The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-09-13

What your forefathers intended you
should have and what this country
needs, above everything else, Ia q silver
1 dollar that liz worth more as q coin
than il il for bullion, and then that
silver dollar will stay at home.
JOHN sHERMAN's soPHIsTRY.
Mr.. John Sherman said that the
trouble with the silver dollar ia that
you cannot get rid of it, that If YOU
pay lit out it viii come back. That ia
the dollar for me. Loud laughter and
applause What we want in this
country is the old dollar Of Washino-
ton, of Thomas jefferson, of Andrew
jackson, of Abraham Lincoln. TAp-
plause.l
I viii tell you another thing. nv
Democratic friends, we want q vigor
GUS public sentiment in this counfrv
The Congress of the United States in
regulating the money of this country
and fixing it's value should consult the
American people and not the crowned
heads of Europe.
I recollect that Andrew Jackson in
his great battle with the United States
bank, that one of his chief objections
to that bank was, that its councils
were largely dominated by foreign in
X uQ6uGCSs LII GGA9 HGCAs 1870 YOU BGnO
up your petition to Congress; you hold
your public meetings, and proclaim
YOUR wishes i'm favor of the free and
unrestricted coinage of silver, and
what does Congress say9 Tt says we
will consult the crowned heads of
Europe, and if they are willing YOU
shall have it then you shall have it.
Laughter and applause. You might
as we'll consult Europe as to whether
we should have free government here.
I tell you you cannot maintain a re
public here in this country, or a Re
publican form of government, if YOU
are to be dominated by an ~aristocratic
system of finance. loud applause,
MocK ARIsToCRATs.
1t is q Republican body dominated
by an aristocratic soul. [Applause.
What we want to do, and intend to do,
God being our helper, is to drive the
monarchical devil oat of America, and
breathe into America the breath of
life, and it shall be a living soul.
America ought to be, and shall be
governed by America. From whence
did we derive our present system Of
financeq From England. For whose
benefit does the government system of
finance exist in that country2 For the
advantage of the ~aristocracy, nobility,
and plutocracy. We have it here.
They would not change it there. We
have the same system here today,
precisely, and it is working not in the
interest of labor, but of the money
lprinces and the corporations, and the
powers that are organized to crush our
organized labor. Applause
We must have here q system of fin
ance suited to our Republican institu-
tions, and not modelled after the effete
ar~istocracies and waning monarchies
of the old world. And now, to answer
some critic who has been standing off
and criticising the movement; do you
think you can stop it, Applause and
cries of mo, no." This is a move
ment of the people. They intend
in this year, 1892, to drive out
the last vestige of British and Ger
man influence from the councils
require in this country the free and
unlimited coinage of silver, and to 20
further if that does not give US money
enough.
The free and unlimited coinage OF
silver is the first step we propose to
take to relieve the necessities of this
country. Is it not q conservative stepl
Are you afraid you will have too much
silverq Have any of you ever been
seriously opposed to having too much
silver. daughter and applause.
RELIEF N MORE MONEY.
We are going to relieve the Ameri-
canpeopleb by giving them more money,
and the first step is to give them the
free and unlimited coinage of silver.
I[Applause
If that does not afford money enough.
then we propose that the government
shall supplement- the metallic currency
of the country with conservative issue
of full legal tender paper money, which
shall be a good legal tender for all
debts, public and private [Applausel
but not if we have money enough
without doing that. But some one
says, / supposed you were an in
aationist, Mr. Weaver. Ny answer.
your suppositions have always been
wrong.
This great movement is not disposed
to unsettle the business of this country.
or to bring on a financial crisis. Not
at all; but we r determined that this
policylof contraction, of foreign inter
ference, of class legislation, shall come
to an end, and that there shall be
inaugurated in this country a system
of finance in accordance with the
greatly increased population, SO that
we may gradually reach a plane OF
business prosperity and of cash pay
ments that will insure prosperity 60
the republic for all time to come,
t[Applause.
You need not be afraid that this
party wants to unsettle the finances Of
this country. We would not put out
$50 per capita all at once, any more
than we would give a starving man a
full meal of victuals all at once: and
to the critic of this movement we give