The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-12
SCOTLAND NECK n q, THURsDAY, ooToBER IL 1898


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garnefed labor Of workers who saved ,
morsel from eacn days fruit, whicl
was the promise Of hope for his house
hold, and to himself the guarantee Of !
solace Tor relentless old age. It insurel
him Of title to his humble home pur
chased from his labor thus treasured
II was in this form the promise Of q
family, the nursery, the virtue, defense
and glory Of the state. Thus also hae
been evoked new life upon land and
ocean, the exchange Of productions Of
nation with nation, Of CLINE with
CLINE, and with this movement, bound
less discoveries in nature and inven-
tions in the useful and fine arts. From
the first motion forward labor and sill
yer have worked in harmony through
all the various stages Of progress, from
the rudest beginnings to the sublime
! results that have crowned humanity
and proved it divine
Why bring it to a gold standard !?
Did not silver and gold work in perfect
harmony and by their joint instrumen-
tality build up this country-placing it
in the front rank with the great powers
OF the earth? Are not both alike
found in our borders sleeping side by
side in the same rocky beds? Why
should we divorce them, which nature
mas created and bound together?
Should we not bind them together with
ligaments of law and relight the hy-
menial torch that was rudely extin-
guished in 1873 and let them live in
their natural matrimonial bonds as
they flow through the great arteries of
commerce and the lesser ones of every
day trade? If gold, the yellow metal,
is the sunlight, is not silver, the white
metal, the moonlight, each moving in
its own orbit, but in the same general
circle, mutually dependent, giving
aid to each other and bestowing bles-
sings alike on all? Why yemake king of
one and serf of the other? If gold is
king, silver is queen-then let the king
and queen of the precious metals reign
together with equal rights and equal
powers in the realms of finance and
trade. Indeed, Mr.. President, silver
has benefited mankind far more than
gold. Gold is used by the few and the
rich silver by the many and the poor.
In the matter before the Senate the
convictions of the people have been
guided by the light of that lamp of ex-
perience which the great Virginia
apostle of liberty took as his guide in
the days of our Revolution. That sill
yer lamp was lit at the alter of our con-
stitution by the high priest of both Of
the great parties to our politics. JEFF
ferson and Hamilton concurred in BIZ
metalism, and it was about the only
subject Of our policy in which those
great leaders did agree. Every great
leader Of political parties in our coun-
try for the last hundred years trimmed
the silver lamp with sedulous care and |
its light was never permitted to grow
dim or become extinguished, but burn
ed forever as the lamps of the vestal |
virgins until these latter days when the |
selfish interest of that class of men
whom our Saviour whipped from the
precincts OF the temple obtained pre-
dominant influence in national legislar
ton.
If in the matter of bimetallic curren-
rency the people are in error, they are
willing to stand the effects of that error
until their experience shall make that
error plain and potent. They prefer to
suffer the ills that we have than to fly /
to those we know not Of, bringing with |
them the death knell of silver. A sin-
gle gold standard may be right and
proper for nations whose armies muster
BY the millions and whose iron navies
cover every sea and absorb the susie