The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-29

 | can it be changed though every one who spoke for it should turn his back upon it. (Applause,) Truth lives. It is the one thing that will not die. | quote these words to show you that | by the increase of the volume of money we expect to stop the constant appre- | citation of money and the constant de- preciation of property. There Is diff l ference between the owner of money and the owner or producer of property. | Let me illustrate.
 1 Suppose man in this community a young man-finds some young woman who is willing to trust her future to his strong right arm and they start out to ! build home Not having enough money they take what they have saved together and buy farm, paying $1,0OO down and giving mortgage for the other thousand. And what is the re- suit? Suppose money rises in value. Suppose you take a notion you want good dollar a high priced dollar, dollar that keeps getting higher priced every day suppose you have dollar that gets to be twice as good as it was when the man gave the mortgage. It means that each dollar will buy twice as much. It means that it will take twice as much products of the farm to buy the dollars and pay his debts as it did before.
 "The result Is that it requires twice as much of the products of the farm to pay the debt The man finds that he is not able to pay that debt as he 1 q ooraaI tn coJ " tend the mortgage. Why, they tell him that the land has gone down in value now and that farm is not worth enough to be good security for the thousand 1 dollars. Then what? There Is one thing. He can turn the farm over to the man who holds the mortgage. What is the result? He and his wife have lost the S10o0 they invested in the farm. They have lost the labor they have put forth in trying to pay this mortgage and then they lose the farm and start out in life again. How about the other man who sold him the farm and got the dollars down? If he loaned that thousand he got se- curity and he has the thousand within his reach and then Inc gets his farm back.
 The man with the money is twice as well off as before, and the man who tried to own property loses all he has and has to begin again. You find the men who hold the rotes meeting in convention and declaring that the gold | standard is the best system of money that was ever invented. But will these i people who have lost their homes meet | together and endorse the system? This is practical que stion that contronts the farmers, and not of the United States alone, but the farmers of Ire | land, England, Germany and of every nation in the world that has the gold standard to-day. The gold standard could not live for one day in any na- tion under the sun without the aid of | the money owners and the money changers to keep 1t in existence. The gold standard has never received the endorsement of any class of people ex- cept those who prosper most, as society is destroyed by rising dollar.
 My denunciation of the gold stand | ard is sustained by events which you can see. Isn't it strange, if the gold standard is good thing, that no party has ever seen fit to say so in plat form? And yet there are people who favor gold standard. Why don't they have the courage to write platform and risk an issue before the people? But no; they do not do that They go to St. Louis and adopt platform which says that the republican party pledges itself to secure bimetallism, which, of course, is denunciation of the gold standard. Daughter and ap- plause.)
 "If the gold standard is good, why should we try to get rid of it? If the gold standard is good, why did not the republican party pledge itself to help keep a gold standard? But, no; it pledged itself to get rid of the gold standard just as soon as other nations will help us. Gaughter) The repub- lican candidate says that the American people cannot enter upon bimetallism without the concurrent action of other | nations. Does he say we shall main- tain gold standard for one year? No. For four years? No. But the conclu- sion is that we must maintain 1t for ever if other nations say me must. Whole parties are divided on this is- sue.
 "It rises above the question of poli- tics. They have declared against the right of the people to govern them selves. They have declared that while we want to get rid of the gold standard we must keep the thing which we do not want until aliens shall bring us the relief which we should achieve for our selves. In my humble judgment the people are the only people who have any right to say what the American people shall have for legislation. (Ap- plause.) They have driven down the price of your products. They have in- creased the burden of your debts. They have foreclosed your mortgages. They are degrading and lowering the stand ard of civilization. GA voice, How about free trade?O
 My friend it is not more taxes that the people want, but more money to pay taxes with. (Great applause.) If there is any farmer here who has not taxes enough I beg him to go to his county treasurer and give enough more to satisfy his conscience, and not try to tax all the rest of the people But | care not how men may differ upon this subject of taxation. The subject of taxation is ever present with us. We can change our tariff system any time, but we have reached a crisis in our monetary affairs end We have got tG decide whetker the American people will run our finances or turn our gov