The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-08-27

10 yOu-that not one of these professors
in foreign universities. not one of these
economists whose name and fame are
World-widc. and not one of those great
fnancicrs who have given days and years
of thought to this subject, not one, and
nobody except the leaders of the modern
Democracy and Populism. has ventured
10 advise his own country III Europe TO
undertake that task alone. tA~ppiausc.)
The question is this. and nothing more:
Shall the United States. alone. Under
take the free and unlimited coinage of sill
yer at Il ratio of Ii to /: CA few cries
of yes and no" and repeated cries of
MOI Now. see You gentlemen over
there who called yes" and You gentle
men here who called no" shows the
difference of opinion upon this subject
(laughtcrl. and To you over there who
come to listen to me. You will listen dis
passionatcly. You will digest my ar%u-
ments. and | hope finally that by the
time You have done so thoroughly that
you will be inclined to shout mo" with
the gentlemen who responded when you
responded. Cheering and a%pplause.)
Now. let us be entirely good-natured
about this. | am going to try to give
you the facts. and | repeat it. the issue
is whether the United States shall at
tempt to do that thing alone. i'll the
face Of the controlling fact that every
civilized commercial nation upon the face
of the earth, except the Central Amer
lean and SOuth American states. years
ago and before we did abandoned it ut
terly. And if i shall succeed i'll con-
vincing any of our friends that we are
not in position to do it without iniiicting
upon the country and upon lis all injuries
which it will take Il generation to re
pair, l shall be more than rewarded
for the pains that l have taken. the OBJ
servatiOns that | have made. the studies
l have gone through and the reflections
which have brought me to my present
convictions. l%-Appiause.)
Shall We Go Backward or Forward:
Shall we. for our own interests stand
along with those nations with which we
have claSsed ourselves and who are lead
ing the march of humanity. or shall we
go with Mexico. South America, China
and Japan. the reaIward half of the
great array of human progress, and join
those imperfect and rudimcntary civi!iZa-
tionS, which are an Occular dcmOnstra-
ton that no nation ever undertook alone
the coinage of free silver that did not de-
privc itself of gold entirely. CApplauSc.)
And YOU have but to glance upon the
map of your school boy or school girl.
your little son or daughter. 20 see the
fact recorded there for the education of
a'tii, " hihpN tifst tNtlH nv VI I'VE
nations stands upon Il lower scale of
progress than the nations which have
declared the policy upOn which the Unit
ed States now stands.
My fellow citizens. the warnings of his
tory are all against it. The present cX-
amplcS of nations who singiy are endcav-
Oring to sustain themselves under IL single
standard forbid us to enter upon a voy-
age upon. l was going to say. untried
waters. but no. upo Il voyage Which we
can plainly see other nations are making
at the present time. where we can plain
ly view rocks of distress. the shoals and
qulckSaDdS of their course from the So
cure mainland upon which the American
people now stand. and from which our
are attempting to lure them
by false lights and false alarms. Cap
plause.)
Now we have got to take facts exactly
as they are. We are not dealing with
glittering and glowing generalitics. We
are administering society and human CON
ccrnS: society. Il being perfectly concrete.
practicable. somewhat selfish.
and ! am going {" appeal !" the selfish
moss of this a%ndirnc" +" know whether
hey viii assist in ringing about that
! think ! cnu prov" VIII result
rom the aif- of ma" .'ftI"uitu who are
-" ulI;I.G t. L~t~l'a'i tl,Ui.
New. my friends. tho world j. divided.
u~t as sharply as i is 10y oceans and
nuuntaiu chains. between the .nll coun-
.rirs. who rmpi cuucUrrcntly with gold
more silver money than all the silver
countries contain ar circulate. TAP
| say that the gold countries
If this world. including the l nitch States
and | call them gold countries for the
not of definition. hut of clear.
ness of oXpresSionI. employ and circulate
moro silver than Ill the silver countries
IF the world employ. contain or circulate.
! make another proposition. | appeal
to history and to contemporary facts
which no man can dispute. that every
free coinage country is on Il silver basis.
that so? tCries of 'Yes.') I make
statement for Won to think of.
for | am not going to elaborate i'll am
going to get into the figures pretty soon
every gold country uses silver and gold
in mounts nearly equal by money ma
tons. Isn't that so? Cries of Yes
Isn't that so in the United States?
Cries of "Yes.'0 In France? Voices
Yes | make another statement for
calm and cOol reflection. that no sill.
yer standard country has any gold mon
ny whatever. oApplause.i Don't take
my word for it. Go and investigate this
| say that no silver country has
any gold money whatever. and Won can
from Mexico To Cape Horn and
find that this statement is correct.
Another statemcnt-and | make it up
'l II >'llSt u lnN TFSlbnSlhlIltN Htfpr an
exhaustive examination of statistics. in
vostigationS and rccorlS-that in every
silver standard country wages are pressed
To the very minimum Of n Wrctchr,l
subsistence. II is 50 in Mexico. il i 50
in japan. il is so in South America. I
that in every silver country wages
Ir"SSe, down Ia the very minimum
IF Il Wretchcd subsistence.
The Reasons.
Now if il i true II will not 90 into
the" reasons for it,. hut if ii is true rs a
ahSolut" fact. thar no silver
country. 10 country which has adou-ol
silver standard has any gold circull-
tion Whatever. | say that il follows that
IN" only practicable himetalliSm on the
planet is 10y the nations with which the
| nitcd States has claS>cd itself. and il
* this limctalliSm in the United States
which the pew Democracy and Popr-
liSm are cnloIvorin" Ia destroy 10y sub
Il silver recommendation. Cap
The hilmctalliSm which this
country and the nations of which | have
spoken enjoy is the himctalli>m of fact
and actual enjoyment extending To- that
full extent which human Judgment. hui
man experience. human apprrhcnsinn-
call it what YOU wili-tcach is the pro-
portion in which the metals can be en-
in Il degree that one will not de
strov or drive out the other and that
both can cO-cNi>t together. l.Applausp.)
there is. my fellow citizens. an I'M
questionable dividing linc-I shall prove
it further along. though il is not ncccs-
Sary for men who have read history.
even curSnrily. for ne Ia prove it-tlrrn
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