The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-12
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Thsn Why Divmoe The Precious
Metals, Asks Senator Bate,
q Tennessee.

The following is the concluding por
ton of Senator Bates speech on Mon
day, which was listened to with mark,
cd attention:
Gold is hard, narrow, cruel corren-
cey. It ls cowardly and fees from dan.
ger and generous duty. It does not
like silver and paper standard, defy the
invading enemy, but seeks conceal
ment and the protection of the miser'e
Golfers. Itresponds not to thedemanda
of charity and kindly officers of friend
ship. It seems to realize its value and
its beauty 1t knows when they are in
danger and scents it from afar and runs
at once to cover. 1t gravitates at once
to the hands of the narrow, severe, un-
creative, and soulless From it in no
age has flowed generosity, seH-denial,
or heroism. There is in gold singu-
lar fascination for all the most vicious
passions that generate secret and ma
lignant crimes. 1t seeks power and
place from which it can oppress and
grind the toiling millions.
It Is the inspiration of the pride and
glory Of wealth and power. It is the
ornament of monarchs and servant of
their ambition and intrigues. It is
the dame that tempers the assassin's 3
steel, the light that directs the ship of
the corsair, the fountain from which
flows the daring and courage of the pit
iless pirate. The demands of friend
ship and patriotifm it neither hears
nor needs. When rugged war raises its
baleful banner and the invading foe
menaces the safety and repose of the
country, it seeks the strong box of the
miser or the Golfers of the timid and
prudent. In peace it decks the gaudy
trappings of princes and potentates that
roll in splendor along the public high
ways 1t glitters in dazzling radiance
from the gay women that glide in
grace amid the camps and courts OF
kings and emperors, Indifferent as to
whether it gilds the person of Mary
or Borgia. The cottage of the hum
BILE it disdainfully shuns, and responds
not to the cry of the inmates for bread,
though the creatures of their toll and
skill.
Gold is the weapon that conquers
where the bayonet and the sword,
though inspired by the stoutest hearts
and welded by the strongest arms, can
not go. It invades the heart and
steals the fidelity and vigilance Of the
guards against its fascinating encroach-
ments the strongest mail and the most
solid Notifications cannot prevail. Its
luster pierces the granite
wall and unbars the firmest gates It
is as heartless as the poison of the dead
lest drug Neither innocence, youth,
age, nor sex is any protection against
It's stealthy attack. Before its secret
and insinuating power how often all
that is loved, all that Is sacred, all hon
Or, all pity, virtue, love and duty go
down.
Gold is in striking contrast with sl1-l
yer, with which it slept SO long in
warm embrace in their mountain bed
and walked on different though paral- |
lei lines through all the various phrases
that humanity has shown in its march
trom barbarinn to civilization, from
barter to highest form Of COM
mercial exchange. Silver has been the
champion Of man in all his aspirationsl
rom his humble cottage, making his
way to new and more inviting homes
IN search Of greater good and larger
ability. It has never deserted or
summed him in his long, toilsome
struggle for life amid danger and trials.
[n the cabin IN the far-off frontiers Of
settlement, in the busy city, on the
ertile plains and the snow covered
It has been his never-failingl
aelp mate. No privations deterred il,
70 enemies drove il from hia presence.
,ilver = the friend Of poverty and the
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