The herald., 1896-09-09

| were rising, and there can be no gen.
eral rise in prices unless the quantity
of money in circulation increases.
| Financial distress, bankruptcies,
strikes. combinations of capital and la
Dor, trusts and sypdicates, can only ex-
| ist when there is a constantly falling
market, when prices in general fall.
! Prices in general can only fall when
the quantity of money in circulation
with respect to population decreases.
The volume of money in circulation and
/ prices go hand in hand. When the vol
creases prices rise. 1t is the eternal
fall of prices that pauperizes men, par
alyzes industries and ruins nations.
The National Silver party was organ
| lied for the express purpose of secur-
| ing an increase in the quantity of money
| by the free coinage of silver, so as to
prevent at least any further fall in
prices in general, and if through the
efforts of that party this can be accom-
plished, it will have done greater good
| to a greater number than any party
that was ever organized since this ma :
ton was established, and it will have
conferred upon mankind a greater bless
| ing than was ever conferred before in
the history of the world.
The reason and the only reason why
silver was excluded from the mints was
| to increase the purchasing power of
money made out of gold, thereby CIV
ing to the money owner and bondholder
a greater command over the services of
men and the products of the farm, mill
| and factory.
| We are now entering upon the greatest
struggle for the emancipation of the peo-
pie from industrial bondage, industrial
slavery, that was ever engaged in. If
we succeed, as succeed we must, our
| country, our institutions and our civili-
| cation will be secure. But if we fail,
our country will be despoiled. our insti-
| tutions will be destroyed and our civil
ization will perish.
| The gold barons of the world have
| forced the most gigantic trust that has
ever been formed among men to control
| and regulate the volume of money in
| circulation in the interest of them
selves alone. They have set about it de-
| liberately and premeditately to enslave
| the American people, prostate their in
dustries, destroy their opportunities
and impoverish the nation and the peo-
pie thereof. This trust must be broken,
it's power must be destroyed and it will
be destroyed by an outraged and long
suffering people when they register
their will at the ballot box in November
| next.
The present condition of the people
is the results of laws relating to money
and bonds which have been enacted by
the Republican and Democratic parties
under the direction and at the instance
Of the gold barons of this country and
Europe. They have heretofore con-
trolled both of those parties. They now
dominate and control the Republican
party.
The National Silver party proposes
to assist in destroying the gold trust,
and we appeal to all those who are in
terested in humanity. who are interest
ed in good government, who believe that
men are more important than property,
who believe that the interests of those
who create wealth are paramount to
those who are merely consumers, to as
sist in this great struggle.
question, because this is fight in favor
of the many against the few. 1t is a
fight between the producers of wealth
and aggregated capital. 1t is a fight
between those who do the work of the
world and those who live without work
it is a fight between Democracy and plu-
tocracy. In such fight, in such strug-
gle, can there be any doubt as the issue ?
Men and men only have rights and it
Is in defense Of those rights that this
contest is waged, That he who creates
wealth should be the servant and slave
to that which he creates is a doctrine
that should not be tolerated for a mo-
ment. 1t should be stamped out. The
time has arrived in the history of this
country at last when the rights of indi-
viduals shall be paramount to all things
else and they shall be amply and fully
protected by law. The Republicans in
sist that they are desirous of protecting
American industries and American la
Dor and in order to do SO they propose to
increase the taxes upon imported pro-
ducts. AS we'll attempt to raise prices
Yin general or to stop falling prices by
increasing duties on imports as to stop
the ebb and flow of the tides. 1t has
| never been done. Such a thing is abso-
lutely impossible.
Manufacture for the American people
plenty Of money. American money not
British money, and they will protect
themselves and their industries.
There is no possible way of protecting
them except by an enormous increase
in the quantity of money in circulation.
If the people have no money they are
powerless to protect themselves, except
by brute force.
The more money they have, the more
easy it will be for them to protect them
selves against the aggression of others.
The trouble in this country is that
money Is too dear. 1t is so dear that the
people are unable to buy it except by
making great sacrifices for that purpose.
The sacrifices made by the American
people for the past twenty-three years
for the purpose of sustaining the gold
standard" are beyond human compre-
hension.
The people have resolved that they
will make no more sacrifices for that
purpose. They are about to reverse the
conditions that exist in this country.
They are going to shake off the human
vampires who have fastened themselves
on the country and who for years have
enriched themselves at the expense of
the American people They are poin o.