, 1896-10-01
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activity. And this state of blessing and
prosperity will moi come amid blasted
homes, but in the presence of factories
humming and commerce thriving I'M
der a thorough and weli-administered
protective tariff. tApplause). All this
will come. Choose between them. You
n l as wage-workers, are to bring
this about. 1t will be brought about by
sincerity and honest policy. l tell you.
1t wasn't written in the book of fate,
that this government should prosper
except through honesty and righteous
ness.
Well, some fellows say: Our scheme
will hurt those money-fellows, you bet;
and hat tickles me. ~tLaughter). That
reminds me somewhat OF Sam Carroll.
who one time tried to freeze his dog.
The dog kept bowling and barking,
and he said to his wife, I'll just get up
and freeze that dog to death" So he
got up and went out with clothes on
that weren't intended for the Artic
regions. and he tool that dog by the
ears and tried to hold him there and
freeze him to death. CLaughter). The
mercury stood something like Is below.
and you know in cur country that's
like Greenland. After a while his wife
hollered out of the window. How you
getting along?" He answered, well
wife. it's burned tough on me, but | be-
lieve the dog enjoys it." Laughter
and %applause). That's what these fell
lows want to do. We're going to hurt
that fellow that wants to buy our lot,
and our wheat, and our beef and all the
products of our farm" My Country
men, we will fail. We can't afford to
thus rob ourselves of bread. Let's say
to the world as in God we ought to say,
Every single dollar that has the
stamp of the United States government
on is worth 100 cents. Which is your
choice?
There's Bryan. with free trade and
l-ee silver, here is the republican party
witt. bimetallism and protection stand
ing together. We must have bimetal-
lism. but we republicans want it in
such a way that we can get at it. In
after it, but to get it. When Germany
and France, and the other countries
come in and unite with us, England will
hurry in. AS the devoted friend Of sill
WOW. nc f,ll Joo,J t,,Ja, Co., ,rl1.o o-1
private debts, l want to work for it in
a way that will not plunge this coun-
try into hopeless ruin. (Applause).
But here are a lot of so-called silver
declaimers, who think we ought to be
on the same basis as China! daughter
and applause).
There are W. other points. l
thought, and you thought, my honored
father, addressing father Boies), that
in 1865, when Gen. Lee surrendered his
sword to Gen. Grant, we thought that
this suggestion that a state could rise
in its might and strike down federal
law, and act in defiance of federal law,
was thoroughly wiped out.
(Mr. Boies: Thank the Lord').
res we may well thahk the Lord, II
that was so. But | tell you If 1t was not
SO. that we choked treason to death
there at Appamattox' then the WIDOWS
Oh MS country are worse than WIDOW
en' anu the ophahs more nan tather-
less. l tell you, it was a cruel butch
cry II not true. Loud cheers.
But our brethren from the south sug-
gest that 1T Is o true. 1t remains for
i great convention 10 proceed TO resur-
rect the lead ghost' n Tor red-handed
anarchy IN burning our cities, NULL
Tying our law, stopping our great COM
merce IN its onward course, to say that
our government troops dare not cross
the borders OF a state in the protection
or property, without the consent OF
Governor Altgeld. Loud cheers). Nov
MIR. Bryan tried to explain In New
York that that isn't what they mean.
Mr.. bryan, o can't fool the leading
democrats OF this country as to what
you meant. You were damning Cleve-
land because he let down the powerful
hand OF law upon the throat OF an
archy until 1t stuck its tongue out like
an expiring fend cloud cheering). The
writing OF that plank was by Cover
nor Altgeld. and inspired by Governor
Tillman. That thing occurred before