The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-18

instance in which the common people
of any land have ever declared them.
selves in favor OF a gold standard.
! (Applause.)
They can find where the FOLDERS OF
fixed investments have. Mr.. Carlisle
SAID i'll 1873 that this was Il struggle
| between the idle holders of idle capital
and the struggling masses who pro-
duce the wealth and pay the taxes of
the country, and, my friends, it is
simply question that we shall decide
upon which side shall the democratic
party fight. Upon the side of idle
holders OF idle capital or upon the side
vi the struggling masses? That is
the question that the party must
answer first, and then it must be
answered by each individual hereafter.
The sympathies of the democratic
party as described by the platform are
on the side of the struggling masses,
who have ever been the foundation of
the democratic party. (AppIause
There are two ideas of government
There are those who believe that il YOU
just legislate to make the weIl-to- do
prosperous that their prosperity will
leak on those below. The democratic
idea has been to legislate to make the
masses prosperous; their prosperity
Will find its way up and through every
class and rest upon it. (Applause.)
You come to us and tell us that the
great cities are in favor of the gold
standard. l tell you that the great
cities rest upon there broad and fertile
prairies. Burn down your cities and
leave our farms, and your cities will
spring up again as if by magic. But
destroy our farms, and the grass will
grow in the streets of every city in this
country. cloud applause.)
My friends, we shall declare that
this nation is able to legislate for its
own people on every question, without
waiting for the aid or consent of any
other nation on earth. (Applause)
And upon that issue we expect to
carry every single state in the union.
(Applause.) l shall not slander the
fair state of Massachusetts, nor the
state of New York by saying that when
Its citizens are confronted with the
proposition-I will not slander either
one by saying that the people OF those
states will declare our helpless Impo-
tency as nation to attend to our own
business. 1t is the issue of 1916 over
again-our ancestors, when the 3,0OO,-
600 had the courage to declare their
political independence of every other
nation upon the earth. Shall we,
their descendants, when we have grown
to 10000, 900, declare that we are less
Independent than our forefathers? No, |
my friends, it will never be the iudg-
ment of the people.
Therefore, we care not upon what
lines the battle is fought. If they say
bimetallism is. good, but we cannot
have it until some nation helps US, we
reply that instead of having gold |
standard because England has, we
shall restore bimetallIsm, and then let
England have bimetallism because the |
United States has. (Applause.) If
they dare to come out and in the open |
defend the gold standard as good |
thing, we shall fight to the uttermost,
having behind us the producing masses
of this nation and the world. Having
behind us the commercial interests and |
the laboring interests, and all the |!
tOiling masses, we shall answer their |
demands for gold standard by saying |
to them you shall not press down upon
The brow of labor this crown of thorns. |
You shall not cruelty mankind upon a
cross of gold. (Great applause.)