The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-08-29

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In foreign universities. not one Of these
economists whose name and fame are
worldwide. and not one OF those great
hnanciers who have given days and years
Of thought 90 this subject, not one, and
nobody except the leaders Of the modern
Democracy and Populism. has ventured
| 10 advise his own country IN Europe 10
undertake that task alone. lApplausel
The question is this. and nothing more;
Shall the United States. alone, under
take the free and Unlimited coinage OF sll-
yer at a ratio Of l6 TO Il "a few cries
Of yes" and no" and repeated cries OF
no. Now. see yOn gentlemen over
there who called yes" and you gentle
! men here who called mo" shows the
difference Of opinion upon this subject
daughterl, and to you over there who
come 20 listen 10 me- you viii listen dis
/ passionately, you will digest my argu-
nents. and l hope finally that by the
time YOU have done so thoroughly that
| you will be inclined TO shout mo with
the gentlemen who responded when you
responded. Cheering and APPLAUSE
Now, let Us be- entirely goOd-natured
about this. ! am going 10 try 10 give
! you the facts, and | repeat IL. the issue
il whether the United States shall at
| tempt 10 do that thing alone, IN the
face Of the controlling fact that every
civilized commercial nation upon the face
/ VI tdllus tAttll llt ttuAlAi
| lean and South American states. years
ago and before we did abandoned II ut
terly. And il l shall succeed in con
viDcing any Of our friends that we are
not In position 10 do IL without INJECTING
upon the country and upon us all injuries
which il will take a generation 20 re-
pair. i shall be more than rewarded
for the pains that l have taken. the OBJ
servations that have made. the studies
] have gone through and the reflections
which have brought me TO my present
convictions. (Applausel
shall We Go backward or Forward
Shall we. FOR our own interests stand
along with those nations with which we
have classed ourselves and who are lead
ing the march Of humanity. or shall we
go with Mexico. South America. China
and Japan, the rearward half OF the
great army of human progress. and join
those imperfect and rudimentary ciyiliza-
tons. which are an occular demonstra-
tion that no nation ever undertook alone
the coinage of free silver that did not de-
prive itself of gold entirely. (Applause.)
And you have but 10 glance upon the
map of your school boy or school girl.
your little son or daughter. TO see the
fact recorded there for the education of
youth. TO know that every one of those
nations stands upon a lower scale OF
progress than the nations which have
declared the policy upon which the Unit
ed States now stands.
My fellow citizens the warnings Of his
tory are all against il. The present ex-
amples If nations who singly are endeay-
ORIG TO sustain themselves under single
standard forbid us to enter upon yoy-
age upon, | was going 20 say. untried
waters, but no. upon a voyage which we
can plainly see other nations are making
at the present time. where we can plain
ly view rocks of distress. the shoals and
quicksands of their course from the Sc
cure mainland upon which the American
people now stand. and from which our
opponents are attempting TO lure them
by false lights and false alarms. ZAP
plause.)
Now we have got to take facts exactly
rs they are. We are not dealing with
glittering and glowing generalitcs. We
are administering society and human con-
Germs: society. being perfectly concrete,
infinitely practicable. somewhat selfish.
and / am going TO appeal TO the selfish
ness of this audience 10 know whether
they will assist in bringing about that
which | think / can prove will result
from the arts Of the gentlemen who are
attempting TO mislead them.
Now. my friends. the world is divided.
just rs sharply as il Is by oceans and
mountain chiins. between the gold coun-
tries. who employ concurrently with gold
more silver money than all the silver
countries contain or circulate. ZAP
plause.) I say that the gold countries
Of this world including the United States
land / call them gold countries for the
purpose not Of definition. but of clear
ness of expressionb. employ and circulate
more silver than all the silver countries
Of the world employ. contain or circulate
/ make another proposition. / appeal
10 history and to contemporary facts
which no man can dispute, that every
free coinage country is on silver basis
Isn't that so? Cries Of Yes I make
another statement for you to think of.
for / am not going TO elaborate It'll am
going 10 get into the figures pretty soon
every gold country uses silver and gold
in amounts nearly equal by money ma
tioDs. Isn't that so? tCries of "Yos.'')
Isn't that so In the United States?
Cries of "Yes.D In France? Voices
Yes / make another statement for
your calm and cool reflection. that no sill
yer standard country has any gold mon
ey whatever. (Applause.l Don't take
my word for it. Go and investigate this
subject. j say that no silver country has
any gold money whatever and you can
search from Mexico to Cape Horn and
find that this statement is correct
Another statement-and ! make IL up-
on sense Of my responsibility after an
exhaustive examination Of statistics in
vestigations and records-that in every
silver standard country wages are pressed
down to the very minimum of a wretched
subsistence. IL is so in Mexico. IL is so
in japan. il is so in South America. I
say that in every silver country wages
are pressed down to the very minimum
of a wretched subsistence.
The Reasons.
Now II II is true Il will not 20 into
the reasons for it,, but If il is true os a
concrete, absolute fact. that no silver
country. no country which has adopted
the silver standard has any gold circula.
ton whatever. ! say that it follows that
the only practicable bimetallism on the
planet Is by the nations with which tho
United States has classed itself. and il
is this bimetallism in the United States
which the new Democracy and POM.
lism are endeavoring to destroy by sinh.
shutting silver monometallism. IAN.
plause.) The bimetallism which This
country and the nations of which I have
spoken enjoy is the blmctallism of fact
and actual enjoyment extending IN thai
full extent which human judgment. bu.
man experience. human apprehension
call IL what you will--teach is the nro.
norton in which the metals can he em.
ployed in degree that one will NOT do.
stroy or drive out the other and that