The herald., 1896-09-27

coinage would stimulate 1t to double
this amount. The Pacific states now yield
about $25. .000. 900 at bullion rates. II your
great mint when at Sacramento was
open, to silver as to gold large portion
of this product would be brought here
to oe coined and when coined would stay
here in California and help develop this
great country.
Look at this example:
Say a silver mine employs under
ground twenty miners with pick and
drill. This is estimated by experts to
mean the further employment of 200 ad-
ditional employees directly and indi-
rectly above ground. They take from
mother earth of buried unused treasure
100000 The miner brings it to the
rlint, gets 1t coined, pays for it's pro-
duction $4,000. The remaining $4,000
he cannot eat. He must put 1t in cir
culation. He will increase his family
larder, and the wardrobe of his family,
refurnish his house, re-employ the maid,
servants, meet the increasing opulence
he must loan to those who will or him.
self invest it in acres or manufacturing
enterprises or buy lots and build houses,
all of which causes the employment of
now idle labor, and thus in this small in
stance 900, that will be a sound, hard
and honest as any other money, will per-
colate down and be absorbed by the
wage earning masses.
CONCLUSION
And now, in conclusion, would say a
few earnest, serious, heartfelt words to
those who have always been and are still
the power that maintains the Repub-
lican party--the money classes.
In this campaign the issue has been
forced between the wealth and corporate
power on the one side and the agricul-
tural and industrial masses on the other.
For myself, am Democrat and love
my party, but / am not demagogue
And while by nature and education con-
servative, l take my stand with the
people, where by sympathy and condition
l belong. 1t is true l claim among my
personal friends those who manage and
control great corporations in this and
other states, whose friendship l esteem
and whose opinion and judgment value
and whom am pleased to favor in any
reasonable and legitimate way. But on
the great issue of the hour we seem to
be far apart. My earnest convictions l
cannot and will not yield. as firmly be-
lieve l am right as they doubtless think
/ am wrong. l say to them with the
purest motive and kindliest spirit, say
to all men of superabundant means and
those who control the corporate and ag-
gregate combinations Of wealth, you are
making a great mistake in attempting
to set up In this country this golden
image for worship. You are making a
scourge for yourself. Do not, warn you.
make further preparations for O Bel
shazzar feast. Anticipate the writing on
the wall before the light blinds you.
Banker, pause from your work OF
money changing and brokerage; raise
your eyes from the money bags and look
from out the four walls of your counting
room and rise above the self1shness OF
your surroundings.
Railroad manager, make evident to
the people that as you travel over the
country you look beyond the area cast
by the wick Of your engines headlight
Manufacturer and hirer of labor, be
content with fair share OF labor's pro-
duct.
All Of you, only note the true condi-
tion of your country, and in a spirit Of
pure patriotism, that patriotism which
puts country and humanity above sell
| and class, step down towards the people
| I tell you, and remember it, though |
wish it would be sent to you in trumpe;
! tones, stronger and weighter than my
| humble voice, that the Republicans
who proclaim with more candor thar
| judgment, that wealth is king" deceive
themselves and you. I tell you that IN
this country wealth is not king. You
may try to further enthrone his i'm
| perial majesty by the twin powers OF
"gold and protection" but the reign OF
such a tyrannical monarch can never
endure in this country-dedicated tC
the idea that all men are born free an'