The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-08-25

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The founders ofour government new
er foresaw that the time would come
when there would be only few peo-
pie in this country who were compe-
tent 10 settle
GREAT PUBLIC QUESTIONS.
Applause. If they had they would
have written in the constitution that
on most questions that most everybody
could vote, but on the money question
only the fnanciers should vote.
[ Applause.]
"Great political questions are eco
nomic questions, and great economic
questions are, in their final anal, sis,
great moral questions, and it requires
no extended experience in the hand
ling of money to enable man to tell
right from wrong, and, more than that,
this money question will not be settled
until the common people pass upon it.
Abraham Lincoln said the Lord must
have loved the common people because
He made so many of them. The COM
mon people are the only people who
ever supported reform that had for
its object the benefit of the human
race. do not mean to say that there
have not been exceptions to the rule.
Our opponents of the gold standard
Democracy are all linked as to the
policy which should be pursued. They
all want the same object. They all
want to elect Republican candidate
because they believe that Democracy
is better exemplified through Repub-
licanism, Laughter
"Some of our opponents say the gold
standard is a good thing while others
say
WHAT WE WANT is BIMETALLIsM,'
but we cannot have it until somebody
helps us Laughter. If the gold
standard is good thing why should
they want bimetallism? And yet if
they have two men making speeches
the same night, the chances are l6 to L
laughter that one of them will praise
the gold standard ss good thing,
while the other will tell you how anx-
ious they are to get rid of it.
"One man says the reason why he
don't want free coinage is that he does
not think that the Government should
pass law that will enable the silver
miners to take so cents worth of silver
bullion and convert it into 100 cents.
OF course he may have been i'll favor
of system of taxation that would
give 200 or 300 per cent profit, but that
does not count. II is terrible thing
to allow the silver miner to make that
profit. Then the next man who comes
up will say as matter OF fact the
stamp of the Government addsnothing
to the value of the metal, and that the
free coinage of silver simply means
that you convert 30 cents worth OF bull
lion into a so cent dollar and
NOBODY MAKES ANY PROFIT
Out of it. Applause Now you can
see the absurdity of it. If the silver
| miner under the law of free coinage
finds that his silver bullion has raised
so that that which is worth 80 cents
will be worth 100 cents then there are
no fifty cent dollars, and if the other
man is correct and the law adds no.
thing to the value of the metal and you
simply convert so cents worth of silver
into fifty-cent dollar, then the mine
owner has not made cent. Well,
then you hear another speaker say
there has been no fall in the prices
and he will denounce the people who
are complaining that gold has risen
in price, and then his colleagues will
tell you that not only have prices fall
len, but that it is the greatest blessing
| in the world to have prices tall. Now
those two are not consistent, but 1t fol-
lows all the way through.
IN A TIGHT BOX.
sour opponents do not dare to say
hat the gold standard is a good thing,
because no party.in the history of this
country has ever declared in favor OF
gold standard, and they dc not dare