The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-07-16

seeks to destroy One-half OF the money
of the world and to make American
manufacturers. merchants, farmers
and mechanic somere hewers of woot
and drawers Of water.
There ia one thing golden, which
permit me, in the same good humor
which has characterized your conduct
to commend to you here. 1t is the
golden rule TO do unto others rs YOU
would have them do unto you. Forget
not the greed Of devils and that an ab,
solute acquicscence in the will OF tho
majority is the vital principle of tho
republic. Democrats as | trust YOU
Will ever be, acquicsco gracefully in
the Will OF the great majority OF your
fellow Democrats and only ask to 90
with thcm, as they have often gone
with you. (Applanse.) Do not forget,
gentlemen, that for thirty years we
have supported the men that YOU have
named for President, Secretary Scy.
mour, Greedy, 'Tildcn and Hancock,
ana twlco Cleveland. Do not forget
that we have submitted cheerfully to
your compromised platform and to
your repeated disasters to their fulfill
mcnt. 10 get at the last convention
OF the Democratic party in 1892, you
proclaimed your services to bo in favor
OF the use OF both gold and silver as u
standard money Of the country, for the
coinage OF both gold and silver without
discriminating against either metal;
and that the only question left open
WAS tn ratio between the metals. DO
not fOrgct-and | rCfcr to the fact in
| no inferior senso--that just four years
| ago IN Democratic convention in this
city the Now York delegation stood
here solidly and immovablc for IL can
didate committed to the free and uu.
limited coinage OF silver and gold at
ratio Of lG to |. And If VIC are still
for it, let it not be forgotten that We
owe 1T in some measure to their teach
ings: (Applausc). That we owe you
much, gentlemen OF the East is road
lily acknowledged and will be ever
most gratefully remembered. We
owe you much, gentlemen OF the con-
vcntlon, and for what we owe you
OF the East is tho force bill and the
Mckinley bill, and the Sherman law,
the triple infamy Of Republican logis-
lation. The first was aimed not more
at 2itanth than at the great cities OF
the lhast ana H4''"L among them, the
great Democracy OF l'e~s~N0rk, with
It's magnificent patronage. T;1Tst~laill
got It's death blow in the Senate, but
there was not single Democrat in
New York or New England to vote
against it.
No man In this high noon of our
cOuntrys fraternity can revive force
| bills now in this reconcilcd and re-
united republic. Our opponents them
selves have abandoned them. There
is none that can stand between the
union Of hearts and the union Of hands
that Grant in his dying vision saw was
coming on angels wings to all the sons
OF our common country. When Chica
| frn Il
she buried sectiOnalism under a noun
tain OF fragrance. When Southern
soldiers yesterday cheered the wound
ed hero Of the North in Rich mOnd the
South answered back: Lot US have
peace; peace, union and liberty now
and forever
AS the majority Of Democrats Is not
sectional neither does it stand for any
privileged or class legislation. The &C
| tive business men OF this country, its
manufa 'turcrs, merchants, farmers,
sons Of toll, in counting room factory,
| field and mine, know that tho cOntrac-
tion Of the currency sweeps away with
the silent and rcsistless for OF gravita-
tiOn tn annual profits OF thcir en-,
tcrprise and investments. They know
| too that the gold standard means con-
traction and Tie organization disaster.
What hope is there for tho country
and what hope for the Democracy un-
less the views Of tho majority hore
shall be adopted? DO not tho people
know that it, was not SilYcr lcy cyislnti0n
bu Legislation dictated by the advo-
Gates Of the gold standard that has
caused and now continues the financial
depression DO they not know that
" cn their demands upon the Dcmoc-
"acy were complied with in 1893 and
the Sherman law repealed without Il
substitute that the very States OF the
east that demanded it turned against
the Democracy that granted it and
swept away their ajority in a torrent
Of ballots? Had tho silver men had
their way then instead Of the gold
monomctalists, what storms Of abuse
would here today be cmpticd upon
their head but tho people, applying
the power OF memory and analysis alike
to discover tho causes Of their arrested
prosperity, ncod not go to find thom.
They do not forget when Democracy
came to powcr In 1893 it Inherited from
It's Republican predecessor tho tax sys-
tenn and the currency system of which
the Mckinley law and the Sherman
law were the eliminating atrocities
1T came to power amidst Il panic, which
ftly followed upon their cnat tmont
with strikes, lOckouts, riots and civic
commotions, while tho scenes of peace
ful industry in Pennsylvania had be.
come military camps.
Besides manifold oppressive features
the Mckinley law had thrown away
fifty millions Of revenue derived from
sugar under the spectral plea of u free
breakffs st table and had substituted
bounties to sugar planters, thus do
creasing revenue and increasing eA.
pcndturc, thus burning the candle ut
both ends and making the people pay
at least for the alleged free breakfast
From the joint operations Of the Nc.
Kinlcy law and Sherman law an ad.
verse balance Of trade was forced
against us in 1893, a surplus of one hun.
dred millions of dollars in the treasury
was converted into q deficit of seventy
millions in 1894, and engraved bonds
prepared by q Republican Secretary tc
borrow money to support tho govern
mcnt, were the i'll omens Of the pro
} organized ruin that awaited tho incom.
} ing Democrats, ard depleted treasury
Moro significant still, tho very authors
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