Birmingham age-herald., 1894-07-25
to 1873, it would be worth as much as it

10 1873, it would be worth as much as it ever was.
 He attacked the II Lreadbare argument oi the gold bugs that silver is a cheap
 money, and called the attention of his au- dience to the fact that a silver dollar, even now with silver bullion selling al 60 cents l per ounce, has as much purchasing power | as gold dollar; and he argued that law | restoring the free and unlimated coinage of silver in this country would restore silver bullion to its original price and make it worth its weight in silver dollars, and that those dollars would have as much pur- chasing and debt paying power as gold dollars.
 He said that some newspapers and poli- ticians were continually crying out that we did not make enough to sell, while oth- CTS claimed that overproduction was the cause of the hard times He denied the truth of both propositions. The people
 work as hard ns they ever did and they
 make as good crops. They make plenty t(
 sell If they could get fair prices for tb
 products of their labor, and the claim overproductlon was the poorest sort of pl z
 when people were living u poorly f {
 nished houses while ill clothed Wor
 and pale, hungry children proved that j,
 could not secure enough of the com
 necessities of life to satisfy their ever. '
 wants.
 He argued that the remedy for the mul-
 tiplied evils that now affect the people was to be found in the free coinage of silver and the resumption by the government of the issuance Of as much paper money, se- cured by gold and silver deposits, as was
 necessary to do the business of the coun- try. He did not assume 10 say how much
 was required, 1t might be $50 per capita; it
 might pe more or il might be less, but
 whatever WAS necessary to secure prosper-
 lty to the people they were entitled to and ought to have. To secure these blessings
 to the people he had labored ip congress and he had followed instructions. The national democratic platform of 1892 had declared in favor of free bimetallic coin age, the state platform had declared in favor of 1t and every newspaper and stump speaker in the state had favored the free and unlimited coinage of silver during Ths 1He Last. last presiden.ial campaign understood that the free and unlimited coinage of both gold and silver was a car dinal principle of democracy, and with that understanding he was elected to con- gress. He was elected as free silver dem ocrat and he was free silver democrat yet. He knew that once the Sherman single gold standard idea had invaded the councils of democracy it had become the policy of a certain class of democratic papers and pol iticians to take his political scalp, and they might do 1t, but if they. killed him they would have to kill him as a lion, they should never kill him as a lamb. Nor would he ever consent to surrender his honest convictions or violate the instruc- tions of his constituency. They, the peo- pie of his district, could cause him to change his policy, 1T they so desired, by simply instruciing him, and he assured his hearers that if instructed by the people of his district to follow policy he could not honestly indorse he would be honest enough to resign and let them send some one to congress who would obey them.
 Colonel Denson's speech was well re- ceived. His may not be the kind of de- mocracy that suits the powers that be in Alabama, but it is the kind that suils the democrats of Winston, with the exception of a few administration worshipers and village statesmen of our town and vicinity, who seem 10 regard gold dollar as cer- tain passport to heaven, but who would