The San Francisco call., 1896-10-25
you degrade civilization ana subvert free

you degrade civilization ana subvert free
dom.
Labor without capital is powerless;
capital without labor is a giant shorn of
his locks. Whoever undertakes to bring
about discord between capital and honest
toll is sticking his dart into the heart of
the laborer.
''Who walks the floor at night worrying
whether he will be able to pay his laborers
on Saturday night2 1t is the capitalist
the present age. The man who gets up
at o'clock in the morning and works all
day and goes to bed at night and sleeps
until morning is the true capitalist, for
there are some things that money cannot
buy.
You go out TO the park some morning
and see some old fellow with two teeth
and one spear of hair left riding fast
trotting-horse because his doctor has told
him that if he does not take exercise he
will die. He is millionaire, but all his
millions cannot buy new lung or new
liver or new stomach or a new pair of
kidneys.
WHAT'S money anyhow? It makesm me
tired. Not money; oh, not money; be-
cause l never get enough of it to make me
tired.
You hear some of those people talking
about gold as if it wore a plughat and
wouldn't speak to common folks but when
It would meet Mr.. Huntington would go
up to him and say: How are you, Collis?'
One would think that silver went around
the country in rags begging for the price
of a square meal. Just as they speak of
wheat and corn; wheat that is made into
nice white bread and cakes and pies,
while corn has got 10 go down and waIlow
in the pigsty, or be made into whisky to
make Democrats drunk.
"There is no intrinsic value in any
metal that is dug out of the earth except
the labor it costs to produce. Gold is
stamped by the labor of the men who pro-
duced it, and there never was a miner
who started at hunting for gold and,
weary, disappointed and dying, lay down
and closed his eyes in everlasting sleep,
whose anguish and agony and tears and
death are not represented in the intrinsic
value OF gold. You can't take an oiled
rag ana stamp it and call it French din
ner. 1t won't go; it won't sustain
country in the world to-day whose
laborer wears shoes and stockings. Mex
leo did not monetize silver, but God de-
monetized their men. 1t takes sixteen
Mexicans to make one American. No
Government In the world can stamp
thing and make it worth something which
it was not.
III had $4,000 tonight what could /
buy with it2 You can buy $5I, 900 worth
OF silver bullion tonight just the same as
you can buy steel and copper and tin and
wheat and wool. You can't corner these
and they don't fight. Nothing fights
when it's cornered but rat. Gold doesn't
fight when it's cornered."
The speaker recited an imaginary case
of farmers going East and to England with
wheat. wool and corn and coming back
with very little above expenses, while he
went 10 Washington with $51, 600 worth of
silver bullion and had it coined by the
Government under free coinage into $780,.
00O while the fools of farmers were trying
TO sell their produce at bare profit.
Is that right? Is that fair? That will
be what will take place under the free
coinage of silver. That would be free
trade in silver bullion and in human labor.
and l do not believe In it.
DO not undertake to stamp a lie upon
any piece of coin in this country. The
Republican party has always been the
friend of silver. The Democratic party
never has been the friend of silver. Show.
me the legislation that the Democratic