The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-11

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people have that idea,-that little thief ia
very vulgar kind Of thief but man
who plumbers on an enormous scale goes
into the wholesale business and becomes re-
| spectacle. applause and laughtsr) But
you cannot find any authority for that sort
OF a theory OF government in our Declaration
men are created equal according to theory;
and when this government Is administered as
! 1t ought to be all men will be considered
equal before the law. and when the govern
ment acts It shall act for all alike, and not
save a few to be given privileges and special
advantages, and when the law strikes 1t
with more force. on the little man who
stands by the side of him. Applause and
cries. Good shot! Good shot!o
A just government does not permit lawless-
ness, but just government strikes terror to
the heart of the great big lawbreaker as
much as it does to the small lswbreaker. A
And when our opponents say that they are
afraid the success of the Chicago ticket
means the law will not be enforced. they DO
not say what they mean; they are afraid the
law will be enforced. Cries OF Hear
Hearro
Now. my friends this struggle between the
to the death. There is no middle ground
Those who are not for us are against us.
This war is going to so on until gold In en-
throned throughout the world as the only
to 60 on I until silver Hr is restored 0'a to
its rlghtful place by the side Of
gol0. 1t VIII so on until men shall worship
gold alone, until gold is the master, as Mr..
Mckinley once said: Money the master and
all things else the servant 1t will go on
until we restore in this country the gold and
doing pave the way to the restoration of BIZ
metallism throughout the world Do you
doubt our power to do 1t?
What Bismarck Said
l bid you revive your dropping faith by
reading what Prince Bismarck has said about
the ability OF the American people to act on
the money question. Prince Bismarck is not
an American he is a distinguished foreigner,
a man whose statesmanship is respected not
by German-Americans alone, but by all Amer
leans and by all the civilized people of the
world. And what does he say? He says he
is in favor of bimetallism, which is an evil
dence that the gold standard has been a fall
ure III Germany because il the gold standard
had been success in Germany. Bismarck
would have favored a gold standard rather
than return to bimetallism. He said more
than that. He said that. in his opinion, the
establishment Of bimetallism In this country
would have q most salutary influence in re-
storing bimetallism throughout the world.
Is there some timid American here who
puny? bid him sit at the foot OF Prince
Bismarck and learn to have faith in the
power and greatness OF the American people.
(Applause.) Not only can we do 1t. but we
must DO 1t. Our opponents say that we must
furnish them a perfect system. think our
system is as near perfection as human mind
not ask too much Of us. They say that we
must furnish them a perfect system. We
simply have to furnish them a better one
than they have now: and it doesn't take
very good one to be better than they have
now. applause and laughter.) They tell us
that we must protect them from possible
tscted us from certain dangers that followed
the gold standard. They tell US that harm
may come ond W., We tell them that harm has
c0ang6 financial nd
cries of That's rightly
Now want you to study this money ques-
. .ion ana apply IT to yourselves. believe
OF every hundred Of our people believe
That Dimetallism is good for the farmer,
because It stops falling prices, and to some
believe 1t is good for the laboring man, be-
cause 1t increases opportunity for labor. 80
that instead Of working half time they viii
men are ready to work they can n ina work. work.
TO 90; whereas, on the gold standard. the
number Of idle men is increasing, and the
who has employment. believe that BIZ
metailisn is good for the business man. be-
cause the business man derives his benefit
from those to whom he sells. and whom peo-
are not able to buy he cannot SELL BIZ
metallism increases the prosperity Of the
wealth producers and when the wealth pro
ducers are prosperous, then, my friends
their prosperity finds its way to other
classes Of society We believe in commenc-
ing at the bottom and building up. Our OPP
and risking the benefit of ever getting down.
We say. my friends, that II you viii iegis-
late 50 that the great toiling millions may
De De wei to 90. that there will be none to
60 on the theory. that the poor ought to be
very very IhanKful that there are rich people
t t6e Bi Bhom ehy can beg They point to
It was for Lazarus that there was Dives
there!" My friends. it is not fortunate for
any = y. society to be divided into two classes
other. And yet the gold standard more
than any other one thing, has resulted in
making the rich richer and the poor poorer
IL mas increased the number of the poor.
gu ask me II we are going to succeed
we cannot help 1t, according to my theory.
my friends: because the gold standard. by
increasing the number Of the poor, increases
the number on our side; and II we have not
majority now. 1t Is only question of
time when We will have If the gold standard
continues. Tremendous applause)
Cheap Labor, Cheap Men.
MT Mckinley has said that cheap money
VIII make cheap men, but I contend that it
Is i hoe cheap money but cheap labor that
gone nand In hand with prosperity, and be-
neve that there never has been legislation
which has done more to cheaper labor than
that by which silver was demonetized in 1873
This act Of 1873 has led to the curse of fall
ing prices and has put a burden upon every
producer. There is no free land where the
power is so rapidly stealing away from the
many to the few as it Is in this country and
1t is time the American people took a hend
in the matter and put stop to it. There
has never been a great movement Of the
American people which did not triumph One
thing which this movement certainly has
done is to lift the party yoke from our necks.
We must have parties but when our party
tries to make US wear a yoke it Is time for
us to assert our independence. l have much
must say that II he advocated the same prin-
ciples now as he did in congress for fourteen
years l could quite agree with him Mr.
Bryan himself has said no more in condem-
Mr.. Mckinley did at that time.
1 say that dear money makes cheap men
and there has been a falling off in prices
for ten years, which has affected everything