The San Francisco call., 1896-11-01
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MAKES A HIT
Continued from First Paoe.

=. aiiu JUST lnat you should pay the penalty.
Let me ask you one simple question: Have
you had education enough? Tshouts of ..Yes
yes, and great laughterl
four years ago you followed advice and here
you are. DO you intend to follow the advice
Oh the same men this year? [Yells of "No.
no. Ii you do then You will know where you
Will be at the end of four years more.
what is the foundation of all human prog.
ress? l am going to tell you that it is CON
stantly increasing wealth. Whenever anybody
talks to you about a nation where wealth in
creases and men decay remember that he is
only poet, and not prophet, and not a his
torian nor statesman. If you will look
through the history of the world you will find
that as fast men have increased in wealth
and in the knowledge o. the proper distribu-
ton of it the world has increased in intelli-
gence and also in happiness.
You want first of all 10 get into your mind
what wealth is. Wealth is everything that
contributes to human happiness, whether 1t
be food, a due supply of clothing or an oppor-
tunity TO go to concert. Whatever increases
wealth, properly distributed, increases also
happiness, and therefore, when we come to
consider the question OF the increase of wealth,
we are considering also the question of the
increase of happiness and the progress of the
world.
You never have time for education until
been attended to. An empty stomach is no
basis for full brain.
You remember how we started out in life
without even one layer of clothing. Adam
started that way and the human race went on
in that fashion, but they soon found that for
their comfort and happiness they must have
clothing, but they thought very little about
clothing when they had but little to eat So
we have gone on from comfort to comfort un-
II the ho,-a a.
called poor or rich embrace every enjoyment
that the nobility and gentry OF 500 years ago
had. There is not even man in this audi
ence-not even If one OF those stray Bryan
shouters has got here by aocident-who would
consent to live as the noble gentleman of even
800 years sgo lived in the great country of
Great Britain.
How would you like to have your dining
| room filed with rushes and your floors swept
out once a week? That they regarded as
luxury. We should regard it as destitution
and poverty not to be endured even in the
county that gave the biggest Democratic ma
jority in the United States.
The distribution of wealth has gone on in
creasing in its volume day by day and year by
year, and, thank heaven, it is a law OF the
Almighty that the increased comforts in this
world are to be shared with the poor and what
we call the poor, or not enjoyed by any ybody
Ifyou could look back 800 years, andI am
glad most of you cannot, you would see that
whenever anybody Travelled they had to travel
on horseback, like cow boy, without the ad-
vantage of living on plain, and with bandits
and robbers to meet them on their journey,
and when they got coaches they were distinctly
inferior to those that used 10 cross the plains
Railroads were absolutely impossible until
| there were enough people to pay railroad
| fares, and it is SO with the transportation ia
cilities of your City. They are all dependent
upon and have their origin in the increase
and distribution of wealth among the people
at large. No matter how rich a man was 200
years ago or 800 years ago, there was no rail-
roads for him; there was not even a macad-
amfzed road. Whenever In the great city of
London the King wan ted to make progress
on the very street named after him, they had
to have bundles of twigs and logs in the street
SO that he would notb be jolted out of existence
Regarding great comforts, 1 am glad to
know they came to us by reason of the dis
tribution of wealth when we had the great
markets of America, which we foolishly threw
| away four years ego.
| Now, then, 1t behooves US to pay attention
| to this question, and not to be led away by
rhetoric, not TO be carried off our feet by
crosses of gold and crowns of thorns. What
we want to do is to apply our common busi-
ness sense to this situa ton. We have had a
now. admit that the newspapers are great
educators. l admit that-perbaps it will do
for me TO admit it even here in San Francisco
but Notwithstanding the fact that they have
the opportunity to iterate and reiterate what
they say every day in the week and copiously
upon the Lords day, nevertheless when a
campaign opens the stump speaker has his
day. And it is usually pretty convincing
day, because there is something in the fact of
q man standing up before audiences and tell
ing them wha he believes and enforcing his
belief by arguments, which are presented in
the face and eyes OF a listening and attentive
people.
What has been the result of two mouths of
campaigning? The result has been tnat these
silver men are calling upon the rocks and the
mountains to fall upon them and cover the
question from sight. Loud and continued ap-
plause1 And they have not got to wait long.
[Cheers.l Next Tuesday night will show them
where they are, and they viii be SO completely
buried that it will be impossible to show any
body else where they are. Laughter and ap-
plause1 You recollect how gloriously thew
started out; how sublimely and magnifcently
confident they were; how they filed the at
mosphere; how they adorned the corners OF
the streets; how they elm bed all over us with
figures of rhetoric to show that death rode
upon the pale horse OF the mint, and the de-
pated in the Apocalyptic vision. daughter !
Now they do not want to discuss that subject
They want something else to discuss. But they
cannot help themselves. They are going to
have it discussed until Tuesday night and then
the discuss on will be over. rApplause.l
Ii they have any other subject to discuss,
and it is worth while discussing It, IL may be
of some use to talk. Just look at the dead
little corpses that there are there. There was
the crime of '73, the stealthy demonstration.
Look where it lies now. See the little mound
over It. Why, they found the man who en-
gineered that crime was the loudest talking
silver man there was in the United States OF
America, although he did not represent people
enough to send q member to Congress. Zap
plause.l What has become of that doctrine
that we want more money? What has become
of the history of Mexico? Why there was
time when they thought that there was no
possibility of the United States ever becoming
so good a country Mexico. That Mexico,
having free and unlimited coinage of silver,
was an example to the whole world, and the
greatest example except China. daughter
and applause.l
They said If we could only have the currency
of China, India and Japan we might be some