The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-10-03

pressed is not fear that if elected | will not
enforce the law have said il before, and
say it again. that if by the suffrages of my
countrymen / am placed in that position,
which is the highest position in the gift of the
people of the world, every law shall be en-
forced against the great as well as against the
small. (Great applause.
1t is not fear of lawlessness, my friends.
Think of men who have transgressed the law,
being afraid that there will be lax enforce
ment of the law. Think of the men who have
considered themselves greater than the Gov
ernment who are afraid the Government will
not be great enough. know why those men
are afraid to have the Chicago ticket elected.
Ii is because these great trusts, these great
corporations, these great combinations, this
aggregate of wealth is enjoying unjust privi-
leges, and they don't want the law enforced.
(Great applause. They don't want me
elected because they know that the Attorney
General | will appoint will not be the Attorney
of the present. They know that the Attor
ney-G General that | will appoint, if elected,
will not stand there to defend the great cor
porations when he ought to enforce the laws
against them.
They remind me of the man III court-the
person who seemed uneasy, and the Judge as
sured him that he had nothing to fear, that he
would get justice in that court, ami he says !;
"Great Heavens, Judge; that's what I'm
afraid Off (Applause.
a Teaching by ridden.
They say that we are trying TO destroy our
institutions. We who now address you have
been the peculiar objects of these imputations.
We pause, therefore, for n moment to repel
them. We entertain no sentiments diverse 10
social order; we seek not to destroy, but to
preserve in their purity the institutions of our
country, whose language is the language of
Samuel J. Tilden (applausel used in an ad-
dress to farmers and workingmen and me-
chancs, delivered on February G, 1883.
They accused reformers then of being de-
stroyers of the peace, and he asserted then, as
we assert now, that we have not come to de-
stroy; we have TO save the Government which
we love in our hearts. (Applause.) They
had Just such contest back there as we have
now. Let me read from that same speech of
! Tilden's.
"a powerful moneyed corporation engaged
in a death struggle with the Government to
whom it owed its existence assailed the purity
of our press. A mighty combination of poll
ticians and moneyed interests is again in the
field to control elections, to change the ad-
ministration of government and to reestablish
the supremacy Of the great moneyed corpora
tions over the business of the country"
Ny friends, if he had lived today he could
not have described the opposition to the free
coinage of silver in more accurate terms than
he described the opposition in that day Of
the moneyed interests. Great applause.
He said that by their control over the cur
rency they spread far and wide dismay
misery and ruin, in order to extort a renewal
of the powers and privileges which it then en-
ioyed from the fears and necessities of the
community.
Intimidation bY Hanks.
That same moneyed power exists today
and it is doing the same work today that i
! did then, and business men are terrified. Mer
who owe money are threatened with bank
ruptcy unless they sell their citizenship
(Great applause. If banker dares have al
opinion of his own he is menaced with ruin
and half of the New York banks which terrify
and intimidate their country correspondent!
stand with the great London banks, which
have padlocks on the safes of the New Yori
banks. Your banker comes to you and tell.
you what you must do, and his banker come.
to him and tells him what he must do, anC
you can trace it all back to the great none,
centre in England, and from that centre thos'
who corner the money of the world reach ou
and lay paralyzing hand on all the industr,
of the world if people dare to resist and hav'
| OplilOIlS VI bHtiE Ohu. AApDluuSt.
Tilden said that the patriotic frmness of
vrtuous people prevailed in that struggle
believe that the patriotism and the firmness 0
patriotic people will prevail in this struggle
{ Loud applause. 70 think otherwise woult
be to despair of government like this. Ny
| friends, we cannot have /. free government
unless the people are free to act. If the peo
pie have to obtain consent from a few peoplt
before they can act then their action will hay,
the same effect as that of few people, ant
we will have democracy merely in form
We would have a plutocracy in effect, whicl
is the worst form of government.
Tyranny of Money.
| have read these extracts to you, m
friends, to show you that in this day we ar,
assaied by the same people who assaile'
those who were trying to make government
better in those days, who sought TO lighter
the burdens upon the backs of the people ant
give them larger share in the control of th
government under which they lived. This i
history repeating itself, and, my friends, W,
should not be discouraged by these things
Let me read another extract:
Banded together by the same unity of
interests arraying them in an organized
mass which acts and operates through all
the ramifcations of society, constituting
properly Dy monopoly anu perpetultlesi
and binding to it political power, it has
established an aristocracy more potent,
more permanent and more oppressive
than any other which has ever existed
such is the dynasty of associated and
privileged wealth which is the ruling
power at present in nearly every civilized
nation"
Those are the words of Samuel j. Tilden
repeat them today, my friends, that thi
government of associated wealth, this Gov
crnment by corporation, is the most tyrannica