The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-08-27

m foreign universities, not one of these economists whose name and fame are worldwide, and not one of those great nnanciers who have given days and years of thought to this subject, not one, and nobody except the leaders of the modern Democracy and Populism, has ventured to advise his own country in Europe to undertake. that task alone, (Applause.)
 The question is this. and nothing more: Shall the United States, alone, under take the free and unlimited coinage of sill yer at ratio of 16 to I? "A few cries of "yes" and "no," and repeated cries of
 no. Now, see you gentlemen over there who called "yes," and you gentle men here who called ''no," shows the difference of opinion upon this subject (laughterl, and to you over there who come to listen to me, you will listen dis passionately, you will digest my. argu- ments. and ] hope finally that by the time you have done so thoroughly that the gentlemen who responded when you responded. Cheering and applauseD
 Now, let us be entirely good-natured about this. am going to try to give you the facts, and l repeat it, the issue is whether the United StNes shall at tempt to do that thing Alone, in the face of the controlling fact that every civilized commercial nation upon the face of the earth, except the Central Amer ican and South American states, years ago and before we did abandoned it ut terly. And if I shall succeed in con yincing any of our friends that we are not in position to do it without inflicting upon the country and upon us all injuries which it will take generation to re- pair, l shall be more than rewarded for the pains that l have taken, the Ob- seryations that 1 have made, the studies 1 have gone through and the reflections which have brought me to my present convictions. (Applause.)
 Shall We Go Backward or Forwards along with those nations with which we have classed ourselves and who are lead ing the march of humanity, or shall we go with Mexico, South America, China and Japan, the rearward half of the great nrmy of human progress, and join those imperfect and rudimentary civilian ti0ns, which are an Occular demOnstra- tion that no nation ever undertook alone the coinage of free silver that did not de- And you have but to glance upon the map of your school boy or scbool girl, your little son or daughter, to see the fact recorded there for the education of youth, to know that every one of those nations stands upon lower scale of progress than the nations which have declared the policy upon which the Unit ed States now stands.
 My fellow citizens, the warnings of his- tory are all against it. The present ex- amples of nations who singly are endeav- bring to sustain themselves under single standard forbid us to enter upon voy- age upon, was going to say, untried waters, but no. upon q voyage which we can plainly see other nations are making at the present time, where we can plain- ly view rocks of distress. the shoals and Quicksands of their course from the SC. cure mainland upon which the American people now stand. and from which our opponents are attempting to lure them by false lights and false alarms. (Ap- plause.)
 Now we have got to take facts exactly as they are. We are not dealing with glittering and glowing generalities. We are administering society and human con cerns: society. n being perfectly concrete, infinitely practicable, somewhat selfish. and l am going to appeal to the selfish. ness of this audience to know whether they will assist in bringing about that which I think can prove will result from the arts of the gentlemen who are attempting to mislead them.
 Now. my friends. the world is divided. just as sharply as it Is by oceans and mountain chains. between the gold coun- tries. who employ concurrently with gold more silver money than all the silver countries contain or circulate. (Ap- planse.) say thett the gold countries of this world. including the United States (and call them gold countries for the purpose not of definition. but of clear. ness of expressiOn). employ and circulate more silver than all the silver countries of the world employ, contain or circulate
 I make another proposition. appeal to history and to contemporary facts which no man cnn dispute, that every free coinage country is on silver basis Isn't that so? (Cries of "Yes.D I make another statement for you to think of. for am not going to elaborate it-I am going to get into the figures pretty soon every gold country uses silver and gold in amounts nearly equal by money na- tions. Isn't that SO? (Crics of "Yes."O Isn't that 90 in the United States? (Cries of "YesO In France? Voices "Yes.o I make another statement for your calm and cool reflection. that no sil. ey whatever. (ADplauseb Don't take my word for 1t. Go and investigate this subject. I say that no silver country has any gold money whatever. and you can search from Mexico to Cape Horn and find that this statement is correct.
 Another statement-and I make 1t up- on a sense of my responsibility after an exhaustive examination of statistics, in- vestigations and rec0rds-that in every silver standard country wages are pressed down to the very minimum of wretched subsistence. It is so in Mexico, 1t is 80 in Japan, 1t is 50 in South America. say that in every silver country wages are pressed down to the very minimum of wretched subsistence.
 The Reasons.
 Now if 1t is true q will not 20 into the rcasops for it), hut if it is true as n concrete, absolute fact, that no silver country, no country which has adopted the silver standard has any gold circula- tion whatever. say that it follows that the only practicable bimetallism on the planet Ia by the nations with which the United States has classed itself, md if is this bimetallism in the United States which the new Democracy and Pom. lism are endeavOring to destroy by sub stituting n silver monometallism. (Ap- plause.) The bimetallism which this country and the nations of which I have spoken enjoy is the bimetallism of fact and actual enjoyment extending to that full extent which human judgment, hu. man experience. human apprehension call 1t what you will-teach is the pro- portion in which the metals can be em- ployed in a degree that one will not de- stroy or drive out the other and that hoth can co-exist tOpethpr (AppIou.oI