The Irish standard., 1896-10-17

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Depot, Washington and TENTH
Avenese South, minneapolis, O1
cos7,er Robert and Fifth STREET,
\ and U,.iOp Depot, st. Paul. "a &
Lean enforce by authority Senator Sher
man stated in 1869 that contractors io1
the currency would bring bankruptcy, obs
tress, ETC., to all those except the ctp.
itaNst out Of debt, the salaried. officer, 4s}nd
the annuitant.. The reason is SIMPLE
these who are standing In the positfonl OF
capitalists out of debt own money and
don't owe anything and therefore wAen
money rises in value their property lin-
areases In value if l. tell you that the
owner Of land profits when land rises yYou
believe me- If I tell. you that the ow pter
Of any Kind Of property profits when that
property rises IN value you believe i1i1e
When I tell you that the owner of morley
profits when money rises in value ypu
can't disbelieve me. (Applause.)
Mr.. Sherman spok=- on the subject in
1878, and he stated then in that speech
that the destruction of silver as money
and the establishing Of gold as the sole
unit of value would have a. ruinous effect
on all forms of property except those hn
vestments which yield a fixed returnt in
money. These, he said, would be enpT-
mously increased in value, and would gain
an unfair and disproportionate ADVANTAGE
over every other species of property. /
What these men have said has been said
by others, In 1891 the present. Republican
candidate for president in speaking at
Toledo, Ohio, condemned Mr.. Cleveland
for: his efforts to degrade silver and to
contract the currency. He says in that
denunciatlon that Cleveland was making
money dearer by making it scarcer; that
he was making money the master, all
things else the servant. .# r.
My friends, these principles have been
understood and it Is only recently that the
people have found it necessary to- deny
every law, human and divine, in order to
support the gold standard. 1t is only
recently that people have been compelled
to repudiate history, reject the teachings
Of experience in order to defend assystem
which has nothing to commend it, except
the misery that has followed wherever it
has been tried. (Applause.) -
The gold standard means dearer money,
and dearer money means cheaper prop
erty, and cheaper property means hard
times, hard times means more people out
Of work, more people out OF work means
more people destitute more people destt-
tute means more people desperate, more
people desperate means more criminals.
DEMAND JUSTICE.
Ny friends, you are charitable. You
give up your abundance to help those in
want. / come to tell you that the poor
people of this country are not asking
charity 80 much as they are demanding
Justice Of you now. cloud applause.)
a It has been said that woman is the
conscience Of the human race, and in
dorse the proposition. I believe that
woman can grasp the great principles Of
Justice and can detect right from wrong
ly than men, because they are not sur
rounded by so many of the inf1u-
ences which may prevent an understand
ing Of the truth Of these questions. And
want to appeal to you, women--you
women who are interested in your sons
and your daughters, I want you to look
we'll before you pass your influence on the
side Of a gold standard. which may mean
more wealth for the few, but which must
mean more poverty and misery for The
many. tApplause) 10y
And remember. this: You cannot live
the destinies Of those you love; IT you
could provide against all contingencies Of
the future, If you could leave them money
and be- sure that to. the remotest genera
ton that money would protect them from
want and injury you might feel indiffer-
ent;;~ but; my friends you cannot do 1T.
You cannot guard them after you're gone,
you cannot make your wealth stay. with
them even If you leave it to them-it may
be as apt to injure as to aid them. There
is only one thing that is sure to@-be
blessing: Leave them good government,
that instead Of giving favors to a few
will protect every one in the enjoyment
and love Of liberty and pursuit Of happi-
ness, and you have given your children
the richest heritage. (Applause.) IN ~
s4 The cities haven't felt the pinch of the
gold standard as squfcly as the country
has. and when you mothers and wives
arc enjoying the comforts of life, want
you to give one moments thought to the
mothers and wives throughout this land
whose lot has been made harder and
whose life has been made darker by the
gold standard; you may read its history
and you will find that the gold standard
never brought a ray of hope to those who
sit Iii darkness; the gold standard never
gave an inspirations to those who are
downcast. According Ito Mr.. Carlisle,
when he spoke in. 1878; the consmmation of
this scheme to destroy half the money of
human race more of. misery than all the
wars, pestilences and famines that ever
occurred in the history of, the human
race. believe he was right; and enter
into the homes Of these lands. go into
these homes and see how the living 4ex-
things could not be cut down; prices have
fallen-debts have fallen. " ~ &. Il:
f.a Go into the homes where the mortgage
has, been fareclosed; go into the homes
where the husband ana wife started out
with that laudable ambition to ownsa
home; where they paid down what they
had saved, and expected to be, able to
pay the balance, but with the gold stand
ard and hard times property has fallen,
work has become scarce and they have
given up those homes, and then renedn-
her, my friends, that all they have lost
has been gained by those who hold "a
fixed Indebtedness or trade in money and
profit by the adversities of the people.
& GApplause.) Y 49, d a B, y
& sss TRIED TWENTY YEARS. AI ..5 !.
The gold standard has been tried for
twenty years. lit has been tried i'm Ger
many. and PRINCE Bismarck tells you In
a: recent letter that he is in favor of BIZ
meta1lism. (AppIatise.) If the gold stand
/ ard has been a good thing in Germany,
why does Prince Bismarck desire TO go
back to bimetallism? Prince Bismarck
speaks for the great mass Of the people.
q Only little more than a year ago they
passed through the popular branch Of
the assembly. a q resolution declaring in
a3fa por of the restora ton OF fbimetallisnn,
but the Berlin chamber of commerce de-
cleared against It.. My friends Is, if yen will
take from the gold standard the suppb
sof the money classes, Ii wouldn't stand for
saasl day In any nation on the face OF the,
earth (ApplaMse.) 4s CSC
ss The gold ST tdard has never been sup
s porte by the masses OF the people The