The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-11

part.
/ wairh has BEEN manifested along the roa1
has aught n Il Of a personal nature II
Simply proves the respect which the people
feel for those s-So stand n positions OF
authority or stand before the people SIS
can1sdases for hose positions"
After referring TO ths spirit with which
I Anerscars enter into thelr 7oiirieai
campaigns. - aided: We are en-
ssrlnr upon . campaign which VIII
exceed "a Interest and intensity
AIRY campaign through which We
have passed. see before me the faces OF
( young men-ycung men who. Ike myself
Eave grown Ep since the war. We have
besa agattng those war questions. snd 100
often the bitterness OK quarter OF
century has fingered 10 clond our 3aas-
meat and 10 darker orr Understandings
Bat NE haze reached a Hsw era We have
come upo1 A. period when all the war
questions are tied ard when the people
come face 20 face Essa great Industrial
rroDieTas. waen the people come lace %
face win great economic qassaons-
Every political question must, Il Y f@-
mains before the pH01ic long. De oased
rnon economic trutas. and every economic
question Is a. last q moral question,
question OF right or wrong. and no Qaes-
non has ever been seStiee until II has oseh
settled upon the basis Of what - rignf-
6
than when he said that the art OF govern
nusnt is the ART Of being honest, ana fnae
10 discern right from wrong requires not
the help % many coaBseIors- he was
rlTaf The great principles OF rght ana
wrong are easily observed. and that Is WY
TIE people ara competent 10 settle every
question that can arise y a government
Ike ours. And when I find people who
say that this is a great question, COM
pI5eated question. as they say the money
question Is ! ind that they eoscIude ~
saying that they have made study 81
The complicated question u-aughIert
When I see Z person who says X IS too
deep for the people. hna some one VINO
says Il Is Just about deep enough for HIN
lAppiause saa laughfer.1 No question IS
too deep for the American people great
appIause), ard seventy million people acs-
ing as a great jury must finally decide,
ard they alone can decide every pubic
question. tAppisuse.)
II read the other day a little pamphlet
sent by some OF the advocates or the gold
standard who call themselves advocates
OF sound money. and IL contained this par
agraph, that all of the finaneisrs and cap
itallsts the only people who are coTnpe-
tent TO express an opinion on the subject,
are In favor OF the gold standard. Great
applause and laaghfer) IL first appeared
IN an article in the Forum written By
distinguished Frenchnan and was then re-
produced and scattered over the country
a. literature by the advocates OF the gold
standard. and therefore we must suppose
that IL expresses b ir IDEAS, that only cap
itasis1s and hnanclers are competent 10
express an opinion upon this subject And
they are not slow to express and condemn
the intelligence and patriotism of all the
rest OF the people, whom they would ex-
clude from participating in the settlement
OF this question. Great applause and
iaughter) Ny friends, IL Is principle OF
the broadcast Democracy that these ques-
tons must be settled b. the common pso-
pie, and that this government has never
created a particular class to legisiate Tor
others. Tremendous applause.)
Now, my friends. We are not preach
ing new doctrine: we are not preaching
a new idea. We are simply asserting that
the principles that Gnderlie this govern
ment should apply TO new conditions as
they arise. and that you can find out what
ought 20 be done by measuring every pro-
posed public act by the propositions con-
tanned IN the Declaration Of Independence
and By the provisions of the constitution
which is based upon that declaration That
Is all we ask. We simply mean this, that
when we go TO legislate the government
shall know no Distinctions that there
shall be known by the government no dit
ference between men because OF birth. be-
cause OF position In society, or because or
tApplause) That IS the substance of that
declaration. That is the substance OF the
constitution and those principles must
unaerlie our government while IL conun-
ues IN It's present form. You as citizens
have right TO speak upon this subject
II care not what your past party con-
nections may have been. Party Is but an
instrument by which the citizen serves
his country. You tell me you owe some
thing TO your party; tel. you that your
marty owes higher duty to you than you
can owe 10 L. Great Applaase9 | would
not say one word that would lessen the
esteem which any OF you may have fof
tha achievements OF the party 10 which
YOU have belonged, but l say that such
nartses cannot live upon the past. Parties
must face the present. Parties must be
,ranared 10 meet and solve every Issue as
II arises, ana the party that does not care
snaurh 10 meet an Issue - not brave
enough TO govern the United states
fcsrsat appiause) Parties do not make
issues. Issues make and uninake parties
Great applause and cries OF Right you
are.O
AN issue has arisen. II was forced upon
his neoole For twenty years Il has been
growing and during the last three years
IFS growth has been more rapid than in
any three years before. This issue was
presented to the American people. The
Republican party met IN conventional
haa is opportunity. When Abraham LIN
coin was the idol OF the Republican party
the uartv was willing 10 meet the issues
81 me day (Applause) The Republican
Marty AZ 81 Louis was not Wiling 20
meet the great issues Of the day. ZAP
nlauseN The people were suffering from
rola standard The leaders Of that party
knew a. In the platform they declared
that the gold standard Is a bad thing. be-
-. .hs.. Sas8 tbev wanted 20 get rid OF
~ as soon as they could. tAppiause0 IL
any Republican tells you that the gold
standard is q good thing, tell him 20 look
At his platform. (Applauss and laughter1
ais platform says that the Republican
nartv VIII Substitute bi-metaAisgn for gold
rnono-naetalilsun whenever some other ma
flor wfil help IA 40 it. applause and
lauehter) 1 have Nd. and I expect to
Keep on saving. hat there are two ques-
lions that VIII drive the Republican party
from The fela The FIRST IL, IL the gold
standard IA a good thing way not keep
81 ~ Il g. a bad thing, why should Nc
! keep it7 Great appiaase1 II It Is a good
thing. Why try SO get other nations 70
he}o rs ~ dasay 90 ear people the benefits
~ 4 tAne9aaseA n Is a hsd tAing. who
Hare< % say fhst the people Of this coDn-
trv shan saTer FROM a bad thinge zap
p1aase1
Vow. NY friends. dla not intend 20
make q sree-h. tCrics ~ SEQ on, 80 en-
must staa ROW
4 vo-,e-Ten us abou: = 20 /
NJ Brynn-rhsFe are several dedn3'icns
81 ss 90 & I wiH give Yea some Of them.
se-re think thas 10 20 I means thst RE
xaverr1srs wI1 cola sixteen silver 8o5-
lars every tsnae O. coins ore soli 4o'1ar.
TTauEhfer4 Same th3uk fhat g means
that fNs government vii give sixteen ST.
YER 3oars for every god eo.lar. uauga-