The record-union., 1896-08-19
ROBERT D. FINNIE, Grocer, III ] street

''Wage-earners, Mr.. Bryan says,
know that while a gold standard raises
the purchasing power of the dollar, it
also makes it more difficult to obtain
possession of the dollar They know
that employment is less permanent, loss
of work more probable and employment
less certain. If, then, it means any
thing, it means that a cheap dollar
would give him more employment, more
work and a chance to get re-employ-
ment after he was discharged. daugh-
ter.) Well, now if that means anything
III the world to a sane man, it means that
if the Iaborer is willing to have his
wages cut down he will get more work. >"
Mr.. Cochran devoted much attention
to this particular question. He argued
that there should not be high wages I'M
less there is an extensive production in
every department of industry, and
claims that wages is the one sole test of
the countrys condition. The Populist
loves to say that the creditor is a per-
son who Expresses the Western farmers.
He loves to declare that the money
lender and the creditor are always sy-
nonymous expressions, but as a matter
y
not the bankers; they are not the CO.
called capitalists; they are the laborers,
and it is at the expense of labor that
this change is made. (Applause.) Every
great industrial enterprise has for its
chief creditors it's own laborers.
He said the Democratic electors who
stood boldly and firmly for the gold
standard at Chicago We're submerged
by wave of Populism from the South.
There has been, he said. a great change
in the Democratic organization of the
Southern States. The men who from a
mistaken sense of loyalty followed their
States out of the Union, whose gallantry
in war; whose fortitude in defeat won
the admiration of the civilized world !;
the men whose virtues commanded the
support of Northern public opinion in
the attempt to oVerturn carpetbag gov
ernments in the Southern States the
men who led their people through all
their troubled period of reconstruction
back into a full union with the sister
States, these men. like Hampton in
North Carolina, Caffery in Louisiana,
have been swept from power; a new set
has got into the saddle, set of leaders
of which Tillman is the exponent, who
boldly unfurled the occasional flag at
Chicago and declared that this Populist
movement is a direct movement against
the prosperity of the East.
1.-The underlying trouble with all Pop
ulists,' said Mr.. Cochran, sis that they
have a fundamental conception of the
principle on which civilized society is
constructed. All through Mr.. Bryan's
speech, all through Mr.. Tillman's ut
terances in the convention wherever
YOU find Populists assembled, you will
find discussion progressing upon the
theory that men are hostile to each
other in their interest; that the condi-
ton of life is one of contest. At Chi
cago Mr. Bryan declared: When You
come before us and tell us that we shall
disturb your business interests we re-
Fly that you have disturbed our bust
ness interests. We have petitioned and
cur petitions have been scorned. We
have entreated and our entreaties have
been disregarded. We have begged
and they have Knocked, and our caam-
ity came. We beg no longer we en-
treat no more; We petition no more.
We defy them CA voice, That's right.)
He was, my friend he was quite right.
When man loses all sense he has a