Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-06

wanted to make money scarce and there
fore dear, and now he stands by the plat
form which indorses the process and
promises to carry 1t out and make money
scarce, and therefore dear. He said in
1891 that the present president wanted TO-
make money the master and everything
else the servant, and yet he stands upon
the platform that carries out the present
poiicy which makes money the master
and everything else the servant"
IF they tell you that the free coinage Of
silver VIII not increase the price of silver.
ask them why it was that when India
suspended free coinage the price of silver
Tell; and ask them why it was that when
we suspended the purchase of silver nm
der the Sherman law the price of silver
tell ana ask them why it was that under
the Sherman law of 1890 it increased the
price OF silver purchased by the govern
ment.
'There is nothing in the Chicago plat-
form that would make the executive of
the United States feeble in enforcing all
OF the laws OF the nation, or feeble in de-
tending the constitution of the nation
and there is nothing in that platform
that assails the integrity or questions the
honesty of the supreme court of the Unit
ed States.
No foreign nation has ever adopted
SoNA 70 POilSy as lHe republican party
asks us to adopt. No party has ever gone
before the country with such a PROPOSE
ton as the republican party now pre-
sents. So far as I know no party has
ever advocated policy that would make
the people of this nation dependent upon
the decision of the people of some other
nation.
at seems to me that in the presence of
the proposition made by the republican
fNlD tfA,.t1 1, y.
to be awake to the dangers before them
What do we find? We find that q few
men here are able to control the amount
Of gold, and that by sending it out of the
country they are able to run down stocks
and that by bringing it back again they
are able to raise the stocks and make a
rich profit.
1--WE find that our financial system has
been under the control of the stock gamb-
Ter, the money-grabber. and that these
men measure the prosperity of the coun-
try not by the happiness of the people,
but by the stock market.
IT will cali your attention to the fact
that Senator Sherman, who has been the
most successful politician in the republi-
can party, declared that the people must
have an increasing volume to accord with
the increasing popula ton. I said that
Mr.. Sherman was the most successful poll
itician in the republican party. He has
lOE tWCnly years vi DlOTG borne almost
alone the odium of having assisted in the
characterization of silver. His own party
has not dared to commend him. The
democratic party has time and again de-
nounced him, and yet John Sherman has
lived to see the day when he could make
the republican party indorse his policy of
twenty years. Aye, more than that, he
has lived to see the day when democrats
who have been denouncing him for years
get down upon their Bonded knees and
kiss the dust and ask him to forgive them
all that they have said against his policy.
ut is not many politicians who have
the privilege of witnessing such trans
formation.
But why has he succeeded? Because
he was the spokesman of a moneyed
power.
1.-THE power behind John Sherman HIM
self has compelled the republican party
to submit it's neck to the yoke, and that
power has taken in its grasp certain
prominent democrats and torn them from
their nartvp