Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-19
And by Virtue of Her Birthright Shall
 Sit in the House of Her Fathers.
The Comparative Youth of the Nominee Is No Drawback. Historical Paraels--The Senator Has All Confi-
 in MT. Sevvall Also.

vention is forced into subjection to its rule.
 Through the practices of vicious legis- lation and the pressure of cupidity gold has been crowned with this imperial power. Its emperor has his seat in Eu- rope and his cabinet ministers in every great banking house in the world.
 Gold and silver were created for the service of mankind, but gold has become its master through the destruction of sil- yer, its only possible competitor, and it's owners inherit the earth.
 Gold as a monopolist has entered this great field of invention and discovery that has added tenfold to the wealth of the world during this century, and has captured every valuable property that including railroads, telegraphS, tele- phones, steamships, electricity, with all its magic of light and power oil wells, breweries, looms and spindles, printing presses, typewriters, bicycles and ipnu- merable inventions accessory to these leading discoveries in the useful arts.
 Gold has met the demand for more money, created by this immense growth of useful property by continual con- traction in the volume of money and by constant depression of industry that it has not purchased and added to the ag- gregate of it's capital. Refusing longer to work in the service of the people, gold has slain it's rival and become their mas ter.
 Instead of permitting an increase of the volume of money to keep pace with this wonderful growth of wealth that has poured like the waters from the rock that was smitten to quench the thirst of the people in the desert, the owners of gold-the great misers of the world-have sealed up the fountain that God provid- ed for the nations and have deceived, enticed and suborned even this great nation of God fearing people to consent with them and to act and vote with them in closing forever the mines of silver, from which alone can come any re- straint upon their power or any relief from their exactions.
 Gold has taken control of all this vast development of the nineteenth century and assumed the right to distribute it's precious fruits to the industrial classes who are the inventors and creators of this infinite wealth, upon such conditions as 1t chooses to prescribe, saving to its possessors all the advantage and profit it finds convenient to increase its power
 So long as its power is thus preserved 1t will revel in dominion, and the people will shrink Into more hopeless servi- tude. This is the use to which all the glorious progress and development of the nineteenth century is being put by those who neither invent nor produce, but have the capital with which to cover and con- trol all that is produced for the use of man or beast.
 Gold. without any rival in silver-the other money metal-and having the whole field of productive industry under its control, employs credit to expand it's power in the issue of bank notes which gather interest and usury from the ne- cessities of the people with more certain ty than the sickle gathers harvests of grain from their fields.
 - The man who deals only in money lives upon interest, which is profit enforced and gathered by the laws, and his busi- ness makes him the natural enemy to Investments in property on which the law does not collect his income or insure it's value.
 With these flying columns of ma rauders everywhere enlisted in it's ser vice. gold has so subjugated the world that, in all the European nations, there are none who escape the mastery, and none who can resist its authority. Shall we also join this army of oppression?
 The constitution of the United States prohibits this exclusive dominion of gold, and ordains that silver, as a precious metal, shall be forever associated with gold in united and equal sway, but in rivalry that will cause both to seek the service of the people, instead of giving to them the mastery over the producing and consuming classes. This rival and competitive association of silver and gold coins, with equal privileges in the hints and equal legal tender power in the pay ments of debts, will keep them al com mon level or parity, and will raise the value of the bullion of the metal that may be short in production and lower the value of that which may be comparative ly increased in production, so that they will move in the harmony that is always the result of fair competition on equal terms.
 monopoly or corner of either metal would be impossible, because the mines that yield them are in different owner ship, and they are widely scattered over the world, so that no nation or syndicate could become the owner of all, or even a considerable part of them. But in our country the absolute safeguard against any combina ton to unite these metals so that competition between them would cease Is provided in our constitution, which requires the coinage of both into money, and guarantees to both equal power as legal tender in the payment of debts.
 It was the overthrow of this constitu- tional right by the coinage act of 1873 which destroyed silver as a money met al, and it is this wrong to all who toll for bread that the people are trying to rectify.
 We have made much progress in the Bland-Allison act by restoring the old standard silver dollar to coinage, and in restoring to it the power and dignity of full legal tender money
 We have but one more step to take to complete the restoration, which is to place silver on an equal footing with gold as to free and unlimited coinage Inasmuch as the single gold standard party require congress to reverse this action and stop this progress. and go back to the terrible condition created there until Great Britain will consent to
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