Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-08-20

Nuu Stt dWiN lFbui hffW tih sHh
avoid the logic of the positionf You see
this sometimes in this great city OF CHI
cage. when labor is not fully employed,
when underfed men are walking your
streets. when the hungry mouths of your
children are crying to you for food, ana
you are told that the strong arm of the law
is potent to raise the price of the bread |
you would put in their mouths, potent 10 |
make it little more difficult for you to |
gain the comforts that you would give TO |
those you love, but that It is impotent to
reduce the price by legislation or compel |
by act of law less to be taken from your |
labor to pay for the food you eat.
How are you going to get rid of the
logic of that situation. and yet our friends
who threaten to overwhelm the Demo-
cratic councils with doctrines like this
day in and day out assail our ears with the
cry that monetary legislation in this
country, the decentralization of silver. has
reduced the price of the uecessaries of
| life. i would like 10 know when II be-
came true that reduction in the price of
| the things you must eat and wear. rednc-
ton in the price of the comforts aye, of
the luxuries-that go to make up a happy
| life, was not sign of advancing civilian
ton and not of retrogression. tApplause.)
No, my friends, Democrats cannot stand
on position 80 illogical as this. II il he
possible to bring to a parity the two metals
| of silver and gold 1t can only he possible
by the agreement of the great money-us-
ing civilized nations of the world. TAP
nlansel We know thar IL canine, he done
by the Tinted states alone any more than
il has baan done bv Naxico ar J,n.n
alone.
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paty mnle" paiais ~ n,hn! in'luH-
rev h'sn' e"userioe
ms 'u, ~. .ne i'ein"'r''e party my
""a' s'r'hs ""P"s"lon u
r., piesne 10 i'eh"cra'ie coiNeh,ioh'
"' We in's' nsisiae-now AS we
na'e uone III .he past, 10 hghteh the hilr-
uen 'iaI oehds your BACK as you toll for
your hhiIy breadf No; but to increase the
price Oh the commodities, OF the neccssar-
es OF me, OF the food supplies of the
MASSES OF the people. IN order that class.
however worthy, may reap greater profit
from thelr employment Too startling,
my friends, to draw the Democratic party
atter It. Ii won't follow that will-o' the
wisp 10 which our eloquent friend has Just
referred into the morass of Republican
protectonism in order to crafty the am
billions of any set of men, who, for the
time being, may control Democratic
National Convention. Great applause. \
If free silver will moi satisfy 0h;ssash ~,
, lnlportnnate demand for higher prices
anu u new crop OF debtors on a silver
, basis hnd II hard to meet their debts, who
IS to resist cry, then, for fiat money and
| irredeemable paper? After You have
. given them the intoxicant of free silver
they VIII demand stronger potion in or
der to Keep up the Illusion and keep up the
excitement IN the body polite.
why not tell the truth and say that a
, stable measure of value and currency as
nearly unfluctuating as the civilization of
the world can command are the conditions
LOT the greatest industrial activity and the
most widely diffused national prosperity
Under these conditions credit will revive
= and assert its functions in the machinery
OF modern civilization. 1t furnishes sc
per cent of the currency with which the
exchanges of life are accomplished; some
say II furnishes 95 per cent. 1t will light
the hres OF thousand industries and far
: INTO flame the activities of our people II
e only permitted to do so by the healthfu
y conhitions That sound money and stable
l currency VIII bring to all the people. (Ap
pianse.l IL is the threat of destroyin,
y the basis of such conditions which is nov
paraiyZlng the arm of industry and clos
e ing up the opportunities for remuneratiy,
:, iapor.
u There is not, my friends, silver stand
y dard country in the world where the Ia
II boring man receives fair days nay TO
7, fair days work. (Applause.) ask yo,
'e men Of Chicago if you want to he maid il
ID dollar whose purchasing power has hce,
to deliberately, with malice prepeIise an,
aforethOught decreased by Legislation nd
N t-vocated--God save the mark--by m
Ir Democratic party. (Applause.) VIVA
{, does your dollar earned BY the sweat a
o, your brow mean to you? WHY. II mean
o. nothing until it is translated into food
ut INTO clothes, into shelter and int
Id ine hundred comforts and luxurie
lie tiiat make up civilized life. An
e. you want that dollar to he capabl
IS, OF being translated into tie great
ID est possible amount of all of these. An
We who shall say you nay? Why, say the,
10 II debtor class in this country. n dcbtG
'ir class who clamor 10 scale their debts fc
t. their own selfish benefit and leave the cor
h. sequences TO he horne by that great cred
en- tor class of the country and of the worl,
We the man who works for days or n week
ry wages. tAppHuse.) If you are going
he divide this country into classes into
nd debtor class and creditor class, pra
al where will you draw the line?
". Why, gentlemen, don't Won know IN,