The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-09-09

/ ton untiI We lItSl determine whether the
| people or this country ARE able to have
| their own policy, and until we have de
c.dcd upon IL.
! don't Know whether ali of Won fully
realize the intensity OF the etiuggle in
| which we are engaged. our opronents
l., gan the campaign by asserting tnal the
! Ahucritun ueJp.e were not aple 10 es-
! tabiish bmetalisrn and then when they
/ iCupd there was a revolt among the
American people against such policy
/ they have commenced system of cocr-
cion aid terrorism, insisting that he
! masses Of me people nave not the right
&c Determine what kind Of policy they
wait This terrorism and COERCION Is man
| ed IN tho ways. IL the First place
the heads of great corporations are I'M
d'ttakine 10 compel their employees TO
supper, the gold standard. Nv friends,
| II tie beads Of these corporations assert
the right to control the votes of those
who vo,e Cor them. then we have pre-
=. stntcd to the American people even a
greater question than the silver question.
| II a corporation has tile right to control
| the Note of an enplcye on one quest. on,
It has the right 10 control on every guess
ton These corptrai tons were not con
stitutsd FOR, any such purpose They arc
cr atures of the law. Has the law give
| unto .hcsc corporations any such powers?
| No. my friends and no people VINO love
their government viii ever entriist these
d corporation is not ntrusjcd with a
| legal right 10 vote those employees as 1t
Will then the corporation that attempts
It u.urrs rs rights and become. II dan
gerDuS power III free government. IT
/ there are those here who are opposed to
us IN the money question hey dare not
approve of the conduct OF these corpopi-
tiOrs THAT are attempting to vote thc!r
employees. We may be The ones to suffer
NOW, but | warn you, fellow citizens
that he time may come when these very
/ corporations will turn themselves agains .
you and your families with all the ac-
cumulltcd power that your Endorsement
! OF their conduct will give them
Not only have come If These corpora
items attemp ed to coerce Their employees
TOW. N
New York has been attempting to coerce
u people who do business with them.
\ paper Il few days ago said OF 4 Montana
given WIS the managers OF the bank were
adv0ca'ing free silver and therefore the
New York banks refused to sxtend ere credit
pcndf,i the Sank. Ny friends, 10 YOU
people? want 10 ask YOU What you think
vii be the ro uli II we ct to be gov
ernmen' by tanks If we could trust
might endure Il lor lime. hut when you
remember that New York oanlSers arc
unior control OF tn London hankers
destines of "A free people 10 a few finan-
c.oIs
We had a failure in this city last winter
"A failure which. In my Judgment. was
lag lv due 10 the sale Of bonds and to
drawing in money from circulation from
the channels of trade TO invest in gov
no tu'urial policy which permits few
nnanciers TO close your hanks at viii and
swa How M your deposits and impoverieh
your people I want TO ask you If I; II
not dine to consider whether this can
not bee stopped. We have hccn told VIC
coIll not borrow from abroad unless We
have financial system that is >atif(ac-
tory to the people abroad. NV friends
you let them control YOUR iinan Al sy
tom and YOU will never see a time when
you can get out of the clutches Of those
ffff
] assert that the right of the people OF
this country Is to have their own iln1nctA|
s5 item and to regulate their own affair
ana If foreign people do NOT w1n "a
loan money to us under these conditions
we will have the consolation Of Knowing
that tho conditions viii be so faNorahl'
that will soon have money to loar
in my humble Judgment a proper fnan.
cial policy for the last twenty yearS woult
have left the people of the United states
INDEPENDENT of foreign money But i'll
stead of that we are more dependent TO-
day than We were twenty years ago. II
that is So where Will we he twenty years
from now If We follow the salne system
J We have allowed them to drive dowr
he value of our products by their tinan
cial policy and when our exports have no
been sufficient to pay the enormous drains
OF New York exchange, they have takeT
our gold and when they take our golt
they do not want TO leave rs any money
TO DO business with in lis place.
\ They tell us that If we have the free
coinage OF silver that silver will come IL
, and run gold ont. We have told then
/ that while we deny it. yet it Is far better
= for the American people to have silvcl
come in and run gold out than to have
= out and leave nothing in IT'S place. oui
4 opponents tell u that Il Is a great thint
( TO have money come 10 us from abroad
- If We have money in this country VIII,
- should we want single dollar to come
. ! from abroad Why. IL We have enough
n money now and any. more comes, thel
. We will have too much and nobody want
n too much money. Let me give you two
5 questions to put to your opponents. Not
: ask them II We have enough money II
% this country. If they say We have. thel
i you tell them We 10 not want any money
q TO come from abroad If they siy w
have not enough money now, you tel
n them il ~ better to let the money come
II out from orr own mountains than Il
f get it from them.
II our opponc@,s claim they understand
4 the money question. That is wlat the!
! H. bn. are me only ones who do under
4 H'and IT, never hear Of 'hc ,inancser VINO
g ms m, proni'd by re Innncial policy Of iht
n Tered ialk about underestimate. The money
d question without thint'ng of Eesup's fable
n a farmer wa, huildinS fence tc protec'
aud said. 'Whv. don't waste any ;m'
on 'hat f"rrc. go on about your blowing
'. ana ana ,.ave the chicken. 10 w. We Ioxe:
/. UNDERSTAND we "a iCk"n business. W'hen
- ma me man who can make millions oi
dollars ont Of a siIIle bond issue which
o simply fastened more axes npon the pei
l. PIE Vi the country, ana that RAN tells me
. ,hAi NJ dl,l'rsthnde the money question
= Know mat 50 far nS IN" people are
y BUSINESS Ike the fox wculd lake care OF
:. our, our olpoqent7 ,cn us hey want rood
g mon"y. 50 do We. W. Sa1t ID money
VIVA s9oG money Is, 'fhey "Aor , dnrl'
= SO ZOO that these who hay" the lol'ls