The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-10-13
At THE HEKsIITAGE.
Free Coinage OF Silver Is Not an Ex-
periment-Endorsed pyIthe History
ofthe Human Race.

ofthe Human Race.
Ladies and Gentlemen: It was NJ,
good fortune to visit Nashville NOR
than year ago when we were begin
ming the fight which resulted In secur
ing the control of the Democratic con
ventton. remember with pleasur,
my visit then and 1t gratiies me mucl
upon returning to find that the ssnti
ment In favor of the Immediate restora
tion OF the free and unlimited coinag,
of both gold and silver at the presen
legal ratio of 16 to 1, (oheers) withou
waiting for the aid or consent of any
nation on earth has expanded unit
today vast majority Of the people o.
| Tennessee are arrayed under q double
standard banner. l beg to thank the
| young men who have opened this meet
ing with our campaign song-our bat.
tie hymn it might be called-for in
this fight for the defense of the homes
OF this land, the humble as we'll Us the
palatial home, we we'll might take as
our battle hymn that most beautiful
OF all songs, "Home, Sweet Home.'
| (Cheers.)
Our warfare is in one sense aggres
sive, in another sense it is defensive
1t is aggressive in the sense that we
are asking for remedial legislation. II
is aggressive in the sense that we are
insisting that something shall be done,
and 1t is defensive in the sense that we
are fighting for our homes and our
people from the, invasion of foreign
financial policy. (Cheers.)
AS passed through the streets to-
night and listened to the exclamations
of the people, could easily believe
that was in a city 80 near that sacred
spot, the Hermitage. (Cheers.l can
understand why the people of this State
should feel so deep an interest in the
cause which is being represented by
the Chicago platform, because, my
friends, we are fighting today the bat
tie that Andrew Jackson fought when
he was In Office. Great cheers.) We
find arrayed against us the same COM
binations, the same aggregations Of
wealth, we meet the samo intoler-
ance that he met we suffer from
the same abuse that he suffered
from; every name is applied today
to the advocates of free coinage that
were applied to Old Hickory when
he fought for the American people.
Great cheering, 1t has been the lot
of those who have espoused our cause
to be denounced and abused by those
who favor the gold standard. 1t
has been the lot of those who have de-
Tended the cause of the common people
to be assailed by those who doubt the
capacity of the people for self.govern-
ment, and would deny TO them the
right of eating the bread which they
earn. (Cheers.)
In declaring in favor Of bimetallisrn
we are standing upon ancient ground.
The free coinage of silver is no expert
ment. 1t is endorsed by history OF the
human race. 1t has the sanction of all
the great statesmen of this nation
from the beginning of our constitution.
al history down to 1873. No person
will assert that the American people
abandoned bimetallism after full and
complete discussion. If you read the
records of the time you will find that
the newspapers which are so quick to
grasp upon any item of news and so
ready to spread it before the public
did not understand and explain that
the law of 1873 dcmonetized silver,
closed the mints to the coinage of the
white metal and left us with gold only
as our standard money. Ever since
that day we have been seeking to undo
what was done in the dark. (Cheers.)
My friends that man who talks about
our not needing any more money in
this country is a curiosity. | have
always noticed that the man who
thinks we do not need any more money
happens to be the man who has the
money. (Cheers.) Let me show you
that our financiers themselves acknOw-
ledge our need of more money. Our
firanciers rejoice at the Thought OF
money coming from abroad. If we
have enough money in this country
now why should we want single dol
lar to come from any other country
Do we want too much money in this
country? Nobody wants too much, we
all want just enough. My friends,
whenever we admit that we ought to
have any money come from abroad, we
admit that there is not enough here
and when we admit that there is not
enough money, now then assert that it
is better to let this country get out of
our own mountains'the money than togo
abroad and borrow money to be paid
afterwards in interest. (Cheers.)
But they ask us how are we going
to get hold Of this money even if there
is more. 1t is q very easy question.
1t is true that you cannot get money
until you have something to sell, but
it Is just as true that every producer
ought to have something to sell, and
the price he gets for what he has to
sell, depends upon how much money
to buy what he has to sell. (Cheers.)
When a man asks you how are you
going to get any of this money unless
you have something, let me give you
a question to ask him. Suppose have
something to sell how am | going to
get anything for it until find some
body with money to buy what have to
sell? Great applause.) Ny friends,
we have lost some Democrats iaa iiaa thi tti Is
tight. bnt-I an mighty glad that most
OF those whom we lost were generals.
We have not lost many privates in the
army. (Applanse.) We might have
kept all the Democrats who are gone
il we had been willing to pay tho
price they asked. If we had been
willing to mako the Democratic
party the agent to fasten plutocraoy
upon the American people we could
have kept every man who has left
us. But we have to choose between
throwing overheard those who have
been mill-stones about the neck of
Democracy and throwing over Demo.
cracy itself, and we prefer to save
Democracy and let the aristocrats go.
Great cheering.) My friends, we have
not lost by It,. 1t has been our gain.
1t is always true that those who dare
to do right are rewarded in the long
run, and the Democratic party is re-
ceiving Its reward-not even waiting
for the long run--is is receiving its re-
ward right now for daring to do right
at Chicago. (Cheers.)
We are drawing In our ranks those
who are In the Republican party for BIZ
metallism. They have come to us be-
cause they see now that the hope OF