Birmingham state herald., 1896-10-07
ceeded in pa@tiallv healing the wound.

ceeded in partially healing the wound. But now this interruptions money power, grown naughty on the fruits of its plum der, insists on the right to stab its victim again because of the weakness resulting from the wound of '73. It is the duty of labor to demand that the wound inflicted on the silver dollar by the legislative dag ger of 1873, and probed by labor's ene- mics ever since, be healed over by the restoration of that dollar to all the rights and power it possessed prior to its de- monetizaton. When such demand is granted silver will then come to a parity with gold on ratio of 16 to 1.
 Let there be no surrender to the un- fair and unjust proposition of the advo- cates of a single gold standard, in which they demand that the ratio of coinage shall be based on the commercial value of gold at a time when it's commercial value is increased and the commercial value of silver is decreased by discrim1- hating laws in favor of gold and against silver. Any such proposition is designed to make money scarcer and dearer, that the few may continue to rob the many without opposition or restraint"
 How many of our working people can
 be deceived by this constant cry from
 Wall street for what the gold bugs call
 honest money?" How many can be in-
 fluenced into passive acquiescence to
 the will of the money kings by the false
 promise that the poor mans dollar will
 be made as good as the rich mans dollar?
 l want to say to you, my brothers, that
 if the history of the past is any guide
 for the present, Wall street is always
 on the wrong side of every great public
 question. The test of mebmership on
 Wall street is based on support of fraud
 and deception, and therefore what Wall
 street calls honest is always dishonest.
 When Wall street cries out for the poor
 it is always for the rich. It is the caldron
 of hypocrisy and crime, and if the work
 ing people will first learn what Wall
 street wants. and then vote the other
 way they will always be right. There is
 no such thing as a poor mans dollar,
 and it is out of the fear that dollar may
 be made that will pay the debts of the
 people, and bless the home of the poor, and for the use of which Shylock cannot
 exact his pound of flesh, that Wall street and the gold gamblers of the world are opposed to the free coinage of silver.
 "If the character of a single gold stand ard is to be judged by it's influence in this campaign it must be conceded that it's only mission on earth is to make threats against industry, intimidate the working people and demand for America the same laws and conditions on which rest the monarchies of the old world. A monetary system that is too cowardly to stand before the world on it's own mer- it's. but steals into the homes of the poor and demands the votes of the working people on threats of discharges; the mone- tary system that compels working peo- pie to lie to hold their jobs and forces them to wear Mckinley buttons whether they want to or not, and requires them to go on excursions to Canton, O., against their will, is in cofiict with the spirit of temptible to command the support of patriotic, liberty loving people.