Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-10-19
WORKMAN'S WORDS
Continued from Fiji n Page.


transfer Of our financial power across
the water. There are three forms of
government-monar hal, arbitrary
and government By compact-the
latter under which We live. 1t sp-
peals to the patriotism Of man. de-
pending on the vigilance of the peo-
pie for its vitality. The question in
this campaign is whether people
want monarchial or government by
common consent. The speaker said he
would not consent to get down on his
knees to the Rothschi.ds to ask them
what form of government we should
have. We vanauished old England
when We were weaker than we are
now. and MIR. Sovereign said. he did
not propose owing tn the Eng
iish lion now. even il Mark Hanna
with his wealth and influence COM
mands him. We cannot afford to
surrender the Independence which
our forefathers gave up their life
blood to proclaim. Under an inter-
national agreement England could
reduce the United States to absolute
penury. close her industries, bring
on q war, and with the assistance Of
the remaining foreign powers. wipe
US from the face of the earth. Mr.
Sovereign believed in taking them
one at a time.
Love for the wo, klngmen.
Mr.. Sovereign spoke o, the love
which the corporations had for the
workingmen in this campaiga. The
man who says that dollar stamped
as such by the govere ment is worth
but 50 cents is nothing more than
half souled lover of the stars aud
stripes. Did anyone ever hear Of
2-gallon quart? When we want to
make dollar We place certaio
amount under the mintage stamp
and it comes out u dollar. When we
want to know whether il is really a
dollar we refer to the laws by W hich
it is backed. When our oppo nents
say our dollar is 50-cent dollar it
is only fair to presume that its gold
partner is a 20O-cent dollar. One
OF the stock arguments of the repub.
licans is that the workingmau can
buy more with q dollar under the
single standard. All labor for it's
prosperity depends on the margin
of it's profits. II a laboring man
gets 81 a day and it costs him IS
cents to live he has but rs cents left
to apply on the home. But il he
gets 81 and products are twice as
high he has still half dollar to save.
As prices 90 down money goes up.
Our opponents call the free coinage
agitation an attempt at reputation.
In the first place. the national debts
aggregate t29, 900. 600, 900 according
to the late census. II you had all
the gold in the world you would only
be able to pay 81 on every 81. Who
are the repudia,ionists? Hire our
100000 wageworkers and pile up
all the gold Of this country and you
would not be able to pay them for
80 days with wages at the lowest
The meanest repudiator is he
who advocates paying something
that he cannot. Such a man Is Will
liam Mckinley, who would have gone
to the wall but for Mark Hanna, who
came to the rescue and paid the debt
which he contracted and knew full
well that he was unable to liquidste.
MIR. Sovereign charged the republic
cans with attempting to force upon
US the most infamous piece of repu.
diation ever known in the history of
the world. They refer US to Mexico.
Why in the name Of God don't they
go to Turkey. where men and
women are beng slaughtered by the
thousands with the single standard
flag floating above her. Don't talk
to US about Mexico. They say we
are all anarchists. No sooner did
the glad tidings of Bryan's nomina-
ton come than the red dag was
hoisted in the gambling hell of New
York-Wall street. Here Mr..
Sovereign display ed letter bearing
the signature Of Henry Ciews. the
authorized mouthpiece of Wall
street. in which he expresses the
fear which he and his clique enter
tain for the possible success Of free
coinage and stating that Wall stree.
realizes that there are greater powers
than party platforms, and IL neces-
sary would resort to such tactics as
would overthrow any legislation
looking toward the adoption Of the
Bryan policy on the eve of its sue
cess. Mr.. Sovereign wanted to know
what the American people would say
about him il he wrote such q docu-
meDt. He would be behind the bars
for attempting q conspiracy against
the liberty Of the American people.
Now who are the anarchists?
False Claim.
The speaker had heard il said
that we are trying to array the
masses against the classes, bat he
emphatically asserted that the classes
have arrayed themselves against the
masses.
Mr.. Sovereign referred to his pre-
decessor. T. V. Powderly, aud how
after being caressed for 20 minutes
by Marx Hanna, he turned his back
on associates OF years. abandoning
every thing that he had advocated
while identified with labor, and is
now going about attempting to con-