The record-union., 1896-10-29

home said to me when reproached him
for being a Democrat
I said to him: What do you want to
do that for?" I said: You go and do
great many wrong things"
We'll" said he, what do you think
those fellows would do If we were not
with them?"
I said, Il don't know
But I do know I know just what
they will do when the heads and brains
of them have left them. They will en-
deavor to strike down all our institu-
tions; they will endeavor to create tur-
n1oil and confusion; instead Of allowing
honest man chance to earn a living
they will try to prevent them; instead
of having business going ON in accord
| ance with the dictates of reason and
sense, they will get up some new
| scheme. The last one was that they
wanted low prices. They said what the
American man wanted above all things
was low prices. Well, we have got them.
(Laughter.) Those very men are now
| ciamoring for high prices. The truth
| lies between them. I am in favor OF
low prices. Somebody says to the
farmer: You needn't give yourselves
any trouble about the farm products
going down; you cannot make them by
machinery. and the rest Of them you
| can" The farmers products will go
down like everything else by bad times.
When nobody Is buying anything the
! farmer will suffer like anybody else;
but In good times (and history proves
II, for mans assertion is nOthing)
farm products go up in price.
| But so far as these products are con-
| cerned, believe that the world is tend
Ing toward lower prices all the time.
And l believe In low prices subject to
two things: First an honest profit; Sec
ond, an honest living and an ever-in-
creaSing wage for the laboring man.
| (Great applause)
| l DO not pretend to be the especial
friend OF anybody. 1 have a right to
wear the Grand Army button. / don't
pretend to be especially the soldiers
friend don't pretend to be especially
the friend of the poor. But this want
to say, that what we call the poor man
would have been called a rich man in
Jerusalem in the days of our Savior.
say that the poor man as we call him
to-day (by which 1 mean the wage
/ Garner and the salary Garner who make
up 10 per cent. of the population of this
country and make up 20 per cent. of the
purchasing power of this country, say
when he is prosperous the whole nation
is prosperous, and 1 am prosperous, too.
Therefore, want to see him get on for
good, wholesome, selfish reasons.
want to get on myself Naughter.)
Now, then, let us look after our own
affairs. Don't let US go wool gathering
| after these theories of currency. The
| idea Of charging this present disaster
Which has fallen upon us to the cur
rency! Have there never been such
disasters as this before? All history is
studded with them. We had one in 1873
which lasted until 1879, and that was a
| very hard one because we were really
| suffering. We were bringing the green
back up as we would have to bring sill
Yer up If we went into this fooliShness
We were bringing il up from below par
to par and that hurt; but when We got
it there in 1S79-when we got the gold
| standard there-what happened to US :?
| Fourteen years Of the greatest pros
| perity that have ever happened to the
| people of this country. And if we keep
| on and give such a majority as will
make the Senate of the United States
comprehend what the people Of this
| country mean, we will have prosperity
| again.
| Well, now, I am not absolutely sure
about that. / don't profess to be a
| prophet. I only profess to Judge the
future by the past. l only profess to see
what human beings have done and from
| seeing what they have done to say what
| they will do. 1t may be that when the
people of the United States get through
| with this foolishness of the free COMA ge
| of silver they will try another scheme,
| but if they do not, and above ALL if they
| give us majority enough so that the
Senate will understand where they are,
then I think we will go on. That is the
reason why we want California. l want
to say to you that this country is going
| all right, and it wants you to be along
and you are going to be along I can see.
| Great applause)
| Now, Mr.. McLachlan represents that
/ for him Your member Of Congress here
represents that idea, and is a good man
besides, and you want to elect him.
| (Cries Of I'VE will; we will!'O You want
| to do it with some sort Of emphasis
People are affected by loudness of voice,
| just as men very often are by the size
| of a crowd. You want to do it in a
| loud tone of voice; you want to do it by
a good, big, healthy majority. In short
| YOU want to do it in the way you have
done this meeting-in a good, thorough
splendid California way. (Cheers)
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