The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-06-25

| HENRY Nj. TELLER.2
all this end if the people shall decline
| to assert themselves? Where will it
end if the older parties in their deter
mination to maintain themselves in power
| for powers sake alone shall refuse to
recognize the right and the hope of hui
| manity!
This country can not much longer
exist, free and independent against all
the rest of the world. nor can its people
much longer be free in the noblest sense
of the term if the United States,
debtor nation. shall follow a policy die
tated by creditor nations. We produce
all the necessaries of life. Other ma
tons consume our product. In the race
for existence it is Il constant struggle be-
tween producer and consumer. Our re-
cent system of money deliberately sub
mits to the desire and the profit of
creditor nations, leaving us in the mass
and as individuals Il prey to the money
gathering and deadly cheapening of the
old world. As the debt to creditors
abroad increases on the masses of the
on the farm and in the workshop is de-
creasing rapidly. exacting more and
more toll from our citizens to meet the
given demand and holding over their
heads a threat of the day when cOntisca-
ton to meet their obligations will leave
them bare and defenseless. The only
remedy is to stop falling prices. the
deadliest curse of national life. Prices
will never cease falling under the single
metallism by this country will double
the basis of our money system. In time
it will double the stock of primary
money of the world will stop falling
prices and steadily elevate them until
they regain their normal relation TO the
volume of debts and credits in the
world. Bimetallsm will help to bring
about the great hope of every social re-
former, every believer in the advance
ment of the race who realizes the i'll
stability of prices has been the deadly
foe of our toilers and the servant of the
foreign interest gatherer Bimetallism
will help to bring the time when a GER
tain expenditure of human Toll will pro-
duce a certain financial result. Who
among the great masses of our people in
the United States but feels that his lot
would be better, his aspirations take
new wings, if he knew in the perform
ance of his labor what would be the
price of his product?
Is this not purpose worthy The atten-
ton of the people as individuals and
worthy the attention of political cOnven-
tons yet to be held in this year of 1896?
Is this not so great an end that all who
believe in the possibility of attaining
it by the means proposed can yield
something of their partisanship, both in
conventions and at the polls? 1t is the
conventions will have the courage and
generosity to unite for this purpose that
we have dared to offer our views TO the
people of the United States; and be-
cause, in the past, there has lacked
rallying point for the masses who hold.
as we do, this belief. we venture an act
to sustain it and hope it will be re-
ceived with the same spirit of roncilia-
ton and hope with which we put it for
ward. We have endeavored in a plain
way to set the matter before the eyes of
our fellow citizens.
We invoke the union of all men and
all parties who believe that the time
has come for the triumph of justice 1t
is an hour when the people may speak
for themselves as individuals and
through conventions yet to be held. 1t
is the right of every citizen to indicate
his preference. With this in view we
offer the Forthcoming conventions and
to the people the name of a man for the
presidency of the United States whose
life, in public and in private, represents
those distinguished virtues which
adorned the days and the deeds of the
earlier time of this republic return to
which virtue is requisite for the pros
perity and contentment of the people and
the perpetuity and commencing example
of free institutions.
That name is Henry NJ. Teler-a man
of the people and for the people. He
is of no section. His experience and
service. his devotion to the common JUS
tce and the common cause of his fellow
citizens has been as wide as the country
We believe that the people of the United
States have had him in their minds. as he
has had their interests in his purpose,
through all the work of an exalted life.
1t is not merely from point of none
tary reform that we present this man to
the people. 1t is true that he has waged
a mighty fight for the restoration of the
money of the constitution, and his name
has been identified as that of no other liv-
ing man with this great cause. But had
his services been less demanded and less
noticed in this direction the people would
have still recognized in him for other