The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-06-27

with widely swelling demands. the basis OF
our money is relatively contracting and the
people are passing into servitude all the
more dangerous because it is not physically
apparent The nation itself as to other
nations is losing the sturdy courage which
could make it defiant in the face of injus
tice and international wrong. From the
farmer and the tradesman to the Govern
ment there is apparent the same shrinking
from giving offence lest the vengeance of
some offended financial power shall descend. |
The business man submits some portion of
its international right lest some mighty for
eign creditor shall make destructive de-
demands Where will all this end if the
people shall decline to assert themselves? |
Where will it end if the older parties, |
in their determination to maintain them
selves in power for powers sake alone,
shall refuse u recognize the right and
the hope Of humanity?
POLICY DICTATED BY CREDITOR NATIONS. !
This country cannot much longer exist
free and independent against all the rest of
the world, nor can its people much longer
the United States, as a debtor nation, shall
follow policy dictated by creditor nations.
We produce all of the necessaries of
life Other nations consume our product.
In the race for existence it is a constant
struggle between producer and consumer.
Our present system of money deliberately
submits to the desire and the profit of cred
itor nations, leaving us in the mass and as
individuals prey to the money gathering
and the deadly cheapening of the Old
World
As the debt to creditors abroad increases
on the masses of the nation, the price of
human production on the farm and in the
workshop is decreased with appalling ra-
pidity, exacting more and more toll from
our citizens to meet the given demand, and
holding over their heads threat of the
day when confscation to meet their obi
cations will leave them bare and defence
less.
THE REMEDY.
The only remedy is to stop falling prices,
the deadliest curse of national life Prices
never will cease falling under the single
gold standard The restoration of bimesal-
hsm by this country will double the basis
of our money system. In time it will dou
BILE the stock of primary money of the
world; it will stop falling prices, and stead
lily elevate them until they will regain their
normal relation to the volume of debts and
credits in the world.
Bimetallism will help to bring about the
great hope of every social reformer, every
believer in the advancement of the race
who realizes that the instability of prices
has been the deadly foe of our toilers and
the servant of the foreign interest -gatherer
Bimetallism will help to bring the time
when certain expenditure of human toll
will produce certain financial result.
WORTH ATTENTION.
Who among the great masses OF our peo-
pie in the United States but feels that his
lot would be made better, his aspiration
take new wings, if he could know in the
performance of his labor what would be
the price of his product?
Is not this purpose worth the attention
of the people as individuals and worth the
attention of political conventions yet to be
held in this year 1896? Is not this so
great an end that all who believe in the
possibility of attaining it by the means pro-
posed can yield something of their parti
sanship, both in conventions and at the
polls.
LACK OF A RALLYING POINT.
1t is the hope that the masses and the
remaining Conventions will have the cour-
age and the generosity to unite for this
purpose that we have dared to offer our
views to the people of the United States,
and because in the past there has lacked
rallying point for the masses who hold,
as we do, to this belief, we venture
an act, trusting it will be received in
the same spirit of conciliation, concession
and hope with which we put it forth,
We have endeavored, in plain way, to
set the matter before the eyes of our fellow
cilizens. We invoke the union of all men
and all parties who believe that the time
has come for the triumph of justice. 1t
is an hour when the people may speak for
themselves as individuals, and through
Conventions yet to be held 1t is the
right of every citizen to indicate his pre-
ferences.
A CANDIDATE OFFERED.
With this in view, we offer to the forth
coming Conventions and to the people the
name of man for the Presidency of the
United States whose life in public and in
private represents those distinguished vir-
tues which adorned the days and the deeds
of the earlier time of this republic; re-
turn to which virtues is requisite for the
prosperity and contentment of the people
and the perpetuity and commanding ex
ample of free institutions
That man is Henry NJ Teller-a man
of the people and for the people. He is
of no section His experience and service.
his devotion to the common justice and
the common cause of his fellow-citizens,
have been as wide as the country We
believe that the people of the United States
have him in their hearts, as he had their
interest in his purpose through all the
work of an exalted life
his oNl.l FON Ehlt
1t is not merely as the exponent Of
monetary reform that we present this man
to the people. 1t is true, he has waged
mighty war for the restoration of the money
of the Constitution, and his name has been
identified as that of no other living man
with this great cause. But had his ser
vices been less demanded and less noticed
in this direction, the people would still
have recognized in him for other labors
statesman of the purest type. His only
poverty has been that of purse; in all
things else, in the generosities of man to
man, in kindliness of deeds for his fellows,
and in the study and the doings of mighty
career, he has been one of the most opulent
citizens of any age.
REMINDER.
In submitting this name to the people
we remind you that lust a generation AGO.