The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-02-24

record 1t Is swift in its responses
70 the peoples needs. 1t makes
choice of safe and wise statesmen to
tne statutory landmarks Of the peo.
PIE $ progress, and release their en-
ergles to an ever larger liberty.
democracy is progress. Liberty IS
ITS vital air. Constitutions and
laws are the voluntary, selfimposed
safeguards Of Democracy.
Ifany words of mine could reach
every fire-side in our land, this is
what would ask my fellow.coun.
trymen at this time to consider
All our troubles, all our dangers 1T
tnls n ve'y hour, after SO many years
OF Republican rule, are the direct
consequence of that rule and flow
from uncon stitutional legislation by
the very men who sit in shivering
tits over what the Democracy will
DO with power. On the other hand.
the Democratic party, which trusts
the people and would see all obroad
based upon a peoples WILL" is pre-
clsely that party whose creed has
ever been strict Interpretation of
the Constitution and confinement of
the Government to few specific
granted powers. / commend those
contrasted facts to my fellow coun-
trymen for neighborly debate and
ireside meditation till the SHOWS
melt.
The Republican party neither
trusts the people nor obeys them. 1t
now requires another .upheaval at
the ballot-box like that of 1890 to
be convinced that the wicked work
Of the billion. dollar Congress must
be repealed and the peoples will
obeyed. Fellow-Democrats, l re-
joice to know by those infallible
signs, by the ground swell; by the
re-awakening of the Democratic
hosts; by the arousal of high and
noble young ambitions throughout
the land, thai we are advancing to
a cordial union and another over
whelming triumph.
We are advancing to a final re-
newAl of the nations verdict in the
mad, insensate reign of autocrats
and plutocrats in the billion-dollar
Congress, whereby their verdict,
now scotfed at and stayed, shall have
efficient execution in the election of
Doth branches of a Federal Con-
gress. and Federal executive obe-
dient to the so 7ereign peoples will.
Your message to the great and
general assembly Of Democrats, l
rejoice to know, touches nothing of
interest to New York, but what is
universal and common to the inter-
ests of the whole of these United
States. You stand for the whole
Democratic faith and tradition,
which in the billion Congress un-
derwent the most powerful, delib.
crate, and revolutionary subversion
by the money power ever known in
our history. The two Mckinley
laws now transform the Federal
power of taxation for revenue into
an instrument of extortionate TAX
ing from the wages and profits of
our industrial toiling millions by
subsidies, bounties, and enhance d
prices, a stupendous increment for
the wealth of our employers, less
than Z per cent. Of all our people.
Shall these laws stand?
The Sherman silver law now
transforms the Federal coinage
power OF silver and gold into an in
strument for the gradual expulsion
of our gold for the establishment OF
an executive basis, and for the per-
manent reduction of every Ameri-
can dollar by 80 per cent. or more
, below the level of it's true value dur
ing the whole period of our free BIZ
metallic coinage from 1892 to 1873.
Shall such law stand? There has
, been no such legislation for free men
, since Cromwell called the law Of
, England a ..tortuous and ungodly
: jumble.' =
The demand for repeal of these
&C 4ho hilLiar, Congress- has