The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-10-29

Colonel Robert @. Ingersoll deMv.
cred speech in mammoth tent at
Chicago on Oct. 8, to which 10000 peo-
pie turned out, but only 1900 could
squeeze themselves within the canvas
walls. The eloquent speaker in part
said:
II admit that all the parties who
disagree with me are honest. Large
masses of mankind are always honest.
The leaders not always, but the mass
Of the people do what they believe to
be right. Consequently there is no ar
gument in abuse, nothing calculated
to convince in calumny. To be kind,
to be candid is far nobler, far better,
and far more American. We live in a
democracy, and we admit that every
other human being has the same right
to think, the same right to express his
thought, the same right to vote that
we have (applause), and I want every
one who hears me to vote in exact ac-
cord with his sense, to cast his vote in
accordance with his conscience.
mo man ever made or created
money. 1t is beyond the power Of leg
islatures and congresses. Money is
something that does not have to be
redeemed. Money is the redeemer.
(Applause.) Anything that has to be
bolstered up with the promise of an
individual or a nation is not money.
A nation can no more create money
by law than it can create corn and
wheat and barley by law. (Applause.)
"And the promise to pay money is
no nearer money than bill Of fare is
dinner. (Laughter.) Twenty-three
and twenty-five one-hundredths grains
of pure gold make one dollar. That
is the money today of the civilized
world. All, but they say, Can not you
make dollars out of silver? I say,
Yes, but when you make a dollar out
of silver you have got to put dollars
worth of silver in dollar. CAP
plause) II you make money out of
something else you have got to put
dollars worth of something else into
the dollar
1T takes dollars worth of paper
to make good paper dollar. (Laugh-
ter.) 1t takes a dollars worth Of iron
to make an iron dollar, and 1t takes
dollars worth of silver to make sill
yer dollar. You do not add to the
value of gold by coming it any more
than you add to the value Of wheat by
measuring it; any more than you add
to the value of coal by weighing 1t
All, but they say, what makes gold
valuable is that the law has made it a
legal tender.
again, gentlemen, you are arguing
backward. Because 1t was valuable
the law made 1t legal tender. Max
ing It q legal tender did not give 1t
value. And yet these gentlemen say
that it got all its value from the law
making it legal tender. 1t is exact
ly the other way. The legal tender
law rests on the value of the metal.
Why is gold valuable? don't know.
Why do most pople love oysters? ]
don't know. Applause and laughter.)
Why do SO many people get idiotit
about election? (Applause.) don't
know. But these are facts in human
nature. For some reason, or for
money, people give value to gold.
And that value is recognized by the
law-making power, and that is all
there is to the legal tender act. But,
says Mr.. Bryan, our money is too
good How can money be too good?
He says, I'VE want more money
say, Yes. we want good money, and
the more good money we have the
better
"There has been added to the money
Of the world $225, ,000,0 900 in gold in the
last year, dug from the miserly crev.
ices of the rocks. Next year there will
be in all probability 100000, 900 more
than that. We are getting more good
money. But he says We want cheap
money Well, why? Because the
money is now SO good that people
want to hoard it. Consequently he
wants to get money that nobody will
want to keep (applause), money that
everybody will b crazy to spend. II
we get that kind of money who will
take it.?
"That is the kind of money these
gentlemen want in the United States.
Cheap money. Do you know that the
words cheap money are contradtc-
tion in terms? Cheap money is al
ways discounted when people find out
that 1t is cheap. They have said OF
me that used to talk another way.
Twenty years ago. at Cooper Union,
in New York, made speech on this
subject favoring honest money. said:
I am in favor Of paper with gold and
silver behind 1t. l believe In silver
because it is one of the great Ameri.
can products, but I want a siver dol.
lar worth a gold dollar, even If you
have to make it four feet in diameter.
(Applause.) No government can af-
ford to be clipper of coin. Honest
money for an honest people issued by
an honest nation! That was where
was twenty years ago. and that 10
where am tonight. Better be an hon
eat hankrunt than a rich thief Pow