Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-10-17
Co.,
100 South Jefferson Street.

bankers and the capitalist. There is a
eongestive chill upon US and we are tempt
ed to break 1t or let 1t kill the patient.
(Applause.) Does anybody pretend to say
it wouldn't be better for gold to leave
this country?
Silver comes to the rescue of the people
in case of a panic, when the miserable
gold hides itself. In sueh times It does
their business instead of geld.
On the Bond Issue.
Why is gold hid in vaults in banks? 1t
is the attempt of a few men to be in part
nership with the government: to enrich
themselves at the expense and toll of the
people. (Applause) 1t was Thomas JEFF
ferson who said that the burdens of CO.
partnership should be equally distributed.
No mercantile partnership, no men OF set
of men, who seek a partnership with the
United States, whether a company or a
manufacturer, a farmer, a mechanic or a
banker. should be allowed TO do so. This
government belongs to all the people, and
II should be run for all the people. and no
plan or scheme that permits 1t to fall into
the hands of any man or set Of men can be
allowed, because any partnership with the
government is contrary to the principles
of free government and to the teachings of
the founder of the democratic party.
There is one thing that makes the cheek
of every honest American to mantle with
shame. It is the comment, heard every
where In Europe, that we were compelled
to dicker with and engage for a bonus OF
81, 600. 600, a syndteate of foreign capitalists
to come to the aid of the United States
treasury and uphold the single gold stan
dard. 1t is also charged In Washington
that this amount is what the syndicate
got through its operations.
I don't know whether 1t is correct, for
In that sounding board city you can heal
everything. But 1t was currently reported
that Belmont and Morgan came around t6
Mr.. Cleveland to see nat he would do in
regard to the issue of bonds the last time
- -SaxA1 80 ht-a sfNEr Iy-.1gl.-% -,
can either do one thing or the other. You
can take my proposition to buy the bond
or sell h bonds at the prices We nam
or your government may go to protest be
fore tomorrow night Now, just think o
that in a free country! The greatest upol
the earth, and most productive. We are {
lot of paupers. Gresham and Oiney a
the feet of these usurers and bankers IL
order to maintain our credit and establish
the single gold Standard 1 was In Frank
fort IN the Main, and I saw the banking
house of the original Rothschiid. 1t /
their birth place. 1t is a little old dingy
obscure building, with rusty bars and no
800 worth of furniture in 1t, and
stopped and looked at 1t, and just though
that out of hat usurers' den has com
h power that controls cabinets, make
war or peace. abolishes dependencies an
rules the world.
Parting of the. Ways.
AS I said on the floor of the senate. W
IA Jill W I}C VI kLc ways
The issue is squarely between bimetallisn
and the single gold standard. For one,
will not assist in destroying one-half tn
metallic money of the world, in order I
diminish the prices of all commodities
More h all, I will not be accessory I
piling additional burdens upon s~trugglinI
debtors, already desperate and hopeless
1 know the nature of the pending contes
n the influence against US. Money, pa
ronage, the metropolitan press, with 1t
flood of rtdicuie and defamation, are o
one side, and the plain, common peopl
on the other. In such q contest the dem
ocrattc party must abandon the teaching
of Thomas Jefferson or stand for tn
masses against financial greed and me
nopoly. There never has been an heul
since our party began its long and storm
career. when self devotion and courag
were so much demanded from every den
ocrat. The money power, arrogant an
flushed with victory, insolently defies
majority of the American people and thei
representation.
We are told that the democratic part
mas boon fatally wounded by the eleetio
of 1894. and will never again be In power
/ have seen the political horizon niue
darker and heard this funeral announce
ment before. The party which destroye
federalism led by Alexander Hamilton ca
laugh at the republicans lead by Reed an
Mckinley. AS soon expect Pixies Peal
SCARED and battered by the storms G
centuries, and towering above its con-
panions like some heavy monarch SUI
rounded by his grim nobility, to be blow
away by q summer breeze as to thin
h ono defeat will disband the demo
cratic party He iaushs beat who laugh
have been greater than the defeat of th
democrats at the last election. The pee
pie, maddened and exasperated by tn
hard times produced by republican legis
lation, held the party in power respon
sible for existing conditions.
Will support the Nominee.
The question has often been asked m,
that IL we lose the fight for free silver
what will be my positionf shall go {
the next Democratic convention and ma
a hard fight for the free and unlimite
coinage Of silver. If I am voted down
must surrender TO the voice of the ms
1ority Of my party; If my party nom
shall bow to the will Of that ma1orit
and support the Domine of my party. n
matter on what platform he stands ]
is principle, Democratic principle, and
now ~emphatically state that no man @
Sc. of men can drive me frpm my part
or from my faith. 1t is the party of m
fathers and my party n / will not b
republican, no matter who Is nominate
BY my party, or on what platform h
stands.
My Feliow-Democrats, let us renal
steadfast In the defensA of those grea
u upon which our party is founded
absolute equality In the burthens and Der
efts of government. no partnership be
tween the government and any individus
or class, and the honest. economical I'D
m~inistration Of public business. To tn
brave man but one path is open, that &
duty. and / have not lived in your raids
all these years to have a suspicion now c
the courage INK fidelity and honest cor
victfon of Missouri democrats.
And now In closing. l say that when tn
democratic party dies. the hast hops c
constitutional freedom Will have departe
from his continent. Then, and not Il
then, can he who loves free institution
repeat the poetic language OF the grea
writer:
No mere such Ia the language OF the solemn q
To the sounds upon the eaaaewy shore:
No more shall bloom the thunder blasted Ere.
The stricken eagle scar.
Col John A. Judy and Howar,
Bailey spent Sunday with r. r. Buck
ner at his home in the country an