The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-10-09

ness man depends Tor MS prosperity
upon the farmer and laborer. ZAP
plause.) Farmers and laborers are
/ the foundation of society, and upon
that broad and firm foundation is
built the commercial fabric. The
business men stand upon the should
ers of those who toll, and the bank
er is simply 1t root for the building.
You can take off the roof and put on
another One-possibly better one
than the one you take off (applause)
but when you take away the foun-
dation the whole building collapses.
| (Applause.)
My friends, what we complain Of
is that the financial system advo-
Gated by the Republican party has
struck at the foundation of society,
and by destroying the foundation is
sure to ruin all that rests upon it.
(Applause.) 1t has been good for
those who have money and with
money bought property. 1t has
been good for those who trade in
money, and could get better trade
when times were hard. 1t has been
good for the syndicate which has
furnished gold to the Government
after having compelled the Govern
ment to buy gold; but, my friends,
it is hard on the struggling masses
who, according to Mr.. Carlisle in
1873, pay the taxes and produce the
wealth of this country.
In this contest we have arrayed on
one side the capitalistic classes, the
money changing classes, and the
holders of large fixed investments.
On the other side we have the great
mass of the people. "a voice, land
they'll vote.") You show me on
which side the sympathies of a man
are and l will tell you where his
vote will be. Show me a man
whose sympathies are with corpora
tiOns and syndicates and the capt.
talistic classes, and I will show you
a man who will be gold standard
advocate, and say he does it be-
cause he loves his country. ZAP
plause.l Show me a man whose
sympathies are with the tOiling and
struggling of mankind and / will
show you man who, when he un-
derstands the money question, will
be in favor of the gold and silver
coinage of the Constitution.
My friends, we have lost some
Democrats in this fight, but am
mighty glad that most of those
whom we lost were generals. We
have not lost many privates in the
army. (Applause.) We might have
kept all the Democrats who are gone
ii we had been willing to pay the
price they asked. If we had been
willing to make the Democratic
party the agent to fasten plutocracy
upon the American people, we could
have kept every man who has left us.
(Applause.) But we have to choose
between throwing overheard those
who have been millstones about the
neck of Democracy and throwing
over Democracy itself, and we pre-
ferred to save Democracy and let
the aristocrats go. (Applause.) My
friends, we have not lost by it. 1t
has been our gain. 1t is always
true that those who dare to do right
are rewarded in the long run, and the
| Democratic party is receiving its re-
ward-not even waiting for the long
run-it is receiving it's reward right
now for daring to do right at Chicago.
(Applause.) We are drawing to our
ranks those who are in the Republi-
can party for bimetallism. They
have come to us because they see
now that the hope of international
bimetallism is a delusion, and that
it is used only as cover while the
leading Republicans are attempting
to fasten the gold standard perma-
nently upon the American people.
And not only are gathering from the
ranks of the Republicans, but the
Populists, in their national conven-
ton, were willing to go outside of
their party lines to nominate as their
candidate for the Presidency the
man already nominated by the DEM
ocrats and free silver Republicans.
We are consolidating the sentiments
in favor of free coinage to the grand
struggle against our enemies. My
friends, If our opponents proposed
some plan which would be left to
the American people we might meet
them and discuss their plan, but our
opponents propose TO take this
money question out of the hands of
the American people and to allow
Jue l6duinS COLuluerCldI 0dClOHS OF
Europe to determine when they will,
whether we shall have bimetallism
or not. 1 mistake the patriotism of
the American people, 1 mistake
their independence and their love of
liberty, if they are going to transfer
Legislative power from Washington
to London. (Cries of "Never.")
, Here, where you still cherish the
memory of New Orleans-here
> where you still believe in the right
of the people to govern themselves
here where you are true to the ira
ditions of the Democratic partly
have no fear that you will falter now
in this supreme conflict between
Democracy, in its broadcast sense on
the one side and on the other every
/ enemy of this country and every
man would use the Government for
3 the purposes of private gain. Gap
plause.)
But / must leave this question
: with you and with your public
: speakers for further discussion, and
go to another place where there is
another audience, if there are any
more people in this town than 1 now
see. (Applause.)