The herald., 1896-10-11
lrtx declares for himetallism b

| party declares for bimetallism by
agreement with other nations. Col. In
| gersoll said recently that no nation can
make money; that money cannot be re-
deemed; it is the redeemer; that any
money that requires bolstering is bad
money. Now who is right?
Then Mr.. ButterWorth said he knew
the decentralization of silver in 1873 was
wrong, but it had been done, and what
are you going to do about it? Well, 1
know man who at least says he knows
what to do He's away up in the Dako-
| ia wheat fields tonight, and he Is willing
| to try a remedy, and If returned to the
presidency he will wipe the iniquitous
law that demonetiZed silver from off the
| statute book.
ut is not an aggregation of wealth
that makes nation. 1t is the dstribu-
| tion of that wealth that ensures plenty
I and prosperity. When wealth accu-
mulates in the hands of the few it is the
beginning of the end. History tells us
so. And I tell you when the insidious
hand Of wealth touches the Legislative
| halls, or back stair approach is made
! to the judicial chair, or the pollutng
hand is laid on the ballot box then these
| few men of wealth ought to stand ap-
palled at their own danger.
Where are the old soldiers that are
here? GA band of veterans sitting to the
left of the platform stood up and scat
tering of others to the right.) When
my people undertook to make new line
across this country what would you have
said if Abraham Lincoln, in 1861, had
looked across to England and asked
permission to issue paper money in order
to save the nation. And now in 1896,
with million men in want and distress
depressing the land, what do you think
of man who tells you that he can't take
action without getting permission from
other nations?"
Mr.. Taylor with rare eloquence paid
a glowing tribute to the memory of the
immortal Lincoln.
"I invoke the spirit" said he, "of the
greatest American that ever lived. Ever
thoughtful. gentle and kind and lover
of what was true and right, l ask you
to remember the doctrine taught to you
by him. I am from the south, but tell
you we had learned to appreciate his
character. Before Appomatox had told
it's story we had learned to know the
great heart that was so truly American.
When the assassin's hand struck him
down you hung Grape on your doors, but
20.0 ,000 broken-hearted Southerners
hung the Grape on their hearts. Had he
lived wounds would have quickly healed
and we would have had no reconstruc-
tion law"
Returning more closely to his theme,
the speaker cited history to show how
concentrated wealth had proved the
ruin or country. MINUS tnlS wealth.
Rome was the mistress of the known
world, but when, on the spoil of con-
quered countries as well as that wrested
from her own people, the few gained i'm
mense wealth, the end came quickly.
Rome was betrayed by Romans, and the
Goths and Huns only completed what
had been begun at home.
II dread this concentration of wealth."
resumed the speaker. THE wealthy
men, l believe, love their country as we'll
as you and 1, but they are not in touch
with it. They get their inspiration not
from their own country, but from where
they cast their eyes across the seas"
Someone who signed himself "a Re
publican" sent up to the platform
series of typewriter questions and Mr..
Taylor followed along the line suggested
by these questions, and dwelt upon the
dependence of the wage Garner upon the
agriculturist. BY apt illustration he
showed how both will inevitably be ben
Gifted by free coinage, and incidentally
proved the fallacy of ex-President Har-
risons contention that dear money is
good for the people for it gives to them
cheap products. He concluded with an
almost solemn appeal to ALI present to
SO deport themselves on election day as
engaged in most sacred duty; meeting
for the time on common ground with the
millions of their fellows who, in the pri-
vacy of the polling booth, would cast the
ballots that would SO closely affect the
interests OF every citizen in the country.