The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-08-08
the GOLD STANDARD.
The Greatness Of This Country Has Been
Attained Under IL.


At the annual meeting OF the Nauonai
Association OF Morocco manufactures at
Manhattan Beach recently. ex-congress-
man Joseph c. Hendrix. of Brooklyn. n.
Y. spoke In part as follows;
You can talk about the whole question
OF finance In one hundred different lights.
But this Is the main pCint. You must
have a STANDARD of value. That standard
must have value. We choose for the
standard the metal which fluctuates the
least in value. That is the whole story
Of the gold standard. (Chcers.)
our friends out I'm Chicagc-dont call
them Democrats: you hurt my feelings
claim that the gold standard Is a British
policy which we are seeking TO enforce in
this country. Did you ever hear anything
about British policy in connection with
the law OF graVitation or "A British policy
OF good health against bad health-good
clothes against shOddy. There are other
countries in the world beside Great Bril-
tain. We do not have 20 look to Great
Britain to knew what is a good thing.
Great applausc.) We are old enough and
big enough TO know a good thing when
we see il. Ours is "A country that fer sixty
years has been under the gold standard.
You nave never known anything else. All
you hav was built up on the gold stand
ard. The greatness and development OF
this country has been attained under that
standard. How Is the world lining up on
this question? China. Japan and Mexico
are for free silver. Great Britain, Ger
many, France and the great empires OF
Europe are for gold. Where do we be-
long? There is only one answer? Can
any one fancy that our great population,
made up cf 100000 OF the best examples
OF the AnglO-SaNOn race. mixed with
Irish wit. Scotch cunning. German thrift.
are going TO step from the high plane
where we stand TO the lower enc beneath.
What strange madness has come into
the American people to make 1t seem pos
sible that they could do a thing Of that
kind? Npplause)
We can live on a silver basis after we
get there. Our great rivers Will follow
their courses TO the sea. Gods sun will
kiss the earth. The crops will spring
forth. Children will be born and grow up.
Enterprises Will go forward. But are we
going TO take the leap in the dark and
try an experiment fraught with such risk
and panic? A cartoonist out West de-
scribes it this way. lie draws the picture
Of Niagara Falls. Above are all the geld
standard navies OF the world. Below are
the navies Of China. Mexico aud the silver
ANNiNNNA N|nH AiAF ~ TN NR'"R 1lfLF
ed: There is first rate boating above
pretty fair boating below. The question
is. how u get down" is there anything
they ear promise us under the silver basis
10 compensate MS fer the tremendous
crash over Niagara Falls. Would not tho
statesmen OF Europe see IL If the silver
mems claims were true? Was Bismarck
so blind Was Gladstone SO blind? We're
the great French ministers so blind that
1900. 80. 49, ,AI ~
down 10 the leadership ct Ben. Tillman,
Of South Carolina (Applause) a great
French economist once said that when he
was forty he thought ne understood some
thing about nance. When he was sixty
he felt he hid not know as much about
IL as he did at forty, and at seventy he
began to doubt whether he knew anything
about il at all. and scarcely dared to open
his mouth. And yet the man who drives
his moving machine. splitting tobacco
Juice an over the tail Of the mule-he
knows prosperity is going to come If you
can take 80 cents worth OF silver to
the minis Of the United States aud stamp
IL zone dollar" Mr.. Gladstone pondered
ever the question till he said that II seem
ed almost 10 defy human intellect, but
Ben. Tillman. from South Carolina. knows
that the goldbugs of Wall street and
vampires Of Lombard street are "agin the
farmer" and the way the farmer can get
even is 10 cut his dollar in two.
(Applause.)
We are living In n grand and awful time.
But the newspapers are printed every
day, and the Americans are not sleep.
The brain of the American people Is not
dull. Their hearts are not dishonest.
These herosies come and go as the tide
flows. and sometimes in the thickest Of
the night w may not appear TO see the
stars that are shining. But YOU remem-
Der en- one historic occasion when the sky
was an covered with fog. some one asked:
"Oh. say. can You see by the dawn's early
light the star spangled banner yet way
ing" And II was there, Enthusiastic
cheers. shoe and Leather Reporter.