People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1896-10-09

ing the great princi pies of Che cam
palgn. ! am the fairest fighter SaaAs
you ever saw in your life. I wont n,s
any man below the belt. (Great APP
plause and cheering.)
The Tariff Dilemma.
/ Now / see that Mr.. Bourke Cochran
IN MS argument says, that dollar will
BUY more now than it ever bought and
ne says that that ought to make the Ia
| oorers pleased with the present situa-
b'on. Everything you buy is product
OF labor and if you can buy a larger
amount of the commodities now that
are produced by labor with dollar, are
you not buying larger share of what
the laborer produces with the dollar
than you ever did before? Can it be a
| pleasant situation for the laborer that
his commodity is going at smaller
value than ever before? If his labor-his
commod ty-goes down, won't he go
down, too? Mr.. Cochran says, How
will rising prices help labor?" Mr. Nc
Kinley says, that what the laborer
wants is to have a high tariff I have
found other Republican that believed in
high tariff and you believe in it with
Mckinley because itgives higher prices.
Don't you now? "a voice. no) Why?
Because it gives lower prices? Just take
which horn of the dilemma you want
to. You take the one you want, you
take either one you like aud you get
impaled all the same. If high tariff
has some effect on prices it must make
prices high or Mark Hanna would not
be working for it, 1t either sends prices
up or it sends them down. Now which?
Pay your money and take your choice
(Applause.) If you mean that it makes
lower prices, tell me why Mr., Mark
Hanna wants lower prices for his goods.
(Applause) Why if it makes higher
prices tell me why Major Mckinley and
Bourke Cochran do not agree that you
have got to pay higher prices. Boys
you ought to agree. If tariff makes
higher prices it will do what the silver
craze will do You say that higher
prices is what you want and that is
what the silver men say. (Applause.)
The Popalist Idea.
We Populists stand for this idea. We
say that the free coinage of silver will
only help the people to the exetent that
it increases the amount of money. We
say that you can't start with falling
prices at 1878. You must go back fur
Their than that You must go back to
1866 and 1867 when they began to burn
up your paper money. (Applause.)
You. cannot confne contraction and
, this fall of prices to that time without
explaining to the people the work that
contraction consisted of. There has
; been no contraction of gold and no
| contraction of silver. Where has been
the contraction? 1t has been when
they commenced burning up the paper
money and there has been falling prices
since 1878 and for three years or more
before that 1t commenced to work the
injury when they commenced burning
up the paper money. We Populists say
that money, like any other commodity,
operates under the law of supply and de-
mand. If there is large amount of
money it is cheaper. Make more money
and such demand grows for every
thing that prices Will be good If the
demand grows greater, and the amount
of money grows scarcer, it will become
dearer like any other commodity. You
burned millions of the peoples money.
The increase of the gold is hardly APP
precia ole compared with the increase of
business and pop lation. We say that
the single gold standard is absolutely
disastrous. What does it mean? At
present you can pay your debts and
taxes with greenbacks, with silver and
gold. But if you rely upon and adopt
into a law the single gold standard, you
cannot pay your debt or your taxes
, with anything but gold. You say no.
You say in Your platform that the pres.
ent gold standard must oe maintained.
, Tell me what it is. l am willing to be
+ informed and if l am wrong l will take
it back and win apologize. applause
You say in your campaign platform
, that the present gold standard must be
, maintained. What do you mean by the
, present gold standard? At the treas
+ ury of the United States, Mr. Cleveland
! has established rule that the money
= of final payment is gold, and gold only.
] (Long and continued cheeripg.) Do
you mean to carry that into law? and
, make the people pay in gold aloneP
! Answer me that question yes or answer
! me no and l will meet you on either
! side. (Applause) You either mean it
+ or you don't mean it. Say which. CA
voice Can't do it, if you want to dodge,
, I will tell you these American people
are in no mood for lodging or dodgers.
=. Great applause.)
: Wall Streets Money Corner.
e l say that the present money supply
e has been cornered in Wall street and
t they want TO increase the power of that
t money corner, of that com bine, of that
trust, by saying "by law that gold
and gold only, shall be the money of
} final payment. Great applause.) If
t you don't mean that tell me what yon