Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-29
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extended argument on the money ques
ton, l desire to submit for your con
Y sideration a few matters vi ich thinl
you ought to give 70. Oul
are all the time ASSERTING
that business men ought to take al
interest in this campaign in order t
protect their business interests. 1t ha'
always made me indignant that a few
people in zach community should as
si.me to be the only business men IL
1t, and should always insist upor
thrusting their business interests for,
ward in preference to anybody's else
business interests. ] have always be.
lieved that any one who contributed t.
a nations prosperity, who added to 8
nations wealth. or to a nations great
ness was a business man. applause.
The man with small business inter
ests has as much right to protect those
small interests by his ballot as the
man with large business interests has
the right to protect his interests by his
ballot. (Applause.)
| want To show you how the money
question concerns the various classes
of people. Sometimes our opponents
try to IRA the wage earning class,
those who work in factories or by the
day for an employer, against the farm
ing classes. l wan to show YOU that
you cannot separate the interests of
the wage earning classes from the in
~terests of the farming classes. You do
not produce shoes for ornament but
for wear. People cannot wear shoes
until they are able to buy shoes and
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have the money to buy with; II they
cannot get money to buy shoes with
until they sell something they have
and get that money. Now, you sell
shoes to the people of the West and
South. If you drive down the prices of
all those things which the farmers pro-
duce, so that when they sell their crops
they cannot more than pay their debts
and interest and taxes, what money
will they have to buy shoes with?
Are you going to d to the prosperity
of Lynn by making more people go
b~arefooted? (Cries of no, never.)
The wage earners of Lynn will he
idle until there is demand for the pro-
ducts of the factories of Lynn. and
there can be no demand for that pro-
duet as long as you drive money up
and property down. Failing prices
mean hard times. and hard times have
never been advocated in a platform by
any party. although the Republican
| platform this year, without directly
saying so, promises to continue times
hard and make them harder. Gap
! plause.) Do you deny mat PROPOSE
ton? I want to look at thai platform.
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sirable because the party pledges itself
to get rid of it. If the double standard
is not more desirable thar the gold
standard, why does the Republican
party want to max any change?
If the gold standard is good VT ought
to keep it. out when the Republican
party attempts to get rid of il. it ad-
mits it is not as good as bimetallism.
But they promise you. notwithstand-
ing their desire to get rid of the gold
standard. that they will keep it unit,
other nations help us TO get rid of it.
Until then they say we must maintain
the gold standard. GA voice: Yes. but
we won't.') No. l ont think we will
myself. If we maintain the gold stand
ard we must maintain those things
that are of necessity close to them. We
must maintain this system of issuing
bonds and buy gold we certainly make
demand for gold and raise its purchas-
ing power throughout the world, but
we are contracting our currency by
piling it up in the vaults at Washing
ton when it ought to be out doing bust
ness among the people. (Applause.)
You manufacturers and merchants go
to the banks for money. the banks tell
You they are very sorry but they can't
loan you any more now. There can be
no more money in this country thar
the people permit. If you make YOU
laws so, you draw a art of the money
out of circulation and lock it up, you
! can't use it in your business and have
it in the vaults at Washington at the
same time. applause and cries OF
Mo- That looks plain enough yet
here are "financiers who go on the
theory that the more money you take
Out of circulation the more you have ir
it. (Laughter.) There are ~financiers
who actually rejoiced at the issue of
bonds and said it would restore conf
dence. They are trying TO run business
in this country with a larger and larger
per cen of confidence to the amour;
of money on hand, 0aughter) andi they
go on the people will have all the ON
fidence and no money. My observation
has been that if a confidence man comes
into a community, the man who has the
least confidence has the most money
when the fellow goes out. Laughter.)
You say, Il am hungry" they say.
Il have got a remedy; just have conf
dence that you have had a full meal
and you will be just as we'll off as if
you had (Laughter.)
You say you cannot get work: they
say just have confidence that you have
work and it will be all right"
CLaughter.)
You say we can't find a market for
our shoes; Just have confidence the
people will buy. and they will buy
Laughter.)
There is only one place where they
think the confidence game won't work.
You go to n of the men who is all
the time talking about confidence and
ask him to borrow money. He V
What security have you?" You say,
Il will give you all the confidence you
want. He will tel. you he is not loan
ing on confidence this year. (Laughter.)
Why is it these %financiers are so anx-
ious for you to have confidence in them
when they don't have any confidence
in you? They want security and tell