The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-04-01

wa do moi wish silver dollnrs to be legal
trndpr
rho gentleman reports Mir Cleveland
Urpinnscl as saying thoro is difference
h"twtrn currency and standard but the
S"nileuhn misCunceiNes IL, y currency
can be checks. due bills, silver. gold or
Er'enbacks but a standard ia a measure
Nuliusc mat there was such Il lax as to
nliow YOU TO coin thirty grains of silver
unto dollars or twenty grains OF gold
Into "a dollar DO you think Won would
carry your twenty grains to be made into
a collar when you can exchange II at the
Jewelers. shop for sixty grains of silver.
enough TO coin into two dollars? No.
ltc gold would not bc coined
am here tonight not to lght binetnl-
ism but silver monomotalism. Gap
plhusH1
II j. tho actual value of the dollar or
'he credit of the country which puts the
value on II which makes the dollar
Thomas Jcfaison. when the two metals
Wetc mad' money in he ttuicd States
MS much MS silver, and he then made that
ratio. Now the difference which the free
coinage nlvocntos wish TO make Is 50
per cent They want ID to when gold ~
worth thirty one times az much as sill
vcr (Applause)
! am well aware that 1t Is easier 70 cap
tivatn an audience by reference t. Wall
street and Lombard Stree, than II Is 10
present solid facts. My friend played to
tic rcjudices OF the popnllsis N this
a dr. ana h"E" no dodb, i vas only
w
dises OF some people. Goud applause ana
ii voice "hurrah FOR Tom Watsou")
These gentlemen who wish to rob the
pcoplo hive absolutely coined In the past
three ears seven million silver dollars
We have coined mora subsidiary silver
IN iho pas, three years thpn IN any three
Years since tho government began. LNp-
plausel The silver Idea is undeinocratic
II y unlike JefierAons teachings, II is
unlike Jnckson's teachings and !, In I'M
tNnGltinnS - .r,irl al
prolonged upplause.) II Is more Hike The
dooiriue Of MI lones of Nevada Mir.
lirynn OF Nebraska nnd Tom Watson Of
GCorHln.
Have YOU my silver mines in Richmond
county that yoll want "a unload on he
aud Mr. Jones wnai freq silver
! have no Interest N this issue Other
man u eli!Hen OF N"urFl1. J wish 10 study
Nc question before YOU take NE final
plungs II is not for the good of tho
hondholoW. but the constituents Tho
worNngmen cf Fulton county are my
friends, and God kuo"s that / would rata
~ iiih 10 adNocite a law that would iu-
jute them Npplausrl had hoprd L.
discuss ne remedy tonight. but on ac-
count 81 my AImc being out VIII he com
pellrl TO refrain, hut VIII do SO in Al
lania on Thursday nisht
IN" srnicmuu hould tell YOU that We
my en-, on N3,HoW' from unjust pen
sionS; IN ioll YOU We arc not running YOU
ana 10 mol get frightened hnlipvo that
u the president mad only served one term
he would bc reelected and heror, his term
was over every one % Won would b'rss him
inr his good work. Uoui aprlausal
briefly suggest TO you n llno of rem
edy--lt - this Give the silver tnc rignt
OF way. CAN in your gold uudrr so And
lot your silver he TIN only currency under
hat amount.
But gentlemen believed that the IN.
iure sncccss of the democratic party Is
involved md tho mora the question Is
studied the 'uoro 20 peop,o VIII shed 'ho
frs and films AMI soo the proprr course
20 be pursued IN the hnancial pollcy
lc'' thr rouutrv nay nori4 love
you all. Save this country from disgrace.
Mr.. Smiih WINS loudly applnudei ana !
several ford Offerings were thrown N !
the stipr
Mr. CRISP closed tho debate with brcf. |
witty fejondci