Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-09-21

Have Indorsed the Gold Standard.
 The people are thinking as they have seldom thought before upon a great economic question. Some consider the money question too deep for the people, but no question which concerns TO-, ,0O0,- 00o of people is teo deep for those people to consider.
 No class can settle the question for any other class. We have none in this country who either by birth or by law are intrusted with the privilege of thinking for others Each one must de- sermine where his interests lie and what is best to be done.
 1 want to assure you that the money question is sufficiently simple to be un- derstood by all. Our opponents declared in favor of international bimetalism. They do not say the gold standard is good. If you find q person opposed to free coinage ask him what he believes in. If he believes i'll gold standard. tell him he cannot stand upon the Re- publican platform because it pledges the Republican party to get rid of it. If it is good, why try to get rid of it?
 When will other nations help us? have asked the question time and again and expect to continue to ask 1t. If the gold standard Is good thing, why not keep it? l wish our opponents would come out and say they are for the gold standard, because they would have to say that they loved the money owners better than they loved the toiling mass es. The man in favor of gold stand ard cannot point to single instance in the history of the world where the peo- pie had indorsed the gold standard. It is the money changers standard, and you take from the gold standard the support of the money owning and chang ing class and the gold standard will not survive day in any nation of the world
 The Republican party knows it, and that is why it did not declare for the gold standard, but 1t made as bad mis- take as that, because it said that while it desired bimetallism, and the Ameri- can people would be better off under it, the American people were too feeble to have what was good for them, and they must wait until foreign nations took pity on us. But the Republican party refuses to take pity OH the American people. They say we must maintain the gold standard until the commercial na- tions will join in international agree ment
 Why wait if we are strong enough to do it ourselves? 1 assert 70, 900, 900 of people not only have a right to havo a financial system of their own, but are able to have it. wish our opponents would print upon card and wear 1t upon their breast, ''I am an American, but I think America has to appeal to foreign nations for legislation for the American people. :" Some may think this country cannot legislate for itself, but that idea originates among people who know more of Lombard street than of the industrial masses of the United States.
 When you discover some way of stop ping hunger except by feeding a person, you will find way of stopping finan- cial depression other than by increasing the volume of money.
 IA Voice-What's the matter with the tariff?
 We are going to regulate that by in- ternational agreement as we will bi- metallism. Then we will call an inter national conference and adopt a foreign policy, and at last we will annex our selves to some nation that is big enough to take care of us and relieve us of the trouble.