The herald., 1896-08-27
age of, oratory is gone, I point him to

| long as there are causes winch appeal
to the human heart. (Applause.) Ora
tory is the speech of the person, one who
| knows what he is talking about and
means what he says and in this cam
| paign you will find the orator every
where. Come to my state and I will
| show you a banker and a money lender
who will go forth to preach the gospel of
| bimetallism as he never preached any
other gospel in his life. Great applause
| and cheers) l will show you a brief
less barrister who, armed with right will
| meet the attorney of the corporations
and crush him before any audience.
| (Great applause) 1 will show you the
business man who never came from be-
| hind the counter before. But he,
feeling that the welfare of his
family and the welfare of posterity de-
| pends upon the settlement of this cause,
can come from his store and rise before
an audience and make a speech that
cannot be answered by any man who
would fasten shackles upon 100000 of
| free men. Great applause) I will
| take you to the railroad shops and will
| show you men who know more about
| the money question than the president
| of the road knows about the subject. l
will take you to a carpenter who, as he
works at the bench, will evolve in his
mind these questions and come nearer
finding out what is an honest dollar than
the man who represents a syndicate
and bows to the dictations of Lombard
street. All, come with me to the farm
and will show you the man who follows
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ey question and knows that if the dol
lars go up his wheat goes down and you
cannot answer the logic of that argu-
ment at all. A prominent writer came
to this country a good many years ago
and wrote a book about the Democ-
racy in America, and he said every citi-
zen over here was a public speaker and
he said one of them could not talk five
minutes without getting excited and
saying Ladies and gentlemen" If he
thought that then. what would he think
were he here today? l know a western
town where the people congregate up
on the main streets and block up the
sidewalks talking the money question
and when they are too numerous they
had to push them off the sidewalks and
lHey DlOCheu up tLe SlIeGlS, Olle
feet wide. and then, in order to allow
some business to go on, the city council
hired a hall for these people to meet in
every day to discuss the money ques-
ton in that way. You cannot drive the
tariff question into the campaign with
a pile driver. 1t is not more taxes the
people want. 1t is more money to pay
the taxes they already have to pay.
want you to go home and take with you
the determination to leave no effort un
done to carry out the principle which
you espouse. We have cause that ap-
peals to the hearts of men. There is no
sentiment in the human hearts of men
that is deeper down than the love of
justice 1t is that love of justice which
society is built on-without which there
could be no such thing as government
and that sense of justice is offended by
any legislation that seeks to give to a
few persons the prosperity that ought
to be the heritage of all the people. Now
there is one rule by which we can deter
mine upon which side the citizen of this
country will fight. remember hearing
| a sermon preached great many years
! ago from the text: "As he thinketh in
his heart, so is he" The more l thought
of that text the more deeply it has i'm
pressed itself on me.
The heart is thep lace where conduct
is determined, and if you want to find
out where a man is in this fight, do not
look at the brain; that would find a
reason for whatever his heart wants him
to do. Look at his heart and find out
r,-ba fbiac When
pie choose their sides in this campaign,
after having studied the question and
understanding it, they will take the side
to which their sympathies lead them.
You might not accept my authority; L
will give you authority that our oppo-
nents at the east will not question Hon.
John G. Carlisle in 1878 made a speech
in congress, and in the course of that
speech, in the house of representatives,
used these words-I think I can quote
them exactly-"If this measure (Which
was the Bland ac) can be entrusted for
its enforcement to the public official
who is in sympathy with the struggling
Masses who produce the wealth and
pay the taxes of the country, rather than
with the idle holders of idle capital,
there would be but little difficulty, be-
cause he would coin the maximum in
stead of the minimum provided by the
amendment DO you comprehend
what he said in those words? MI Car
Isle divided society into two classes.
He said that on the money question the
idle holders of idle capital were on the
one side, and that the struggling masses
who produce the wealth and pay the
taxes of the country were on the other
side. If that division existed then. it
exists now. He said that the secretary
of the treasury would be governed in
his official acts by his sympathies, and
! because he sympathized with the idle
holders of idle capital he would coin as
little money as possible, whereas if he
sympathized with the struggling masses
! he would coin as much as the law would
have permitted That is not my lam
guage. l may be too young to use words
like that. John G. Carlisle was 4S years
old when he used these words. Gaugh-
ter. voice: Caesar was young.'D
My friends, l believe that those words
contain great deal of philosophy
Show me the sympathies of a man and I
i will mark out his conduct. Show me the
man whose sympathies are with the idle
! holders of idle capital and l will show
| you man who wants as little n,onev q G