The herald., 1896-08-19

VII NDlCll It SldHuS. w e oil must re-
member that lurid rhetoric which glow
ed as flercely in tve western skies as the
sunlight which through the past week
foretold the torrid heat of the ensuing
day, and here upon this platform we
find that TIP same rhetoric is mild, as
insipid as the waters of stagnant pool
He Is a candidate who was swept in to
the nomination by wave of popular
enthusiasm awakened by appeals to
prejudice and cred. He is d candidate
who, declaring that this was a revolu-
tionary movement, no sooner found him
self face to face with the American feel
ing than he realized that this soil is not
propitious to raise revolutions; that the
people of this country Will not change
the institutions which have stood the
tests and experiences of century FOR
institutions based upon the fantastic
dreams of a Populist agita tor-that the
American nation will never consent to
substitute for the republic of Washing
ton, of Jefferson and of Jackson, the re-
public of an Altgeld a Tillman or a
Bryan. Whatever change may have
come over his manner as candidate.
HOWtNtI iHuCn Tile NPnerneIce OF Ms
eloquence may have ben reduced, two
things for which he stands, remain unal-
tered. In this platform he defended the
most revolutionary plank of the Chicago
convention, in speeches less vehement
but not less earnest, than that in which
he supported their adoption. On this
platform he defended the Populistic pro-
gram of overthrowing the integrity Of
the supreme court. If there be any fruit
which has grown for the benefit of all
mankind out of the establishment of our
republic, it has been the demonstration
that it is possible by the organiza ton of
an Independent tribunal to safeguard
the rights of every citizen and protect
those natural privileges against any in
vasion from whatever source or how
ever powerful might be the antagonzing
element.
If Mr.. Bryan could show me that by
any means known to heaven or on earth
wages ould be increased by the free
coinage Of silver will ready to support
him, because I know of no test of pros
perity absolutel yinfallible except the
rate of wages paid laborers. When we
come to find how Mr.. Bryan expects to
increase the wages of labor we find our
selves lost in a maze of contradiction.
No man can tell how or Ihere or when
the wages of the working men are to be
increased; but any one who examines
the scheme can see that the inevitable
tendency, the inevitable consequence of
a debasement in the standard of value,
must be reduction in the rate of wages,
and that is the conspiracy in which the
Populist is engaged.
Now, Mr.. Bryan tells us that he wants
to cheaper the dollar; that he wants to
increase the volume of money. do not
believe that any man who ever lived
could quite understand a Populist's no
ton of what money is, further than that
he believes it is desirable thing to get
and he is not very particular about the
means by which he can get his hands
on it.
Nothing is more common than the
mistake that money and property are
identical. They are not. There may be
a very large volume Of circulating me-
dunn and very grtGlt poverty. The issue
of paper money simply IS no more an
increase of wealth than the issue by an
individual of his promissory note would
show an increase of his property. AS
matter of fact, an increase in the COIN
age is proof of an increase in property,
but may be a strong proof of decrease
in wealth. 1t is not the vUume of mon
ey but the activity Of money that
counts.
The basis Of sound trade is sound
money. Money which is intrinsically
valuable Money which lige the gold
coinage of this country the government
cannot affect if it tried to. can take
a ten-dollar gold piece and I can defy
all the power of all the governments of
this earth to take five cents of its S.-r,Ie
from it. Having earned it by the sweat
of my brow, having earned it by the ex-
ercise of my brain, haring earned it by
the exchange of my commodities, can
go to the uttermost ends of the earth
and wherever 1 present it it's value will
beunquestioned and unchallenged. That
gold dollar, this meeting, the Demo-
cratic party, the honest masses of this
country without distinction of party
divisions demand it shall be paid to the
laborer when he arms it and that no
power on earth shall chaet him of the
sweat of his brow.
Now, the Populist loves to say that the
creditor is a person wh ppresses the
western farmer; the creditors of this
country are not the bankers; they are
not the so-called capitalists; they are
the laborers an it is at the expense of
labor that this change is made. The
laborer is always a creditor for at least
one days work. When any man can
show me laborer who has been paid in
advance for days's work I will show
him laborer who is debtor. The
laborer by the very law of his being a
creditor for at least one days work is
a creditor for weeks work
or two weeks work. Every great in
dustrial enterprise has for it's chief
creditors it's laborerS.
A Waste Of Honey
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1S.-The Bull
letin this afternoon will say one of the
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