Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-09-09
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situation by the election of Mckinley and Hobart? Loud cries of No, no, no. ," Why metz i1aies. If Because they are in- teresed. T Because they represent tho corporations, because of their gold stand ard domination, because their leading spokesmen are leading attorneys for these very railroads, because the men who are managing their campaign own these rail- roads and whose chief source of revenue lS from the bonds of the railroads. Therefore it is quite clear that these men will not abolish this class system, upon which they have SroWn rich On the contrary, they are pledged n maintain it.
 Would you do away with that system by electing Bryan and Sewall? Sewall is a railroad king. He is connected with al most every monopoly ill New England. He is corporation man from top to bot tom lie is ill sympathy with the great moneyed trusts of the east. That man can no more represent you or your princi- pies than Mckinley and Hobart can. Loud cheers. flow can you remedy the sitaatiohs B!f eleeting Bryan and Watson electors. Great cheering. Bryan does not own any railroads, nor do l. No rail road owns BFTan and 1 au reasonably sure that no railroad owns me. Laugh ter No railroad syndicate has contrib uted to our campaign. We stand boldly the railroads themselves are fast approach ing that stage when they will ask that the policies of the Peoples party be carried out IGheers. Why? They have to fur. nish more free passes every year, which private and public citizens demand. Ev cry judge on the bench wants d free pass. Every merchant who ships over the road wants a free pass. All of these highpriced lawyers want free passes. Every man who says he controls d hundred votes wants a free pass. This abuse is growing so that this eternal issning of free passes, this issyt9 md of every other agency of public opinion. this eternal buying up of highpriced law yers is becoming so expensive that the time is fast coming when the railroadmen wllsay: We are tired of trying to run these thingG Take our railroads pay us a fair price for them and run them to suit yourselves. Cheers. Some people as sert that we cannot pay for them? What do the railroads want with the property then? 1 tell you we have already paid for them once You and I and the balance of the people have paid for them in freight rates within the last 20 years. All they hare to do is put little more water on the stock and issue a few more bonds and they make us pay for them again. And yet they say the railroads do not belong to lis after we have paid for them twice What we want to do is to follow the ex- ample of Australia, of New Zealand of India, Germany, Austria, Holland, Belgi- un, Sweden and other enlightened coun- tries and let the government operate the roads i'll the interest of the people. We say we want to buy the railroads, pay a fair price for them and run them in the interest of all the people of this land. Loud cheers.
 There is another plank in our platform and still another stipulation ill our con tract, and thal is the pledge to reform the financial situation Has the situation been remedieds Instead of being alleyiated we
 
 been cured, but aggravated, and now needs two doctors instead of one. That is the reason you want Bryan, the Demo cratic doctor, and Watson, the Populist dostor.
 You cannot expect much out of Sewall because he has not been in soak long enough. Laughter. The free silver dis ease is only skin deep with him. He says he is a free silver Democrat, and yet only three months ago he was supporting a man for governor of Maine nominated on a gold standard platform and pledged to the continuance of the rule of the money power [Cheers.
 We say the financial system of this coun- try is wrong and we propose to reform it. We say, let's go back to the free and un- limited coinage of gold and the free and unlimited coinage of silver, and let us is sue treasury notes to the people in a suffi- cient quantity to transact the business of the country. Loud cheers. We have waged our fight on this line and we pro pose to stick to it.
 Why was the situation wrong in 1S89s Because it had become the settled policy of the government to quit issuing treasury notes and to burn up your paper money There was no longer the free and unlimited coinage of silver, and the purchase by the government of that metal was limited to 2,500,00 ounces month. In 1890 they passed a bill requiring the government to purchase ,550000 ounces of silver month. The Democratic party said the demoneti- zation of silver was wrong and we elected, by d magnificent majority, a Democratic congress and q Democratic president to give us some relief. What did they dos They went to Washington and cut off even the 4,500, 900 ounces of silver which the Re publican party had given us. The Demo cratic party closed the doors of the mint which the Republican party had only par tially opened. Pledged to give us the free coinage of silver the Democratic party gave us none at ali. Laughter. Pledged to give us more money, they gave us less. Pledged to raise prises by putting more money into circulation, they lowered prices by giving us less money Western Republicans said the Democratic party had done the deyilment. Southern Demo crats said the Republican party had done the deyilment. 1t took us some time to find out that no matter what the two old
 
 camp tign they always came together when they reached Washington. Laughter. l 1t was case of pot and kettle It was & case of coon and raccoon. It was q case of jump. out of the fryingpan into the fire. IIlaugh- ter and cheers. We say to the people of the United States that this financial system is radically wrong and we are going to remedy il. It is wrong for the reason they are still burning your paper money, they will not allow the coinage of silver except to take the place of paper money, which now simply represents silver, Therefore the silver they coin does not add one iota to the currency. We say this system is wrong Why Money is but one of the commodities which obey the great law of supply and demand. If you have much money, it is easier to get than when you have little money. The less money there is, the harder it is to get. If to-day it takes two bales of cotton to get the same amount of money that you got for one bale six years ago, then you have let the money changers swindle you out of the price of one bale of cotton. [Cheers and cries of That's rightl If you could pay your poll