The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-16

that he would like to see silver restored
to its rightful place, if it could be ac-
complished in the Democratic ranks.
But if not, he said i am still Demo
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81 want every Democrat here who
| feels proud of that principle to stand up.
'Tf you believe in that doctrine and
still claim to be for free silver, you are
consorting with the enemy, and are the
worst of traitors.
"Say to those Democrats of the North
who are attempting to enslave you, If
YOU want these loaves and fishes you
must conform to this great principlep
"They know if they don't take care of
the gold-bugs they will vote against the
party, but down here they think you
vote as the bosses tell you. What have
your politicians done for yOu2 Have
they been your servants or your auto
crats2
ga certain Snowman had dog. He
held up piece Of meat in front of the
dogs nose, and told him to stand up, to
lie down, to play dead, always holding
the meat just above the dogs nose, and
the dog did all that was told him.
We'll, I'll keep the meat for another
dog, remarked the Snowman, you per-
form we'll enough without any
That's the way they regard the
| Southern Democrats. You have always
performed we'll for them in the past, and
they expect you to keep it up in the flu
ture.
"a noted German patriot in warning
Germany of the evils that would come
from monometallism, said it would de
crease all the values of property and
prices of labor, and breed strife and
promote strikes; and when that time
came the cause would be attributed to the
strikes and disturbances which are the
effects of this single standard and to
every cause except the right one.
"a noted English member of Parlia-
ment said, in an address in that body
in defence Of the gold standard, that it
tended to destroy America as the cotton
and wheat producer of!the globe, and to
substitute their own colony Of India in
its place"
Referring to John G. Carlisle, he said:
Gas plebeian standing in the temple
pleading for liberty he could speak like
an archangel, but when high priest in
the temple of Mammon he has fallen to
| lower plane. | refer to John G.. Car
Isle, from whom | drank in my Democ-
racy. He is to-day sent out to nullify
| the doctrines Of Jefferson and Jackson.
If Jefferson and Jackson were Democrats,
Cleveland and Carlisle are not. Jefferson
| said We might have a m0neyed aristoc-
racY, but never a moneyed Democracy.
On the floor of the House in 1873
John G. Carlisle, in the following Ian
| guage, predicted the evils which would
torment the race with the destruction of
the money of the common people:
81 know that the worlds stock of pre-
cious metals is none too large, and | see
no reason to apprehend that it will ever
be so. Mankind will be fortunate indeed
if the annual production of gold and
silver coin shall keep pace with the
annual increase of population, COM
merce, and industry. According to my
views of the subject, the conspiracy
which seems to have been formed here
and in Europe to destroy by
legislation and otherwise from three
seventies to one-half of the metallic
money of the world is the most gigantic
| crime of this or any other age. The
| consummation of such scheme would
ultimately entail more misery upon the
human race that all the wars, pestilences,
and famines that ever occurred in the
history of the world.
THE absolute and instantaneous de
| struction of half the entire movable
property of the world, including houses,
ships, railroads, and other appliances
for carrying on commerce, while 1t
would be felt more sensible at the mo-
meRt, would not produce anything ike
| the prolonged distress and disorganiza-
ton of society that must inevitably result
| from the permanent aunihilatian of one
half the metallic money of the world"
Mr.. Carlisle, your diagnosis was cor
rect. Each symptom of the evils you
then described appear with alarming inn
| port and irresistible certainty. Let me
again quote Secretary Carlisle, who,
standing on the floor of this House as a
representative of the people at an hour
before his eyes became dazzled with the
| golden glitter of Pluto's palace, at an
hour prior to Rothschild fixing golden
halo above his head, portrayed, in Ian
guage stronger than any am capable of
framing, the necessity for patriotism to
| grid itself for the resistance of powers
financial and powers executive. 1t seems
to me that this great mind has blazoned
out path of duty that in the present
hour of danger we may follow with safe
ty:
"The struggle now goingEEon cannot
cease, and ought not to cease, until all
the industrial interests of the country are
fully and finally emancipated from the
heartless domination of syndicates, stock
exchanges, and other great combinations
of money grabbers ia this country and
IN Europe. Let us, ii we can do no bet
ter, pass bill after bill, embodying in
each some substantial provision for re-
lief, and send them to them to the Exec
utiye for his approval. If he withholds
his signature and we are unable to Sc
cure the necessary votes, here or else
where, to enact them into laws notwith-
standing bis veto, let US, as last resort,
suspend the rules and put them into the
general appropriation bills, with the dis
tinct understanding that if the people
oau oat M relief the Government can oct