats,
that you are for Benjamin Harrison or Grover Cleveland.

"The questions involved, in which you are deeply interested, are
whether duties on imported goods should be levied solely with a
view for revenue to support the government, or with a view, not
only to raise revenue, but to foster, encourage and protect American
industries; whether you are in favor of the use of both gold and
silver coins as money, always maintained at parity with each other
at a fixed ratio, or of the free coinage of silver, the cheaper
money, the direct effect of which is to demonetize gold and reduce
the standard of value of your labor, productions and property
fully one-third; whether you are in favor of the revival and
substitution of state bank paper money in the place of national
money now in use in the form of United States notes, treasury notes
and certificates, and the notes of national banks.

"These are business questions of vital interest to every wage
earner, to every producer and to every property owner, and they
are directly involved in the election of a President and a Congress
of the United States. Surely they demand the careful consideration
of every voter. They are not to be determined by courts or lawyers
or statesmen, but by you and men like you, twelve million in number,
each having an equal voice and vote."

The body of my speech was confined to the topics stated. I closed
with the following reference to Harrison and Cleveland:

"The Republican party has placed Benjamin Harrison in nomination
for re-election as President of the United States. He is in sympathy
with all the great measures of the Republican party. He fought as
a soldier in the ranks. His sympathies are all with his comrades
and the cause for which they fought.

"He has proven his fitness for his high office by remarkable ability
in the discharge of all its duties. He heartily supports the
principles, past and present, of his party. He has met and solved
every question, and performed every duty of his office. His
administration has been firm, without fear and without reproach.
I do not wish to derogate in the slightest degree from the merits
of Mr. Cleveland. His highest merit is that he has checked, in
some respects, the evil tendencies of his party; but he was not in
active sympathy with the cause of the Union in the hour of its
peril, or wit