Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-08-27

good. 1t can be 30 good that you can
long for it and pray for it, but can not
get hold of it. (Laughter.) Remember
that whenever you make money dearer
when you increase its purchasing power
you have simply driven down the value OF
other things, and if those who own money
and who hold contracts payable in dollars
are willing to SO legisate as to make their
property more valuable, how can they
appeal to those who own property and
owe debts to join them in that sort of
legislation? I have asserted, and assert
again, that without the aid of the money
owning classes, the gold standard would
not stand for one day in any nation un-
der the sun. | assert that behind the gold
standard in this country the only potent
force consists of those who hold fixed in
vestments and those who, as brokers,
profit the greater by greater bond issnes.
They tell the laboring men of this nation
that they ought to support gold stand
ard. The laboring men have never found
the financiers of this nation the men who
have exerted themselves to improve the
condition of the laboring men. As rule
the men who have spent their time trying
! to break down labor organizatons-the
only protection that the laboring man has
these are the men who now come to the
help of the laboring man. l ask you if
you ought to expect blessings from those
you have only received cursings from in
the past? (Cries of mo, no.") notice that
one of my opponents the other day said
that the old soldiers would be opposed to
free coinage. They gave the impression
that the financiers are very much interest
&c in maintaining gold standard for the
benefit of the old soldiers, but, my friends,
these men forget that all of the old sol
ing the war the soldiers knew that the
fnanciers made their bonds payable in
gold and left the soldier to offer his life
upon the battle field. (Applause.
Soldiers and Gold.
"More than that, my friends, do not
believe that the soldiers who are willing
to offer their lives if need be in behalf
of their country, are to-day going to join
in conspiracy to enslave 70,000,000 of
free people by lettering them to gold
standard. Our opponents, at least some
of them, have been appealing to the min
listers. have noticed some of these ad-
vocates of the gold standard have said
that the preachers, that the teachers in
religion should favor the gold standard
because their salaries are 30 small that
they did not want them reduced. Well,
now, am willing to concede everything
that is right to our opponents, but must
confess that there is one argument which
they might make that would appeal to
some ministers, if there we're any minis
ters who we're in the business of ministry
merely for the dollars and cents there
we're in it. (Laughter.) I say there is
one argument; it is an argument that
can not answer, and give it to you for
all that it is worth. The gold standard
makes hard times. Hard times drive
men out of employment. Idling is con-
ducive of crime. Therefore the gold
standard, by increasing the amount of
crime, increases the demand for minis
ters to put down immortality. (Applause.)
Need for Ministers.
eff there is any other reason why
minister should favor gold standard,
have not heard it, and even the most as
tute of our opponents, have, as far as
know, never urged the reasons which I
have suggested to you. My friends, there
is the general principle that you can use
in governing your course. You may rest
assured that in the long run any policy
which brings prosperity to the great
masses of the people will be shared by all
the people. If you can not see just in
what particular way any given measure
is going to benefit you in your business
if you can satisfy yourself that the gen
eral public will be benefited by that
measure you can rest assured that you
will receive your proportionate share of
it. But I challenge you to search in all
the pages of history for single instance
where the mass of the people were ever
benefited by legislation that increased
the value of the dollar in which debts had
to be paid. applause.
"My friends, our opponents tell US that
the silver sentiment is disease. If 80 it
will run it's course like whooping cough
disease. The silver sentiment is the
outgrowth of condition and you can
not destroy the sentiment until you have
remedied the condition out of which the
sentiment arose. can retaliate upon
our opponents and tell them that this
gold standard idea is disease. 1t is
the new yellow fever. daughter and ap-
plause). But there is difference be-
tween the new yellow fever and the old
yellow fever. The old killed the people
who had the fever; the other Is death to
the people who do not have the fever.
tremendous applause.)
Restoration of BimetalIism.
"How can you restore himetallism?
You have got to have plan if you want
to do it. Our opponents tell you that
our policy would disturb business. We
tell you that business is already disturbed.
They tell us that five succeed in this
election there will be an interim of few
months before We can put our policy in
operation. (Cheers.) You say you want
to stop agitation. How are you going to
stop agitation 80 long as you have no
fixed policy9 What is the policy Of the
Republican party upon the money ques-
tionS 1t is to wait until some other ma
tion tells US when we can act for our
selves. How long will we have to waltz
Alb, my friends, il our opponents succeed
in this election will they give Us any as
surance as to how long 1t will take for
eign nations to help US restore conf
denceH There is no assurance. The sue
cess of our opponents in this campaign
simply means four more years of agita-
tation and then the trial of the remedy
which we ask you to give. We propose
that this agitation which has lasted for
twenty years shall culminate now in the
restoration of the gold and silver coinage
of the constitution. That is all we ask,
and my friends there is no other
way by which you can stop the
agitation. You say you do not be.
lieve in the ratio of 16 to l. I tell you
that whether you believe in that ratio or
not, If you believe in bimetallism You
have got to cast your vote with bimetal-
lists ard not with mono-metallists. We
believe that this nation, without waiting