The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-10-01

rejoice whom it goes mn. Eut my friends.
II those who earn money aud profi! by
iis rise like TO see money rise why don {
they tell us that they want ihc gold
standard, because " rs good Tor the N
they want Il because 1t is good for the
rest of The people tApplause)
II you ind n man VINO believes int a
believes that iGnmt policy Is good for his
noghbor. that man will tell you that he
Is benefited by the policy. but II You find
him and knows il is bnd for his r,eignbors
you can never get him to admit that II Is
even good for him. and in my, Judgment
,he reason why the bond syndicates are
ing themselves for the public good IS be
cause they are not willing to admit mat
me policy which they advocate ~ good
for Them ana injurious to other people
My friends. my opponents assume that
money is a thing cleaed by commerce
want to say 10 you that money Is q
creature Of law. You ean have as much
money or as little money as the law lcr-
mits. If the laws are made by those VINO
want money to be high priced. they make
money scarce in order that money may
be high pr ced. If you want inoaey sui
Recently plentiful to Keep pace with nolu-
latiou and Industry, the laws have got to
be made by those who believe in having
enough money TO keep pace with popnla-
tlon. tApplause.J II YOU wan dollars
dcarer than they are now, YOU can have
them by making dollars scarcer than -'cy
are now--if dollars can De much scarcer
thln they are now tApplause)
If there Is any ropuhL can farmer here
who feels that when he sells his oats Tor
10 ccats a bushel he Is get lag TOO much
for them, all he has got to do Is - vote
the republican ticket and keep Go'I EpLB
an. aud after awhile he Will not he
troubles with spending more than cents.
Npplause.) If 10 cents today buys
bushel of oats. 9 cents Will buy hushel
when YOU make money twice "a dear as
rs II ~ now, and II the time comes when
q man does not want TO be worried with
spending az much as cents as the pro-
cccds of tine sale Of a bushel Of oais, he
can keep on voting the teprblican ticket
unal the amount ls so little that II VIII
hot trouble MIN AT an applause
our opponents say mat II ell YOU sell
gees down. the price of what you buy
also goes down, and That therefore 1t does
not make any difference to yan, iiut
ihoaa who argue that way forget That
there are some things that do not 20
down. Have your taxes fallen Ia The
last tyeni. ,eirs? (Crles Of no, no.'D
tally so. OF tie products OF the farm TO
ray the same amount If taxes as IT ala
twenty years ago. tApplruSeJ Your
debts have not gore down, your Interest
doos rot 70 down. ana even your railroad
rates do not 20 down. II there are any
republicans IN this audience want Them
TO consider Just ono propVslton II our
tcrcst IN Il gold standard, are willing 70
loave the party In orlar 20 al yanc, their
lecuniary interest, why VIII not a repub-
lean farmer or n republican laborer or
republican business ran leave the re-
Publican party to protect his home. his
family ana posterity from the distress
cont equent to foreign financial policy
(Wild cheering ana applause.)
Jusi ask those republicans why Il Il tia;
the republican who Ignores the welfare OF
country why he should 40 contrary to all
his Judgment leads him TO believe that
Is right IN order to prove his felity u his
party. when these democrats. whose busl-
conduct Of this government, seem 10 be
so willing to throw OF party ties in order
to stand by a dollar which robs the many
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