Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-22

common people of any land have ever
declared themselves ip favor Of a gold
standard. They can find where the
holders of fixed Investments have
s.Mr. Carlisle said in 1878 that this
was a struggle between the idle holders
OF idle capital and the struggling
masses who produce the wealth and
paw the taxes of the country, and, my
friends, it is simply question that we
shall decide, upon which side shall the
democratic party fight? Upon the
side of the idle holders of idle capital.
or upon the side of the struggling
masses? That is the question that the
! party must answer first. and then 1t
musf be answered by each Individual
hereafter.
! 1.-The sympathies of the democratic
party. as described by the platform.
are on the side of the struggling
masses who have ever been the found
alton of the democratic party. There
are two ideas of government. There
1 are those who believe that ii you just
legislate to make the well-.o-do pros
porous, their prosperity will leak
through on those below. The demo
cratic idea has been that if you !egis
| late to make the masses prosperous
their prosperity will find its way up
through every class. and rest upon it.
CITIES REST ON PRAIRIEs.
You come to us and tell us that the
great cities are in favor of the gold
standard. tell you that the great
cities rest upon these broad and fertile
prairies. Burn down your cities and
leave our FARMS. and your cities will
spring Up again as if by magic; but do
tctr 70 tho
grow in the streets of every city in this
country.
my friends, we shall declare that
this nation is able to legislate for its
own people on every question, without
waiting for the aid or consent of any
other nation on earth, and upon that
issue we expect to carry every single
State in this Union. shall not SIAN
der the fair State of Massachusetts,
Lnor New York, by saying that when
its citizens are confronted with the
proposition. Is this nation able to
attend to it's own business?-I will not
SANDER either one by saying that the
people of those States will declare our
helpless impotency as a nation to at
tend to our own business.
ISSUE OF 1776 OVER AGAIN.
ut is the issue of 1776 over again.
Our ancestors were the 5000, 900 who
had the courage to declare their polit-
ical independence of every other
nation upon earth. Shall we, their
descendants, when we have grown to
70, 900, 900. declare that we are less
independent than our forefathers? No,
my friends, it will never be the judg-
ment of this people.
Therefore, we care not upon what
lines the battle is fought. If they say
bimetallism is good, but we cannot
have it until some nation helps US, we
reply that. instead of having a gold
standard because England has, we
shall restore bimetallism and then let
England have himetallism because the
United States has.
''If they dare to come out and in the
open defend the gold standard as a
good thing, we shall fight tn em to the
uttermost. Having behind us the
producing masses of this nation and
the world; having behind us the COM
mercial interests, and the laboring in
terests, and all the toiling masses, we
shall answer their demands for a gold
standard by saying to them, You
shall not press down upon the brow of
labor this crown of thorns. You shall
not cruelty mankind upon a cross of
gold"