The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-29

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lingly offered their services to make the
| nation one, are willing to-day to engage in
| this great contest to keep this nation
which they helped TO save an independent
| nation, rather than a province OF a for
| eign empire. (Cheers) ] am glad to talk
TO business men. ('We are glad to hear
| you.'D
II have said that those who so often
assume to be the only business men some
| times make a great mistake in assuming
| that the prosperity Of the nation rests
| upon them. l am going to-day to talk TO
| business men, and to say to them that In
! pleading the cause of the farmer and the
laborer, l am trying to lay a substantial
| foundation upon which the business or
this country can be done. (Cheers). II
| you who are engaged in merchandise en-
gagged in the exchange of wealth, suppose
that the prosperity Of the producers de-
pend upon you, you deceive yourself.
Wealth must be created before It can be
| distributed Those who create wealth
| could live, although you went out of bus
mess. You cannot live II the producers
| of wealth go out Of business. (Cheers).
believe that that policy is best for this
country which begins with those who toll
and gives them first the inspiration to
work and then protects them in the en-
| joyment of a rightful share of the pro-
ceeds of their toll, and proceeds from them
up to the other classes of society, which
/
II say to you that the republican plat
form adopted this year is a fraud. say
| that 1t was intended as a fraud. (Cheers)
I say that the men who wrote 1t wrote it
| to deceive the people and to secure sup
port by that deception that they could not
obtain openly. If you ask me for my
proof let me read few editorials. l ann
going to speak of a distinguished citizen
of your city, for whom, as an individual,
/ have the highest respect, and / believe
that he entertains for me the same kindly
feeling that / entertain for him; but he
| believes that my election would be dam
gerous TO the country, and l believe that
his action on the money question
| has been hostile to the best in
terests Of the people. And, there
fore, shall cite him as an
evidence Of an attempt to deceive the par
ty. If you will see the Times Herald you
| will find these words in dispatch from
St. Louis 1t Is only a matter Of simple
justice to Mr.. Kohlshaat for me to report
what every one in st. Louis, familiar with
the facts Is saying tonight, that the cred
it for having secured the adoption of this
straightout and unmistakable money
plank by the republican national conven-
tion is due more to him than to any one
else Then in his own paper is published
the statement, from his own correspond
ent, that he more than any one else is re-
sponsible for the money plank adopted at
|
that plank say. We are therefore, oppos-
ed to the free coinage of silver except by
International agreement with the leading
| commercial nations of the world, which
we pledge ourselves to promote, and until
such an agreement can be obtained, the
existing gold standard must be preserved.
| Now, note the words. That platform de-
clared that until the leading commercial
nations Of the world would Join In bi-met-
allism, the gold standard must be preserv-
ed Now, what else do you find In that pa
per?
'"rhe qualifying words used by the com
mittee pedging the party to endeavor to
promote an international agreement are
believed to strengthen the platform from
political point of view, without In any
way weakening IL as a frank and fearless
declaration for the gold standard. Inas-
much as 1t is and has been the republican
policy to promote international bimetal-
) lism and such bimetalllsm is earnestly de-
sired by almost every one in the country,
of both parties, nothing is lost and possI-
bly, something gained by giving the west
ern republicans a ray Of hope In the fu-
ture.
Now, my friends, II you will look In
that same paper of the 9Th of June, only
a few days before, you will find this edi-
, torial: Every reference to an interna-
tional agreement is shlfty and futile II
, deceived nobody, because every one knows,
first that there Is not the slightest possi-
bility of an international agreement at any
ratio, and secondly, that If such an agree
ment were formally entered Into, no gov
ernment could be bound to abide by 1t a
: day longer than its own industry or COM
, mercal interests would appear to war
rant.
"rhere you find In the paper owned and
! edited 10y the man who wrote the platform
, you find in there declaration, only
ten days before that every reference tC
International agreement is shifty and fu.
tile 1t deceives nobody, because every
one knows, first that there Is not the
slightest possibility Of an international
/, agreement at any ratio (Cheers) And
! | yet within ten days after that editorial
appears In the Times-Herald. that editor
: | writes a plank which pledges the republi
can party to use every effort to promote
International bimetallism, and then thai
l paper reports in its dispatches that thai
is put In there to give a ray Of hope tC
republicans in the west (cheering)
II want you to remember that thai
| phrase, pledging the republican party tc
! promote blmetallism was offered as a
4 soace TO the republicans of the west
: with no idea that the republican party
, would ever use any effort to change the
4 gold standard. (Great cheering) 1 know
that some OF our critics are very much
: excited because the Chicago platform says
t that we pledge ourselves to secure such
Q explanation as will, In the future, pre-
I vent contracts for particular kind OF
Q money. Why they say that we are not
going to let people contract We are not
2 going to let them make contracts that are
4 against public policy. We do not intend
3 that they shall demonetize by private
contract what this nation makes money
0 by universal law. (Cheers) DO you say
! that we have no right TO interfere with
l private contracts? l ask one Of you to
enter into a contract to collect 20 per
cent interest and see whether the gov
ernment has any right TO interfere. Upon
what theory is the usury law based? IT
Is based upon the theory that a
man who borrows money needs to
| be protected from the avarice OF the man
who loans him money. When a man
tells me that we have not a right to pro-
{ tect the money of the United States
| against the conspiracy of those who
would degrade It, 1 tell you that we have
more right to prevent gold contracts or
silver contracts than you have to prevent
one individual from agreeing to pay an
other more than a certain rate Of inter-