The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-10-04

our gold.
And supposing that it does 90 out and
they take it all. What thenP They do not
want to do it. They hold too many Of our
bonds, that under the present law are pay
able in coip Of standard value, which means
either silver or gold, to run any risks. They
want gold in payment of these bonds, and
they do not want all the gold to go from
our country But supposing again, say,
they take it all.
Why, what will happen thenG They say
gold will 60 to a premium. Well, 1t has
been to premium for 20 years, and you
did not know it. Let it go to premium,
and when the Ward McAllisters and the
other Four Hundred want to 20 to Europe
for their summer outings 1t will cost them
little more to make their exchanges, and
IL they bring home fine clothes, the prod.
uCts OF European countries, it will cost
them good deal more money, and we will
build better tariff wall round our indus
tries than that builded by the gentleman
from Ohio. Why, If they will not takecur
money, we win not take their goods.
What trade will we loser What nations
do we wish to trade withP England, Ger
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worth of products of American labor. They
take only the necessities Of life-our wheat,
our pork, our corn and our cotton and beef.
Those they have got to have anyway, and
they must pay us In the money we specify.
Now, suppose they will not take our mon
ey. We will just stop buying of them, and
that will start our factories running, start
our own spindles to humming and our
own wheels to revolving.
Why, Mr.. Speaker, as a man who is some
what interested in bank and wishing to
protect it, say that for the safety Of the
small banker there is but one course, and
that is bimetallism in this country. And
whenever you make the foundation too
narrow, whenever you set up the great
pyramid upon Ats apex and build up There
on, the higher you build the greater win be
the ruin when some adverse circumstance
runs up against your pyramid. You build
It on single standard, and your founda-
tion Is too narrow for safety, and whenever
q wave of distrust runs over the country
your little savings of lifetime will be
swept away.
The census showed that in 1890 $4,000
people owned one-half Of the total wealth
of the nation, and since the shaking up you
have given us over In New York the proba-
bilities are that about $4,000 have got it to-
day, and If you carry out your designs
4,000 will have In the ysar 1900. We are go
ing to save you from your own folly. We
propose to help the people, SO that they can
have money with which to travel on the
railroads, with which to transport their
products, and so that your stocks will earn
you dividends in spite Of yourselves.
Mr.. Speaker, history has built great mon
uments upon the plains Of the past to mark
the point where two roads part. She has
erected great lighthouses along the shores
OF time to warn the passing mariner Of the
sunken rocks and hidden reefs. Let us OBJ
serve some Of these lights. Moses went
down to old pharaoh in Egypt and de-
manded the deliverance of the people OF
Israel from the house of bondage, and
pharaoh's answer was the same tale "of
brick without straw"
Charles / attempted to coerce parliament,
and he lost his head, and human liberties
took q long step forward and upward.
When the people Of France cried for bread,
flippant queen asked why they ate not
cake. Some day, when complacent De
Breze, knight of the bedchamber, shall
enter these halls and intimate the kings
pleasure and our duty, there shall arise
some modern Mirabeau, who, driving him
hence, will tell him we are here by the will
Of God and the voice of the sovereign peo-
pie, to whom alone we owe allegiance and
to whose mandates alone we bow.
Our fathers in these colonies pleaded,
humbly entreated, of old England to stay
the hand Of oppression and asked her to re-
move the hands of greed which plucked
from them the fruits of their toll, and the
renlv of George III was the imposition OF