The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-09-24

money! Put it in the bank What
do you do with your money in the banks
%, mamma uses that to buy more
medicine with daughter and ap.
plause.) 1t seems to me that that H.
lustrates exactly what goes Oh down
there, and yet they call that financier-
ing. And if we protest against it
why they say what is the use o.
listening to those people? they don't
know anything about tiuauciering
they are not business men,
MY friends, [ think it is time our
people were becoming business men
enough to understa dow the govern
ment is run and whose interest it is
run in. You take the government Out
of the hands Of those who have been
running it i'll the interest of a few peo-
pie and run it in the interest of the
great majority of the people. Gap
plause.) And if we say word
against any financial policy they call
US agitators, and all the blame OF all
the financial conditions is placed upon
our shoulders. l read statement
made by number of prominent bank
ers in St. Louis. 1t was published on
last Saturday morning, and in this
statement these bankers announced to
the public that because Of the ayita-
ton of the silver question they would
not be able to furnish gold to those
who wanted it, but in their judgment
within fifteen days after a correct set
tlemeut of this money question. they
would be able to furnish gold.
That it was the agitation that had
given them trouble. Why, my friends,
if you will read the platforms adopted
by four Republican conventions last
summer, you will find that they de-
nounce the agitation Of the money
question. Not satisfied with having
run this government their way, they
now complain because we are not salts
fled with the way we are running it,
and they cry out and want US to be
made satisfied, and when we are not
tisfied, to drive us until we are salts
fled. iApplause). Blame agitation:
Why, my friends, they are doing as they
usually do. This difficulty is not due
to agitation. Agitation is here because
Of the difficulty that existed before ag-
itation began. (Applause). 1 wonder
what kind of a government these anti
agitators think we have in this coun-
try? How are people going to remedy
anything except by discussion, and all
discussion is agitation, and when | find
a man who denounces agitation, fad
a man who does not understand the in
stitutions under which he lives, and-my
friends, if our opponents who are SO
afraid Of agitation, had their way about
it they would make penal offence for
any man to criticise the financial policy
fastened on this country. Great APP
plause) These New York fnanciers
tell us that we must not agitate our
selves because we will disturb theil
know their business will be disturbed
and they tell you they have just heart
from London. Naughter). You sif
the gold standard policy down and you
will find that back of it all is the asser
, ton that unless our financial policy i:
} satisfactory to the foreign tinancier<
, that we can't get any money from
them i'll this country. But [ say t(
, you, my friends, that if our financial
, policy is shaped by foreigners that tht
time will come when we will be 81
deeply in debt that we will never b'
| able to repay our debts to the foreign
, ers.
, But, my friends, must not dwell
t longer on this phase of the question
| want you to understand that we have
; engaged in great life and death strug
, gle between two financial policies. Gu
opponents instead Of coming out int
f an open field to wage all open warfare
in favor Of the gold standard, under
5 the cover Of international bi-metallism
| have attempted to fasten this gold stan
, dard permanently upon the people o
= the United States, and as against tina
3 proposition to maintain the gold stan
t dard until foreigners come to our relief
7 the Democrats and Populists and SllVe
Party, these three have agreed upon
e plank demanding the immediate resto
1 ration of the free and unlimited coinag
of gold and silver at the present lega
l ratio of lG to | without waiting for the
e aid or consent Of any other natior
f great applause) and you, when yo
! come to cast your ballot, will have t
} take your stand on one side or the other
8 There is great breaking up of partie
t on this subject. Heretofore the tw
2 great parties have satisfied themselye
! with ambiguous phraseology. La lS9
: the Republican party said that tn
: American people from tradition and III
V terest are in favor of bnnetallism, an
f then they put III qualifying words, an
0 the people who were elected on tha
d platform went down and carried tn
O gold standard, a little further. And til
S Democratic party declared in favor {
:; the use Of both gold and silver On equa
terms and without charge for COMA It
Il and yea those elected Oh that pla;tor'
d went down and carried the gold stand
e ard little further. But In the preseI
l. year those who stand behind the gol
1t standard and those who fight Tor 1t be
d hind false pretenses, went to the IL
|: publican convention and adopted
a platform declaring in favor of the ma!i
id tenance OF the gold standard until ii
IS ternational bi-metalism could be 81
1T cured, and the same influences whit
l. dominated the Republican conventic
/. attempted to dominate the Democrat1
1t convention and secure Il plank ldentlc
/. in meaning, if not Identical III word
At but at last the issue has been broug
v before the people. At last we ha'
lie the line drawn 50 man can take h
/ place on one de or the other, aud Il
u, result is that creatm Repubiica
y who had hoped to secure bi-metalils
ih in the Republican party have now Civ
" up hope and have joined those who d
~ manl the immediate restoration OF ir
nt coinage, and some in the Democrat
y party who had sought To further I