The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-11-14

| me sherman law p0d ana SlIVGT
demonetjzed as a money of final &C
count confronts us. | believe the peO-
Pile of the United States will rise in
their wrath before they will permitsuch
wrong. But with that law repealed and
silver no longer a legal tender, before
the terrible wrong to the debtor class
can be righted, millions will be pau
perized and become tenants where
they now own homes in fee simple.
The liquidation Of debts AMI mortgages
will go on under the gold standard with
one half Of the metallic currency Of the
world destroyed and the capacity to
nav debts reduced one half. 1t will take
two bushels Of wheat or two pounds of
cotton to pay where it took one before
I say, if we, are not confronted with
human slavery Of the white race in this
country, where are WEI LAppiause J
| Because. if the titles are gone to the
| homes that these men struggled to 90
| tain fer themselves and their families,
and they become tenants, subject to
the humiliati0ns and the tyranny Of
the money power, what have you
| made Of them but serG5 like they have
in Europe2 Serfs, as the gentlemen
said, and a new form Of serfd0m. They
| talk about the dishonest dollar they
! talk about the IS cent silver dollar,
Ny GoG!my countrymen! doesn't the
same amount of silver buy as much
wheat and corn as it ever did? Which
is the dishonest dollar2 That which
has remained at parity with all other
products, or the one which will buy
twice as much rs il ought to buy, the
gold dollar? LAppiauseI
Silver is the money Of the poor; gold
is o rob5er, and has always been the
! money of the rich. They talk about
restoring confidence! These patriots
that are 50 soIicitous that confidence
shall be restored by the repeal Of the
Sherman law! Do they care anything
abous restoring confidence to you and
l and the millions o. American freemen
whom they claim 10 represent?
\ VOice-No.
b. the gracious permission Of En-
gland they will do it; otherwise we are
not 10 be considered. Md then the
humouggery which they express in
their speeches in Congress, We are
friends of silver within certain limjta
tions." Ola Dr.. AbernaJhy, a celc
brated English physician, used to say
the iirst thing to d. in treating a man
was to get him to acknowledge that he
was sick. Well, l think the most hope
full sign that I have seen in many a
month, because I come from q section
where the sun of hope does not shine
brightly, is that the men Of the West
realize at last they are sick. Laughter
and applause But these bi metallisIs,
these friends Of silver, their remedy
for the trouble Of silver is to lay the
poor thing in its coffin and prescribe
death as a remedy. That is a new kind
of medicine. Laughter and applause
1t us repeal the Sherman law, de
mcnetizo SILVER, and then We will take
into consideration a remedy-always,
understand, with the consent Of En-
gland. LApplause.l
Doesn't every man in Congress who
has pretended to deceive himself with
that delusion know that they can
never Iegislate after they have re
pealed that law? Does he not know
that Cleveland will veto everything
they do? If they pretend they are bi
metalIists and friends of silver they
simply lie. Great applause. told
you 1 would speak plainly and
bluntly.
A Voice-That is what we want,
Governor TIllman-I speak the Ian
guage Of the Bible, the plain Anglo
Saxon. Why, for the conditions they
are offering us, the remedy reminds
re Of the old doggerel:
Mother, may 1 go out to swfmE
Oh, yes, my darling daughters;
Hang your clothes on a hickory limb,
But don't go near the water
Laughter.
Don't you go near the mint with
your silver bullion; don't keep in that
direction. We want you rs a com
modify, not as money; make you a
slave of gold, not its equal; we will re
deem you in gold, and therefore, de
stroy you as money of final redemp-
ton. And they tell you they r BIZ
Applause. |
Gentlemen, SO much by way Of gen
eralities. I am not trying to convert
any Of you to bi metalIism. 1t is use
less to talk of that to you. I came here
for another purpose. and 1 want now