Evening star., 1896-09-21
public written by the Secretary Of the
| Treasury, from which desire to quote one

'It is the duty Of the Secretary of the
Treasury and all other public officials to
execute in good faith the policy declared by
Congress-"
And mark these words:
But whenever he shall be satisfied that
a silver dollar cannot be kept equal In pur-
it in exchange for a gold dollar.
when such exchange is demanded. 1t will be
his duty to adopt that course"
want you to mark those words because
in those words the Secretary of the Treas
TRY tells you that whenever the Secretary Is
satisfied that it is necessary that he Will
commence redeeming silver dollars IN gold
Great applause.) 1 call your attention to 1t
my friends, because I want to emphasize |
the deception that has been practiced by |
this administration on the money question. |
Great applause) When this administra- |
ton advised the repeal of the Sherman law |
you were told that the repeal Of the Sher- |
man law would remedy the difficulty, and |
yet soon as the Sherman law was re-
pealed the same authority which promised
relief as soon that law was repealed
came to Congress with a demand that the
greenbacks and treasury notes must be re-
tired by the issue of gold bonds, in order to
stop the drain on the treasury's gold, and
now the Secretary Of the Treasury informs
you that even If the greenbacks and treas
ury notes were all retired, so there cannot be
a dollar of paper money to be presented Tor
gold, that yet it would be his duty whenever
in his opinion it became necessary, 1t would
be his duty to commence to redeem silver
dollars in gold and start another endless
chain that would drain the treasury.
Great applause) According to the doctrine
laid down in Mr.. Carlisle's letter you can
not stop the drain of gold from the treasury
until you retire all the silver dollars ana
silver certificates and leave nothing but
gold as the money of this country. Great
applause.)
l am glad that this declaration has been
made. 1 am glad that our opponents are
step by step revealing to the public their
heartless mercless, criminal policy. Great
applause) 1 am glad that they have told
the public that we must have gold alone
and then confess to the public that we are
in the hands OF two banking syndicates ana
must pay them for that gold whatever they
wanted. (Applause) Talk about monopo-
lists, talk about trusts, my friends, mere
they propose to establish the most g1gant'c
of all trustS-a money trust-and let the
few men who hold the gold dole 1t out at
such prices they will to all the other
seventy millions of free-born citizens Gap
plause) l denounce the policy as more
cruel and heartless than political domina-
tionS of a foreign power. | would rather
put cur army in the hands OF foreign gen
eral Cr our navy in command OF a foreign
admiral than to put the Treasury Depart
rent in the hands of a secretary who would
barter it away. Great appause) L would
resist such financial policy with as much
esrnestness as l would resist the progress
of an invading army coming to attack our
homes. Great applause) My friends, one
time when Lincoln was a candidate some
enc said to him that they hoped the Lord
vas hin side and he replied, that ne
was more anxious to be on the Lords side"
(Applause.) l am glad that In this cam
paign have SO many evidences OF the
overrul:ng providence, and IN no one me-
dent that l know of has the overruins
providence manifested itself so clearly as
it did in this case, my friends. when II
opened the mouth of the Secretary ana dis-
closed his policy. Let ME ask you ques-
| ton Did the administration when 1t rec
IcI he. rlnea1
| believe that it would cure our troubles!
| If it did, then, my friends, it has been SO
| badly mistaken that you have the riaht 10
mistruSt the knowledge OF the adminlstra-
! ton on this subject. Great applause)
If the administration knew that the
| Sherman law would not bring rellef. anu
concealed the knowledge from the Amer
! lean people, then you have rlght 10 dls-
! trust the honesty of an administration that
would ask one thing of the people and de-
| mand another. Great apDlause.) Did the
| the retirement of the greenbacks and
| treasury notes means of stopping the
| drain upon the gold in the treasury-dld
J the administration. when 1t recommended
| that know that after they were all retired
| it would propose policy which the Secre-
| tary cf the Treasury has outlined? II II
| did, and did not tell the people 1t was dls-
| honest in not taking the people into the
| confidences of the admin stration and if it
| did hot know that then, Will II confess IT'S
| ignorance of monetary laws and the
| e.
| Does the admin iStration know row that
| when it starts to redeem silver dollars in
gold that it will start another endless chain
| that will drain the treasury Indefinitely and
| increase the bonded debt without limit IN
| less they retire all the silver dollars and
substitute bonds IN the.r place? If they do
| not know, my friends. they must confess
| themselves ignorant of the finances of this
| country; and if they know, and viii not tell
| the people, then We have right to distrust
| their candor and frankness when they deal
| with the people of this country. Don't
think that my language is harsh. 1t is not
| harsh. Cries of lit is all r.ght.') These
men the public servants of the Amer
lean people, and they have more right
to betray the people into the hands of the
Shylocks of London than Benedict Arnold
had to hetray the American army. EN-
thusiastic applause) That is all 1 have to
say about the Secretary's letter at this
time. ca voice, We'll, that settles it.'D
Wnshington's Address.
| Now. in my few moments left, let me cal
| your attention to the language used by tho
father of his country in the message
given to the world one hundred years agt
today. Great applause.) In this cam
paign we are demanding an American
| financial policy for the American people
and insist that to our people alone shall
be submitted the question of the kind OF
dollar, and how many dollars the Ameri
can people shall have. TREMENDOUS ap
| y,
tion assembled, adopted a platform which
declares that must maintain q goI,
standard until the commercial nations O
Europe shall join with us in letting go o
that gold standard. (Cries of mo, no.')
Washington said: "As avenues of foreigl
influence, in innumerable ways, such at
tachments are particularly alarming to tn
truly enlightened and independent pa
| triots."
Washington also said in that message
There can be no greater error than t
expect or calculate upon real favors from
nation to nation. 1t is an Illusion whicl
experience must cure, which Just pr!d
, ought to discard" Those who are expect
, ing foreign nations dominated by tn
creditor classes. who profit by rising dol
lar. to join with lis in stopping the rise il
, the dollar doomed to disappointment,
. | and it is difficult to see how any perso
can expect silver to be restored to its right
, full place by foreign aid when we hav
: | waited for twenty years. only to find ou
| opponents more hostile than ever. They
, ! covertly, threaten that they will use tn
notes which they hold to control our finan
, | cial policy. If relief is to come to tn
, American people it must come from In
, | American people the emselves. and on thi
, day, when we celebrate the one hunGredt
+ anniversary of Washington's farewell ad