The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-10-09

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Ties and people differ But until we hav
indicated the right Of this nation to legis
late FOR Itself on every question, they ca
drlTe no other Issue in this earipaigh Wit
IA pile-driver.. [Appiausel.
My ffiehds, the Republican platforr
uoes not say that the gold standard is
good thing. In fact, no national party ha
ever said so. The NAE VINO tells you tina
the geld stanuard is a good thing is a ma
without a party. If you tell me that tn
Dolting Democrats who held convention
at Indianapolis are a national party, den,
1t. National parties may be small 4
number, but no party deserves the name O
a national party that puts up one ticket i
order 70 defeat il, and elect another ticket
i LApplause.l
THE Republican party is natlona
party. 1t nominated a candidate, and il L
trying TO elect is candidate, The HepuB
4 liean party however, did not say that thu
! gold standard was desirable thing for tn,
/ people Of this country. It eSPressly de
clared that the geld Standard was no
good. because 1t pledged the Republican
PzrJy to get rid Of it, and would they try
/ toget rid Of a thing which they thought
/ was goodl When they declare that the
I bimetallio principle should be substituted
/ for the geld standard they declare that the
/ geld Standard is bad and that bimetallisn
Is the thing desirable. [Applause.]
] But when they declare that however de
sirable bimetallism is, we can't have it ub
I'll other nations bring 1t to tbs, they have
virtually declared that we shall riaintaiI
the gold stahdatdl however bad, not for q
year but forever, my friends. Applause.
] That word "until' is a long word. EC
limit to its duration! The gold standard
must be maintained until
You might as well say that a man who
has suffered Injury must continue to suffer
from it until the man who injured him
until that man voluntarily gives him
redress This gold standerd was forced
upon this country III the beginning 1t has
been held upon this country by force, and
how they tell US that We dare not abandon
it for fear our foreign creditors will come
down on us and wipe US out of existence.
"My friends, our policy has got 30 be- de-
termlned, either by the people Who live
here or by the people WHO live somewhere
else, Ii il is to be determined by the peo-
pie who live here, we can present our
claims, defend our principles and submit
the cause to the arbitrament of the ballot.
But il it is to be determined somewhere
else, the ballot can not reach them. We
must go and petition them TO do something
which We want TO have done, and which
they may not find it profitable to dos Ap-
plaUse.
1--WE are opposed to the gold standard
opposed to it because it is wrong; opposed
TO it because there is nothing to commend
the gold standard to the mass of the people,
and never has been. Take away from il
the support Of the Notwithstanding and
oneylodnihg Glasses and the gold statd-
ard will not stand one day in any
nation in the world. TApp1atise II has
resulted IN constantly rising dollar. Who
81 y that a rising dollar is a good thingl
No man ever said it who ever based his
judgment upon the effect of a rising stand
ard on the producers of wealth. The only
man who ever declared a rising standard
to be good thing is the man whose SYM
pathies are with the, idle capital, aud
whose. heart Is not touGhed by the suffer-
ihes of mankind. Applause
1.-The gold standard gives us rising dol
lar, and rising dollar meaps bondage;
distress and misery ID these Wh9 produce
wealth, those who form the basis of all
civilization ard who are the strength and
bulwarlx Of evefS Eoverhiient. Applause.
II gold is to be our standard, and the gold
dollar is to be the unit, and we are con-
tent with its upward flight, then, my
friends, believe that we ought to change
the dies, so that dollar will properly de.
scribe itself rs Il passes from hand to hand.
II We are going to say that we must have
it because foreign nations insist upon it,
then l think we ought to change it, and in
the place of that face above which is writ
ten Liberty let Us have q picture Of
Toinah ia chains, and above it written
Bondage [Applause.l
A Living Vulture.
"And instead of having on the other side
the eagle, the emblem Of national freedom,
let Us put fdlture that lives upon the de-
vouring of human kind. Applause. They
call the gold dollar an honest dollar. They
know it is not an honest dollar, and those
who love the gold dollar most love it most
because 1t is the most dishonest dollar the
world has ever known. ApplaHse:l And
the more dishonest it becomes the greater
is their affection fer it. [Applause.
What is an honest dollar2 An honest dol
larwouId be dollar whose average purchas-
ing power would be stable. A dollar which
rises In purchasing power is as dishonest
as a dollar which falls in purchasing
power; and that proposition is recognized
as true by all except those few who regard
as honest which adds to their
pocket, and anything as dishonest which
treats other people as well as it dees them.
Applause.
'iStability in the value of the dollar is
the important thing and the only way that
Fou cah secure stable dollar is to secure
a dollar of which there will be eheugh to
keep pace with population and industry
The gold dollar is bad, not because the
quality of the metal is not good, but be-
catse quantity is as essential in money as
quality. Applause You may show me
a particular kind of food which Is excellent
in quality, but if there is not enough Of il
10 sustain life, will never call it a good
food: Laughter.
"1'hey say the gold dollar is good dol
lar; that 1t gives US good money. My
we want money good, but how
goOdi Just good enough Not too good
my friends. We don't want dollar so
good that you can pray to 1t and long for
1t, but never get hold Of it. Laughter and
applause / have described the gold dol
lar as the balloon dollar. 1t keeps rising
all the time. Laughter.
"And those who were in the basket when
il started up stay with it, and il has got
put of the reach of the great mass of man
kind. Applause
The Balloon Dollar Don't Co."
ave are tired of the balloon dollar. We
don't want a dollar to look at as it passes
from us; we want dollar to handle as it
passes among us. [Applause.l We want
because it requires all the
gold and all the silver TO furnish a safe
basis for the immense commercial affairs Of
the 10Th century. 1t requires them both.
you talk to me about a flood of money
when we have free coinage. My friends, l
know people who have lived SO long in a
drouth that they are waiting for the first
irippings of the food. Applause.
II am not afraid that when all the gold
AVAILABLE for coinage and all the silver
available for coinage shall be poured into
,he money volume Of the world, that there
will be more than enough to form a safe
ind sound basis for safe and sound COM
nercial transactions Applause.
'fOur opponents say they want Sound
money! What would you think of car
lenter who tried TO build house upon an
Invisible foundations And yet they want
% build up the commercial transactions Of
his country upon little lump OF gold, re-
.ardless of the fact that foreigners hold a
itring to the gold. and can jerk out the
oundation of our commercial country.
Applause.
you ask us how we are gong to bring
liver back into use. tell you you cannot
10 il by electlng people TO Office who want
I driven out of use Applause. Money
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