The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-07-05

wherever the flag flots and so long as
the government lives. Great ap
plause and cries of 'That's right i
You tell me the gold dollar is worth
Il dollar How do YOU know? Take
the stamp of the government off it.
and what is it worth? Take your
gold watch; how much is it worth as
4 debt-paying commodity? Take your
gold cup, your gold breast pin-who
wants 1t as money? 1t may have the
size and weight of gold dollar, but
the man to whom you owe a debt
wants the dollar and does not van;
the breast pin. You take TIE gold
dollar and put under the wheel of an
engine and let it be driven into the
shape of a m,Ic leaf Of gold, and
where is the thing YOU called dollar?
Throw il into the pot and melt it: YOU
take It. out: the same weight OF oCll.
IS there: the same amount is in it: the
image on it is gone; the life which the
government breathcd into it is gone,
and you have got commodity which
YOU have GOT to bargain about as
you would any other commodity, but
you have not got Il legal tender dollar
which walks the royal highways Of
law and kills every debt which it at
facts. You tc4l me you Gespi>c Il
silver dollar because it has only got
IS cents worth of silver in 1t. You
may despise it, but do you despse it
not enough to take It? Mr. Merchant
do you close YOUR doors because YOU
have two many of them? Mr. Farmer
have YOU let the dos -fenncl and black
jacks and old field pines take your
farm because you have to many silver
dollars? Has single factory closed
and thrown its laLOrers into the street,
because it had SO many silver dollars
that the factory hands Wouldn't take
them? Have the colori people left
tue farm Lecausc they got sick of Sctt-
ING SO much silver money? Crics of
l"No, no? from the auu:eicc.) Grover
Cleveland says they did: virtually
say so. He and Mr.. Carlisle SAYS
You have got more monev than YOU
use, and Mr. Carlisle wants to make
his bonds small enough for all these
colored people to buy with the money
they have no use for Think OF lht
sarcasm of it; think of the injustice OF
it? Think Of the cruelty of it? Think
; of the financial veins, shveEc,! ant
shrinking, because not filled with the
, !ife-9iv:ng thing we call monet; o!
his telling these people that they hav,
cot to much money, and therefore
| they will close the mints to the conay;
Of money.
| say down with the anarchists
down with the anarchists (ApplauSc
: bat down With the bic one Il, we'll II
; little one. U;rcat applausc) Tn,
! anarchists who hate ne because liz
/ in 4 pleasant home, AMI would tax.
| bomb AMI tear my roof-trcc t. pi Gees
i. throw nay wife anu children homeless
D on the M>rcics of the world, is wicl;
i cl man " HON society must crush bat
u the rulcr Of 81. 900 600 Of people VIII
4 out, and thus brings terror a,d dis
}, may. wreckagc and rum th:uu3h ever
5 city. town village, hamic. and fa,l
c in all the broad confines Of the /,
; public. is an anarchist more dca;tl
+ and dangerous than the wretchc
} bomh-throwcr who wrecks my hou Il
!, loud and prolonged applause)
: say that our president, chief N,
It .istrate. has violated the law Of th
II land: lest. he violated the law /,
:: giving TO Wall street the option
:. take silver or gold when the law Sa;
e that option beIopSed to the govern
Il mcut and ought to be exercised
/, the Interests o. the people. p. il
L violated tue law bv stopping The pur,
hase OF silver under the Sherman Ii
I. before it was repealed when the la
It said he should continue IL purchas,
e 81. he violated TIE law hv .rrf,isin. /
II to coin silver and put it III circuia,io:
V so that the people could get mon.
? do business with. when tie law ..sa:
n ,,a Shnnl,i ,.oin that silver | sax n