San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-24


Democratic party under another
leadership? Cries of no. Leader
ship advocating all the policies of the
Democratic party which have been
furious to the American people and
patriotism, which have received the
power from the country? (Cries of
MOI The Democratic party that con-
trolled the Chicago convention is just
as much in favor of free trade as the
wing of the party in control of the
National administration. Most of
those prominent in the convention
were leaders in the onslaught of
our industries and labor made by
the Fifty-third congress. They are
devoted to this un-American and des-
tructive policy and were chiefly in
strumental in putin upon the statute
books tariff legislation which has des-
troyed American manufacturing. 1t
stands opposed to reciprocity too, the
splendid rsults of which were so sig
nally manifested during the admins
tration of President Harrison. Gap
plause.)
.'The people of the country have
condemned the policies of this party
in every election since 1892. They
are only awaiting chance to register
their will,a and all along the line to OPP
pos free trade with their ballots.
This wing Of the Democratic party be-
lieves not only in free trade but it be-
lieves in free silver at ratio of 16 to1
Having diminished the value of our
business, they now seek to diminish
the value of our money. Having cut
| the money in two, they want to cut
the money in which the wags are pal
the money in which the wages are
paid in two, andwe will not have eth
er the one or the other. CTremen-
dous cheering and cries of "hurrah for
Mac.~
''The other wing of the Democratic
party is periodically striving for the
public honor and is opposed to free
silver because it believes that such a
| policy would disturb existing values,
| depriving us of the use of gold and
contract the country's currency by
putting us upon silver basis thus adj
ding widespread panic and bringing to
every American interest serious in
jury.
MY fellow citizens, will the people
turn to that party for relief, whose
policy has created the conditions under
which we are suffering and from
which they are crying out to be re
,lieved? (Cries of no. What we
want now is business activity and
confidence; with. confidence restored
and not the confidence by which mon
ey is boarded and the wheels of COM
merce stopped and what that means,
the men before me too well know.
Then the farmer, the merchant, the
laborer and those of other useful &C.
equations will suffer.
Gentlemen, confidence lies at tn
foot of active and successful business.
| operations. We cannot restore con-
| ranc.r t-ere-k Mdtut- osbrco etioa ct
fidence by proposition to debase the
currency of the government and scale
down the public and private oblga-
tions. Such a proposition strikes at
| the very life of credit and business.
1t makes it harder to get money for
legitimate and worthy enterprises by
deliberately proposing to pay back
what has been already borrowed, in
a deprecated currency. The people,
irrespective of party, will unite in de-
feating financial schemes which will
honfiscate the partial earnings of labor
in the savings banks and building and
loan associations and the investments
of the people in insurance companies
and / do not believe the American
people will ever consent to have the
pensions of our soldiers reduced by
single farthing. Great cheering and
applause.) The people want neither
free trade nor free silver. Renewed
cheering.) The one will degrade our
laborers and the other our money. ZAP
plause.) We are opposed unalterably
to both of them. We have tried the
one in a modified form with disastrous
results to. every American home and
we are strongly opposed to making an
experiment with the other. (Applau-
se.)