The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-14

NDaL Is SOUND money? IL is that money
which requires two pounds OF cotton, two
bushels of wheat to get the same quantity of it
that it did few years back. l claim that such
a dollar as that is robber dollar of 200 cents.
They tell you about 50-cent dollar Let us
fling into their teeth the 200-cent dollar.
What is the condition in the United States :?
Look east of the Ohio River and north of the
Potomac and there you will find the hotbed
of gold monometaQism; there you will find the
men who manipulate your Congresses and buy
them; there you will find the men who nomi-
nate your presidents and control them. They
are the creditor States of this Union. They
own nearly all the creditors of this country.
Our bankers go there to get their loans.
You farmers from the country furnish the
collateral and they go there and get the money
to loan, when, If we had sound system of
finances and an honest President and Repub-
lie and patriotic Congress, we would have
such distribution of money as would prevent
its congestion in a few money centers. Mr..
Carlisle, in picturing the despair and destruc-
ton that would follow the rehabilitation of sill
yer, mentioned among other classes who would
be robbed-and right there I would like to
emphasize that question of robbery-that the
charge that we who are in favor of silver want
to pay our debts in 50-cent dollars, whereas
we know that it has taken 200 cents to pay
them.
Among other classes who were mentioned by
Mr. Carlisle as being the great sufferers from
this scheme of bimetallism and rehabilitation
of silver were those saving bank depos-
itors. The saving banks could pay off their
depositors representing million of dollars in
all the Northern and Eastern cities in fifty
cent dollars. That was the claim he made.
Well. now, who are Mr.. Carlisle's hackers?
Who are his owners l should rather say? 1t is
hard thing to say of the Secretary of the
Treasury that he has owners but then I am
plain, blunt man and will speak my thoughts.
[Applause.l The bankers of the United States
to-day to a man are the ones who are elamor-
ing against silver, and oh, wonderful to tell,
these very savings banks presidents and
directors present to this country the spectacle
of pretending to object to scheme of finance
which would enable them TO pay off their
debts to their depostors in fifty-cent dollars.
am not here to discuss this question in any
partisan way, as you will find out directly. |
am a silver Democrat
What is the condition now of the Democratic
party? Now this has direct bearing on silver,
and you will see 1t directly. What is that con-
dition? AS q Democrat / am almost ashamed
to catalogue it or speak of it in an assembly
mostly Democratic. The President whom we
elected by vote almost larger than that re-
ceived by any or his predecessors has betrayed
the party. There is no use to deny that fact.
use the good old honest language, you know,
and believe that he is first cousin to Benedict
Arnold in politics, for if that platform on which
he was nominated and elected, and which he
accepted without any lodging Il did not see in
his letter of acceptance any sign of lodging it,
l say if that platform meant anything it meant
that silver should have the same access to the
minis OF the United States as gold. They put
in some muddle about "parity," and they have
gone and killed poor silver on that plea of
parity. When this was done and we tried
through the income tax to get back some of the
money wrung from the people the Supreme
Court, after one Justice had slept on it and
considered it, reversed himself in three weeks
and declared the law unconstitutional. Did
they buy him?
1 don't say so. 1 think, like Mr.. Cleveland
and Mr.. Carlisle, that he is the victim of his
environment. He could not stand the social
pressure of the Rothschilds and Belmonts and
other millionaires who eat under his mahog-
any, and who invite him out occasionally.
Oh, they charge me with being new fire
brand, preaching sectionalism, because L men
ton the South and West as against the East
and Middle and New England States If there
is any sectionaism in that, it is sectonalism
OF poverty and wrong on one side against rob-
berry and rascality on the other, and the day is
going to come very soon, for come it must,
when you can't stand this much longer, when
there will be a day of reckoning with these
men. We have constitutional amendments
enough to give us an income tax, and it will be
graduated income tax, such as will not only
tax the income above a certain amount-a
reasonable amount: but as it goes up the tax
itself will go up, and whenever a man gets
above certain amount we will take all of it.
[ApplauSe[ Socialism, they will cry. Hear
that socialist from South Carolina: Gle is an
anarchist That agrarianp'
1t is simply the damming up of the water of
Indignation, and when it breaks loose il will
wash things beyond all reasonable bounds
There is going to be a new Mason and Dixon's
line drawn this year. 1t will start in the
mouth of the Chesapeake Bay and run to Chi
cagO by way of Cincinnati. Every Republican
and so-called Democrat northeast of that line
is going to vote for a gold bug, and every Re-
publican, Democrat and Populist south and
west of it is going to vote for somebody who
is the honest friend of the people let him be
from whatever party he may. [Applause.l
Governor Alva Adams of Colorado IA
vored union of the West and South for
silver-the waging of vigorous campaign
outside of all party lines. He asserted
that eleven Western States stood ready to
join the South in such a movement.
Congressman Bankhead of Alabama
presided at the evening session. He intro
duced General A. j. Warner of Ohio, who
declared that any man who says silver was
demonetized with the full knowledge of
the people of the United States simply
lies.
"You can disentomb all the traitors
whose lives are written in history and all
can give better reasons for their traitorous
deeds than can the Senator from Ohio for
his action on the financial question"
He insisted that the silver question was
the most important before the people,
and free coinage must be carried whether
within party lines Or not, but he asked no
one to leave his party. He said he had no
doubt Sherman and Cleveland would vote
| the same ticket next year.
William J. Bryan of Nebraska, the next
speaker, in the course OF his remarks said
"Populists will not envy you Republic
cans who follow the famous motto of your
martyred President, Government of the
people, for the people and by the people,
and victories for truth. Republicans will
not envy you Democrats any victories won
for truth if you follow the rules laid down
by Jefferson and Jackson. Republicans
apd democrats will not apvv van Down