The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1896-09-12
THIB0DAUX, LA. SATURDAY, sEPTEMBEE u, 1896


| tie laws of :le United States. We
"ppases him and offer no apology for
| 'tat apposisinn. Sometimes we are
| told tliatatIIese great syndicates are
a.ainstus. T!lavsmre. We admit it.
W. s't,,st OF il. because il is tile best
e-f';iicate that our cause is jast
| Fhere is nobody With MS but the pen-
lia+, my friends, and they are the ones
tor whom this government was insti-
tutrf. We are content TO have it left
III he'll, sands. beg you, my friends
{" remember that when our opponents
sec tit to use abusive epithe.s against
those whom the Chicago convention
dominated, remember that those cpl
thets are not used against us. hut
against those l+opi,s who have rallied
=" the standard and are fighting the
battie there iaaEgu:a,ed. Can OR
| opponents afford to apply these names
to the. great common, people of this
country. I! Can onr opponents afford
10 slander those people. who III e"ery
| intr OF danger have been the nations
only safeguard Suppose there was
trouble to day, either domestic or
|
to fight urbat,les Wmld we find
them among The syndicates If sile
stock exchanges and combination of
money grpb!ers Z To whom would
they appeal7 TO vou and they would
say +: oh, anarchists save our proper
ty.' sasii
"E thev must RELY upon. you in
hours of danger, should they not let
you have something to say in the quiet
hours Of peace,?s Is there II mar who
has made Ills property IN this cpsiitsy
who is not willing 10 risk 'thaf rl',;iar
ty in the hands Of the people
of the United tStates9 Ii there
be one, then that ma ii has lost faith
in the form of government under
(which lie lives, because in this laa.l
there lis no pow er. bat tile people, and
the n,an who fears them ought TO
leave his country for his ceuntry's
good" #'T s-~a M y
II .# *sAsAs ss ~ y
."Fsere s'one thing like aboa. the
advocates Of bimetallism. Wheneeer
you find a man who believes in the
immediate restoration or the free :tDd
unlimited coinage of gold and silver
;ss the present legal ratio of 16 to 1,
without waiting for the aid of or con-
sent Of any otlfer nation on earth, you
find a man who tells you that he
believes that that policy will be good
for himself and believes that it will
/ he good for others Also. 1 IKE that
air'ofSrarder~A Ask q i;.rMcr WAY lie
| Wants hinietailism, and. he says sbe-
cause it Is. good fdr pe 2 ASK a
laboring man why he wants bimetal-
iism and he says that he tllinas it will
be good Tor him. Ask business man
why he likes bimetailisin, aud lie says
I .lIake my living out Of those to
whom sell, not out of those from
whom I borrow. Therefore, bimetal-
| lism IS good for me because it enables
people TO buy what | have to SELL
You ask a professional man why
lie favo,s bimetallism, and he tells
you it is because his business rests on
the producers Of wealth, and that he
cannot prosper unless the producers
prosper. But you ask a financier why
he is in favor Of the gold standard and
what will he tell yous Does he say
because it is good for him You never
hear one of them say that. IF you ask
these financiers why they want q gold
standard some of them will tell you
that the free coinage of silver would
be good for them but that they do not
want any thing which would be good
for them. They say they want the
gold standard, because it is good for
| somebody else that they want it be-
cause it is good for the farmer; be-
cause it is good for the laboring man
aud good for the business man; you
tell them that these people are willing
to risk bimetalllsm, and then the IL
iinanciers rise to the full heigt of their
moral statures, aud say that the peo-
| pie must have the gold standard. and
that they viii ram the gold standard
DOWN TIE THROATs
of the people whether they want it or
not, because they love the people.
Now, my friends. do you believe that
| this is their reason 2 | think when
find man who says he wants thing
because it is good for him that he is a
pretty natural sort Of a fellow. Bnt
when / see man who wants to do
som ething for me against my will, and
tells me he is only feeling tor me, am
more careful to see that he does not
reach me-
"Before election day comes every
Democrat who opposes the Chicago
| r,