Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1896-10-08

frienfis. believe that we ought - cnanzgs.
the dies. ~ that dollar viii property de-
scribe Itself Is e passes from hand 10 hand
II we are going tn say that We must have
ir because foreign Eatious insist upon Is.
theu think we ought % change t. ami n
the place af that t1ee above whi-h Is writ
ten Liberty let Is have a picture Of 4
woman IN CHAINS. and above Z written
BGusiage- Appiauss-
Living yufture.
And instead o. having On the other side
the easriss. the emblem u aarsunal fres,iam.
let us put 4 vEltare that lives unon ~. de-
voGrins Of human kinst- Applluss They
call the -uit dollar an honest dollar They
know it = not an honest dollar. and those
who love the gold dollar most Inv. it msst
because is IS the mslss dishonest dollar the
world has ever Known AppIauss And
the more dishonest IE hecnues the greater
IS their Affection fer L. Applause
What Is an honest doliarf A honest dol
arw0uiG be I dollar whose average purcaAs-
ing power would D. Stable Asioiiar y hich
rises in purchasing power is as dishonest
As 4 dollar wnieh falls in purchasing
power ami shat proposition Is recognized
as true by AZ except those few rho regard
anything A. honest which asists 20 tnsir
packet. and anything as dishonest whicf
treats other people as well as IL does them.
Applause.
stability Il the vsils q The dollar i
the important thing and the only way that
you can secure a stable dollar Is % secure
Il dollar of Whieh there viii be enough 70
keep pace with pssealaEion and industry
The grliG dollar = bad. not because the
quality Of the metal i not good but be
caase quantity = as essntial in money As
quality. Applause You may show me
q particular xini of food which IS excellent
in quality but IL there is not enough Of il
20 sustain life. VIII never call il a good
food Laughter
They say the gold dollar is 4 good dol
llr. that it gives Us good money Ny
friends. we want money guod but how
good Just -nOd enough. Not too good /,
nv friends. We don't want 4 dollar 50
good that you can pray 20 IL and long for
il, but never get hold 0f ir. Laughter and
applause I have described the gold dol
lar As the balloon dollar. II keeps rising
all the time. Laughter
And those who were N the basket when
iE started up stav with it. and il has got
out Of the reach Of the great mass Of HAN
kind Applause
The Balloon Dollar ~Doa't Co.
We are tired Of the balloon dollar. We
don't want Il dollar - look az Is Il passes
frum US we want n dollar % handle ~ II
passes among u.s. Applause We want
otmetalIism because i requires ali the
Eold and al the silver % furnish safe
basis for the immense commercial Affairs Ok
The 18th century. Il Fesguires them both.
~Nou talk = ne about food OF money
when we have free coinage. NV friends. |
know people who have lived 80 long N 4
drou-h that they are waiting for the nFst
drippings 0f the food Applause.
i an not afraid that wnen al the z9ld
available for coinage and al the silver
available for coinage shall be poured into
the money volume Of the world that there
viii be more than enough 70 form a safe
and sound basis for safe and sound COM
msrcial transactions Applause-
Our opponents say they want sound
mouey What would you think Of 4 ear
penter who tried 70 build 4 house upon an
invisible foundation, And yet they want
70 build up the commercial Transactions Of
this country upon \ little lump Of gold. re-
garSiless OF the fact that foreigners hold a
string % the guld. and can jerk oGt the
foundation 0f our commercial country.
Applause.
You ask Us how we are gong TO bring
silver back INTO u.s.. I tel you you cannot
do * bv electlng people 10 Office who want
ir driven Ous Of use. Applanse- Money
is \ creature Of law, and laws are made oy
the people They are made rhrodxh repre-
senrariVes. and unless you elect representa-
rives whn believe in sufficient body Of
money. there 5 no way on earth BY which
you can get l.
-'rhev tel Us that money Is independent
OF law Yes ny friends. the very people
who invoked the law IN 1873 70 strike down
silver and give gold monopoly are the
ones who tel rs that Law IS impotenf- now,
70 restore what Law und0ue- Applause
Why did rot these distinguished advo-
Gates Of nnn-interference commence talk
ing before themselves inrerferedi They
thought the law was a good thing then out
after they got what they wanted, then
they didn's wait the law 20 do anything
more
4 had a man down in New Jersey a year
azu ask ne why Il was that we people were
always talking about this silver question
WHY didn't we Let it alone ASKED him
whv IL was that the fellow vino was 1at on
his BACK and had another fellow sitting on
TOD Of him. whose hand was on his throat.
why that fellow didn't Ike 10 stay there
we have been fat On our backs. and we
have had these teachers Of nnu-intsrfer-
ence sitting On rs holding our threats and
thGn complaining because we did rot en-
loy the process Ours Is an aggressive
policy We are the ones VITO INSIST on
something being done We are the plain
tits Our opponents are the defendants.
and they have been trying 10 get a eontin-
uance every time the case was called for
trial loud applause} and have succeeded
wonderfully well The same Influences
have controlled the nominations and writ
ten the platforms Of the two great parties
for the Ass twenty years They tried -
do il this year
rCries 0f Here's Arkansas; here's Ar
lansas- Turn around this way.nI
.-Heretofore the Efforts Of the gold
standards friends have secured a mixed
platform IN the Democratic Convention
and IN the Republican Convention and
then they have secured nomi1aEions q uen