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

feet long, foot wide and inches thickS
Gentlemen may take out their pencils and
commence to figure out the intrinsic value
Of that piece of plank, and their results
win vary according to their methods Of
computation; but, my friends, the intrinsic
value Of that plank Is q million dollars 10
the man who is drowning.
There Is just one country on the face OF
the globe where they do not have panics,
and abe has got more money than any other
civilized nation on the face OF the globe,
and that country is France. No financial
revolutions or panics ordisasters there. The
Panama canal scheme may fail, and It does
not make ripple on the financial surface.
It causes great waves to heave and swell
upon the political tide, but it never touches
the financial situation OF affects its stabil-
ity. They have $54 Of money to every man,
woman and child in France. They have an
abundance to meet the needs Of business In
that little nation, smaller than some of our
states, and yet in this great nation, whose
territory stretches 5000 miles from ocean to
ocean, we are asked to do business with less
than half as much per capita. If silver
makes panics, why was it that Australia,
which is on gold basis, had a panic worse
than ours, panic in which the bank fall
ureS In six weeks amount to over $900, ,000,-
COOP Their panic was only caused, like
ours, by Rothschild shearing his sheep.
Ny friends, let us deal fairly with silver.
Supposing that by your legislation here to-
morrow you enact law that no man in
this country who possesses wheat shall be
permitted to take it to the mill and have It
ground. Shut every mill in the land to
the grinding Of wheat, and what do you
think wheat would be worth six months
from todayP Do you think wheat would
maintain its value as silver has doneP
Corn would go up, corn would be king,
and wheat would be worth its fodder value
for dumb brutes. That is precisely what
you have done against silver. You have
shut down the mills against it. You have
denied it to the public for its use, and yet
you cry against it that there are only 6S or
68 cents in the silver dollar.
Now, my friends, l want to make you
little prediction right here, and let us see
who tells you the truth, whether it is these
people from New York or the friends Of
free coinage Oh, love the New York peo-
plel l know them well. It is the STATE Of
my nativity. There are grand men and
noble women in New York. But know
New York city well, and l know, lying
right alongside of New York city, is a place
they call He'll Gate, and I think most of
you coming from there have been through
it. know our friends from New England,
who speak so boldly for the honest dollar,
In coming through the sound have come
through He'll Gate
But want to tell you, my friends, that
we have been getting the financial policy
Of this nation for 20 years from the gates Of
hell, but we are not going to accept such
dictum any longer. Why, did you ever
stop to think that when the wise men
started out to seek the Saviour of man
kind, the light Of the world, in what di-
rection they travelled Did they go to the
east to look for the lightP No, they left the
east and came to the west for the source
and fountain Of all light and truth.
When Columbus embarked, In which d.
rection did he steer to find nobler, better
and happier land? Did heturn to the eastl
Mol Misery, woe, mOnarchs, oppression,
crime and crowns were in the east He
headed his course westward, and so, my
friends, today you will never find flnan-
cial savior who comes up through He'll
Gate. On this rock of justice we have
founded our faith, and the gates Of hell
shall not prevail against u.s. They have
told us about the great loss that the coun-
try submitted to in the purchase Of silver,
and want to say right here, my friends,
first, that / used to be monometallist Of
the monometallists, could not be any
thing else. All my friends were monomet-
allists. was director in national bank,
and they were all monometallists.
Everybody met in the east was mono