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have got to restore Il alone. beesu.e others don't

have got to restore It alone. because others dom
com. TO our assistance. Applsu,ee IN. ...or.
tion Of American indepe ndence will do more 70
, bring about International bimetaliism than
eervile dependence upon our enemies 10 orinS IL
Our opponents say that ALL we need isa res
dence man Is abroad in the community the man
who has the least confidence gets on win VIII the @
most money laughter and Rpplausel ana am
very much afraid that the confdence man Is
abroad IN this campaign preaching. Have con
My friends, confidence must have basis TO rest
upon.
financial policy TO suit the pleasure OF fnreiGn
nations they will not loan us any money.
tLauEhterl We reply that as long as we shape
our financial policy according to their pleasure
we will always be borrowers and can never be
money loaners ourselves tApplause.l
| Confidence must rest upon substantial pa
gives out his notes until everybody has them;
and then somebody tries to collect a. note ana
finds that the man has property behind his
notes: how can you restore confidence In that
"You can inspire confidence in the notes just
IN one way-that is. by quitting propeItv pen INC lna
the notes that are oSl MY freend- now sire yoS
BY leEisating value ont OF the property upon
which notes rest2 You have tried II and you have
found your bankruptcies have Increased year oy
are, those who own Investments. people who
Government. lApplanse,l II you want TO re-
store confidence you have got To restore pros.
much abou, good property as they have been
taking about good money: & Applause. e. ~ oood
thai YOU can long ior il and pray for 1t. but
can't get a dollar OF it lGreat laughter and
:" Remember that whenever you make money
dearer, when you increase its purchasing power,
s snS ysR the 5
20 make 0s5s rts % Vsus
erty and debts to join them 10 that sort OF egis-
| lation? tApplause.]
Il have asserted and assert again that with;
out the aid Of the money.owning class the gold
standard would not stand for one dsy n any na;
eonsts Of those VS'S %Ro hod Hed
a BOND They e the a6ornr
OF this nation that they ought to support q gold
THE iaboring men haye never found the
| financiers OF this nation the men who have in.
| jured themselves to improve the condition OF
AS a rule the men who have spent their time
trying to break up labor unions, the only pro
men who now come to tho iaborng men. ask
| you II you are TO expect a blessing from those
from whom you have only received cursing In
- noticed that one of our opponents the other
day said that the soldiers. the OLD soldiers, @
| the impression that the financiers are very much
| interested In maintaining the gold standard Tor
| the benefit OF the soldiers.
My friends. these men forget that all of the
soldiers lived through the war; and that during
| the war the soldiers knew that the fnRnciers
| made all their bonds payable in gold. and left
the soldier to offer his life upon the battlefield.
More than that. friends. don't believe that
the soldiers who were willing to offer their lives,
II need be, in behalf Of their country are to-day
going to join In conspiracy TO enslave seventy
| million free people by lettering them to q gold
"Our opponents at least some of them. have
have noticed that some OF these advocates Of q
gold standard have said that he preachers or
| ard because their salaries were SO email that
they did not want them reduced tLaqEhterl
thing that is right tic to our % opponents IN must
confess that there is one argument that they
might make that would appeal to some minis
ters Il there hws,n.. any, ministers who
merely for the dollars and cents
ment that cannot answer and giveit to you
for all Il is worth. A gold standard makes hard
ment: idieness is conducive to crime; therefore.
gold standard. by increasing the amount OF
put down crime. Laughter and applause.l
III there Is any reason why minister should
Gos % nS, 6fs1d OF m
| far as | know. never urged the reason. which /
MY friends, there is this general principle
| that you can use in governing your course. You
can rest assured that in the long run any policy
which brings prosperity TO the great mass of
the people, shall be shared by all the people.
" You cannot see just In what particular
way anv given measure is going TO benefit you
In your business. II you can satisfy yourself
| that measure you rest assured that you
will receive your proportionate share Of IT;
or IN Mhe4e he
mass of the people were ever benefited BY legis.
ation that increased ID the value of the dollar in
MY friends. our opponents sometimes tell us
| that this silver sentiment is disease They
| say 1t will run its course. like whooping cough
| or measles. No. friends 1t is not q disease. The
| silver sentiment Is the growth of a condition.
| have removed the condition out Of which that
sentiment arose. tApplause.l
them sha this gold ' IS Hh s
II is the @ new yellow fever. r % saughter and and APP
Yellow rs and the o e% sye
| The old yellow fever killed the people who had
the levsr 6he nsT y9% eser is aen1h TO the
How can you restore bimetallsm You have
| got to havea plan II you want to it, Our op-
ponents tell you that our policy would disturb
| business. We tell them hat business is already
disturbed. Laughter and applause They tell
| be an interim OF a few months before we can
put our policy in operation.
| You say YOU want to drop the agitation.
| How are you going to stop the agitation so long
as you have no fixed policy? WHAT the policy
ton9 It is to v ait until some other nation tells
| us we can act for ourselves. How long will we
succeed in this election can they give US any as
| surances as TO how long 1t will take foreign ma
tions to help US to restore conhdenceI There Is
no assurance.
The success Of our opponents in this cam
paign simply means four years more OF agita-
| tion and then the tria of the remedy which we
| ask you to try to-day: Applause. we pro-
| pose that this agitation which has lasted for
| twenty years shall eliminate now in the restor-
stitution That is all we ask. My friends. there
is no other way by which you can stop the agi-
tation.
| You say you don't believe In the ratio of 10
| to |. tell you that whether You believe in that
| ratio not. If believe bimetalllsm
| have got to cast in your lot with bimetallists
not monometallists. We believe that this
| nation. without waiting for tho aid or
consent of any other netion is able by
| opening Its mints to free and unlimited coinage
| at ~ to l to create a demand for silver great
| enough to absorb all the silver that Will be pre-
| seuted at our mints. aud by so doing maintain
| the parity between gold and silver at the ratio
| of ~ to l. [Appause
| "NOw. my friends, my time Is up ] must
leave you Ia greet other people. simply appeal
| to you TO join with us In trying to bring back to
| the people the monetary system which they
| had and would have had until now hut for
| its being struck down in the night without
discussion by the American people. When that