The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-07-22


are in this convention today, and who
tell YOU that we ought to declare III
favor of International Dimetallism, and
thereby delare that the gold standard
is wrong and the principle OF blmetal-
ism is better-theSe very people four
months ago We're open and avowed ad-
vocates of the gold standard, and tell
ing US that we could not !egislate two
metals together, even with all the
world
Il want TO suggest this truth, that If
the gold standard is good thing we
ought to declare in favor Of It's reten-
ton, and not in favor Of abandoning
it, and if the gold standard is 3 bad
thing, why should we wait until some
other nations are willing to tIelp us to
let goI
THE LINE OF BATTLE.
Here Is the line OF battle: We care
not upon which issue they force The
fight. We are prepared to meet them
on either issue, or on both. II they
tell us that the gold standard Is the
standard OF civilization, we reply to
them that this the most enlightened OF
all the nations of the earth, has never
declared for gold standard, and both
the parties this year are declaring
against it.
IF the gold standard is the standard
OF civilization, why. my friends,
should we not have it, So, ifthey
come to meet US on that, We can pres
ent the history of our nation. More
than that, We can tell them ttls that
they will search the pages OF history
in vain to find 4 single instance in
which the common people OF any land
have ever declared themselves ID FAVOR
of a gold standard. They can find
have.
MIR. Carlisle said in 1873 that this
was ! struggle between the idle hold
ers Of idle capital and the struggling
masses who produce the wealth and
pay the taxes Of the country, and, my
friends, it is simply question that we
shall decide, upon which side shall
the Democratic party 6ght' Upon the
side of the idle holders of idle capital
or upon thesi of the struggling mas
| se<2 That IS the question that the par
ty must answer first and then 1t must
be answered by each individual here
after.
The sympathies of the Democratic
party, as described by the platform,
are on the side of the struggling mas
ses who have ever been the founda-
ton of the Democratic party. There
are two ideas of government. There
are those who believe that if you just
legislate TO make the well 10 do pros
porous their prosperity will leak
through on those below. The Demo
! cratic idea has been thatif you legislate
to make the masses prosperous their
prosperity will find its way up through
every class and rest upon it.
CITIES REST ON PRAIRES
You come to US and tell US that the
great cities are in favor OF the gold
standard. tell you that the great
cities rest upon these broad and fertile
prairies. Burn down your cities and
leave our farms, and your cities will
spring up sgain as if by magic; put de.
stroy our farms and the grass will
grow in the streets OF every city in this
country.
My friends, we shall declare that
this nation is able to ieeislate for its
own people on every question, with.
out waiting for the aid or consent OF
any other nation on earth, and upon
that issue we expect to carry every
single State in this union, l shall not
slander the fair State Of Massachusetts,
nor New York by saying that when
its citizens are confronted with the
proposition. Is this nation able to at,
tend to its own business?-l will not
SANDER either one by saying that the
people of those States will declare our
helpless impotency as nation to at
tend to our own business.
ISSUE OF 17116 OVER AGAIN.
1t is the issue Of 1776 over again.
Our ancestors were the 5000, 900 who
had the courage to declare their polltl-
cal independence of every other na.
ton on earth. Shall we, their descen-
dants, when we have grown to 20, OOQ,-
900, declare that we are less indepen'
dent than our forefathers? No, my
friends it will never be the judgment
OF this people.
Therefore. we care not upon what
lines the battlei is fought. If they say
bimetallism is good, but we cannot
have it until some nation help US, we
reply that, instead of having gold
standard because England has, we
shall restore bimetallism and then let
England have bimetallism because the
United States has.
IF they dare to come out and ii the
open defend the gold standard as a
good thing, we shall fight them to the
| uttermost. Having behind US the pro-
ducing masses of this nation and the
| world having behind US the CONNER
| cial interests, and the laboring inter
ests. and all the toling masses, we
shall answer their demands for gold
standard by saying to him: on shall
not press down upon the brow OF Ia
Dor this crown of thorns. You shall
not cruelty mankind upon cross of
gold "
] 5Iany Msn Drowned.
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