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


the United States to decide the bat.
tie. If ever silver is to be raised
to the dignity of gold as a money
of final redemption it is upon our
own ground that the battle must be
pitched and the victory won.
In the year of our lord 1915 the
barons of England assembled upon
the banks of Runnymede. The
assemblage was the Legitimate issue
of the cruelty, tyranny and oppres.
sion of King John. The liberties
of the people had been destroyed
and their property rights contis-
Gated, and it was the mission of the
assembled barons to wrest from
their tyrant ruler the usurped rights
and Liberties of the people or fall
martyrs to the cause of human
liberty. Their courage and .triot-
ism triumphed in the contest, aud
the foundation stone of the English
constitution, the bedrock of the
rightfully boasted personal privi-
leges of the Englishman, Magma
Charta, was evolved from that
bloodless revolution aroused by an
abused and oppressed people.
In 1915 there were assembled in
the city of Philadelphia the repre-
sentatives of people whose politi
cal liberties were trampled beneath
the iron heel of X ng George III.
Those representatives were az truly
loyal to the sentiment and interest
of their constituents as was ever q
Christian to the faith of his creed,
and on the Fourth day Of July of
that year they made perfect expo
sition of the hearts of their people
in the PRONUNCIATION of the Declar-
alton of Independence, and out of
the terrible and bloody war of the
American revolution there was
wrought, to the people of the colo.
MES, complete independence and the
highest personal and political lib
critics attainable by men-the struc-
ture of human liberty, to which the
barons of England laid the founda.
tion on the banks of the Runny-
mede SCI years before, was builded
to completion.
The benefcent influences flowing
out of the Magma Charta and Amer
lean independence have not been
confined to the limitations OF
Britain and American dominions,
but have encrcled the globe and de-
scended, like the dews of the morn
ing, to refresh and strengthen, upon
the human family of the four con-
tinents.
Standing, as we do, the only bar
rier to the complete destruction of
silver as part of the primary
money, part of the redemption
money and one of the money metals
of the world, we are not only
charged with the interests of our
people, but we are weighted with
responsibilities not less momentous
to the welfare of the great mass Of
people of the civilized world than
we're the Barons of England when
they obtained the rights granted in
Magma Charta, or the representa-
tives assembled in Liberty Hall
when they cut the. colonies loose
from the tyranny of the Father,
land. am not putting it too strong;
l am not dealing in exaggeration.
The man who purposely exagger.
ates to the people the condition of
the country is demagogue. The
man " no, knowing or confidently be
lieving, does not attempt to i'm
press upon the people the
true coalition of affairs
when their liberties and
happiness are in danger is worse
than a demagogue. After an ex
animation satisfactory to myself
am confident of my position and, my
countrymen, | assert it as my can
did Nbelief that the political liber
ties forced by the barons of f g
land and made complete by the he
roes of the American Revolution
have not been more essential to the
comfort and happiness to the human
race throughout the civilized world
than will be the complete indie
pendence of the people, of that great
,-o.;,J ol;~ornbu thof has GOT the