The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-10-08

IL, ,un ~ "nuerstahu tnat labG orHaniZa-
tlons OF th's country have declared IN |
favor OF free coinage at ID to 1, and the |
iuDoflns man knows better what liz good |
Lcr them than iinancsers do. under !
STANDS that some employers, l don't know /
whether they have done II here, but l |
nave known men TO do 1t elsewhere, have |
Tried TO convince their empleyes that un-
dtt Tree coinage their pay would only be |
hall as much as what they now get.
want to call your attention to one thing. |
II. under free coinage, your dollar VIII |
only bring half as much, that means that |
your employers would get twice as much |
for what they produce, twice as many dol |
lars as they do now, and IL your employer |
then they can pay you twice as many |
cellars for your wages as they do now. il |
they love you as we'll after election as
want your votes.
Now, my friends. Just remember this: |
Wheteyer your employer tells you. that |
be hair as much. you tell him that you |
are not afraid that he Will eve let you
suffer. because he is loving you so much
NOW. too much 10 let you be jeopardized
by getting poor dollars. If he tells you
that while he can pay you double, he
wont do IT., you tel him that a man that
election
But my friends. instead of resorting to
argument, some of the employers have
rcsorten to coercion That is, they have
attempted to make theia employees think
a. they want them 70 think | saw sign
would remember this sign, stretched over
tine door of IA store, containing these
words, 'if our employees DO not vote as
they please we will discharge them"
My friends. that is the right kind of
2 sign to have; instead of saying that
If their employees do not vote as the man
ager wants they viii discharge them,
these employers ought to put up the sign
that they had in Tennessee. that if you
10 not vote as you please then you VIII
| saw, over a bridge not far from here,
these words, NO driving allowed on this
My friends, think we can take that
motto into this campaign but leave off
the last part of it aud say, NO driving
allowed In this campaign" II is hard
enough at any time for the employer to
attempt TO vote MS employees, but, my
friends the danger becomes Infinitely Infinitely
lion, the stock of which is owned in for
cign lands, so that instead of a corpora
employees, it is seeking to run our cleo
lions ana control our institutions.
George Washington, in his farewell ad-
dress, cautioned the people of this coun-
try against the insidous Influences of
foreign agencies. We may well be alarmed
at the manner In which foreign influences
are seeking to dominate our politics and
control our financial policy in the interests
OF foreign nations instead of our own IN
labor, men who toii, men who appreciate
our form of governmental is the only
form in which the common people have
"A right to express themselves and have
voice In the making OF laws-l appeal
to you, the great common people of this
country. to see to it that no influences
from foreign nations shall come here to
corrupt our government or destroy our
institutions
MY friends. your opponents. raise all
sorts of objections to free coinage, but
those objections are answered over ana
over again and they keep bringing them
Forward as II they had merit In them:
We
coinage of silver that our dollar will
be worth 50 cents and that that Is re
pudiating our debts. Remember that they
advocate the gold standard, which makes
our dollars worth 200 cents. They have
been regulating, contracts by, collectins
TO pay. We must either maintain the
gold standard or restore bimetaliism. II
%e maintain the gid standard, It. means
that prices shall continue TO fail: that
men who are now employed Will be idle
men shall he a continual menace TO every
man who is employed. More than that,
the gold standard means that you In
crease the number OF idle men 2nd mat
you increase the number OF desperate
men and that YOU make criminals OUT
Of men, who. under different CONDITIONS if'n;'
families aud adding TO the wealth and
strength OF the Nation.
My friends, our opponents commence at
the wrong end of society, They sayA.f
you make the well TO do better to do than
some others, some of their prosperity VIII
leak through on the people below They
point 10 the Bible instance Of Lazarus and
Dives and they say what lucky thing it
was for l.ara2us that there was DIVES.
so that Lazarus could get some of the
crumbs that fell from his table.
We believe in restoring prosperity to this
Nation by first giving prosperity 70 tno,c
who produce the wealth of the Nation.
Make tho to!lng millions prosperous and
this country will be prosperous and our
people viii 80 on from the present stand,
cond tons; give us just laws eve VA
Justice IN government and your children
win he able to start in life with better
advantages than you had and your chill
dren's children will be able TO stand whore
you leave OFF But make conditions hard
all the time ard your children's children
We do not I've for ourselves alone. We
live for our children. They are blood Of
our blood and ilesh Of our Ash Ian and we
tenn whereby the few reap, where the
many have sown; we can not afford to
leave a financial system that allows a few
10 gather the cream from the milk.
My friends, ] recognize in the campaign
We have great influences against us. I
recognize that our opponents are able 10
collect enormous campaign funds | recog-
nizc that they are able to carry great ex-
| cursion trans to their candidate But. my
| friends, believe that when I come to the
| people themselves instead Of having them
| sent to me, can appeal to the hearts Of
the American pccp;e. ] believe that our
Il
| country can not he corrupted by large
| campaign fund. neither can they w. In
| undated by their employers our hope
| of victory lies, not in a corruption fund,
not in the employment, Of force. bu. n
| an honest appeal to the unpurchasai AMI
| unpurchasable voters Of the InrN
| States. am aware, my friends. that thew
may threaten 10 take your privileges from
| ycu | am aware tnat In order 10 hold
| Your position. YOU may. some of YOU he
| compelled to march in republican c-hs
and wear republican buttons bu' remem-
| her that The lah0rng nun of this coun-
| try has securcI yonr Australian ballot
system and .yranuy stands aside while
| tho voter goes inside.
| My friends, / have not asked the vote
| of any man: | have not come to tell you
how YOU shall vote, l come to point out
| cur cause, and | reGrst ! have not more
time to 10 IT,. believe we are right. !
| believe the principles for which we stand
| mean peara and prosperity and Joy to
the great mass of the people of this coin
| Try. and If YOU believe 1t, ask YOU TO
record your vote with us. II your con-
sc,pnce and your Judgment are against us.
! We have no claim upon you. ard oeg
You 10 study tins question and make your
| vote mean exactly who you think vote
ought to moan. II had time would