The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-09-23

this country until the gold standard Is |
driven back to England. They say that |
the craze is dying out l care not what |
they call the silver cause. You may apply |
to it such epithets as you will, but know
that the silver cause will not die, because !
truth never dies
Our cause appeals to the masses Of the !
people because the masses are interested |
in equal laws. Our cause is opposed by
those who want to use our government
for profit because we are opposed to gov
ernmcnt instituted for any such purposes
Your city is called Philadelphia, the CITY
OF Brotherly Love. come 60 proclaim to
you the gospel that IS described by the
name Of your own city, and yet you say
you will give hundred thousand ma
jority against that doctrine. l come TO
proclaim financial independence in city
which saw the Declaration of Independ- |
ence signed more than n hundred years ago
The issue which is raised now was
raised before, There were people then
VINO said that we could not obtain indie
pendence unless some foreign nation
would help us. There are those who say
1t today, and those who say 1t today stand
In the same position us those who said it
then. The people who hundred years
ago declared in favor of foreign supremacy
were the people who had business deal
ings and acted as the agents of the
people who employ them over there.
You have no banks in this city today
which are not controlled by the in
fluence of London, and have no more re-
spect for the American who takes his
patriotism from Lombard street than
have for the Tory who took his patriotism
hundred years ago from England.
GGfN. I IL.
dignity. NV friends. have been looking
into the matter, and do you know that l
would rather have it said that l lacked
dignity than to have it said that lacked
| backbone to meet the enemies of this gov
| ernment who conspire against this ma
tion's welfare in Wall street. believe
| that a man ought to be dignifled enough,
not too dignitled and not lacking in dig
! nity Now it might be more dignified if
l would stay at home and have people
come to see me. Butyou know that l said
l wasn't going to promise to give anybody
an office, and therefore a great many peo-
pie who might come to see a candidate
under some circumstances would not come
to see me at all And then, all our people
don have money to throw at the birds.
| Why, our people want more money, and
if they could come all the way to Nebraska
to see me it would show that they had
money enough now.
II don't like to be lacking in any of the
essentials, but do you know l can't see
that there's any lack of dignity shown if
l go before the people and talk to them
and tell them what stand for and what 1
am opposed to. They say 1 am begging
for votes. Not at all. 1 never asked a
man to vote for me- In fact, have told
tA tbat Il
more than most candidates do. l have
said that if there was anybody who be-
lieved in the maintenance of the gold
standard until foreign nations came to us
and graciously permitted us to abandon
it, not to vote for me at all.
"There is one party-no, it is not party
it claims to be a party-which puts up
one ticket in order to elect another am
more dignified-I am too dignified to ad-
vocate one thing when l mean to do an
other thing l am too dignifed to nomi-
nate one ticket for the purpose of voting
for another ticket. l am too digni1ed to
practice deception upon the American
} people.
"The Republican party adopted at St.
? Louis platform which does not say that
the gold standard is a good thing. You
: have heard those goldbugs. [ do NOT use
the word goldbug in an offensive sense.
| use the word in that same kindly spirit i'm
: which the goldburs use the word iunatic
when thev sneak of me. The goldbuos
tell us that gold is the money of civiliza-
) tion. Isn't il strange that the Republican
marty did not find that ont in ST. I,ouis
, Their platform pledpes the Renublicon
marty TO ret rid of the gold standard. The
Republican party pledges to substitute a
} double standard for the single standard
The Republican party admits that hi.
> metallism is better than monometallism.
that a double standard is better than a
. SINGLE standard.
7 '"The Republican marty admits that the
\ gold standard is bad. because if it is not
} bad thev ought not TO trv to get rid of it.
and they affirm that although had the
| American neople must sutfer from that
D had thing How long shall we mointair
1 it9 Forever If foreign nations insist or