The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-09-03

lars worth not more than % TO 80 cents,
10y so much as d was your duty to MAKE
THIS provision for the protection OF y Wv,
families. by SO much IS it your presVi,,
Prev zee sh 10 p isT pa dt Of ha
is lost to them by being pa,d IN uoi'a "a -
which are worth anything less tnau ~"
cents IN which You have beeh P"9i"e
your premiums"
do not believe that the people Will be
Influenced by such bulldozlng threats as
this. l tell you, my friends and fellow
citizens. the destruction Of silver as
money has had a disastrous and ruinops
effect on all forms of property, except
those investments which yield a fixed re-
turn In gold. such Investments have an
outrageous and unfair advantage over all
other property" Ever since Cleveland )
message to congress outlining his imam,
clai polcy, there has been steady, r1p'n
aud alarming decline In values ana
corresponding increase IN the purchasing
power of gold. l believe as firmly as !
i,elleNe anything than the prime cause OF
pcrNades the country. and the low. price
OF farm products. labor etc. may be at
trlbuted to the present financial policy OF
inc government. Therefore stand
squAfely on the platform, ! could not 40
other and be honest 10 my country, my
People and myself. When we we're toId
,
country would become the dumping
ground for the silver bullion Of the world.
answer back, let them dump. II trey
leave It with us they will have to invest
1t "a our property, OF products or they
VIII have TO make us a present of 10. In
s ,y,al, contingency. my friends, dos
Is - question that can only be cpmprt-
hended by the great fndnclcr- Of thr
Nation. and the iinanc crs must tie gold
standard men, that we small fry don't
-
ar" cl nssed as silver cranks. For my
part am willing to be- called Il crank
unlisted IN ms cause. especially Wien
ann dssouaated as ! am iu this iight villa
such a large and representativ" body Of
crtnks. But | must hurry on and rot
dwell TOO long on this subject / believe
That when the policy we advocate Is en-
grated upon our statute books. prosper
liN VIII once more spread It's Wings over
lcvc that we of the South and West VIII
again Vie with our Northern and Eastern
brcthrcn IN progress and prosperity. the
farmer of this country viii again itce Nr
air and rcmuncrutiVe value for the
products of his labor. and believe
further that the prosperity OF -he whole
country VIII make believers of many who
Gre row urocltmlug that THE country IS
going to destruction on account Of the
silver craze" Veg. America will blossom
as rose when She becomes her own mas
trr ana not subject to the Whims OF for
.eu gold. Hear what the London F'irun-
cial News. a ,goldhus paper OF standing
SAYS editorially
There Is a plain moral I'm tho remark
that if the United States would venture
tn cut herself adrft from Europe and
take outright to silver she would have all
America AMI Asia a. her back ami the
command of the markets of 10th coun-
tries, The barrier of COLA would he more
fatal than any barrier OF custom house
Tho bond Of silver would be stronger than
any bond of free trade. There can be no
doubt about it that II the United States
were to adopt silver basis tomorrow