The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-09
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publican, and spoke in part as follows:
SILVER SENTIMENT GROWING.

me but a short time. 1t is now just a.
bout one month since / left Nebraska
and turned eastward. 1t has been an
interesting trip. ] want to assure you
that the sentiment in favor of the free
coinage of silver is a growing senti-
ment 1t far surpassed my expecta
tions i'm the East
You will find in the very shadow Of
Wall street as bitter hatred to the in
huences from which you have suffered,
a. YOU VIII find among the farmers OF
Nebraska, and all through the East /
found farmers who have been Republic
cans who were openly supporting the
ffee coinage of silver and were assert
ing that they had as much right to
attend to their business as the New
York banker had to attend to his bust
ness. Another thing / have noticed
and that is the intense earnestpess
that characterizes this campaign, |
have not found a lul<e-warm man any
where They have been for ms =or a
gainst MS and they have been earnest
ly for us or against us. ~
"We have a financial system which
has been injurious to the masses of our
people. We have a financial system
which has brought gain to those who
have secured it and untold loss to those
who have suffered under it and we are
now confronted with proposition that
we must keep this system until foreign
aid comes to our relief. My friends,
we have a right as American citizens to
discuss this great oyershadowing is
sue and determine for ourselves what
ought to be done with it. The Repub
lican platform without defending a
gold standard declares that it must be
maintained until the leading nations
shall join the United States. That is,
the platform and the candidate who
stands upon it has emphasized that
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with the Democratic party in making
this the paramount issue of the cam
paign.
| FREEDOM OF THE BALLOT.
They are trying to drag in other
questions but, my friends, there can be
no other question until we first deter
mine whether the people of this cOun-
try are able TO have their own policy
end until we have decided upon it. !
| do not know whether all of you fully
realize the intensity of the struggle
| in which we are engaged. Our oppo-
nents began the campaign by asserting
that the American people were not
| able to establish bi-metalhsm, and
| then when they found there was re-
volt among the American people
against such a policy, they have COM
menced a system of coercion and ter
rorism, insisting that the masses of the
people have not the right to determine
what kind of policy they want. This
terrorism and coercion is manifested
in two ways. In the first place the
heads of great corporations are I'M
dertaking TO compel their employees To
support the gold standard. My friends,
if the heads of these corporations as
sert the right to control the votes of
those who work for them, then we have
presented to the American people
greater question than the silver ques-
ton. If corporation has the right to
control the vote of an employee, on this
question it has the right to control
on every question. These corporations
were not constituted for any such pur-
pose. They are creatures of law. Has
the law given unto these corporations
any such powers? No, my friends, and
no people who love their government
will ever entrust these powers to any
person or corporation. If a corpora
ton is not entrusted with legal right
To vote those employees at will, then the
corporation that attempts it usurpS
it's rights and becomes a dangerous
power in a free government If there
are those who are opposed to us on the
money question, they dare not approve
of the conduct of these corporations
that are attempting TO vote their em-
ployes. We may be the ones to suffer
now, but | warn you, fellow citizens,
that the time may come when these
very corpora tions will turn themselves
against you and your very families
with all the accumulated power that
your endorsement of their conduct
now will give them.
TRANNICAL MONEY POWER.
Not only have some of these cor
| porations attempted to coerce their
employees, but the great money power
| centered in New York has been at
| tempting to coerce the people who do
business with it.A paper few days ago
said of a Montana bank which had
| failed, that the reason given was that
| the managers of the bank were adj
vocating free silver and therefore the
New York banks refused to extend
credit any longer and forced the COZ
lection of note which they held,
which suspended the bank. My friends,
do you think you are under a govern
ment of the people? / want to ask
l you what you think will be the result
if we get to be government by banks?