The representative., 1896-09-16

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ington, year ago published an article
in the North American Review describ-
ing the condition of his country, and
he showed that Mexico is more prosper
GUS now than it ever was before In its
history. Her farmers are prospering,
her business men are prospering. her
manufactures are all busy, and new
ones are being erected, and there is
scarcely an idle laborer in Mexico.
But, my fellow citizens, II all of the
talk about gold going to a premium
were true, it would not meet the ques-
ton. The question is, shall republican
institutions be maintained In this coun-
try? If our farmers, our mechanics, our
labOrers, are reduced to the condition of
mere tribute paying serfs, then the doom
of the repub.c is sealed. If they are to
be reduced to the impoverished condi-
tion of the toilers of Europe then high
and intelligent order of citizenship in
this country is impossible. Men who
have little to eat and little to wear can
not educate their families. Men who
have to give up all of their strength and
all of their thoughts to what is practi-
cally unrequited toll, are not calculated
to act the role of Independent freemen.
In 1776 England sought to dominate
us politically; the financial and indus
trial policies of the world were not SO
prominent then. At that time all of the
bankers and most of the very rich and
influential people of this country were
tories. They sided with England, but
the great common people of the colonies
demanded independence. There were
less than 5000, 900 of them. The infiu-
entail class were all against them. The
fashionable people of the colonies and
Of Europe jeered at them. The aristo-
Gratis of Europe sneered at their preten-
sions. Suppose that under those condi-
tions the colonies had said:
Liberty is a good thing, but we must
wait until Europe consents for us to
have it," Would this republic ever
have been founded? Instead of that
they announced to the world their inde-
pendence and their readiness to die to
maintain it.
In 1872 England sought to dominate
us upon the seas, and again the bankers
and moneyed classes of our country
sympathiZed with England. Suppose the
weak and struggling republic had then
said: Freedom from search upon the
seas is an excellent thing, but we must
wait until Europe helps to get it,"
Would our history have been the same?
Although England was then almost mis-
tress Of the world, the young and strug-
Cling republic defied and defeated her.
ENGLAND is ATTACKED.
Since then conditions have changed;
policies have changed England does
not care to dominate us politically fur
ther than to shape our financial policy.
She does not care to search our ships up
on the seas, for, under the peculiar poll
cy which has been pursued by our gov
ernment for the last 25 years, we have
scarcely any. She does not care to send
her own tax collectors over here to
dominate over us; she has found a meth
cd of subjugation that suits her better
If she can but keep our country in the
condition in which she has us now,
where all the sweat, all the toll, and all
the blood of our people are drawn to
her Golfers to be coined into English
sovereigns she is content
Three millions of people established
republican institutions in this country,
in the face of jeering and sneering
world. The question now is, shall TO-
100000 people now proclaim that we are
dependent upon the monarchy ridden
and corruption eaten European states.
My friends, it is not a question of Of
flee getting. There are things in the
world that rise above Office, and rise
above empty honors. 1 ASH you to sup
port Bryan and humanity against Nc
Kinley and plutocracy. 1 ask you to
support the institutions of the fathers
against the dictation of foreign Shy
locks. l ask you to sustain a policy
which gives every man his due on the
one hand, and will make it possible for
every industrious and intelligent man to
make living on the otner hand.