The record-union., 1896-08-20
pom him to study each issue as it

upon him to study each issue as it
arises.
Il am not here to-nigh to make you a
political speech. / am in your midst
to rest. but I cannot withstand the
temptation at this time to beg that you
will study, if you have not done it here
tofore, that issue which in this cam
paign is paramount I know that
among our neighbors in the East there
are many who have regarded our posi-
ton upon the money question, the posi-
ton taken by the Chicago Convention,
as entirely wrong, and they speak of the
silver sentiment as a source of disease.
| want to beg you, my friends, to be-
lieve that We who advocate the restora-
ton of the money of the Constitution
are not seeking that policy because we
believe that it is going to give US an adj
vantage over somebody else.
We have studied the question as best
we could, and we honestly believe that
there can be no permanent, no general
prosperity in this country until we stop
the conspiracy of those who would
make gold the only standard of the
world, and make all other things de-
pend upon that alone. We believe that
while the struggle for gold goes on
other things must become cheap; that
as We increase the demand for that one
thing we must decrease the price of all
those things that we change for gold
and we believe that this falling of prices,
compelled by legislation, is destructive
of energies, the industries and the hope
of the toiling masses of the United
States and all over the world. Gap
plause) I beg of you when you are
considering this question to remember
that this is a great nation; that it is
made up of 100000 people; each is
the equal of every other.
Il have visited some of your beauti-
full villages along the Hudson. 1 have
been charmed with the beauty that
commends them, but l beg you, when
YOU study this question to remember
that those who, instead of occupying
these magnificent places, must toll all
day under the summer sun, have just
as much interest in the money question
as anybody else.
Remember that this question cannot
be viewed from the standpoint of any
class of people. 1t reaches every man,
woman and child in the land, and you
should make your view broad enough
to comprehend them all, because I be-
lieve l speak truth when l say that
the prosperity of the well-to-do rests
upon the prosperity of those who toll,
and that you cannot have a financial
policy which brings distress to those
who create wealth without in the end
reaching those who rest upon these
toilers, and more, that you cannot have
policy which brings prosperity to the
masses without that prosperity proving
of benefit to all mankind.
Il beg you that in your con-
sideration of this question you will
study the interests of all and not mere
| " the interests of those who may be
permanently benefited by the rise in
the value of a dollar, and when you
have made up your mind l desire each
of you to feel that you have the right
| to express your view. The ballot was
not given in oder that one man should
not given in order that one man should
| compel others to vote with him or pur-
chase their votes. 1t was given in or
| der that each man might make his bal
| lot represent free mans will, and
| then when each one, studying as he Will,
! voting as he likes, expresses himself,
we make a majority, and then we will
support the one who is elected and hold
up his hands while he administers for
us the Government. whether we agree
with his views or not"