The herald., 1896-08-28

value. Partisanship and patriotism can
ordinarily in free country travel upon
parallel lines. Those institutions are the
safer and this country is better govern
ed where the two great parties are striv-
Ing for the mastery and most equally
divided. Each can claim upon economic
and Industrial questions, upon matters
of revenue and internal improvements
that its policy will eventuate in the
| greatest benefit for the whole people;
can confidently ask that it's program be
| submitted to the test of experiment;
| each can point to examples in it's own
history or that of other countries, where
it's experiment has proved a success.
But when the question is a moral one,
striking at the very foundation of nat
'ural justice and the rights OF man, like
slavery or one affecting the salvation of
the country, like an effort to divide it by
secession and rebellion or an attempt to
put a stain upon the national honor and
doubt upon the nationalcredit, then pa
triots must act together and there can
be only one side; then partisanship and
party obligations are in allegiance, while
| the intelligence and patriotism of the
nation are protecting it's liberty, saving
|
again we have the lessons of experience
and the lamp of history.
Mr. Depew then briefly reviewed the
action of the different political parties
from 1s4S down through the civil war,
showing how men put country before
party when crisis arose and said:
I'm this crisis, when the national
| honor and all that that involves to the
business, the employment and prosperity
of the country is at stake, the Republican
| party comes with open arms to the as
sistance Of patriotic Democrats who
care more for their country than for an
| organization which has been temporar-
| lily seized by the tumultuous and evane-
scent forces of revolution, of commun-
ism. of anarchy and of reputation
| While we are fighting the platform
which means all of these, we find that
| upon 1t is placed a ticket with one head
! ana two tails, one tail waggng to fool
the wage Garner in the east and the
other tail waSging to delude the farmer
IN the west and in the south. 1t was
Abraham Lincoln who wisely said: You
can fool all the people part of the time,
ana part of the people all the time, but
you cannot fool all the people all the
time Two millions of men marched to
the front and half a million of them laid
down their lives to stamp out sectional
ism and make these United States
united country. This effort to array one
section against another by an appeal to
prejudice and ignorance will be slammed
out, not by bullets, but by ballots will
be stamped out, not by two millions of
M tn !.
patriotism, by the knowledge that
each section has of the other, by the feel
ing that we are one people and that our
greatness is in our oneness, which will
move to the polls majestic army of H.
000,0 voters.
There are no classes, thank God. in
this country. There are no places of
power or wealth towhich the humblest
boy may not aspire. Every president
since Washington has come from the
ranks and all our prosperous business
men are of the people and have climbed
from the bottom. The pretense that
10000 bankers and money lenders will
be at each one of the 100000 voting
places influencing or controlling the |
vote of 100000 voters, or that there
gressional elections, is an assumption
more monstrous than the destruction of
this earth by having swung around it
the atmospheric tail of flying comet.
AT Albany Mr.. Bryan spoke sneerinS- |
ly of confidence as the Confidence |
man. evidently meaning that the gold |
standard was a confidence man and the |
free coinage of silver a 16 to industrial |
and financial prosperity and happiness. |
The gold confidence man." who has |
been governing this country since the |
war, has paid off our national debt, has |
more than doubled the mileage of our |
railways and telegraphs and nearly |
doubled the number of our states has |
furnished homes and employment for
fo00o,000 of people to live better than
81, 900 600 did before; has created new
south, has advanced wages and de-
creased the cost of living. What has
the free coinage of silver Confidence |
man. DONE simply by the promise of
what he will do?
Let the distressed farmer and the un-
employed millions answer at the ballot |
box. Lack of confidence has DESTROYED
the purchasing power of the country:
destruction of it's purchasing power has
ruined its market; the ruin of it's mar
kct has left the farmers product unsaI-
able on his hands. What the farmer
wants is not more coinage but more Gus
toners; what the wage Garner wants is
to exchange his labor for the best dollar
in the world, and the opportunity when
ever he wants to get that dollar with his
labor. Every day I receive marked
copies of Populistic papers attacking
me as one of the enemies of mankind be-
cause of my presidency of the New York
Central railroad and of my clients as a
lawyer. Their candidates for president
and vice president both started in life as
did, with no other capital than educa-
ton and profession. We all three
hustled for clients, for incomes and ca
reers. That the business of one is re-
puted to yield larger returns than that
of the other is not regarded by law as
either a reproach or misfortune There
arc $1,000 of us on the pay roll of that
and we neither want to re-
ceive money worth half as much as that
which we get, nor be compelled to pay
for the necessities OF life twice as much
as we pay now.
1t,o H. Il.