The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-08-18
Well and FavorablY Known in
This Section,
Speaks to Us From The Far We st
Let Us Read Carefully What He
Has to Say.
Colfax, WASH, August /, 1896.

Out OF the smoke ana ain anu car
mage of battle came that beautiful
custom of decorating with offerings Of
love the sleeping ashes of our dead.
"Under the roses, the blue, under the
lilies, the gray" So to-day out of
the hardships and struggles the bit
ter memories, the poverty the COM
mon sufferings of the past has come
about that union of forces that makes
this meeting possible tonight.
This meeting means no North, no
South, no East, no West, but union of
heart and hand for a government of
the people, by the people and for the
people, for that perpetuity of the I'M
ion of states which can only come
from the prosperity of the people.
Patriotism md prosperity go hand
in hand. Poverty is the handmade
of vice and crime. Poverty and pa
triotism can not be created and foster
ed under the same laws. In a coun-
try God blessed as ours, over flowing
with its golden corn and ripenining
grains and lucious fruits, its teeming
harvests and stretching panoramic
beauty from lake to gulf, from ocean
to ocean, common poverty is politi-
al crime.
lam glad to stand here tonight,
right in the "middle of the road" and
welcome alike Republicans and Dem
ocrats and Populists to this union OF
patriots. For years we have sought
to make the money question the lead
ing question. We have succeeded
We meet no longer as partisans, but
as patriots. All united in the COM
mon cause of humanity; American
citizens fighting a common foe; all
alike determined that the country
shall be redeemed from a dishonest
money standard and placed solidly
upon the firm and sure foundation OF
silver gold, and greenbacks, every dol
lar as sound as every other dollar and
each equal to one bushel of Palouse
wheat or one dollar of Shylock's
bonds. We stand here for sound
currency that shall breathe hope to
the despairing, relief to the debt bur-
dened and employment of 100000
idle men begging for work.
This meeting and others like il
mean the return of those better days
when the young man, armed with a
good trade or profession, and full OF
American grit, went forth and won
success and accumulated fortune-a
time so remote that most of you for
get when it was. It means equality
of opportunity and due reward for
well applied effort
We stand here tonight represent
ing the only advocates Of sound mon
ey. A currency system that shall
save these gray hairs from the poor
house and our girls from lives Of
shame.
"Peace hath her victories no less re-
nowned than war;" And so hath ad-
versity. The Chicago fire sufferers
found no heartier helpers than in the
sunny south, and when Charleston
was wrecked in the earthquakes
mighty grasp, the north forgot Fort
Sumpter and '6l, and remembered
only that they were brothers in dis
tress, And if our common poverty,
if the devastation for the last twenty
years, has at last made us one,i let us
thank God for adversiy's lessons and
march proudly in solid phalanx, 16
to for peace, patriotism and pro-
sperity. 81 united the north, let 16-l
unite the nation.
The time for united action is at
hand. With Joe Blackburn we say
that he who dallies is a bastard, he
who doubts is damned. Those who
fail to strike blow now for f.
narcial freedom are traitors to the
truth of history, degenerate. sons of
those nobler sires:
"Who had hands that could strike
And souls that could dare
And whose sons were not born to be slayesr
The man who feeds at the public
crib may say--wait, the time for &C
ton has come, but he who raises the