The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-08-17

n.. ui-iaE" - regard tn" legal tcHIc
~ acts a either liking "A standard O
a- vaIu" or regulating money valGr-
at OF making that money which has n
,w intrinsic value"
a. Then they say what shall be in tn
or dollar. or that It's intrinsic yalu,
~ -hall correspond with is legal value
al II lis for congress 10 say how man
is grains of that metal shall constitut,
"a a dollar. and when congress has SAID
r, ba~ spoken, and has declared wha
+ shall b" a dollar, 1t il dollar whc
Err th"r II mas more or less than three
D. hundred and siXty-fy" grain. Cap
.r piau~o.J Now what is the decision
n of the supreme court. Who is q
D crank now! But | cannot tonight
It fully discuss the silver question as
y would like 10 do, but am ready to
II do 50 at all times and against all
y Corners. (Applause,J
u It i, Wall street that tells you of
II tn" necessity Of there being a dol
b. lars worth of bullion i'll every silver
d dollar. Congress which has the
P. power should make your money so
that II will be worth little more as
+ com than II is for bullion. then If
Will remain at home. (Applaasc.)
II you increase the bullion value of
- the coin, then You have no assurance
y that your money will remain at home
} because il can be taken out of the
Il country without loss. What we want
- is the dollar made by jefferson.
- jackson, Washington. which is
worth Il little more for coin than for
e. bullion, and then it will STAY at
home. John Sherman said, not long
, ago, IN a speech in the senate, "the
trouble with the Bland dollar was
that you could not get rid of it, if
you pay it out it would come right
back to you.' That is exactly the
kind Of II dollar for me. (Applause.)
And that is the kind Of dollar this
country wants, and that is the dollar
that Will bring prosperity. (Ap-
| plausc.) | want to say here, stand |
ing IN the grand old city, to repeat
what jackson said, Il never will,
no never, give my consent to any
law or any policy that allows non
/ resident aliens to NEEDLE with our
+ domestic system of finance. Cap
plause.)
The trouble is they are Europca-
ming this country. Applause.)
W" have the ariStocratic English
system here. We are apeing Eng
land IN everything, and it is work
ing the lmpOverishment of labor,
building up of monOpohes. piling up
of private fortunes mountain high
winch threaten to destroy this repub-
lie. We want an American system
Of finance which shall be in har-
mony with our American institu-
tons. (Applause.) That is what I
we want and that is what we are
gong to have when the people get
INTO power, (applause) and we are ,
gong INTO power, don't you forget |
mat. We are going there because L
an honest man cannot resist this c
party. We are going to have more [
money. and when we are in power c
we Will give you three kinds of |
money, gold, silver and paper, all |
ISSUED by the government and not $
by any banks, and all made full {
legal tender for all debts, public r
and private. (Applause.) That is 3
III our platform, and we are going I
TO give you the advantage of it. We I
Know 1t would not be well to give '
You too much of it at once. We I
know It would not be we'll to give 1
Il starving man full meal at once. q
II would produce congestion of the Ii
stomach, and so it would not do. a
ana we are not going to give the Il
people more than they need: we shall q
only give them enough TO do busi- t;
ness with on a cash basis. and not p
go beyond limited amount. We are
not gong to cOnfiscate mans pro- TT
p'rty or anything of that kind, but II
we intend to stop the confscatIon of G
property that is now going on. All fl
'iaSS laws shall be repealed, so that h.
4 poor man shall have a chance in al
ms country to support himself and b,
family. (Applause.) That is what Y
we intend to do. a
Then again in regard to transpor- ra
-ation We believe that the nnhIic CT
highways belong to the public. But al
what Is the condition of things to- be
lay! The railroads have got con CT
foi OF the trade and commerce of &c
he world, and instead of congress C;
regulating the facilities for trans CT
'ortahon, 1t Is done by the railroad OF
,lngs. The railroads have usurped be
hat prerogative and they are charg- de
ng US two and three prices for the ju
lg mt to ride and ship over our pub yc
lie highways. ~ ii,
What was known as the Reapen ne
'iIl' which was pending in congress re
or ABOUT ten years, sought to pro- yt
liplt the roads from charging more al
or short haul than they do for a Ii
ong one. But it was found to be y pc
nlng lmposslble-to secure leeisla-
ION so reasonable as this. The cor M
,oratlons complain bitterly of what lie
hey term the unreasonable demands tie
Il labor, but labor organizations be
lave never yet proposed to CHARGE be
more for half days work than tbev sill
10 Tor whole one, nor have | ever sw
lGard OF an organization of farmers ia
'nlch proposes to demand more for &c
half bushel CT oats than they do on
or r. a whole one. (Applause.) yo
Inc interstate commerce law was yo
'urpoosely drawn in obscure and tn
unnlng phrases and filled with words we
4 doubtful import. Even the au- yo
nor OF the bill said be did not know pl,
xactly what it meant, but he thought ov
was step IN the right direction. br
Applause and laughter.) Here is SCI
ne principal section; please tell me rel
mat 1t means: They (the rail- me
toads) shall not charge more for a in
hort haul than they do for a lone ar
ne, contemporaneously, under sub WI
similar circumstances and his
running in tie same di- go
ecton, over the same road and the pc
anne class of goods" daughter. pla
CIV can all the lawyers in Philadel
hla put together tell what all that tai
leans! Let US suppose that our he.
ather when he handed down tbo 10,