The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-21

Gals 70 execute IN good Ialth the policy
declared by congress. And mark these
words: But whenever he shall be sat
lshed that a silver dollar cannot be
kept equal in purchasing power with a
gold dollar, except by receiving it in
exchange for a gold dollar, when such
exchange is demanded, it will be his
duty to adopt that course
I want you to mark those words be-
cause in those words the secretary of
the treasury tells you that when the
secretary is satisfied it is necessary he
will commence redeeming silver dollars
in gold call your attention to it. my
friends, because want to emphasize
the deception that has been practiced
by this administration on the money
question.
when this administration advised
the repeal of the Sherman law, you
were told the repeal of the Sherman
law would remedy the difficulty, and as
soon as the Sherman law was repealed
the same authority which promised re-
lief as soon as that law was repealed
came to congress with a demand that
the greenbacks and treasury notes must
be retired by the issue of gold bonds
in order to stop the drain on the treas
ury gold, and now the secretary of the
treasury informs you that even if the
greenbackS and treasury notes were all
retired it would be his duty, whenever
in his opinion it became necessary, to re-
deem silver dollars in gold, and thus start
another endless chain that would drain
the treasury. (Great applauSe-) Ac-
cOrding to the doctrine laid down in Mr.
Carlisle's letter. you cannot stop the
decline of gold from the treasury until
YOU retire all the silver dollars and sill
yer certificates, and leave nothing but
gold as the money in this country
II am glad this declaration has been
made. I am gle3 our opponents are,
step by step, revealing to the public
their heartless, merciless, criminal pol
icy. Great applause.) denOunce the
policy as more cruel and heartless than
4 0f a
I would rather, as some one has said,
I would rather put our army in the
hands of a foreign general, or our navy
in the command of a foreign admiral
than to put the treasury department in
the hands of a secretary who would
barter it away. (Great applause.) l
would resist such financial policy
with as much earnestness as 1 would re
sist the progress of an invading army
coming to attack our hosts. (Great APP
plause.) l am glad the overriding
providence manifested itself so clearly
when it opened the mouth of the Secre-
tarv and il disclosed his policy. If the
administration knew the Sherman law
would not bring relief and concealed
the knowledge from the American peo-
pie. then you have q right to d1StruSt
the honesty of such an administration.
Great applause) Did the administra-
ton know when it recommended the re-
tirement OF the greenbacks and treasury
notes as a means of stopping the drain
upon the gold in the trasury-did the
administration. when 1t recommended
that, know that after they We're al! re-
tired it would propose the policy winch
the secretary of the treasury has out
lined? If it did, and did not tell the
people it was dishonest in not taking
the people into the confidence Of the ad-
mintstration, and II II dlo not Know
that then, will it confess It's ignorance
of monetary laws and the finances OF
this country? Great applause)
Does the administration know that
e1~ge.z- -SNVr n oil a p
in gold that it will start another end
less chain that will drain the treasury
Indefinitely and increase the ponded
debts without limit unless they retire
all the silver dollars and substitute
bonds in their place? If they do not
know my friends, they must CONFESS
themselves ignorant of the finances OF
this country, and If they know and VIII
NOT tell the people, then we have
right to distrugts their candor ana
frankness when they deal with the PEG
pie of this country. Do you think that
my language is harsh? 1t is not harSh
(Cries of It's all right.D These men
are the public servants of the Anerl-
can people and they have no more right
to betray the people into the hands of
the shyIOcks of London than Benedict
Arnold to betray the American army
Enthusiastic applause) That is all
I have to say about the secretary's let
ter at this time. "a voice: We'll. that
settles IT'D Now in my few moments
left let me call your attention to the
language used by the father OF his
country in the message given to the
world 100 years ago today. Great ap-
plause) In this campaign we are de-
rnanding an American financial policy
for the American people, and insist that
to our people alone shall be submitted
the question of the kind of a dollar,
and how many dollars the American
people shall have (Tremendous ap-
pIause) The Republican party, in con-
VentiOn assembled, adopted a platform
which declares that we must maintain
a gold standard until the commercial
nations of Europe shall join with US IN
letting go of that gold standard. (Cries
of No. NOD
Washington said: AS avenues to
foreign influence in innumerable ways,
such attachments are particularly
alarming to the truly enlightened and
Independent patriots
washington also said in that mes
sage: There can be no greater error
than to expect or calculate upon real
favors from nation to nation 1t is an
illusion which experience must cure,
which a just pride ought to discard
Those who are expecting foreign ma
tfons dominated by the creditor class
es who profit by rising dollar, to join
with US in stopping the rise in the dol
lar. are doomed to disappointment and
If is difficult to see how any person can
expect silver to be restored to its right
full place by foreign aid when we have
waited for 20 years, only to lind our
oDponents more hostile than ever. They
covertly threaten that they viii use the
notes which they hold to control our
financial palicy. If relief is to come to
the American people it must come from
the American people themselves and
on this day, when we celebrate the one
hundredth anniversary of Washing
tons farewell address, we may resolve
to achieve our financial independence
without the aid of any other nation"
(Great applause and cheering)
T. A. A. W. Meeting.
A meeting of the T. a A w will be
held at IT. A. A rooms on Tuesday
evening. Sept. q, at o'clock to talk