The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1896-10-28

lieve that the church-going yeomanry of
this country can be tutored in honesty
by money changers, men who set price
in money on everything that is good.
everything that is pure and everything
that is honest, even TO the farmers vote.
Men who pirate on morals and prey on
the masses are not TO be trusted. The
best protection against such is the purity
subvert. The ballot is secret, consci-
ence alone will dictate it, and in Noveni-
Der it will, with mighty emphasis, re-
buke the present effort to enslave the
producers of this fair LAND to the Money
Power"
The farmer of this country and their
laborer, the merchant that profits by
their purchases and all who are inter
ested in the welfare of the producers of
this country should awake to full real-
cation of the importance of the issue.
The farmers should stand together.
They produce the wealth of this country
and are entitled to just distribution of
the fruits of their labor. A dear dollar
does not give it. That dollar demands
too much. 1t not only eats profits, but
it assists the mortgage in growing larger
and larger. That dollar takes all your
produce and more too, and will event
uaily confiscate all you have. That dol
lar decreases your earning capacity and
diminishes your debt paying power.
The Republican party is in the hands
Of the "Money Power" The surrender
was made at St. Louis. Many honest
Republicans left the party when the.
surrender was made. The money
Power" then controlled its few sympa-
thizers in the Democratic party and is
getting them to assist the Republicans
to try to offset the influence of the men
who left the party in defense of princi-
pie. But the farmer must remember
that many Republicans who had good
things to say for the farmer have re-
manned in the party that is still Repub-
lican by name and these men are now
against the farmer. The list of such
men is long.
| One the most conspicuous examples
is Bob Ingersoll. Bob used to be for
silver and the farmer. Bob tried to ex-
plain away speech that he made for
silver in ls94s x.. bit d side Of ms re,
But BE- "a IA pr eo
rftiIan once for silver. He once wrote
and delived lecture on "The Farmer"
The lecture has been published in his
official book of lectures by his publisher,
G. P. Terrell. On page 206 we read the
following from that lecture: "For my
part do not ask any interference on the
part OF the government except to undo
the wrong it has done. do not ask that
money to be made out of nothing.
10 not ask for the prosperity born of
paper, but l do ask for the remone-
tization of silver. Silver was demone-
tized by fraud. 1t was an imposition
upon every solvent man, fraud upon
every honest debtor in the United
| States. 1t assassinates labor. 1t was
! done in the interest of avarice and greed,
and should be undone by honest men.
The farmer should vote only for such
men as are able and willing TO guard and
advance the interest of labor" ]nger-
! soil has turned as others have turned
under the money influences brought to
bear in the campaign. The power of
money is great, and it was never so we'll
demonstrated as in this campaign. Will
farmers vote to increase the power of
money? VIII they vote against their
own interest? Will they follow men
who have changed when the corrupt in
fiuence that made the change is SO APP
parent and when these men are not
honest enough to admit that they have
changed and to give reasons for so doing?
No one can believe that the Amer
lean farmer will do this; but that, with
a steadfast purpose and an aim fixed up
on the desired goal, he will not be led
astray by friends who have proven false.
Bob Ingersoll spoke TIE truth in his lee
ture and he has not disproven it in his re-
cent speeches. The farmer, the laborer,
the merchant and mechanic must re-
member that Ingersoll in a lecture and
not in purchased campaign speech
said: ''Silyer was demonetized by
fraud, it was an imposition on every sol
vent'man "a fraud on every honest debtor
the United States. It assassinates labor"
1t seems that Ingersoll is now willing
to perpetuate the fraud, to impose "on
every solvent man." and to assassinate
labor. But the American farmer is not,
and, with his liberties at stake and the
power Of correction in his own hands,
he may be relied upon to vote for the
restoration of our constitutional money.
The power of the incorrubtible farmer
will be felt at tie polls in November.
The farmer is his own friend and he
should show the world thai he knows
wherein his interest lies.
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