The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-09-03

siue you snail cast your influence 1t is
!le OBJECT, or at least should be the OBJ
yecl' oil public speakers to help their au-
ulenceS to understand the merits of this
question, and it is one of the evidences of
sincerity OF purpose that the person dis
cusslng public issues should discuss them
plainly and clearly so that everyone can
understand just what is said and Just
what is meant. When ambiguous Ian
guage is used, when obscure expressions
are employed, it is an indication that the
people uttering them have something to
conceal rather than make plain. The
'Good Book speaks of certain persons who
I'VE IN darkness rather than in light, and
me Good Book gave reason for this pc
cullar affection. They love darkness
rather than light because their deeds were
evil. Whenever find darkness employed
IN the discussion of question or in the
statement of a position, | am irresistibly
reminded of that Bible passage and con-
| clude that the person who attempts to be
obscure does it because he is not willing
that the people should know what he be-
meyes and what he desires to accomplish.
When hear man talking about sound
money without telling you what he means
by it, | think he loves darkness rather
than light, and l am afraid it is because
ms deeds are evil. Great applause and
cheers) When find man talking about
| s'h hohesl uolar anu tnen not lelllnS WHAT
| ne means by an honest dollar, am afraid
he loves darkness rather than light be-
cause his purposes are evil, and when I
| md that our opponents are taking their
| arguments from people who have no names
| am afraid there is a purpose in obscuri-
| ty. Let me call your attention to some
thing which you will find at the top of
the first column of Buffalo paper under
| great. big, black headlines. | find this in
In ho
| hope that Bryan will win. Great boards
| of silver they are eager to dump by the
| ship load on the United States minis at
| double its present prices and then | find
cable from whence comes arguments of
| our enemies, from London, England.
Here is the cablegram: Tn the course of
an interview today, a leading Indian mer-
chant just returned from Calcutta said
to me'-a leading merchant name I'M
known. said American politics just now
is of absorbing interest to Hindoo bank
ers rs well as to native potentates
Yes. my friends. for once American
politics are permeating all the nations.
| Why! Because we are going to govern
| ourselves.
Now, my friends, there is a CORES
| pendent who does not sign his name tell
| ing about a man of high commercial stand
| ing whose name he does not give, who
quotes a leading Indian merchant, whose
name is unknown, whose declaration is
| Il well founded rumor that certain things
are going to happen. Now that is the
| sort of literature being spread before the
American people. Why do not these peo-
pie give names, so we can find out whether
the man ever gave such an opinion. and
| if he did, what his opinion is worth. |
call your attention to this so you can see
what an unsubstantial foundation is laid
for the fears that they attempt to excite
| in the breasts of American citizens.
"Let us give another evidence of another
lack of candor and directness which char
acterizes our opponents. EX-Secretary
| Fairchilds is quoted as saying, in this
same paper: i do not see how we can do
anything else than put q third ticket in
| the presidential arena. We have practi-
cally committed ourselves to such course
| GIisses) We want to see the defeat of
| the Chicago ticket and we shall try to
| draw away as many voters as we can from
| it. OF course we find no fault with those
of our friends who cast n straight vote for
| Mckinley
"Now, there is party which claims
that it is in favor of honest money ad-
vocating the putting out of a ticket, not
| for the purpose of clecting the ticket, but
| for the purpose of electing who they
are not willing to endorse in a conven-
ton. | simply call your attention to the
methods which we have to meet in this
campaign and ask you whether those
methods characterize people who are
devoted to honesty in everything, who
want honest money and sound dollar.
Great applause)
1--WE have Scriptural authority for the
assertion that the tree is known by its
fruit. These trees have been bearing
fruit for twenty years and there has not
Iaa Sit,,rl p fpnn fhnt thn
laboring man would have in his house.
Show me the man who has tried to break
down labor organization (cries of Han
ma. Hanna, HANNAH and | will show
you Il man who is today sweating blood
for fear some laboring man is going to
have his wages cut in two. Uaughtcr)
Now my friends, this policy of the en-
envy is to divide TO conquer. Whenever
there has been an effort upon the part
of the labOring man to secure any legis-
laton needed by them, where have they
found their friends? They have found
their friends upon the farm and not in
Wall street. (Applause.) And now
they appeal to the laboring man to come
with the money changers and help them
defeat the farmer because he wants a
higher price for his product. (ApplauseD
They want the laboring man to believe
that the free coinage of silver is going
10 nurI Hill. My lTlenuS, l. WOulu IdlleE
risk the laboring man to decide what is
good for him than to leave his interests
in the hands of his ancient enemies. And
what do the laboring men say? 1t is
only little more than year ago that
petition was sent to congress asking
for the immediate restoration of the free
and unlimited coinage of gold and silver
at the present legal ratio of 16 to l with
out waiting for the aid or consent of any
other nation and it was signed by the
leaders of every prominent labor Organi-
cation in the United States. (Applause.)
Who can best be trusted? The men
who have led the labor organizations in
the fights in the past or the men who
in the past have used their power to de-
feat the only promotion of the labOring
man, namely, his organization. Great
applause)
''Now, why did these laboring men de-
mand the restoration of silver? Be
cause they knew that when the dollar
goes up, property goes down and they
knew that when property is falling aii
enterprise is retarded and stagnation fol
lows. They know the gold standard en-
couragcs the boarding Of money instead
of eXpending it and now that this policy
of boarding is driving thousands and tens
of thousands and hundreds of thousands
of working men out in the streets where
thoy hog thn privilege of working for