The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-10-17

publioans will tell you that gold is the
good money, because it is good all over
the world. No money is good which
rises in value and robs the producers
of this country for the benefit of the
bondholders. (Applause.)
They say that the gold dollar is
honest: no dollar is honest which rises
in value and gives the unearned ad-
vantage to the men who loans money
and imposes an unjust burden on the
men who agrees to pay the dollar.
There is something necessary besides
quality, there must be quantity as we'll
as quality of money. (Applause.)
"They tell me that a certain kind Of
food is good; what difference does it
make to me how good that food is If
l cannot get any of it? daughter, ap-
plause.) Our great corporations, many
of them, are making their notes payable
in gold and they will tell you that until
this agitation stops they are not able
to furnish gold. applause, laughter.)
They tell you to build up q financial
structure upon gold, and then tell you
that the gold Is invisible. daughter,
applause.) Whoever dared to build q
house upon an invisible foundation?
tApplause.) And yet our opponents in
sist that gold Is a good thing, even when
you cannot get the gold.
81 don't know whether you can get
gold at the banks in this city or not.
CNo! No! No!.)
IT know that in st. Louis some three
weeks ago the leading bankers signed
and published a statement hat
they would o be able to
furnish gold because OF the ag-
ftation in favor of silver. but that
they thought there would be as oon
as there was a correct settlement OF
the money question. My friends, 1T Is
a very frail financial system that trem-
bles at the breath Of discussion. (Ap-
plause.) 1t is an insecure foundation
which slips from under your CONNER
cal fabric as soon as anybody begins
to agitate. Give us the free coinage OF
silver and let gold and silver be alike
the standard money of this country,
and 1 will promise you that no aglta-
ton in favor of the gold standard will
destroy the foundation upon which 1t
rests. (You are right. A%pplause,)
THE POWER OF Law.
my friends. u opponents tell us
that law has nothing to do with com
merce, that Is superior to
law; when they tell you that L want you
to point them to the act of 1884. They
tell you that business determines the
kind Of money you have, You tell them
that the American people used silver
as a money in common circulation from
1892 to 1884; from 1884 on until 1850 they
used gold as a money in common cir
culation among the people. Why?
What changed the habits of all the peo-
pie? A little law, O few lines long,
changed the custom of the people. and
substituted n kind of money among
he people for another kind that they
had before. You say Ia supe-
rior to law? l tell you that m
suits itself to the laws of the land.
(Applause.) You tell me that law can
do nothing; then I ask. II law can do
nothing, why was it hat advocats OF
gold invoked a law in 1873 to strike
down silver n give gold q monopoly
of mint privileges? ,(Applause.) They
tell us that we ought not to resort to
Jaw to restore silver; 1 ISL them why
they resorted to law to destroy silver's
equal opportunities with gold. If they
had a right to use the law to starve the
people out of money. we have a right
to increase the supply by law and sup
ply the people with money. c'rhat's
right" Applause.)
M.KINLEY INCONSISTENT.
The volume of money determins the
value of money. Mr.. Mckinley recog-
nized it in 1891. In a speech at Toledo
he criticised President Cleveland's adj
ministration and said hat he had con
tracted ths currency. and thus made
one dear by making money scarce.
He even asserted that MIR. Cleveland
had made money the master, and all
things else the servant. And yet today
the republican candidate stands on q
platform that Endorses the presidents
financial policy while we oppose ii.
(Applause.5 II 1t was wrong for Mr..
Cleveland to make money the master
and all things else the servant. 1t is,
wrong for Mckinley to try to mako