Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-14
Confines His Remarks Strictly to the
 Financial Issue
Is the Way It Now Reads-A Number of Old Demo Turned Their Faces Toward the Old
 Homestead and Others Will Follow.

i've are not. We don't intend to have the gold standard any more.
 Modern NebuchedneZzars may heat the furnace of gold standard seven times hot ter than the fire and you will find more than three faithful men who will not fall down and worship the gold standard, you will find more than 3,006000 who will not do it.
 Three of the ten commandments will have to be repealed before the gold stand ard can become permanent They are:
 Thou shalt not steal" Thou shalt not lie' and then Love your neighbor as yourself"
 Secretary Carlisle said at Memphis that increased production had caused the low ering of the prices If such be the case every farmer who gets more for his cot ton today than in 1883 should stand-loy- ally to the gold standard, You produced Jess cotton last year than in 1894 and less in 1892 than in 1883. The worlds product of cotton was 100000 bales more in 1884 than in 1894, and yet the price obtained for the product last year was the lowest ever known. Wheat was cheaper last year than before known, yet the produc- tion was smaller than several previous crops.
 Last year we had 1,000,00 tramps walk ing up and down our highways unable to buy a bushel of the cheapest wheat ever known, and in our great cities there were uHOuSdnuS or women ana cnlluren SnlNer- ing in the cold unable to buy the cheap est pound of wool ever known. Over pro- 1uction had nothing to do with it.
 MT. Carlisle said at Memphis that there was no debtor class in the United States. He perhaps forgot there was document a.npwn as the census report published. That report shows that he farmers are very much in debt.
 Wherever you find the per capita of money the lowest you will find ignorance the densest, commencing with Africa.
 MT. Carlisle has said if the double standard is adopted gold will go to premium. Suppose we have the $265, ,000,- 900 of gold claimed by the secretary, which 1 don't believe we have, and every dollar of 1t goes abroad it will raise the level of prices of our products in those countries and enab ble our farmers to get more for what they raise.
 A legal tender dollar can't depreciate without the price of your products appre- ciating. Suppose dollar should depre- ciate until ten pounds of cotton or two bushels of wheat would buy the dollar, and there are more cotton and wheat growers in the United States than bank CTS. will the government go into bank ruptcy or will we have a greater prosper ity?
 MT. Cleveland entered into a compact with two great patriots, one Rothschld, who had never lived in this country, and one in Wall street, whereby he gave them $10,00O,000 to sell the government bonds. Anybody could have sold them under the same terms.
 If we have free coinage of silver the price of silver bullion will be the same the world over, less the cost of toll or ex- change from the place of production to our hints. Yet there are speakers and papers presuming on the ignorance of the American people who said it will not.
 I believe for while after beginning the free coinage of silver there would be slight premium on gold, for the bankers would manipulate the finances to make it so. But suppose gold was at 100 per cent premium tomorrow you would have 100 per cent premium on every pound of cotton you produce, for you hold the market. You wonder why you are not meeting the prosperity industry should bring you. Why, you have to come in competition with the cotton rais- CT of other countries who gets bounty for every bale of cotton he raises. The cotton grower of America and India sell their cotton in England for cents in gold. The American grower returns home and has cents of debt paying money. The Indian grower returns home and has cents of gold or 16 cents of debt paying money. Gold is at premium of g in the Argentine republic. and the American wheat grower must come in competition with the grower of that re-
 
 for his product. The Argentine farmer gets his 235 per cent bounty and the American farmer, who is entitled to the same, does not get it. The wool and cotton grower of Mexico gets just as much gold for pound of his product as the American farmer.
 Today we have a tariff of 40 per cent to- protect American manufacturers. If we had free coinage of silver with gold at 10b per cent premium We would have a tariff 40 per cent high and give a tariff that would protect our products from the whole world.
 With this 40 per cent tariff Germany and France and other countries cannot sell their goods here and will not buy our products. Last year under this tariff there was a balance of trade against us of S212, ,000,000. With free silver and the abolition of this tariff that balance would be in our favor.
 The country's interest should be above any party. therefore am in favor of the free coinage of silver.
 The highest estimate places the worlds supply of silver bullion at 13, 900, 600 bars. i don't embrace this question of free silver alone, but whether the government or the banker shall be supreme-whether the man or the dollar shall rule. Let us get together and march. bearing the ban flcrs not of hatred, but of brotherly love. I believ all parties are made up of the good and the true; it's the selfish leaders here and there that get in control. Let us get together next year and march to victory have heard the voices of men sent up from Alabama pleading for liber- .xy and freedom. am going to look over into my democratic brothers eye and recognize him as friend; and the same with my republican friend, It would be a curse to Avery nerson to turn out all