The herald., 1896-08-27

"Just stop your worrying about the la
boring man and go to sleep" Are these
the men who have been leading the la
boring man up to a higher ground? No,
my friends. They are the men who have
been too busy trying to make money out
of the appreciation of the dollar TO
spend their dollars in giving employ
ment to the men in developing the re-
sources of this great country. You can
not employ labor unless you can sell
the products of labor at a profit, and
unless money goes up the products OF
labor must go down. and the man finds
it more profitable to lock his money in
the vault and collect its increasing value
than he does to invest it in enterprise
under prospect of loss. (Applause)
So confident are we of the justice of
our cause that we are willing TO sub
nit this question to the sovereigns OF
this land, we do not intend to exclude
from the consideration of this question
the financier, but to place by the side
of the man who exchanges money, the
man whose brain and hand produces
wealth and say to the toiler: You are
the equal of the other man before the
law. The ballot is yours as well as his.
(Applause) We will not attempt to
aroue your animosity against any class
of citizens. unless those citizens assume
a superiority unknown to the laws OF
the United States. But if man in this
country assumes the right to think or
speak for somebody else, or asks to use
his power as an employer to coerce the
men who work for him. we stand and op-
pose him as we would the man who
attempted to establish monarchy in a
democracy. We oppose him and offer
no apology for that opposition. (Tre-
mendous applause)
l beg you, my friends, to remember
that when our opponents see fit to use
abusive epithets against those VINO were
present at the Chicago convention and
against those whom the Chicago con-
vention nominated, remember that those
epithets are not used against us. put
against the people who have allied to the
gold standard and are fighting the bat
tie there inaugurated. Can our oppo-
nents afford to apply these names to the
great common people of this country?
Can our opponents afford to slander
those people who in every hour of dam
ger have been the nations safeguard?
(Applause.)
Suppose there was trouble today,
either domestic or foreign, where
would we find the men to fight our bat
ties? Would we find them among the
syndicates and the stock exchanges and
combinations of money grabbers? To
whom would they appeal? To you, and
they would say: 'Oh, anarchists, save
our property" applause and laughter.)
If they must rely upon you in times of
danger, should they not let you have
something to say in the quiet hours of
peace? Is there a man who has made
property in this country who is not
willing to risk that property in the
hands of the people of the United States?
If there be one, then that man has lost
faith in the form of government under
which he lives, because in this land there
is no power but the people, and the man
who fears them ought to leave this
country for his country's good. Gap
plause.)
L beg you to study this question for
yourselves in the days that intervene
between today and the day upon which
you exercise your right as citizen to
vote. l am willing that you shall read
everything set before the people by our
opponents, because, my friends, next
to free silver literature, the most con-
vincing literature abroad in the land is
the literature that is making more
votes for us than any other-the liter
ature disseminated by the advocates of
the gold standard. 1 do not presume to
tell you what you ought to do. Each
man knows for himself No man, no
matter how high the position for which
he is candidate, has the right to tell
the humblest citizens of the land how
to vote. Your vote is your own. You
use it as you think best, and those who
are candidates before you must be con-
tent with the result whatever the result
may be.
1 thank you for your attention.