The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-10-01

harm being done them. (Applause)
You say they won't do it? If they won't
help you when they have chance to,
why do you believe them when they tell
you they are losing sleep at night for fear
you will hurt yourself? (Applause)
Employees don't pay high wages because
they like to- they pay wages because they
have to. and when there is a greater de-
mand for labor there will be a better
price paid to labor than there will be
when two men are looking for the same
job. The gold standard destroys the OPP
portunity to work.
You think You can destroy the farm
er with impunity. ] warn you that the
farmers of this country are the Samp-
sons, and when they fall they will pull
down the pillars of the temple with
them, (Applause.l You can not take
care of the upper crust of society and
gold standard has for its object the bene-
fit of the money changer and the note
shaver and the holder of fixed invest
ment. They tell you that those with
fixed incomes are going to lose. How
many fixed incomes have we in this coun-
try? | will give my opponent the votes
of all the incomes that are fixed, if he
will give me the votes of people who
would like to have incomes in this coun-
try.
But | did not intend to talk long
(cries of go aheadO. | simply wanted
to meet you people and tell YOU there is
no spot of ground in all this Union where
| am not willing to defend the cause of
bimctallsm against any man that cham
pions the gold standard. Great APP
plause) There is not spot over which
the American flag floats which will not
be benefited by restoration of the mon
ey of the constitution. There is not a
spot which will not be cursed by the
continuation of the gold standard. Cap
plause) | do not know how you feel
about it. You people down here have
not studied the money question as much
as we have in some other parts of the
country, but, my friends, if you imagine
the silver cause is a craze and is going
TO blow over don't you hold your breath
until the craze blows over. laughter)
The silver cause is a growing cause. Its
friends know what they want. and are
not afraid to defend the principles which
they advocate: and this crusade which
we have undertaken is going to go on
If you turn a deaf ear to us now, we
will come again and again until you will
open your ears and listen to the truth
lApplauSe.) If you are satisfied with
present conditions, then vote the republic
can ticket, because it will have certain
conditions. only Il little harder conditions
than you have at present If you want
any change in the financial policy there
is only one way to get that change. and
that is to defeat the party that declares
that this nation must endure the gold
standard until the leading commercial ma
tons of the world permit us to relieve
ourselves or relieve us themselves.
am not willing to do that | don't know
he, g, "a ~. II
me this is state which will declare in
favor of the republican ticket when they
tell me there is state in this Union
where they are willing to transfer to for
eign nations control of their financial af-
fairs, | tell them | have too much conf
dence in the intelligence of our people
to SANDER them by saying that they are
willing to surrender right that our
forGfathers fought for. | am going to
wait until those people so vote, and let
them declare their own infamy | shall
not declare it for them. (Applause.)
II am glad, my friends. to have been
abe to speak to You. ! can but urge
YOU to study this question. realizing its
importance, and if, after You have stud
led it. you think we are wrong. vote
against us. But remember that if by
your ballot you continue the present con-
ditiOns, where syndcates are protecting
the treasury at high prices, then you have
nobody to blame for four years more of
hard times except yourselves If YOU
want this sort of thing. then prepare
yourselves to grin and bear il for four
more years. If You want relief You
have Il chance to get it by saying so at
your ballot box. because. if by the suf-
frages of my countrymen | am elected
president of the United States loud and
continued applause and cries of You will
be) shall lose no time in doing what
can to drive the gold standard from this
country and in its place substitute the
gold and silver coinage of the constitution
and open the mints TO the free and unlim-
tied coinage of gold and silver at the
present legal ratio Of 16 to | without
waiting for the aid or consent of any
other nation. Great applause.)