The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-09-24

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mon people, the man who leaves US in
the midst of the fight must understand
that if he comes back he must come in
sack cloth and ashes. Great applause).
| And not only that. but he must come
aud bring with him fruits meet for re-
pentance. There is no Disgusting the
issue. These men who are employed
by trusts and syndicates and combina-
tlons lnnOt leave the Democratic party
aud put it on the ground that they are
doing it for their country's good. Oh,
no, my friends, these people are leav-
ing the Democratic party not for their
country's good; they are leaving it for
their party's good. Uaushter.) Task
my friends to take this money question
and apply it to your condition. If you
are interested in having dollars go up,
| if you are interested in having money
dear,you can cast your influence on the
side of the gold standard. but if you
are producer Of wealth. if you are in
terested in purchasing property or ex-
changing the property for money, then,
my friends, you must cast your intiu-
ence on the side of those who would
give the people sufficient quantity of
money to do business with. There are
some people who say we can get along
with less money than we used to. There
was a banker down in Oklahoma who
made that sort of statement. He told
it to one Of his depositors. 'Why,' he
said, 'you don't II eed money like you
used to. You deposit money in my
bank, you get check, the check goes
| through various hands, and finally
some one brings it here and deposits it,
and l transfer the amount from one ac-
count to the other and no money
changes hands at all. The depositor
says, Il am mighty glad to hear that.
| | have been depositing my money here
all the time, and have always thought
that it was important for me to have
money, and you say it is not, l will
draw out my money Qaughter) and 90
Oh checking just as did before. WELL
! the banker said 'in your case that
won't work. U.aughter.) No, my
friends, it won't work, and the very
people that tell you that money is not
important, these very people find
money the most important, if you owe
it to them aud cannot pay it. zap
| plause.) Money is important, my
friends, and if you go out to buy money
with what you have to sell, you can
not buy it until you find the money in
the country, aud if your laws are such
as to lessen the volume of money, then
you make it harder for you to find the
money that you need, and there never
was time in the history of the world
when as much was due in debts as now
And if you owe debts and have got to
pay debts, you have got to sell prop
erty for whatever is necessary to get
the money to pay those debts with,
and the result is that the gold standard
has brought all unfair gain to the men
who own money and hold contracts
payable in dollars, while it has added
an unjust burden to the people who
owe dollars and have to sell property
in order to get dollars to pay these
debts with. And not only does this
gold standard work an injury to all
l those who owe debts, and those are
great enough in money, but the gold
standard works an injury to society,
because when you make money dear
you encourage the boarding of money.
When prices are falling aud money is
rising man can better afford to lock
his money up in il vault and gain the
rise than invest his money in property
ard risk loss in the value of the prop
erty. You are making the property
not worth having. aud everybody is
trying to turn property into money.
And while the .rll standard lasts that
condition mu-. I>main and times must
be hard, and .,.rJ times mean more
idle men, and more idle men means
more destitute men, and more destitute
men means at last more criminal men
and yet the gold standard men appeal
to the ministry to increase crimes.
Great applause and cheering.)
Now, my friends, 1 have talked to-
night longer than the time had allowed
myself. (Cries of GO on, go ou). l
must leave this question to the discus
sion of others, begging you simply to
do what is best for yourselves, your
families aud your country, aud those
who are candidates will be willing to
abide the results. l thank you for your
kind attention." Great applause and
cheerinG).