The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-05-14

uuce tHe greater part VI TIE gold
and silver Of the world. What more
do we need9 Nothing, save unity
of purpose, and the same manhood
and courage that impelled our fore.
fathers to march over the ice and
SHOWS upon the British at Valley
Forge. Let me say to the Doubt
ing Thomases, and to the enemy,
we will whip the fight.
We know that the East is agains,
us. The interests of the East, as
against the industrial world and
humanity, are aligned with Eng
land. Like England, its bleak
shores and sterile lands do not pro.
duce the necessaries of life. 1t de-
ponds upon the South and West for
the fl .ece to turn its spindles, upon
our hocks to run it's wooden factor.
les, upon the productive.
ness of our soil for the
bread they eat, and upon our herds
of cattle and our hogs for meats to
sustain them. Like England its
people are creditor class. At the
time silver was demonetized in 1878
carpet. bag rule had loaded the PEG.
pie of the South with public debts,
but despite all this, with the great
volume of money in circulation, we
were fast recovering from the raw
ages of civil war, our bonds were
in Eastern and English hands, and
when our money was cut in two the
East and England shared together
the harvest we had sown. A tri.
umph over the East means victory
complete.
There is a spirit now abroad in
the land that apparently pre-.
sages contention and division
But that is short lived.
L pom it new party has arisen that
lays claim to being the only party
that will do anything for silver. Its
friendship for silver is shallow pre-
tention. In one breath it declares
for silver; in the next for paper
invested with the government fiat
This party is in truth opposed to
both gold and silver. 1t will soon
60 hence upon its wings of soaring
imagination to hunt the spirit of the
departed greenback ignis fatuus,
and the people will rally again un.
der the banners of the old Demo
cratic party, and bear down upon
the enemy with vigor that will
utterly sweep him from the field.
CUT LOOSE FROM EUROPE
Whenever we cut the European
ties that bind US and stand up to ou1
full stature among the nations OF
!, the earth, than will we wal
strong in wealth and grow in great
ness. European civiliz alton il
older than ours, its skilled work
men have been bred down from
generation after generation, its
capital is far greater than ours,
it is the birth place of factories,
and there can possibly be
NO profit in competing with Europe
upon European soil. England has
not accumulated her wealth off OF
countries older than herself in the
business in which she has engaged,
but off of colonies planted in new
countries without facilities for com
petlng. We must look where the
advantages are all with US. want
to see the hopes and ambitions of
: this government directed tow ards
our kindred nations OF this
continent on the south and
the land of the rising
Sun. The isles of the Pacific and
Oriental Asia, the cradle of the
human race, and the sepulcher of
mans highest achievement and
greatest glory. Whenever the MIC
aragua canal threads our continent
with the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans, great merchant fleets with
their rich argosies from Japan,
China, ooIndla, Australasia, the
Spice Islands and other new
fields, to our deep water ports
, on the Gulf, to be exchanged for
the products of our own
Our own Governor Hubbard, ex-
minister to Japan, has said that if
the protective tariff wall could be
, hnrne down and an outlet to the