The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-08-22

them the rightsto enjoy those benefits If
our opponents would admit the right, the
ability and the duty of oar people to act for
themselves on all public questions without the
assistance and regardless of the wishes of other
nations, and then propose the remedial legis
lation which they consider sufficient, we could
meet them in the field of honorable debate,
but when they assert that this nation is help
less to protect the rights of its own citizens we
challenge them 10 submit the Issue to people
whose patriotism has never been appealed to
in vain.
We shall not offend other nations when we
declare the right of the American people TO
govern themselves, and, without let or him
dranee from without, decide upon every ques-
ton presented for their consideration. In
taking this position we simply maintain the
dignity of seventy million citizens who are
second to none in their capacity for selfgov-
ernment
NATIONS ORGANIZATIONS
The gold standard has compelled the Amer
lean people to pay an ever-increasing tribute
to the creditor nations of the world-a tribute
which no one dares to defend. / assert that
national honor requires the United States to
secure justice for all its citizens as well as do
justice to all its creditors. For people like
ours, blest with natural resources of surpas-
sing richness, TO proclaim themselves impo-
| tent to frame financial system suited to their
own needs is humiliating beyond the power of
language to describe. We cannot enforce re-
| spect for our foreign policy so long as we
confess ourselves unable to frame our own
financial policy. Honest differences of opin-
ion have always existed and ever will exist as
to the legislation best calculated to promote
the public veal; but when it is seriously as
serted that this nation must bow to the dicta-
ton of other nations and accept the policies
which they insist upon, the right of self-gov-
ernment is assailed, and until that question is
settled all other questions are insignificant.
THE WEST AND SOUTH TO THE EAST.
Citizens OF New York l have travelled
| from the centre of the continent 10 the sea-
board that l might, in the very beginning of
the campaign, bring you greeting from the
people of the West and South and assure you
that their desire is not to destroy, but to build
up. They invite you to accept the principles
OF living faith rather than listen TO those
who preach the gospel of despair and advise
| endurance OF the ills you have. The advo-
Gates of free coinage believe that in striving
to secure the immediate restoration of bimet-
allism they are laboringi in your behalf as well
as in their own behalf A few Of your people
may prosper under present conditions, but the
permanent welfare Of New York rests upon
the producers of wealth. This great city is
built upon the commerce of the nation and
You cannot sell unless the people have money
with which to buy, and they cannot obtain the
money with which to buy unless they are able
TO sell their products at remunerative prices.
Production ofwealth goes before the exchange
of wealth; those who create must secure ID
profit before they have anything 10 share with
others. You cannot afford to join the money
changers in supporting a financial policy
which, by destroying the purchasing power OF
the products of toll, must in the end discour
age the creation of wealth.
AMERICA SHOULD POINT THE WAY.
l ask, | expect your cooperation. 1t is
true that a few of your financiers would fash
ion q new figure figure representing Co.
lumba, her hands bound fast with letters of
gold and her face turned toward the East,
appealing for assistance to those who live be-
yond the sea-but this figure can never ex-
press your idea of this nation. You will
rather turn for inspiration to the heroic statue
which guards the entrance to your cily-a
statue as patriotic in conception as it is colos
sal in proportions it was the gracious gift Of a
sister republic and stands upon a pedestal
which was built by the America people. That
fgure-Liberty Enlightening the Worlds
embematic of the mission of our nation
among the nations of the earth. With Gov
eminent which derives its powers from the
consent of the governed, secures to all the
people freedom of conscience, freedom of
thought and freedom of speech, guarantees
equal rights to all and promises special priv
ileges to none, the United States should be an
example in all that is good and the leading
spirit in every movement which has for its OBJ
ject the uplifting of the human race.