The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-08-13

It secured a majority of the votes of the
 people of the United States; but call your
 attention to this important>fact. that four
 years ago the issue before the American
 people was the tariff. made so for the first
 part by the men who are here to-day pre-
 senting another issue. happened to hear
 William J. Bryan four years ago, in his
 congressional campaign in the First dis
 strict of my state pledge you, my coun-
 trymen, and it Is a solemn fact, that from
 the beginning of that campaign to the end
 William J. Bryan advocated no other issue,
 made no other argument than that upon the tariff. I say to you, in all honesty and
 sincerity. and the record is my proof. that neither he nor his associates ever took up,
 ever advocated, ever attempted to carry
 campaign upon the issue of the free coin
 age of silver until they had discovered that
 the judgment of the American people was everlastingly against them upon the issue
 or free trade, that they secured a ma
 tority of the votes upon four years ago.
 tApplause]
 -Four years ago I heard William j.,
 Bryan say to great audience in my state: Give us free trade and the Ameri- can workingman's wages will go up,' but
 they went down. He said: Give us free
 trade and business will boom.' hut it busted. Applause and laughter.]
 Promises of the Silveritos
 The same man to-day comes berore you
 with new promise. They have discarded the issue of four years ago. and they say now: Give us free silver and the wages of men will increase: give us free silver and new avenues of employment will open up; give us free silver and the business of the country will boom.' My countrymen, as a business proposition on which depends your welfare and mine, in view of the value of their predictions of four years ago. don't you think 1t would be advisable to ask for a little collateral security in aid of that promise? Loud applause and cheers.l Do you think that the man who defaulted on his promise to pay at coun try bank a $1OO note four years ago could make a new promise to pay at the same bank to-day without at least two or three reputable Inducements? (Laughter]
 They say now we have discovered q nostrum for the ills of men, and you know. my countrymen, that nothing sells in the United States so well as patent medicine, or new kind of chewing gum. Applause You know that nobody secures an audi ence so quickly as the man upon the street corner. who promises something for noth ing. and to-day the whole campaign for free silver Is waged upon the promises to this man and to the other man of something better when free silver comes. In the little time l have to-day will discuss-of course. in a general way. for cannot with in these limits go into detail-some of the arguments that are presented. You are asked to sail out onto an unknown sea, to cut loose from all well-de1ncd land marks. to go beyond any anchor, and to follow that glittering sheen that comes from over the water. that fees before the mariner as rapidly as his prov goes.
 Prevalence of the Gold Standard.
 Did they say to us that this country ha np n ha qS sin r1 1t has, and think there is nothing so lit- tie understood, or so poorly understood. as that question. What is gold basis? Since 1873 the standard of values under the laws of this country has been the gold dol lar I admit 1t. and 1t Is true. So has the standard for England. for France, Great Britain. Germany and Italy, for Russia and for all of the great commercial and in- 1ustrial nations of the earth. I put 1t to you that this Is the accumulated wisdom 'f the successful people of this globe in every country which has been preeminent In its advancement along the lines of pros- oerity. that all of these countries are on ! gold basis, and in all of them the gold lollar is the standard of values.
 What of 1t? Why, 1t has taught to the | people of this country that a gold basis l means gold alone, and the exclusion of | he use of silver and of paper money. No | statement more false, no statement more | designed to deceive has there been made | n any gold country of the universe. There | 8 in circulatpion. side by side. money If equal power to purchase and pay all | he profit of labor and in the field of cnp- tai. There Is side by side in every gold | tandard country of the globe gold, silver md paper money. all of 1t in use.
 Let me tell you another thing. There 8 no country on the face of this earth. l are not where you go. that opens its hints khr f.on ~osv s,tlv 1r,k hal III other kinds of money than silver and promises to pay in silver have fled the and. You cannot go into country of this arth where its hints are open to the free oinage of silver and find gold dollar cir ulating among the people. Not only that, ut you cannot go to-day into any country n earth that opens its hints to the free oinage of silver but what your dollar, old. silver or greenbacks. will buy twice $ much as the best dollar that is in the lands of the people of any of these coun- ries. Loud applause.]
 Against Q Debased Currency.
 "I am an American. [Applause.1 be- eve my country is greater and grander han any other. I have travelled outside his land-upon either side-in Mexico and n Canada. If had gone across the water nd roamed through the great capitals of Europe my experience would have been he same as 1t was in Canada. The Ameri- an citizen. in travelling outside of his own ountry, finds that his dollar, with the merican eagle on one side and the God ess of Liberty on the other. or his dollar l paper. representing the promise of his ation to pay in the best dollar that is ob- ainable. will be taken without one cent iscount in every capital city and every house of the civilized world Applause.l If it were no more than mat 1T of national pride should prefer not to lexicanize American citizenship for herever I go. pray God may not have , go around apologizing for the stamp on ,e dollar and accepting half price for it. ipplausel "Wc have coined under the gold standard this country and put in circulation more lver dollars-S0 times more-than we ever 'ined and put in circulation before 1873 top one moment and look To-day your ollar in silver, coined by this government,
 dollar in gold. [Applause.] And why? , Is because you have surrounded the legis- ton that authorized it by such safe- lards that the man who takes 1t, the man
 the store and the man on the farm and : le man in the shop. knows when he ] kes it that not only to-day, but to-mor- I w and next week-aye. and as long as the I publican party lives--the dollar will be I st the same as it is to-day, the best dol- r or the civilized 5, po. (Applause.] C
 Reply to Democratic Theories. ( They tell me. and I am urged to 1t. by 1