The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-09-15


/ ton your officials ere Of your own choos-
ing If you govern yourselves, II you leg.
I islate for yourselves, you have something
to say Of your legislation, but II you de.
clare, as the Republican patty declares,
that while bimetalllsm is desirable, you
cannot have it until other nations leg
islate In your favor, want to ask you how
you.are going to reach those people and get
them to do what You want them to dor
* for 80 years tine people nav. strug-
| gled to restore bimetallism In the land
where the people are sovereign, want to
ask you what chance you are going to have
| If you go over and lay your petition before
those who govern by right divine, regard
less of the peoples WISH
re QuotAa George waahingtcrs
Let me read to you something. / am
afraid may offend some advocate OF the
gold standard, but / am going to read 1t
read you something and see 10 You can
guess who used the language that am
going TO read: Xxx
Against the insidious wtles OF foreign
influence conjure you, ard believe me,
my fellow citizens, the jealousy of a free
people ought to be constantly awake, since
iiioOOIy uh0 "a p5tiCifCD piONO otieho acAShSAa
influence is one of the most baneful foes
of republican government
What anarchist do you suppose wrote
that What man do you suppose, desiring
to excite your prejudices against foreign
ers, used that language What demagogue,
appealing to the passions of the people,
employed those words9 Those were the
words used 100 years ago the 18th of this
month by George Washington.
When we tell you to beware of placing
the legislative control of our financial pol
icy in the hands Of foreigners they accuse
us of trying to stir up the hostility of those
who live abroad. They use all sorts of
abusive names and yet, sirs, we have new
er said in all this campaign anything more
emphatic than the language used by the
first president of the United States, the Fa-
Their of His Country.
1t has been less than two years since the
secretary of the treasury employed Lon
don banker to protect the treasury of the
United States. More than that, they came
to congress with the proposition, in which
this foreign banker joined, Offering the
American people SIC, 900, 900 If they would
change the settled financial policy of the
United States Did you read that PROPOSE
price if they were payable in coin, but said
if they were made payable in gold they
would take them at price that would
save the government SIG, 000,O 900 in 80
years. What did that mean 1t meant that
if the government could do what it had
never done before, if it would make it's
bonds payable in gold, they would pay the
people of the United States $4,000, 600.
Beware Of Foreign Influence"
My friends, 1 repeat the language of
Washington. l warn you to beware of the
wiles of foreign influence, and assert as
he asserted, that the most baneful foes of
republican government are those foreign
influences that are being brought into the
legislation of the United States.
This is no simple matter. When the pa
triots of Greero were warning the people
of that nation that Philip of Macedon was
approaching, there were those then who
were SO tied up in their business relations
with the Macedonians that they used hard
names toward the people who abused the
Macedonians, and there are those today
whose commercial and financial relations
with the financiers of London are such
that they apply abusive epithets to those
who warn the American people against a
financial domination that Is as severe, as
merciless, as pitiless as the one mentioned
1 leave this question with you. L know
not what your decision may be, but can
not but believe that the descendants of
those who declared this nation politically
independent will have the courage to de-
clare this nation financially independent
of every other nation upon earth.
1t is said that when the Declaration Of
Independence was about to be signed they
agreed that the Liberty bell should give
the signal. Finally that immortal docu-
ment was finished. The names of the sign
ers were affixed and then the old Liberty
bell rang out, and the people assembled,
waiting for the sound, caught it up and
then cheered, although they knew that
their honor,.their lives and their property
had been pledged to the maintenance Of
that declaration.
1t seems to me today that OF the 20, 000,-
900 people vast majority are listening for
the sound that shall'tell them that this
nation has declared its financial independ-
ence, and when that signal is given they
will catch up the sound, and we will hear
no more of this subserviert rolicy that
we must wait until other nations tell us
what the American people ci,o