The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-06

sound basis for safe and sound com
merciaI transactions (Applause-)
/ Our opponents say we want sound
/ money. What would you think Of a
/ carpenter who tried to build a house
upon an invisible fOundatiOn2 And yet
I they want to build up in commercial
/ transactions of this country upon q lit
+ tie lump of gold, regardless of the fact
] that foreigners hold a string to the gold
and can jerk out the foundation Of our
commerce. (Applause-) You ask US
/ how we are going to bring silver back
/ into use tell you, you cannot do it by
/ electing people to office who want IT
/ driven out. (Applause)
Money is q creature of law, and
! laws are made by the people. Our op-
/ ponents say. The friends Of the gold
standard have secured an ambiguous
platform in the Democratic convention
and Republican convention, and they
/ have secured nominees who were safe
l from having ideas. and thus having no
T party except as to that party that they
I can advance their interests These
4 hnanciers have set back as to both
/ platforms and said both good men, both
Il good men This year they only get
I one good man, one good man. They
went to ST. Louis and there the men
who had been talking about the impos-
slblllty OF having two yard sticks
I adopted a platform declaring for the
double standard
People who said that gold was the
/ only money for civilized country
/ wrote their platform declaring for BIZ
/ metallism- Why did they do it2 Be
cause even the advocates of the gold
I standard were not willing to go before
the American people on a declaration
in favor Of q. single gold standard and
they put in the delusiVe hope for inter
national bimetallism and pledged the
party to maintain the gold standard un-
Til they could set 1T. and then the same
influences went to Chicago and tried TO
do the same thing there. The minority
plank in the Chicago platform was SO
much like the Republican plank that
you could not tell the difference be-
tween them with a magnifying glass.
The kepuD llcan platform pledged
the Republican party to maintain
the gold standard until they could get
international bimetallism, and the mi
nortty plank in the Democratic plat
form opposed free coinage for fear it
would interfere with getting internal
tional bimetallism The majority rules.
and you have an issue this year be-
tween those who want to continue the
gold standard and those who want to
abandon it, I am mot running under
any false ideas and do not want any
body TO vote for me under e misunder-
standing 4 want to tell you what i
told others, that If you think the gold
standard is absolutely necessary to
the welfare Of this country, you make
a great mistake if you vote for me, be
cause if 1 can help it, the gold stand
ard won't stay in this country for one
moment. (Applause.)
1T shall be driven back to England
where it belongs Our opponents tell
us that our dollar viii be a. cheap one.
silver dollar cheap dollar until it was
demonetfzed We insist that leeisIa-
ton can undo what legislation did. We
insist that the opening of our minis
create q demand which the CLOSING of
our minis Destroyed and that the de-
mand for silver will raise the price of
silver bullion to 1923 anywhere in the
world CApplause)
'.But you say it Will be as hard to get
silver dollar as 1t is now under the
gold standard You overlook the first
studying the money question. cold has
zone up because YOU DESTROYED it's
competitor Restore its competitor
and let silver be used on equal terms !
and bv increasing tile value of stand
ard money. You lessen the strain al
the gold ana reduce tia purchasinsg
power Ut ain ounce of cold throughout
the world CApplause.) The silver dol
lar and the gold dollar Win be worth
the same whether in the form of coin
0r ia the form Of melted bullion but III
viii be easier to get either when YOU
have the chance to get both than If IS
now when YOU have to nght for one
THE prosperity of your great cities I
depends upon the prosperity of the
farmers and planters of this country
Down goes the value of cotton when |
YOU drive uD the value of gold TAX /
about one dollar that is as good as any I
dollar in the world You want corton /
at least brought to be as GOOD as if /
used to be before gold got ont of reach I
Restore prosDaritv to the cities and /
rho Ia bo~irs- man viii them he ar0r,1r,-- /
ed in rnanufactllring things for the TAR
mers who viii then have the money to /
buv what they need find al go /
about that there are a great MANY /
bankers who support the cold stand
ard NV friends I don't know vvhv a /
banker in RTar,r1,is should he Interested /
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tl7arr, ana ~ 1ro77 want f. lr4,c,x7 +ha - +
T,Iana+ion Of fbat con6ition can Give /
+ [s-i1I saw +I7is fba+ ,1-l9er' ,-o71 No. /
found slch a man he is one who mas /
bean % f,71sv handling money as NOT Fl 4
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