The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-10

mop, second, the cry that the federal government shall not enforce its laws; third, the attempt to foist upon a free people fraudulent dollar.
 It is not the democratic party that we are fighting. It is Debsism Alt geldism and Tillmanism.
 I am one who holds that the only protection to life and property rests in obedience to law l am one who holds that this government is nation, and 1t is the duty of the government to see that it's laws are obeyed. Friends, let Us make no mistake about this. This is a crisis. The demand of immunity for the mob, this demand for non-inter- ference of the federal government, this demand for fraudulent dollar, are as disastrous to the Union as the cry of secession in 1861. And if we have the same kind of stuff in us that the men of 1860 had it will be put down on the Sd of November.
 This Chicago party-I do not call it the democratic party-is composed of two classes-people who are crazy and democrats who are willing to follow them for fear that they will be called bolters, C1isses and cheers0
 I know there are democrats who hate to vote with US, but for gracious sake do not stand between the only party that stands for the honor and the in- tegrity of this nation.
 If I had stood on this platform four years ago and said that the democrats of this nation would follow the lead of populists, would have been hisesd off the platform, and rightly so; but that is what they have done.
 The cry for silver is simply an incl dent in a generality of delusions adopt ed in the Chicago platform.
 You all have read of the delusion of witchcraft that once swept over the col onies This silver erase is as much a delusion as was witchcraft When men gets a delusion you cannot argue with him.
 The silver men say that maintaining the gold standard enables the men who have money to obtain more of the toll of men than they could years ago. How do they prove this? They say silver has fallen in price. They say because silver has fallen other things have fallen also.
 You might say because wheat has fallen iron has fallen. There is no more connection between silver and wheat than ther is between iron and wheat.
 Prices fall because there is more of the commodity than the people desire, or have the ability to purchase.
 How this rise of prices is to come about they do not attempt to show.
 It is an indlsputable fact that what the farmer has to sell to-day will pur- chase more for him than ever before in the history of the United States.
 You would suppose, to hear the silver advocates talk, that in these gold coun- tries there was no silver money.
 They say that the demonstration of silver struck down one-half of the mon- ey product of the world The facts show that since 1873 we have added two times as much silver to our supply of money as we have of gold.
 During the last three years we have added more than $S50 000, ,000 of gold and silver money in about equal amounts have been added to our sup ply.
 It Is not the appreciation of gold that has produced low prices. Why, remember in my boyhood days when farmers were not brought In compe- tition with men thirty miles away; whereas to-day the farmer in Dakota is to-day in competition with the farm CT in Russia or in India. The broker can to-day buy his wheat in the Argen- tine Confederation and have it moving toward the United States as fast as steam can bring It.
 l would like to say to you that no legislation raises the value of proper ty. What this Is to 1? Why call fifty three cents worth of silver a dollar? If you are going to do a thing why not do it well. If you are going to fix the mine owner why do you not, in heav- ems name, do the whole thing by him.
 What the silver bullion owner wants is a silver certificate so that he can take three tons of silver to the mint and take away his s1000, 000 every dol lar of which has fifty-thre cents be- hind it.
 These debts are not so very old. You would think that all these debts were contracted in 1873 But debts do not run as long as that. How long do you suppose the average life of mortgage debt is? I asked Carroll D. Wright this question to-day. He an- swered by telegraph: The average life of mortgages on farms is 4.66 years, on city AIT years, and on acre plots 454 You will see by these figures that the average life of 8 mortgage debt is less than five years.
 No, my friends. we must put this question of repudiating our debts on a higher plane. We must look at it from the plane of right. In the days of '76 a man whom we did not think much of then but have come to think more of wrote these are times to try mems souls. Lowell wrote in 1860 these are times that try mems souls. If we de- eide wrongly in the present case, I believe from that hour we shall date the disintegration and the decay of the American republic.
 You decorate your hall with flags. My flag, the flag that the republican party has always stood for, the flag that bears on it's folds legends that are immortal, patriotism, honor, freedom. honesty, equal rights to all, our coun- try one and inseparable. All rights. no wrongs. The best policy for the people, for our country, and may we all vote for that policy.
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