Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-13

of the people. now he is the high priest of the temple of mammon. Mir. Carlisle. the plebeian, and Mir. Carlisle the aris- toerat, are very different kinds of peo- pie. But I do not want to complain Of Mr. Carlisle. Every word he said about the demonstration of silver has come true. It is impossible under present conditions for the American agricultur- ist to compete with those of India and the Argentine Republic. You take your bushel of what to the London market hnd you get 50c for it.
 When you bring it home you have no money. When the Indian or the farmer of the Argentine Republic takes his money home he has 100 cents. Under the present system you are simply fostering the industries of other countries, This is ruinous competition for you. MT Carlisle told you when he was here that the wages of everybody had been in- creased under monometallism about 5l per cent. It is not that way in my couns try. Fifty thousand coal miners in Ohio and Pennsylvania had cents ton taken off their wages about the day that MT. Carlisle spoke to you here in Mem phis. Why they tell you that the wheat out of which they make bread was lower than it ever was, and yet more people starved to death for the lack of this low priced wheat than ever did before.
 'They tell you that cotton and wool are cheaper than they ever were. Yet there is a greater army of tramps walk ing up and down our highways and our byways today in tatters and rags for the lack of the same cheap cotton and wool. They tell the farmer east that what be needs 10 make better times is higher protective tariff. In certain parts of the west they tell him what he needs to be prosperous is free trade. You have to give this tariff question as medicine, according to the locality. Now the fact of the matter Is, the tariff has nothing to do with money panics, and 1t is about time the people gave it needed rest, and I believe they are going to do it. There are two monetary panics un- der high tariff and two under low tariff and I think this shows the tariff has nothing to do With the case.
 "The president says he is afraid the silver dollar will depreciate, but the only way the dollar can depreciate is for prices to rise. This is equivalent 10 an admission by the president that he Is afraid the prices will rise If the presi- dent will divide his anxieties more equally between the persons who pro- duce the wealth of the country and the few who absorbs them he would make better chief executive.
 "The magnificent patriotism of MT. Rothschild who, although an alien, was willing to come to this country and save it for the paltry consideration of S9OO,- GOO, which the people of the United States lost and which he gained, is worthy of note as is also the magnificent patrlot- ism of Cleveland in thus helping to save the country. But if two men could save the country they could also wreck 1t. With the anints open, with the unlimited coinage of silver and gold there will be no more talk of the 50-cent dollar. They say our shores would be flooded with sll- yer if the hints were open to free coin age. Now, that is not true. If it We're true we would simply give them some thing they would rather have for some thing we would rather have.
 Banker Cornwall of Buffalo made a speech in Chicago the other night to lot of bankers and the next day a repor- ter showed me the article and asked me what l thought of it. | told him If he would have a number of copies printed and distributed to all the-voters in the United States Iwould never make anoth- CT speech on the silver question, but rest my case on his argument He tells the bankers they must keep their thumbs on their customers. We have felt the thumbs of the bankers heavily in the last few years.
 We must win the fight in 1896. If we do not whit will be too late. There will be two avenues to the people after 1896. One will be repudiation and the other revolution, and both dread.
 "Tf the English were to land in New York you would help to drive them out, wouldn't you? The English are in New York now. They have been for years. Would you drive them out even if party lines were dropped? When we can get together on broad lines, when country means more than party, we will win the fight
 c. s. Thomas of Colorado then ad- dressed the convention.
 The convention then adjourned until 10 o'clock tomorrow.