Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-09-26
ernment in any nation on earth. (Grea:

will -ou say, then? VIII you say that
the ~mers have no right to have their
ir IS respected? No. you dare not say
.tbecause. my friends, they must first
fluce wealth before there is wealth to
y distributed. What will you say, then
that, having the right to have their inter-
ests respected. they have not the intelli-
gence to know what is best for them?
No, you dare not say that, because you
know that in public life and in business
life the best brains that you have come
from the farms of this country. APP
plausel What answer viii you make TO
them? When they ask for bread will you
give them a stone? When they ask fer
fish will YOU bestow scrponts upon them?
That has been the policy of the hnanciers
of this country and assembling their sell
fshness they have been attempting TO
force their ideas upon others.
While others have fallen down beneath
the weigh; of these ideas, the financiers
themselves have risen TO prosperity on
The prostrate forms of the fallen. Great
applause and cheering) No person can
accuse me of attempting to deny 70 the
fnanciers. or even to the money changers,
their votes. the right to every Legitimate
influence. What 1 deny to them is this;
The right to think for anybody but them
selves: the right TO act for anybody but
themselves: the right to put themselves
above other people and so through the
world crying Il am holier than thou;
am holier than thou" CHEERS and ap-
plauseD
"My friends let me give you one way
by which you can determine the SINGER
ity of men. Il is not new rule. II IS
as OF as the law of evidence. Ii applies
to all walks of life and TO all condi-
tons and 10 all subjects. The man who
believes he IS right tells you what he
believes and why he believes 1t. y man
who does not believe that he is right is
the man who has filed the dictionary
with ambiguous terms and fills his
speech with words Of double meaning.
Great applause)
"The man who talks about sound
money and then refuses to tell you
wha. sound money means. can only get
a certificate of honesty from himself.
(Cheers and applause) If the advocates
of sound money believed that tnelr
money was good. they would not tel
vou that BY sound money they mean
the gold standard. I asked a man why
il was that ne was opposed to using the
word gold in the platform. Well ne
said, people have an unreasonable pre-
iudlcs against the word gold, and there
fore * was to avoid that prejudice that
they used the phrase sound money
(Applause) ,.
NV friends. people have no prejudice
against gold, but they have a preJudlce
against a system that is based upon gold
and does not furnish the gold Whsn
psoDIe want it. Great appbuseJ
There is one advantage in beng bi-
mo aTfst You can like god and 5ii tr
both. while a gold standard man does
not dare TO love silver, and he don g7I
much eo,d to love. (Applause) A man
toId me that cut of nearly $1,000, 1000 col
,oe;ed in taxes at Hartford, Conn, lesS
than s1OO was collected in god. our
opDcn.nts ien us they want souHu
nancy. but they want tinanclaI system
builr upon an Invisible foundation. Tap
n,ause5 DO you call that soundhesS'
NV friends? If you DO, you nave got
to vr;ie a new meaning for sounohess
ord have soundness defined as that
Itch is dangerous. (Appiause) Our
onroDepts talk about honest money ana
W nv friends. they never toucheu
mon the purchasing pow or doitaI III
defnirg what is an honest dollar. i1ey
tou ms thqr they want good money. My
frtends there are Two things we neeu
IN money. We must not oHI! i~,.o h.,no
money which is good, but we nuS' nave nave
rnonev that we can get nod Of. (Ap-
r,'Snsa) If money is so good tnat you
ca1 p,-''1 nrav for it andio ng for 1t, but can
,,o,.ar see il. except when you nave 'Nc
-,r.v.;eoe of gazing through some ,
arotsd door and looking al someOody
80 nile then it is too good my
S-;e,5s for the masses Of the peop'5'
Applause) 49,, bor-
Money ought not to be bulIt o" INV ,',,' a.1
loon plan Balloons are bulIt 10 ~ VIZ '',
the higher they get the better tneS '''
t-.iioors and If dollars are built ON 'l'"'
,l,n the higher they go the EIed''l -
misery that they bring to manNihu' ~
plauseD our opponents want p"'''T',
dollar IF we are going TO nave $50
s,,ndard if we are going to nave s0'"
,,rIlar whose appetite is never sauSneu'
- a cold dollar which insists upon cat
,,,,- more of the products of toll every lew
,.eers we ought to change tho dies at the
- and so describe that dollar that peo-
-, I'm understand IL. When they taIK Oh
,,old standard. 1 always think OF Wh"'
lincoln said when a man once asked MN
how, he liked his speech. He repieu'
..,r,.bodv who would Ike that sort oil
e.,o.cb would be very much pleased win
a." fAppIause and laughtero l ma that
49,, ,,.,o,,la who like the gold standard are
,..,.,. much pleased with it. but am tI'u
., .,,. that the number of people who ike
Tho ,-old standard is growing less every
dow even in England. Great applause
and choers) ,... .,,o enc
There was a large crowd about the Sle-
o,iI oar which had been provided for Mr'
-, whom attached to the l:lN reEul".
-, a. vas pulled out Of the Sprihs ile'N
etetion. Tt was demonsratNe anu
o,,.7ido+e was given three cheerS anu d"
49,. which must have in great n''''S,'' =
-, &c an offset to the heretofore not
'0''' -.,+,,,,siastic receptions. Short STOPS
w .,.1o IN order to give the people Oh
were l.''',,, I,-orren and Brookdeld an op-
I''i'.,.I me. 80 SOC the nominee and to allow
not a few of them to shake MS manu-
O. o. F. GRAND LODGE
Dallas. Texas, sap,embo6r 81 2 29'FIaf r af