The advocate., 1895-08-14

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the use of 1t, requiring them to pay a
toll for the use Of that water--then you
would have our preser' banking sys-
tenn. (Applause)
Mr.. Glancing at them / And
that this reports the failures Of 1857 as
compared with the failures Of 1893.
That is, they report the failures Of both
these years, and l make the comparl-
SON. 1857 was a year of fearful
panic. / lived during those years.
suffered during those years. I know
something Of the trouble that spread
over this nation then. We then had,
according to my friend Harvey, a dou-
BILE standard. We had another bad fail
ure in 1898, which he attributes to our
being on the gold standard. I am not
going to take the time in this debate to
tell you what really led up to that panic
in 1898, but one factor that entered into
the panic of 1898 was the fear Of the
business men Of this country and the
world that our nation was going
to be given over to a class Of
men that were shouting for free silver.
That was one great trouble. In his Inn
mense effort in his last speech to make
out that the country was going to ruin
he recites the suicides and diseases that
are incident to the human family at
this time. But before / get through I
must finish the failures Of 1857. That
table Of his shows that they amounted
to 1921, $4,000, or $40 per capita That
was underyour double standard. In 1893
when we were under the gold stand
ard, the failures were $346, 900, that
Is $5.25 per capita. (Applause) They
were just about double in 1857 what
they were in 1893.
But now to go back. Yesterday in a
vivid description of what we are doing
under this crushing money power he
could not express himself until he COM
pared the story Of the cruciRxion Of our
Savior, and laid that to the money pow
er Of that day. He forgot that the only
man that betrayed our Savior was Ju-
das Iscariot, the only silver man of the
entire tribe (applause), and, what is re-
markable, he insisted on a ratio Of thlr-
ty to one. daughter and continued ap-
plause.)
Now he takes up my illustration Of
the running water and wants me to tell
him what would happen II they took
away one-half Of the water from the
fount Of stream and so let only half
Of 1t run down. II they should do that
unless there was plenty Of water in the
stream after they took the half It would
make trouble. But If they could spare
half and still have enough to do all the
Of the country It wouldn't
make one particle of difference, not one
particle. And before l get through l
am going to convince Mr.. Harvey, so
that he will leave the room perfectly
overwhelmed daughter and applause)
with the truth Of my proposition.
Laughter and applause)
Credit Good Thing.
Now my idea of life is entirely differ
,nt from his. l think that credit is a
good thing, and we cannot have cred
tor unless there is a debtor. Mr.. Har-
5ey, you are not the first person have
een in the world who has conceived the
dea that everything is wrong in the
world on account Of some one thing.
'ometimes call such men cranks.
Laughter) You will not be offended
when I give the full definition Of
crank" don't use it for the purpose
Il being offensive. It is man who has