The herald., 1896-11-03
gold and silver for money. custom and

gold and silver for money. Custom and
usage have made 1t instructive with us
now to use those two commodities only
in every market, everywhere, at all
time, in the exchange of all commodi-
ties at some ratio or other, not far from
16 to l. Solomon's glory was attained
on a silver and gold basis of currency In
the ratio of 16 to 1. Lycurgus of Sparta
demonetized silver, and he was brute
whose religion was force and his creed
was might makes right" Our first
tariff bill introduced by Henry Clay was
prohibitive and differed from the Nc
Kinley bill in that it was intended as
such and did not surprise its author Ii
closed mints are essential to open mills
why did the mills shut down when the
mints shut down on the purchase of sill
yer? Why have they staid so for years
on gold basis and why do they move to
free silver Mexico and open up there?
We must in equity and consistency ex-
tend our Monroe doctrine to protect the
silver. of all the western hemisphere
which produces nearly four-f1fths OF the
worlds supply of it.
Like every nation lost in human his
tory the Republican party, now poised
in a conflict between the toiling mass
and the favored class, prepares to still
further favor that favored class and
plunge from the same old precipice Of
unprinciped partiality into political OBJ
livion.
We Silver Republicans preferred to
plunge into the redeeming fountain of
free silver salvation and wash our black
Republican souls white as snow. We
never left our party 1t turned its coat
and left us. We are like the redskin
met by the paleface gazing vacantly
about him; What's ..,t the ms mater? tt Ter 3,
No" answered Lo. "Injun no lost; In
jun here; wigwam lost!"
We have found our wigwam since,
and also that like us there are others.
Tom Reed day we crushed it's sides out;
Steve White day we tore it's back off; ;
and Bryan day we will blow it's roof
off. It's white braves, bound by yellow
bonds, are many; thousand or two
cuts little figure in their number, and
the colored men coming to help shatter
| the shackles off silver swear that it's
! roll shall number not less than thou
sand II hundred and A. We We're proud
to be black, rabid Republicans; proud
er still to be white Silver Republicans;
but we are proudest of all to be repudi-
ating Republicans. Repudiators. never
of an honest debt. but of careless pre-
cedent and an unrighteous and double
demand. Regulators, not of the sill
yer dollar Of our fathers. our sole con-
stitutional unit of value, for that all
parties indorse and demand again. Re
pudiators, not Of the ancient honor of
our party for that we Silver Republi-
cans alone uphold. Regulators! Yes.
strip the shirt from the back of
strip the shirt front from the back of
labor. paid with a 53-cent silver dollar.
to pay thes foreign bondholder a 1884,
cent gold dollar in return for the loan
of a 3S-cent greenback dollar, baptised
90 L
sacrificed upon the altar of our coun-
try's honor.
Repudiators! Yes. of that mercenary
mob of Mckinley misleaders. who would
make us walk the plank of gold and
plunge with all our party pride and per-
sonal principle into highly protected
and putrid perdition.
Honor to the Democrats who return
TO the pure principles of their founder
and first president under the leader
shin of just such another. More honor
and higher to the Populist pioneers of
this great white reform. who sacrifice
presidential possibility and party pow
er to perfect it.
We silver Republicans were proud of a
party whose early record is unsurpassed
for moral grandeur in human history
whose magnanimity is proverbial
whose munificence in paying and in
oVerpaying its debts has been multced
by the ile"ceuary to make it the fool in
business matters. soon parted from his
money. We are the men who have wan
dered away in the mountains of memory
to carve upon tables of marble the
morals of the grand old party. and have
come back to find the chosen of the
Lord gone money mad in worship of q
calf of gold, smelted from their orna-
ments, the magnificent golden honor of
our people.
We must force them row to face the
brazen serpent of defeat, that they may
see again the promised land of party
honor. We must make them expiate
their sin, the crime of '73, even If, like
Moses of old. we would in discouraged
wrath shatter our tables of stone and
break all the ten commandments at
once.
We ''poor financiers, who value prin-
ciple above interest are the heroes of
30. In future conventions we will be
greeted as are those old veterans, new
recruited in liberty's struggle, when
they march into our wigwam. To the
same old tune we will march that has
twice led them through vituperation,
conflict and victory to honor. Only the
words will be changed for us: That,
gal. that gal, that yaller Hanna gal that
gal we left behind us; And oh. that girl,
that California girl, that girl we freed
that Tuesday. 1t will be but fitting
that in placing in the White House next
Tuesday the whitest of men. wearing the
white badge indicative of free silver.
and pure soul, to cure the yellow fever
OF the white liberator of the black slave.
contracted in the war, that we also
emancipate women.
In times of peace we should prepare
for war; and in our women we can pre-
pare to leave behind us better home
guards in future than those unmanly,
masculine stay-athomes of the last
struggle, who started then the vast cor
poration corruption which confronts
us today, and who will vote to man.
with their hrelings, against us next
Tuesday. A fitting celebration of Cali
fornia's victory will be to crown it with
a vote of sixteen to one for the free and
unlimited suffrage Of women.
w. A. Selkirk of San Bernardino, who
came over last evening to attend the
Budd meeting, says that 1t was the
greatest demonstration of the cam
nairn and that nothing in San Fran.