The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-10-21


it. lived years without enriching my
eyes with the sight of a dollar-and the
greenback, unless you have the gold
behind it, is no more dollar than
bill of fare is dinner. You can not
make a paper dollar without taking
dollars worth of paper.
Better be an honest bankrupt than a
rich thief. Poverty can hold in its hand
the jewel honor-a jewel that outshines
all other gems. A thousand times bet
ter be poor and noble than rich and
fraudulent.
There are millions of people in the
United States who are creditors and
debtors. They want to be paid, and
they want to pay the men they owe.
Nobody can be helped by free coinage
except the few people who could pay
their debts if they were willing.
We want credit. Credit is based ON
confidence, and when we have good
times, you know, everybody, nearly,
has credit. Every mans mouth is
mint that issues dollars. When a good
fellow with a good job goes To the gro
Ger and says, "Give me s. worth of su-
gar, s. worth of coffee; charge it," he
has added $40 to the currency of the
United States. He has inflated the
money; and when another buys a horse
and gives his note for 500 he has infla-
ted the money. And afterward, when
times get hard, and they won't credit,
then they say money is scarce. There
is just as much money as there was be-
fore. Credit is scarce. That is the
trouble. Confidence is gone, and yet
they are going to give prosperity at l6
TO |. What does that mean? That will
mean sixteen men for one dollar, six
teen men hunting one job. That is
what it will mean. And of the six
teen, fifteen failures, bankrupts.
Mr.. Bryan hates the rich. Would he
like to be rich? Mr.. Bryan hates bond
holders Would he like to have a mill
ion in bonds2 Mr.. Bryan hates the
successful. Has he an ambition to be
failure? If he has, wait until the ith
of November and he will be satisfied.
And why should we envy the rich
Let me tell you something. The Van
derbilts and the Astors and the Rookie
fellers never drank any colder water
than | have. They never smoked bet
ter cigars. They never ate lighter bis
cults nor better potatoes, nor drank bet
ter Illinois wine than have-than you
have. We know the ecstacies of love
as well as they. We know the love of
wife and child and friend, and in some
respects we have the advantage. They
fear and we hope. They are at the
top, and they are afraid of falling. We
are close to the ground, and We hope to
climb.
Why should we envy the successful :?
Why should we hate them, and why
should we array class against class? 1t
is all wrong.
For instance, here is young man,
and he is industrious. He is in love
with a girl around the corner. She is
in his brain all day and in his heart all
night (laughter), and while he is work.
ing he is thinking, and he gets little
ahead and they get married, and he is
an honest man and he gets credit, and
the first thing you know he has a good
home for his children, and his old age
is filled with content and love.
His companions hask in the sunshine
OF idleness; have wasted their time,
wasted their wages in dissipation, and
when the winter of life comes, when
the snow falls on the barren fields of
the wasted days, then, shivering with
cold, pinched with hunger, they curse
the man who has succeeded. There
upon they all say they are going to vote
for Bryan.
The citizens of America should be
friends. We have no permanent classes.
The children of the rich to-day may
work for the men who worked for them.
Sons of milIionaires may be mendi-
cants; sons of mendicants may be mill
ionaires. The great republic opens ev-
ery avenue TO distinction and wealth to
her children.
| want no class feeling. Blessed is
that country where the rich are eXtrav-
agant and the poor economical. Miser-
able that country where the rich are
economical and the poor extravagant.
A rich spendthrift is blessing. A rich
miser is curse. Extravaganza is a
splendid form of charity. Let the rich
spend, let them build, let them give
work to their fellow-men, and l will
find no faul. with their wealth.
| admit that Bryan is honest. If he
were not, his intellectual pride would
! not allow him to say what he does He
is honest. He is Populist, Social
ist, and a new Democrat. His head Is
filled with vagaries, and his brain is a
kind of political insane asylum without
keeper.
/ think we had better take Mckin-
ley. If he should die, capable, hon
est man would take his place-Garrei
A. Hobart. If Bryan should be elect
ed and he died, imagine sitting in the
seat of Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Wat
son That Is enough to give patriot
the nightmare. Let us stand by Nc
Kinley.
The new Democratic party is wors'
than the old, and that is saying goot
deal for me. The new Democratic par
ty, with its allies, the Populists and th'
Socialists, represents the follies, th'
mistakes and absurdities of Thousand
years. They are in favor of everything
that can not be done. Whatever is
is wrong" They think creditors ar
swindlers and debtors who refuse to pa.
their debts are honest men. Goo'
money is bad and poor money is good
A promise is better than a perform
ance. They desire to abolish facts
punish success, and reward failure.
Fellow citizens, make up your mind
: tonight. ''Now is the accepted time.
} Vote for good money. Vote for intee
rity. Vote against silver swindles an
. reputation. Vote for protection an
prosperity. Vote against free trade an
/ danracia;ion Vote for business an