Birmingham age-herald., 1895-05-26
THE POOR MANS MONEY
SHOULD BE AS GOOD AS THE RICH MANS
MT, Carlisle Waxes Eloquent at Bowling Green. Bankers and Rich Men Would Benefit
 by Free Coinage.

Bowling Green, Ky, May 25.-Secre- tary Carlisle spoke here today. His coming had been looked forward to with great pleasure, and Potter's opera house was packed with men soon after noon today. Every man in the audience was a voter That silver has warm devotees in this section of the country is evi- denced on every side. "The outs are almost to a man in favor of free coinage. The administration men here as else where are with President Cleveland. So intense is the feeling that even boys are interested. At l clock Clarence Un- derwood lMcEsroy defeated candidate for congress, introduced the secretary. -.'
 MT. Carlisle told the audience that he first came to Bowling Green as a demo- crat, preaching democratic doctrines. He came now as a democrat still and in strict adherence with the principles of the party.
 T am not here to defend the adminis- traitor, said he, for it needs no de- fense. Loud applause) l am not going to defend the late congress; it has done much good. If it had never done any thing but repeal the federal election laws and emancipated the voters of this coun- try if would have done enough to make it's session remembered"
 Then MT. Carlisle plunged into the currency question, using in their proper places the arguments advanced in Mem ph1s and CoVington. In this connection the secretary remarked
 But little that has not been said on this subject can be said" Then he went into the subject with vim, and after ar guing for a time, reached a point where he became eloquent
 They say silver" he exclaimed, "is the poor mans money. If it is. l want the poor mans money to be as good as h0 1rinI rYaa 1fg. tain that doctrine in spite of vitupera- tion and abuses, charges of inconsist- ency, whatever may be the effect on me, either personally or politically
 The secretary then went on with an outburSt of eloquence, favoring the poor man and the farmer, and showing them how much poorer they would be with a silver standard He drew a narrowing picture of the condition of the country under free coinage law. You know that this last congress could have pass ed such a measure" said he, but it would never have become a law.
 We all know that the next congress will not pass such a measure. Suppose in two years congress and a president favoring free coinage should be elected. The creditor knowing that a silver dol lar worth 50 cents would be coined, would press his debtor for immediate settle ment; the country would see vast num- bers of judicial sales foreign countries would refuse credit and loans; prices would go up; wages would fall and the currency become concentrated and gold would be hoarded all over the country. You cannot want such conditions as these"
 In later period of his speech he said:
 Tt is said no one but the banker and the rich man are interested in defeating the silver standard. Gentlemen, they are the ones who would profit by a sill yer standard They have money and their gold would double in value in case silver was freely coined'
 He called attention to Thomas Jeff fersons order of 1906, stopping the free coinage of silver, and sarcastically re- marked: And l believe Thomas Jeff ferson is still regarded as having been a good democrat"
 MT. Carlisle and party left for Louis vile at D. m., where he will remain un- til Wednesday, when he will deliver the fourth and last speech.