The Dickinson press., 1896-08-29

financiers who have given days and years
OF thought to this subject, not one, and
nobody except the leaders of the modern
Democracy and Populism, has ventured
to advise his own country in Europe to
undertake that task alone. (Applause.)
Shall the United States, alone, under
take the free and unlimited coinage of sill
yer at q ratio of 16 to 1? "a few cries
Of yes" and no." and repeated cries of
no. Now, see you gentlemen over
there who called "yes," and you gentle
men here who called no." shows the
difference of opinion upon this subject
(laughtcrD, and to you over there who
come to listen to me. you will listen dis.
mcnts, and hope finally that. by the
time You have done SO thoroughly that
you will be inclined to shout mo" with
the gentlemen who responded when you
responded. Cheering and applausc.)
Now, let us be entirely good-naturel
about this. l am going to try to give
you the facts, and | repeat it, the issue
tempt to do that thing alone, in the
face of the controlling fact that every
civilized commercial nation upon the face
of the earth, except the Central Amer
lean and South American states. years
ago and before we did abandoned it ut
terly. And if l shall succeed in con-
vincing any of our friends that we are
not in position to do it without intlicting
upon the country and upon us all injuries
pair. shall be more than rewarded
for the pains that have taken, the OBJ
servations that have made, the studies
l have gone through and the reflections
which have brought me to my present
convictions. (Applause.)
Shall We Go Backward OF Forward?
Shall we, for our own interests stand
along with those nations with which we
ing the march of humanity, or shall we
90 with Mexico. South America, China
and Japan, the rearward half of the
great army of human progress, and join
those imperfect and rudimentary civiliza-
tions. which are an occular demonstra-
the coinage Of free silver that did not de.
prive itself of gold entirely. (Applause.)
And you have but to glance upon the
map of your school boy or school girl,
your little son or daughter, to see the
fact recorded there for the education of
youth, to know that every one of those
nations stands upon lower scale of
progress than the nations which have
declared the policy upon which the Unit
ed States now stands.
My fellow citizens, the warnings of his
tory are all against it. The present cx-
amplcs of nations who singly are endeav-
oriEg to sustain themselves under a single
standard forbid us to enter upon voy,
age upon, l was going to say. untricd
waters, put no, upon voyage which we
at the present time, where we can plain-
ly view rocks of distress, the shoals and
quicksands of their course from the Sc
cure mainland upon which the American
people now stand, and from which our
opponents are attempting to lure them
DE O,, iaise lights anu false alarms. Zap
piSMase:' Mna: o .o 49,.
as they are. We are not dealing with
are adminsterins a s society sss and human ccn. %e
Germs: society, q being perfectly concrete,
infinitely practicable, somewhat selfish.
and l am going to appeal to the selfish
ness of this audience to know whether
they will % assist in bringing about that
which l think ! can prove will result
from the arts of the gentlemen who are
attempting to mislead them.
Now, my friends. the world is divided.
just as sharply as it is by oceans and
mountain chains. between the gold coun-
tries, who employ concurrently with gold
more silver money than all the silver
plause.) say that the gold countries
Of this world. including the United States
land I call them gold countries for the
purpose not of definition, but of clear
ness of expression). employ and circulate
more silver than all the silver countries
I make another pronosition. I onnooi
10 To-; ntstorS @ ana 10 contemporary facts
free coinage eco cnuntrv is nn s;Ivar s seeiy See;S
isn'+ that so 1rr;ss 20 ef % was sseT ~ pas's I
another s+"toront for ,o,, o. niake s
for nm ,nt no;na tor 10 ,"t ETu 70 tnihK OF.
going to COT into Tho 6"nros rrott1 IL ,an am
scverv cold cnnn+rW nses s;,ranr ae.S ,, so3a ,a
in amo,nts T manly on,o1 in'er h,, % anu gola
tions ISM that 500 irr;cs n9SE nf ~ n;;> ~
Isn't that so in the f1n;toS stotcs tGs !
1Cries of "Yes."l In Ernncaa SWn;oe:
"Yes.'O 1 make another statement for for
your calm and cool reflection, that no sil. M
yer standard country hos any cola nv ,,en- e,,-
ey whatever. 1Annlomsoi han,t nt lt,Gn, toIae
my word for it. Go and inyestirota this
subject, | saw that no silver conn+ry hos hns
any gold money whatever and ro,y nan nn
search from Mexico to Cane Horn and
find that this statement is corract anu
Another statement-and I make II I'M.
on n sense of my responsibility after an
v.estigations and records-that in every
silver standard country wages are nrcssod
down to the very minimum Of 'v = wretc tShe' ~
subsistence: 1t is SO in Mexico. it is So 30
in Japan, it is so in South America. l
are pressed down to the very minimnm
of wretched subsistence. -
The Reasons.
Now Sc 81 So +r,o n .-:r
tho pM NV, sons ~ fnr te ;t' hvt W'ii not go into
coucra,a cu NELSON'S ahsolto s ~ fn+ ene Is true as
concrete apsoiute 1act, that no silver
county, tSn n.y. no country which has adopted
tne me, sllyer . standard mas any gold circula-
th tion WhateSer. VIVA ! say tnat it follows that
tne oniy Prac1icable blmetailism on the
planet is g. by the nations with which the
United states mas classed itself. and it
Is this mmetalllsm in the United States
which the new Democracy and Popu-
lism arc endcavoring to destroy by sub.
stituting silver mon"nictallism. (Ap-
plause.) The bimetallism which this
country and the nations of which have
spoken enjoy is the bimctallism of fact
and actual enjoyment extending to that