The herald., 1896-07-12

rowed is lauded as the friend of SOUND
currency. The man who wants the peo-
| pie to destroy the government is an
anarchist. but the man who wants the
| government to destroy the people Is q
| patriot.
Some, who are ready to use the power
of the government to limit the supply
| OF money, in order to prevent injustice
| to the creditor\ are slow to admit the
right of the government to increase the
currency when necessary to prevent in
justice to the debtor. 1 denounce that
| cruel Interpretation of governmental
power which would grant the authority
| to starve, but would withhold the au-
| thority to feed our people-which would
| permit a contraction of our currency,
even to the destruction Of all property,
but would prohibit the expansion of our
currency to keep pace with the growing
needs of a growing nation!
The gentlemen who are SO fearful of
socialism when the poor are exempted
| from an income tax view with indiffer-
| ence those methods of taxation which
give the rich substantial exemption.
They weep more because SIS, ,000,O 900 is
to be collected from the incomes of the
rich than they do at the collection Of
$500, 900, 900 upon the goods which the
poor consume. And when an attempt is
| made to equalize these burdens, not
fully, but partially only. the people of
the south and west are called anarch-
| lists.
I deny the accusation, sirs. It is
among the people Of the south and west,
on the prairies and in the mountains,
that you will find the stanchest support
ers of government and the best friends
Of law and order.
You may not find among these people
| the great fortunes which are accumul-
| ated in cities, nor will you find the dark
shadows which these fortunes throw
over the community, but you will find
those willing to protect the right of
property, even while they demand that
property shall bear it's share of taxation.
You may not find among them as much
of wealth, but you will find men who are
| not only willing to pay their taxes to
support the government, but are willing
| whenever necessary to offer up their
lives in it's defense.
These people, sir, whom you call an
archists because they ask that the bur-
dens of government shall be equally
borne, these people have ever borne the
cross on Calvary and saved their coun-
try with their blood.
I may be in error, but in my humble
| judgment he who would rob man of his
necessary food or pollute the springs at
which he quenches his thirst, or steal
| away from him his accustomed rest, or
condemn his mind to the gloomy night
his race than the man who, deaf to the
| entreatieS and blind to the suffering he
would cause, seeks to destroy one of the
money metals given by the Almighty to
| supply the needs Of commerce.
! The line of battle is laid. down. The
| presidents letter to Gov Northen ex-
presses his opposition to the free and
! unlimited coinage Of silver by this coun-
| try alone. Upon that issue the next
congressional contest will be fought.
Are we dependent or independent as a
nation? Shall we legislate for ourselves
! or shall we beg some foreign nation to
| help us provide for the financial wants
| of our own people?
| You may think that you have buried
the cause Of bimetallism; you may con-
graduate yourselves that you have laid
the free coinage of silver away in a
sepucher, newly made since the elec-
tion, and before the door rolled the veto
stone. But, sirs, If our cause is Just, as
L believe 1t is, your labor has been in
| vain; no tomb was ever made so strong
that it could imprison righteous cause
Silver will yet lay aside it's grave clothes
| and its shroud. It will yet arise, and in
| its rising and it's feign will bless man.
kind.
| Alexander "wept for other worlds to
conquer" after he had carried his vic
torious banner throughout the then
known world. Napoleon 'rearranged
the map. Of Europe with his sword
amid the lamentations of those by
whose blood he was exalted; but when