The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-29


can take my property, but you cannot
take my soul Great applause.) 1t
REQUIRES heroism for man to stand
in the presence of a financial tyrant
and bid him do his worst. Continued
cheers)
MY friends, / believe that the mer-
camille classes have suffered as much
by government by banks as any other
class of the people, and when | preach
deliverance of the common people from
the money changers, j preach deliver
ance to the businessmen from the
tyranny of the banks. applause and
cheers.) say that the man who loans
You money has no right to control
your vote. ('"Hhat is good and cheers.)
| say that a man, who, because he loans
YOU money. attempts 10 rob you of
your citizenship should be made to
feel the penalty by an injured people.
(Applause.) / know that it is not
polite to say anything of these finan-
eieTs who think so well of themselves
(Laughter), but, my friends, if they
do not want to have hard things said
of them, let them be just and cease to
be despots. (Applause.) / want you
business men between now and election
day to think over this proposition. If
the gold standard is good, why do
those who advocate it resort to de-
eeption? DO you have to resort to
deception when you are selling some
thing of quality? Do you have to resort
to deception when you are selling some
thing which has merit? Not at all,
YOU present the merits of that thing,
if it has merits, and when you see a
man resorting to deception it is a
confession that the thing which he is
advocating has not the merit to go
upon its own strength. (Applause and
cheers.)
II say to you that the Republican
platform adopted this way is fraud.
(Applause.) | say that it was intended
as q fraud (Applause); that the men
who wrote it, wrote it to deceive the
people and to secure an advantage by
deception that they could not obtain
in an open fight. (Applause.) ~
Another thing, if man comes to
you with business proposition, you
expect him 10 be able to point out
the advantages of the plan. You ask
him the details and if he tells you
he does not know just how it is going
to work, you do not have any con-
fidence in his plan. If he tells you that
his plan has great merits, but that
he is not going TO tell you anything
about them until you invest your
money in the plan. you would not pay
any attention to him. And yet they
don't want you to understand in this
campaign that the Republican party
has not elaborated any financial policy.
1t is opposing, not proposing anything.
IF the Republican party knows what
is best, wh does it not tell the Ameri-
can people. If the Republican party
has plan which win relieve us from
our present financial condition, why
does not the Republican party sub
nit that plan to the American people
for their verdict, and if they have no
plan what presumption it is for them
to ask you to trust them first and let
them find out afterwards. Great APP
plause and cheering.)
want you to note this proposition.
When we talk about wanting more
money, why they tell you there is
money enough in the country; plenty
of money In the country. The moment
Won begin to argue that there should
he more, they will silence you by point
/ ing to the amount of money in the
banks awaiting to be loaned, and then
you say, all night, if we have enough
money in this country now, let us.
have financial system Sof our -ow1l,
and they say. Ohio, no., no, can't do
that because if You do that then we
cannot borrow abroad (Langhter
and cheers.) Why do we want to bor-
row If we have enough? prolonged
cheers.) Now, my friends, there are
the two propositions. You cannot
escape both of them.
The Republican platform pledges the
Republican party to use every effort
to promote international Ibi-Inetallism.
How is it going to promote it? By
making it profitable for foreign cFedi-
tors to object to it. How are they
going to promote international BIZ
metallism? BY making lit profitable
to foreign finanoieris to refuse our
petition. / promise you to promote
international Ibi-neltalhsan, and
promise to do it in more sensible
way than by making it profitable to re-
fuse our petition. You ask me what
our plan is. will tell you. You have
said to foreign creditors that if they
viii object 10 bi-metallism that we will
join with them in making their mort
cages more valuable and their notes
more valuable and their dollars buy
more. | propose that we coin the bull
lion now at the mints of the United
States and open them to the free and
unlimited coinage of silver on equal
terms with gold at the present ratio,
and the money coined shall be alike
legal tender for all debts, public and
private. Great applause.) And then
| propose that we shall say TO slr
foreign creditors that we intend to
nay our coin obligations in either gold
or silver. (Applause.) | propose that
we shall say to them: GenItlemen, if
you conspire to make that silver dollar
worth less than the gold dollar, we
shall pay you in that silver dollar.
Great applause and cheers.) You say
that is reputation? / deny it. They
bought our bonds only a short Time
ago and they made difference be
tween coin bonds and gold bonds,
charging for the risk they took, and
now let them have the risk they We're
paid for.