The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-18

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less and await the final result. The
mother watched the child through the
night and thought it was little stronger
in the morning She watched it through
the day and instead of failing it grew bet
ter. She watched it through another
night and in the morning had more hope
than the night before. The doctor came
around to find out why the child had not
died. The mother explained the situa-
ton. The doctor examined the child and
told the mother that it was n fact that
the child was getting stronger than when
he saw 1T last, and if it continued to i'm
prove as it had been it would soon be
able to take some more medicine. Great
laughter.)
'Our opponents have been giving us
bond issues just about as fast as they
thought the people were able to stand
them After we had one bond issue and
the people complained, they would wait
awhile until they thought the patient was
able to stand another bond issue. Naugh-
ter) We want to get rid OF those doctors
and try medicine that will restore the pa
tient and not wait until the patient is
strong in order to weaken him with more
medicine. (Applause.)
81 want to call your attention to the
use we will make of silver-not new sill
yer, but that already coined. We have
SliNCt Ill ClECuluUlOn ana silver
certificates which represent these dollars,
deposited in the vaults in Washington.
1t is the position taken by the Chicago
convention and the Populist party and
the free silver conventions that this Gov
eminent ought to use those silver dollars
| on equal terms with gold and in the paw
! ment.. of all debts due from the Govern
ment to the individual which calls for
| coin. Our opponents tell us we can't;
! that If we attempt it gold will go TO a
premium. France maintains the parity
between gold and silver at n ratio more
favorable to silver than ours and keeps in
circulation more silver than we do, with
out giving to the holder of n bank note
the right to demand gold upon that note
We believe that this country is able to do
what France has done and maintain the
parity by using silver dollars to pay all
the debts instead of issuing bonds to buy
gold because few people find profit in
draining the Treasury of its gold (Ap-
plause.) The Rothschild contract pro-
vides not only for the sale of bonds at Il
dollar and four and half cents, when
they were worth u dollar and nineteen in
the ,.market-that would have been bad
enough-but that contract stipulated that
the Rothschild's firm in London and the
Belmont or Morgan firm in New York
should protect the Treasury of the United
States for stated time. Every lover of
his country ought to feel Inundated that
any administration, no matter what it's
name, should hire any syndicate of bank
ers, foreign or domestic, to protect a
treasury which 10000, 600 people stand
ready to protect without asking for a re-
ward (Applause.)
know not how you feel, but my idea
of the dignity of this Government and our
national honor is that we cannot afford to
have nation which depends for it's sxist-
ence upon the good will of two banking
firms. (Applause.) They tell us that it
Is necessary to make these contracts. I
deny it. If our Treasury apartment were
run in the interest of all the people in
stead of being managed by Wall Street
financiers, in their interests it would not
be necessary to make these humiliatinp
contracts. (Applause)
Our opponents are afraid if the Chi
cago ticket succeeds law will not be en-
forced and order will not be preserved.
That is what they say, but that is not
what they fear. They know if the Chi
cago ticket is elected that the laws will
not only be enforced against the little peo-
pie who transgressed, but against the big
ones who conspired against the nation.
(Applause.) They say they are afraid that
property will not be secure. Your prop
erty VIII be more secure under our system
of finances than it has been when men
have been licensed to prey upon YOUR
property and eat the bread that YOU have
earned by the sweat of your brow. CAP
plause.)
eve not only desire to use the silver
dollar that we have now, but we want
more dollars to use among the people. If
all those who have SO much money are
afraid to have any more will vote for NV
opponent, I want all those who are not
afraid of being overwhelmed in flood of
money. (Applause) There are no dol
lars except those which the law creates.
If the money is made by those who want
money dearer they will money scarce in
order to make money dearer. People say
they want good money. We ali want
good money, but we don't want it so good
that we can't get hold of it. (Applause.)
some of our farmers have been kind
enough to send me this bunch of oats.
when the money gets so good that it
takes ten or fifteen bushels of oats to get
one dollar, it is good. You can make a
dollar buy whatever you like. If you
thlnk ten cent oats are not cheap enough,
you can make them only five cents by
doubling the value of the dollar. and if
you are not satisfied then you can raise
still further the value of n dollar until
men go home and tell their wives how
lucky they were to get one cent a bushel
for cats. (Applause.) Legislation that
AFFECTS the volume of money affects the
value of money. When they tell YOU that
they want dollar that is as good ms any
dollar in the world, you tell them that If
other nations want to raise the value OF
money ia the interests of the money hold
ing class that you shall protest in the
name of the wealth-producing class to