Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-09-26

money dear encourages boarding, eI
cOurages the miser and drives tl
laboring man out upon the street [
beg for chance to earn his dali
bread. (Applause.)
Our opponents tell us that the gol
standard is good for the laboring mal
My friends, | would rather risk th
laboring man to find out what is goo
for him than to leave to the grea
monopolists Of the country to find on
what is good Tor the laboring mar
(Applause.)
Our opponents appeal TO the labor
ing man to stand by the money chan
gers in Wall street. want to ask th
laboring man when the money chang
ing class ever did anything to hel
the laboring man from the history o
creation down to now (Great applaus
and cries Of No; never.") II, in al
the history of the past, the men VIII,
are standing behind the gold STANDARD
have never been Interested in improv
ing the condition OF the laboring man
what reason have you to believe tha
now they have become converted anC
are giving their lives and services fol
the uplifting of those who toll =? CAP.
plause.
| want 10 suggest just two or thret
questions for you to think about; tive
or three connected with the silver aues
ton. If anybody asks you why you
want the free coinage of silver, you
tell him that there is not enough gold
in the world to furnish a money sufii.
cient for the people to do business
with. (Applause.) II they ask you
how you are going to get any of this
money, even if il is in existence, you
ask them how a man is going to get
any money until it is in existence.
(Cheers.) } The creation Of money comes
before the distribution of money, and
until your laws provide for sufficient
amount of money people cannot secure
money for what they have to sell.
No Fifty-Cent Dollars.
II they ask you whether you want
5O-cent dollars, you tell them that
nobody ever called silver dollar a
50-cent dollar until after the law closed
the mints of the United States to the
free coinage of silver. (Cheers.) Tell
them that nobody will ever call it
50cent dollar again after the mints of
the United States have been reopened
to the people. If they tell you that
you have no right to invoke the law
in order to put money into circulation.
you tell them that they invoked the
law that closed the mints to the free
coinage OF silver aud stopped silver
from further circulation. Ii they tell
you that you are ignoring natural
laws, you tell them that you are the
only people who apply natural laws
to the money question. You say the
law will increase the demand for silver,
and il will raise the price Of silver,
and that when you create demand
for all the silver that can come then
there will be nobody that will sell his
silver for less than sl.29 an ounce,
because he can convert it into money
at that price. If anybody tells you
that We are opposed to allowing
national banks to issue paper money,
you tell them that we had rather risk
the control of the volume Of the cur.
rency in the hands of the government
than TO risk il in the hands of private
individuals. (Cheers)
Gold Dollar IL Robbcr.
We denounce the gold standard as
wrong, and the gold dollar under a
gold standard is a robber going out to
devour. (Applause.)
My friends, you can have whatever
kind of money you want. Money is n
creature of law, and those who make
the laws can have whatever kind of
money they want. They can have a
dollar that is just as dear as they want
it. If your dollar is not dear enough
now, reduce the amount of money and
make il dearer; if it is not dear
enough then, reduce i. some more, and
make it dearer still. You can do it !;
all you have got to do is to make
money scarce and you will make
money dear. applause. A voice
THAT'S right ~
The gold standard makes money
dear, and dear money means cheap
property. (Applause.) The gold
standard means that the dollar shall
eat more and more Of all other things
from year to year. (Applause.) Ii
means that the dollar shall have an
appetite and stomach, and devour
without limit. my friends. (Applause.
1t means that this gold dollar-the
child Of greed-will never be satisfied,
because its hunger increases as it
feeds. (Applause.) If we are going
to have the gold standard if we are
going to have this kind OF a dollar
that will insist nm deyourintr more and