Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-09-17

| aspire to higher and better things. We
| have no censure for such unrest. Amer
lea is no place for petrifaction or putre-
faction. Steered in the proper channel
this discomfort will be productive Of
higher civilization and a nobler national
| destiny. But should it's course be con-
trolled by wild and irresponsible pilots
of anarchy, the self-denying labors of
| the patriot fathers will count for
| naught, and the ship of state will go
down in the night of hurricane and
! horror.
Dream not, friends, that the laws of
nature and natures God can be over
| turned at the behest of so-called social
| ism, which grasps at everything and in
sists that laziness shall come in for an
equal division with labor. That the
loafer and the laborer shall share alike
| in the harvest home"
"True it's, and pity tits tbs true: The
poor We shall always have with YOU"
The policy of confscation, which is
freely advocated nowadays, by alleged
statesmen and reformers, would shortly
require the Irishman's remedy for the
inequalities of fortune that would short
ly ensue: "Divoide up again"
No government, however well organ
lied, however just and equitable its laws.
can make men alike, or make them
equally prosperous.
Two boys start out in life with equal
advantages, social and educational, and
in the course of time one boy makes a
| fortune and the other boy makes funk.
Who is to blame? The government?
As well blame the government because
some men are cross-eyed, and others
| bow legged
/ am for free coinage-the free and
unlimited coinage of the American
product of confidence which was de-
| stroyed by more heinous crime than
that of 1S73-a crime of more recent
date.
Confidence, which in our Judgment,
can only be fully restored when the in
dustrial policy of this country is read
justed in the interests Of American en-
terprise and American opportunity.
When that is done the problem of the
panic will have been solved.
When that is done the hum of indus
try will displace the murmur of discon-
tent.
Give every industrious man some
thing to do, something to live upon, and
the equilibrium of prosperity will be
restored.
There is deficit of labor rather than
deficit of money.
1t is question of shortage of credit,
or confidence (Which is the keystone to
the arch in the temple of credit, not a
shortage of currency.
My platform is this:
Jobs for the jobless, and 10O-cent dol
lars for pay"
Capital is shy. 1t must be coaxed. 1t
cannot be driven.
Like Achilles, it will stay in it's tent,
take care of itself, and refuse to do serv-
ice for the people unless it is accorded
| the rights and protection of which it is
so jealous.
| Capital can take care of itself.
If in peril here it will seek and find a
country where it is free from jeopardy.
Right at this point let me add that the
stupid, impracticable and long-eared
dogmas of this school of financial ro-
mancers and the relentless warfare
waged against capital throughout the
west and south, particularly, have not
only resulted in driving vast amounts
of capital from this section, but threaten
further and irreparable injury to our
people.
The poor mantle laborer-is the
greatest sufferer always.
We would not be misunderstood.
We are not here to plead for single
standard or for the use of gold alone in
our currency.
We are in favor Of the fullest and freest
use of silver consistent with the main
tenance of the parity of values in the
| two money metals.
We are aware that this is pronounced
an equivocal position by Mr.. Bryan and
| the silver monometallists,
1t is, in our judgment, the only posi-
ton that friend of both gold and silver
free coinage is consumated, we will be
on the silver basis, but says that of the
two metals as money, silver is prefer
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