The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-10-04
LIVE ISSUES.
INDEPENDENT ACTION OF THE
UNITED STATES.
The Patriotism of the Plain People
Greed of the Money Changers.
Harvey's Eloquent Appeal
to the People in the
Great Debate.

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measurement when you use one
metal which the money lenders can
corner at their pleasure. Do not
be misled on this financial question
by any sophistry, but study for
yourselves, and you will arrive at
the same conclusion that / have.
Gold will not go out of this coun-
try. If we have free coinage of
silver the use of money in the
United States will establish a parity
between the two, and then gold will
be held. A man settling balance
with us in Europe, if he cannot get
silver to send, must send us gold.
The argument have made in this
debate should convince you that
upon the United States adopting
the free coinage of silver its extern
sive use as money will take the
metal out of the markets of the
world and force a parity as it was
forced prior to 1873.
With independent action Of the
United States other nations will
follow her example. We have
allowed England to set the example
for the world. The United States
when she exerts her power is
greater than England. applause. }
And when she eXerts it the other
nations of the earth will take hope.
France will follow. She said at
the Conference of Brussels, awe
are here to hear your proposition
and are ready to accede to it. Name
it. What is it?" Mexico and
South America will be with us;
China and Japan and all the weak
er nations of the world; and with
France by our side, we will have
more strength, more influence upon
the metals of the world, than the
Latin Union and the United States
had in 1878 when they were at a
parity. (Applause.) All we have
to do is to have the heart to 90
ahead and do right. applause
The SWAY to resume" was to
resume, and the way to remonetize
is to remonetize. (Applause.) Cred
itors the world over, when they
can control the legislation of the
country can dictate what money
shall be named in the bond, and
England is doing that. The neces-
sites of the people make them sign
the bonds to get money. TO relieve
the necessities of to-day they will
take chances on the future and sign
the bonds. But the day of reckon
ing is coming, and English warships
are in all the harbors of the smaller
countries; the Monroe doctrine has
been violated in the western hem
isphere by reason of the gold stan
dard. What we want to do is to
say to the creditor, "You cannot
name in your bond gold alone.
You must name in your bond lawful
money, and when you name gold
alone you either forfeit your debt
or it is payable in either gold or
silver at the option of the debtor"
That is bimetallic law, and when
you have put the two metals in
competition with each other, and
when the United States leads in
this matter, all the nations of the
earth except England will follow
her.
ENGLAND WILL NOT CONSENT.
England will never follow us;
you may wait for international BIZ
1netallism with England forever,
and you will never get it. The
men who control the legislation of
England are the oney-changers of
the world, and they know they are
getting two portions of property for
one portion of money, and they
don't intend to yield that advan
tage. We should act for ourselves,
independent of what other nations
do. Less than four per cent of our
business is with Europe, ninety six
per cent of our business is domestic
business. Which shall we legislate
in favor of, the ninety six per cent
or the four per cent? Let us legis-
late for the people. The selfish
money lenders of this country are
allies of the banking houses of
London.
The money lender is not "A patriot,
the plain people are patriots. The