Birmingham age-herald., 1894-07-18
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head Of the preSluentldl once ID tue U nIIeu States who is as h onest a man as there Is In this audience. tremendous cheers and applause He is a faithfu true, honest and sincere democrat. He has never aban- doned anything he has pledged himself to in this world. He has taken grounds on the silver bill outside of the Chicago plat form. l take the ground on that platform. would not follow him or any other man that ever lived-not hairs breadth tiff it. Applause. But he is as honest in getting off it as am in staying on it, and that is all there is 10 it. My reason for saying th @ change in either of us is impossible is this: That the battle for silver has been already fought and won. [Cheers and applause. 1 say to a Christian minister: "What do you preach for every Sunday? You have established the cross of Christ and hung out his banner on the outer wall. There is no- body disputing with you about it. Why is it still necessary for you to give line upon line and precept upon precept? Haven't Chrslianity?'' .'Yes," he says, "but we have not gathered the harvest yet; we are at work on the harvest.n The priu- ciples of Christianity have been fought in this world centuries ago and will never de- part. Now, not comparing secular things with divine ones, but using the parallel as an illustration, 1 tell you the battle of silver has been fought and won. More than that-it has come So close to realization now that it requires really no QUIET dCllOu Ou bu0 pdTC LII LLc Oull0Q States except to open her doors and receive the judgment of man. kind, in which all the nations of this earth are now coaleecing. [Great applause The commercial world whether 1t is heather or Christian, whether semi barbarious or enlightened, all who have commercial relations with each other are coming to recognize that gold alone is not a sufficient measure of the industries or the commercial values of the world; that in or T w1rS.a f.,l. zArfAr 1 of your commerce by the gold standard you have got to take extremely low wages, you have got to take an extremely low price for what you have got, because when there is only $5 in a community to buy with, and no more money than that, the prices must be just one- half of what they would be if there were $10 there.
 THE MONEY SUPPLY.
 The money supply is too short. It is not sufficient for the commerce and industries of the world; 1t is not a large enough medium of exchanges; it cramps people down, and especially those in debt in such a way as that it doubles the amount of the debt. Hence it is that the nations of the earth have been demanding that the ruling powers-the men who have been the ruling powers in governments by the rules of the academician and the doctrinaire, and not by the rules of eXperience-they have been demanding of them that they should in- stitute new rules-not new rules, either, DuV OlQ TuleS--aQQ Luab bQdb rule SuOuiQ D0 that which has been the law since civiliZa- tion, which you find recorded in the very earliest times: 'tGoid and silver as the money of the merchant and the redeemer of debts without disparagement to value.'
 Now, in September or October there will be change in what they call the British government. Then new election will take place there. Salisbury and Balfour will come back into power, and when they have done so we are credibly informed that l. lx-s~ l.. 1 l will reinstate silver in India and in Eng land and in all the colonies of the realm; that all the Latin states of the earth, in cluding those of Mexico, Central America, South America, and France and Italy are engaged in the same, as well az Spain and Portugal, the nations bordering on the eastern coast of the Pacitic-Japan, Corea, China and the Indian and Polynesian 1s- lands in the South Pacifc-all are moving in that direction. But the best sign of all is this, that we have the republican party with us. They have by means of petit or grand larceny in California taken from the democratic platform, silver at 16 to 1. They are doing the same thing in Vermont, and if it were is after it, until presently it will be like the Nicaragua canal-everybody will be in fa- vor of it. It is going very much the same way; but am not losing any sleep about it; am not asking anybody any questions UT any Ouuo dOOut lbs
 STEVENSON.
 Now, want to say few words about Adlai Stevenson, the man who snatched the state Of Illinois from the republicans, making it democratic state, and freeing us from the dominion of New York to such an extent that we can exclude her from all our calculations and still elect president. That man is to bs the next president of the United States. Loud, long and vociferous cheers and applause l know it just as was to be born, because we have been told about 1t by spirit. tCheers and ap- plause.) am not an unhappy democrat, not by any means; am triumphant dem ocrat.. Then give us back this grand old state to the place she has occupied since low citizens, with the assist ance of this canal, which is now about to be built, and nobody can stop it
 with the assistance of that great Nicaragua spring up into wilderness of industries, you will grow in vigor, and the Birming- ham of today will be but an introduction to the Birmingham that is to be. [Great cheers and applause. l am not putting figures ofspeech before you. am putting facts before you. The bill has now about been agreed upon; there IS very little diff ference to be settled. There are forty-four members of the two houses of congress that have had this matter under consideration for five years, and now there is a positive concurrence between the republicans and democrats as to the necessity of the meas ure and the means of accomplishing it, and ! can, therefore, assure you that that grand plan is soon to be realized, and when realized 1 shall have all the glory that one human heart could desire in the opportunity l have had to contribute my feeble assist ance to this grand work. Loud and long continued cheers and applause.l
 Gn I not orfI democrat, and, surely having been raised in the woods, think it would be very dis