The herald., 1896-08-27

such as they speak of, will be triumph
ant, but it is because they know that
the Chicago platform aims its blows at
the real enemies of this country, those
who think they are greater than the
government and can make the govern
ment their instrument for private gain
tremendous applause) Let me tell
you why they call us anarchists. Mr..
Carlisle, when a member of congress-
in 1878, used these words which L skail
read to you: Our power of legislation
over this subject will not be exhausted
by the passage of this measure, and we
ought not to halt for a single moment
in our efforts to complete the work OF
relief inaugurated by it. The struggle
now going on cannot cease until all the
industrial interests of the country are
fully emancipated from the heartless
domination of syndicates. stock ex'
changes and other great combinations
of money grabbers in this country and
in Europe (Applause)
That is the language of John G. Car
isle in 1873. We stand today where he
stood then, and intend to complete the
work which he began. (Great ap-
plause.) Show me man who is inter-
ested in the stock exchanges, in the syn
dicates and in the great combinations
of money grabbers in this country and
in Europe and 1 will show you man
who is opposed to the Chicago ticket,
and 1 will show you a man who charges
you with being anarchists. (Applause
and laughter.) 1 hurl back the charge,
and 1 say that these men are the great
est enemies that this country has
(hisses) and their opposition to us is
because our warfare is against them
and is intended to stop the plunder of
the industrial masses in behalf of the
money corporations of this country ana
Europe. (Great applause)
Now, friends, 1 quoted to you so you
would not think I was using eNtrava-
CANT language. If the money grabbers
of this country and Europe were exer-
cising heartless domination then, want
to ask you in what language we Will de-
scribe the domination from which we
suffer now? In 1878 there were not in the
country public men nor great party
which took the position that this nation
must submit to the heartless domina-
tion until the heartless deminators came
and broke our shackles. But in this
campaign, for the first time in the his
tory of this government, a great party
purposes to surrender the right of gov
ernment and invest in foreign legisla-
tive bodies the power to legislate for the
people of the United States. (Cries of
mo, no., and great applause). 4
What does the Republican platformN
say? Does it say that the gold standard
is a good thing? No. No platform ever
written by a national party in the Unit
ed States ever said that the gold stand
ard was a good thing. Why don't they
defend it? Because they dare not defend
it among those who toll Why do they
not excuse it? Because the wall of dis
tress would drown any excuse which
they could present. 1t has been well
said that gold in it's last analysis is the
sweat of the poor and the blood of the
brave, and if you can well admire the
discussion of the declaration of the gold
standard advocates that they do not in
vite a contest in an open field (applause)
and when they say this nation shall sub
nit to the evils of the gold standard un-
til relief comes from other nations, in
our Judgment they,do declare for gold
standard permanently, because we do
not believe that relief will come from
other lands.
Some of them say that if we just wait
other nations will come to our relief.
we have heard that preached in every
presidential campaign and the very ones
who have been solid in their declarations
in favor of international bimetallism
during national campaigns are the ones
who, after the elections, heve done all
they could to prevent bimetallism, inde-
pendent or International The people
will not longer be deceived. If you want
ed to reduce the rate of interest, would
you wait until the people who are loan
ing money petitioned the legislatures to
reduce the rates of interest? (Applause
and cries Of "No, no.'D
You never appeal to anybody to secure
legislation which will be hostile to his
private interests, then why should we
say this nation, great debtor nation,
must wait until creditor nations come to
us and help us to stop the appreciation
of the dollar in which they are paid?
You live here in community which is
both agricultural and manufacturing,
and 1 appeal to you to examine this mon
ey question and ascertain for yourselves
whether the restoration of silver is not
good for you. If you are farmers, [ beg
you to remember that under this appre-
citation of gold your products have fallen
in value while your debts and your taxes
have remained as high as they used to
be. I notice one of the opponents of free
coinage said the other day that if the
farmers had suffered from falling prices
when he went to sell, he had gained in
falling prices when he went to buy
That may be all we'll enough for some
one who is not farmer to tell to a man
who is farmer. Applause) 1t would
not have been told by farmer himself,
(applause), because the farmer knows
that while he sells at wholesale, he buys
at retail, and that retail prices do not
fall as fast as wholesale prices, and he
knows that there are certain fixed
your taxes fallen in the last twenty
years? My observation is that taxes
are as high or higher than they We're
twenty years ago. but if it requires twice
as much of the products of the farm to
pay your taxes; they are in effect twice
as high as they were then. If it takes
twice as much of farm products to pay
the interest upon your mortgages, then
that interest is in effect twice as high