The Irish standard., 1896-10-17

tFdtfC party mas spoken against nll1 zap
plause); while the republicans who come
to us come bringing in their hands the
republican platform which was adopted In
| this hall four years ago. (Cheering and
applause) That platform, adopted in
this hall only four years ago, begins the
money plank in this way: The American
people, from tradition and interest, favor
fbimetallisn." Great applause.J Do tra-
dttfons change In four years?
5QCrtes OF Never.( No, my friends, you
can't change traditions in that time. DO
the interests of the people change Ia four
! years No, their interests are the same
| now that they were four years ago, and
If the republican party declared four
years ago, that the American people, from
tradition and interest, favored the gold
standard, those republicans have right
TO stand there today, even though the
republican party shall retreat from its po-
sitfon and go across the ocean to find in
spiration. wild applause and cheering.)
! ANOTHER DIFFERENCE.
There is another difference between
those republicans who come to us and the
democrats who go from us. Show me a
republican who comes to us and will
any audience and tell it the road by which
he came and the arguments which com
verified him. Show me a democrat who
went from us and will show you man
who never gives the real reason why he
was dragged out of the democratic party
Great applause.)
Some one has suggested that there are
two kinds Of conversions; think 1t was
Senator Morgan, Of Alabama. He said
there was Saul Of Tarsns, who first perse-
cuted the Christians and afterwards be-
came. converted, and then. there was
Aaron, who started out to worship the
true God and afterwards set up golden
calf daughter and applause.) Now. If
You will remember. Saul, when he be-
came converted. gloried in. telling of the
time that he had been stricken with
blindness and Of the time when his eyes
were opened, and would tell Of the way
along which he came, but Aaron always
was ashamed Of that calf business.
laughter.l And so, my friends, with the
Republicans who come to us; they come
with nothing to conceal and are perfectly
willing to tell where they stand and why
they stand there, and they are among the
most jealous recruits we have. I used to
think it was necessary to have a mourn
ers' bench. They come rejoicing. They
come, but they won't come TO mourn
are not sorry at all. {Applause) They
come happy and they come with the en-
thusiasm of missionaries who go forth
to teach the gospel to others which they
understand. While those who go from
us are only able to say in explanation Of
coinage OF silver it would be awful, aw-
full. (Great applause and laughter.(
So many of them are Indebted to those
who use their mortgages to deprive men
of their citizenship that we have, reason
to doubt whether the reason for their
change is found in the head or in the
pocketbook, Or is merely a device by
which they can extend their notes at the
bank (Great applause9 My friends.
there are reasons for bimetallism, and
those reasons are so plain and simple that
they can be understood AMI when we,
for our faith. We are told that all we
need is confidence, confidence. Laugh-
teri -
. MY friends, this confidence idea is not a
new one It Is at least 1900 years old. I
was reading this in the Bible, these words
which rebuked the same kind Of conf
dence that we have preached today: "If
brother or sister be naked Or destitute
and one Of you say unto them Depart in
peace; be We warmed and fed, notwith-
standing you give them not those things
which are needfu1 to the body, what doth
it profit ?'' (App1ausa.) You tell them that
the laborer is idle in the street because
the gold standard has made it more profit
able to hoard money than it is to employ
labor in developing the resources of the
country, tell them that these men are
naked and hungry, and what do they say?
They say, "Be We fed and clothed" with
out giving them anything to eat OF to put
on. ~
Tell them that the farmer has been
finding his prices failing when he sold his
product without his taxes and debts and
fixed charges failing. (Great applause)
Tell these people that the farmer has
reached a point where his income from his
farm is not more than sufficient to pay
his debts, and his taxes and his fixed
charges; tell him those falling prices have
extinguished his living expenses AMI he Is
poor-1.1d naked and they say to the farm
err BE clothed and fed" without giving
him anything to wear or eat They preach
and should be rebuked as those were re-
buked 1900 years ago. It is a confidence
game, my friends. daughter and ap-
plause.) You ask them to have confidence
in you and you will find that confidence
is one-sided in this game, my friends
(Applause.)
You say to those men who have ac-
ctmulated their money among you,
Cant you trust us to make the laws
for us? Can't you trust those of us who
produce wealth to have a voice In the
government? and they tell you that they
doubt the capacity of the rabble to make
laws. If you have got a farm that is
worth halt what it was twenty years ago
and try to borrow money on 1t the
banker tells you that it is not worth as
much as it used to be, and you tell him
to have confidence the price Will go UP,
what will ne tell you? He says wait until
it goes up before have confidence.
(Great applause and laughter.)
THEY LACK CONFIDENCE.
| You tell him that you have confidence
that times are going to be better, and II
he will just loan you the money On your
note you will pay him as soon as those
times get good and he will tell you to
wait until the good times come. (Great
applause and laughter.) He tells you to
wait until you have gotten security,
something for confidence to rest upon.
| They are preaching confidence as the only
relief to this country, but we are preach
ing doctrine that gives a foundation for
confidence to rest upon. (Applause and
cheers.) When money goes up. property
comes down. A dollar cannot buy more
unless property sells for less. i You can
make your dollars buy as much as you
want them to. If your dollar does not
buy enough now, you can make 1t buy
more. A dollar is the preacher OF law.
When we talk about legislation In regard
to money our opponents tell us that conn
merce regulates all these things. When
we desire to invoke legislation they tell
| us we ought to trust these things to come
merce. a5..f. b s.,5 e d .s3
We ask them why they didn't trust Il
| in 1873, why 1t was that they invoked the
law to- strike down silver In 1873 Why
Didn't they let commerce do It.? The sill
yer dollar was worth 3 cents more than
! the gold dollar then, and you ask them
why they denone tfzad silver. and they tell
you that silver was worth more than gold,