Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1896-09-17

Whether THESE men who now appeal to the
laboring man to stand by gold standard
because it is q benefit t0 the wage Garner
there is good way Of knowing how much
1 faith you can put in these pr0tcstations Of
friendship Who are the men who are now
telling the laboring man that he must
stand by the gold standard if he wants to
| prosper: Why, whenever one III these east
ern 1nanciers IL troubled with sleeplessness
the doctor does not ask any questions, but
/ just says, Just stop worrying about the
lahoring man and go to sleep"
Afe these the men who have been lead
ing the laboring men up to higher groundq
No, my friends. They are the men who
have been too busy trying to make money
out Of the appreciation Of the dollar to
spend those dollars in giving employment
to che men in developing the resources Of
this great country.
| You cannot employ labor unless you
can sell the products of labor ut a profit,
and as money goes up the products Of labor
must 60 down, and the man finds it more
profitable to lock his money in the vault
and collect its increased value than he does
TO invest that money in property or any
enterprise under the certainty Of loss
And another thing-to whom do you sell
those things which You produce2 do You
send your shoes to the farmers Of the west?
How can they buy shoes of you unless they
can get for their products more money
than enough to pay their interest and
taxes You destroy the consumptive pow
er Of the people, and you destroy the market
for your products.
Must Send More Money Abroad.
More than that, we owe money abroad
and we must pay that debt either In prod
ucts or money If we drive down the value
Of our products, it simply means we must
send more money abroad to make I'D the
difference 1t means that when we send
goods abroad we must send them at lower
prices and have less money to spend among
our people. We are down on the gold
standard because 1t has never conferred
one benefit upon those who produce the
wealth of the world Gold has been the
prize of the man who boards money. Sill !
yer has been the medium Of exchange
among those upon whom the greatness of |
every nation has rested
You can rob this world Of gold and put
enough silver in the world to make up for |
the loss Of gold, and commerce will move
on, but rob this world Of its silver If you
will and try to fill its place with gold and
see how long your system will stand
One of our distinguished opponents has !
said that every gold standard nation in the l
world uses silver as well as gold, but that
no silver standard nation uses any gold
What does this means 1t means that peo-
pie can get along without gold, but that
even gold standard countries cannot get
along without silver
The Conspiracy Against Silver.
My friends, the conspiracy which we
have to meet is a conspiracy which has for
its ultimate object the striking down Of
silver as one of the standard moneys Of the
world. And that can only mean a gradual
and continual increase in the purchasing
power Of the dollar, and that means an in
definite season. during which the holders OF
fixed investments gather more than they
loan ana during which those who owe
debts viii pay more than they agreed to
pay-an indefinite season, during which it
will be more profitable to hoard money or
loan it than to invest it in enterprise or
property.
/ ask you to point IL you can to single
instance in the history Of the world where
the people have prOspered by an appreci-
able standard. What we want is dollar
that will maintain its parity with the prop
erty which that dollar is to buy, which
Z
give us standard that approximates jus
tice between man and man.
How are we going to get it9 By having
enough of standard money to keep pace
with the demand for money and increase
OF population Gold does not give you
that money. We believe that gold and sill
yer will. In advocating the restoration Of
the gold and silver coinage Of the consti- |
tuition we are advocating system which |
will bring us back to something near sta
bility in the value Of the dollar. believe
that we are right
So confident are we Of the justice Of our
cause that we are willing To submit this
question to the sovereigns of this land.
We do not intend to exclude from the con
sideration of this question the financier
and place by the side of the man who ex-
changes money the man whose hand and
brain produce wealth and say to the toiler:
"You are the equal Of the other man be- I
fore the law. The ballot is yours as well
as his. Use that ballot for your own use,
and no man dares complain. F."
Wedo not attempt to arouse your animos-
ity against any class of citizens unless those I
citizens assume a superiority unknown
to the laws Of the United States. But If q
man In this country assumes the right to
think or speak for somebody else, seeks to (
use his power as an employer TO coerce the /
men who work for him, we stand and op-
pose him as we would oppose the man who
would attempt to establish monarchy in
q democracy. We oppose him and offer
no apology for that opposition.
Sometimes we are told that those great
syndicates are against us. They are. We
admit it. We boast Of it because 1t is the I
I a.. Atn+ -
There IL nobody with us but the people, !
my friends, and as they are the ones for
whom this government was instituted we
are content to have it left in their hands
beg you, my friends, to remember that I
when our opponents see fit to use abusive |
epithets against those who were present at |
the Chicago convention and against those I
whom the Chicago convention nominated, 4
remember that these epithets are not used |
against us, but against those people who /
have rallied to the standard and are fight /
ing the hattie there inaugurated- Can our
opponents afford to apply these names to
the great common people Of this country l
Can our opponents afford TO slander those 4
people who in every hour Of danger have |
been the nations only safeguard
''oh, Anarchists, Save Usin
Suppose there was trouble today, either /
domestic or foreign. Where would we find /
the men to fight our battlesS Would we
find them among the syndicates and stock |
exchanges and combinations of money |
grabberss To whom would they appealS
To you, and they would say, Oh, anarch- |
lists, save our property
III they must rely upon you In hours OF |
danger. should they not let you have some
thing TO say In the quiet hours Of peaces Is |
there man who has made his property in |
this country who Is not willing to risk /
that property in the hands OF the people OF /
the United Statesg If there be one, then /
that man has little faith in the form or gov
ernment under which he lives, because In Il
this land there is no power but the people, |
and the man who fears them ought to I
leave this country for his country's good.
beg you to study this question for your |
selves In the days that intervene between i
today and the day upon which you exer-
else your right as citizens to vote / am /
willing that you shall read everything set 1
before the people by our opponents, because,
my friends, next to free silver literature |
the most convincing literature abroad in
the land, the literature that is making \
more votes for us than any other, is the \
literature disseminated by the advocates OF Il
the gold standard, who do not dare to say l
that they want gold standard.
do not presume 10 tell you what you |
ought 70 do. Each man knows for him