The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11
1T WAS NIP AND TUCK.
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1900 read the modified plank. Inc
Democrats had been changing and
more i'm favor of the people, and the
Republican party more and more
against them. Then he read the gold
plank of 1896, opposing free coinage.
He reviewed the history OF money
briefly for two thousand years, show
mo that the decrease Of money had
been followed by hard times, and in
crease of money had been followed by
rood times, and cited, in proof, the
aush times that followed the discovery
of metals in the discovery Of America
and Mexico, and later in the discovery
of gold in 1S49, after which the prices
rose 30 per cent. merely because the
money volume had increased. 1t was
when silver began to be made subsid-
larry coin that prices began to go down.
He illustrated by comparing money to
theblood circulating in a mans body,
and the striking down of silver had re-
duced the blood supply. He said there
was deadly parallel between Grover
Cleveland and the Republican party.
Mr.. Kitchin was applauded to the echo
at this point, but it was impossible to
hear as all avenue to him had been
cut off by the crowd which had press
ed closer and closer to him.
When the Democratic party endors-
ed Grover Cleveland, they thought he
would stand by silver, not discriminat-
ing against it, in accordance with the
platform applause and cheers again,
but impossible to hear).
u am not here as an apologist for
Mr.. Cleveland The great question is
this and will be the great question
before the next Congress-. 1t
Is the free and unlimited coinage
Bf silver. not whether we shall have
1.-THE American coinage of silver, and if
my friend here is not for it he is
against it. He quoted Settles record,
saying that he had voted against every
bill for free coinage of silver-against
the Bland-Allison act, and finally for
the repeal of the Sherman act. Cheers
and applause).
Mr.. Kitchin asked them to desist so
that he could proceed. He was not beg
ging anybody to vote against his con-
science; he wanted everybody who
agreed with him to vote for him, and
everybody who agreed with Settle to
vote for him; if you want no kings and
dictators, do your own thinking and
your own voting. (Applause).
He took the coin-redemption bill,
the Dingley Bill, it came up in the
house on the basis of the free and I'M
limited coinage of silver, land my
friend alone of all North Cardinals
Congressman voted against the free
and unlimited coinage of silver If /
am sent there, / shall vote for it. DO
YOU want him? (Yes! yes! no! no! yes!
no! yes! no! The whole house was
shout of mixed yeses and noes.) If you
want him because he is handsome and
winning, vote for him, but if you want
him because you think he is voting for
the best interest of the people, / say
God forgive you, for you know not
what you do. Great applause.)
Mr.. Kitchin spoke ~ how gold could
be coined free but not silver, and asked
was that treating silver as a standard
money metal. He spoke of the Bland
Allison men and the Sherman act men
who pretended to be friends Of silver,
but every time they had a chance to
befriend it, they stabbed it, friend of
silver-tAmerican product! friend of
silver-international agreement! zap
plause.)
He took up the question of his OPP
ponent, namely could you stamp
mule 500 and make him worth 500.
He said if you. passed a law that there
should be no longer the use of horses
and mules but only Texas ponies,
wouldn't Texas ponies go up? Gap
plause) If you said wheat should no
more be made into -four. wouldn't
wheat go down? "Do you understand
that?" he said, wheeling upon Settle,
and pointing his finger, Where is
your thinker?" daughter and APP
plause.) sin striking down silver you
were saying that wheat should not be
ground into -four, horses and mules
should not be used. do you under
stand that?" facing Settle again.)
'Where is your thinker Continued
laughter and applause.) But we had
a great leader of the people, VIM. j.
Bryan (great general and prolonged
applause) who would restore this
metal to its proper dignity. If gold is
your standard and gets scarce your
wheat goes down, you corn goes down,
your cotton goes down, you tobacco
"Where is your thinker?" Great APP
p1ause and laughter.) eff Grover
Cleveland is the cause of all this why
IS III DudG III All IuC WOIl1 LlCIC ID uCS-
titution and hard times. You know
it is nothing but the gold-standard
that covers all these countries and
all these hard times as the waters cover
the great deep" (Applause.)
He now went into a comparison of
receipts under respectively the McKin-
ley and Wilson tariff acts which every
body knows and which has been shown
- ,,rkA 1p1
gain. ''Mr. John Sherman" said
Kitchin, chad been sly enough in his
speech to take in the first two years
of the Mckinley law and skipped the
last two years of the Mckinley law
skipping to the first two years OF the
Wilson law. He began to read amid
laughter and applause, showing the
deficiency of $69,000,OOO under the
Mckinley law. 'sMy friend says you get
no more for your labor and have to
pay twice as much for what you get.
Don't you see the fallacy in this? How
can a man pay another twice as much