The Dickinson press., 1896-07-11

Nu"HtcS uicTe neWcrS OF WOOD ana drawers
of water.
There Is one thing golden whicl, permit
me. In the same good humor which has
characterized your conduct. to commend to
You here. 1t Is the golden rule to do unto
others as you wo, Ill haze them do unto
yoa. Forget no: the greed Of devils and
that an absolute acquieSence IN the will Of
INC majority is the vital principle Of the re-
Fne'i". Democrats as you have been. DEM
"rrats as ! trust you will ever bc. acuu.-
esce gracefully In the will of this great
majority of your fellow Democrats, anl
only ask I" 20 with them. as they have
often gone with you. Appnu>cD DO not
t"rEct. gentlemen. that FOR thi.ty years we
have supported the men that you have
named for MISUNDERSTANDING, Greeley,
ridden, Hancock and twice Grover Clrve-
la1d. do not forget that we have submitted
cheerfuily to yOnr compromised plat form
ana to your repeated pledges Of himctal-
liS,n. ana hav" patiently horne repeated
disappothtnents as to their fultillmrnt. 10
not forget that at the last national con
Feition or the Democratic party in 1872
YOU proclaimed yourselves to be In favor OF
the use OF both gold and liver as the stand
ara money of the country, for the coinage
OF both gold and silver without discrln-
mating against either metal. and that the
question left open was the ratio hc,wrcn
the metals. DO not furgct-und I refer TO
four years ago. in ii Democratic convention
IN this city. the New York delegation stood
here solidly and imEovably for Il candidate
committed to the
Free and Unlimited Cotunr.
OF silver and gold at a ratio of 1G to I; AMI
If we are still for II, let it not bc forgotten
that we owe II In some measure to their
teachings. Applausc.) That we owe you
mucl', gentlemen of the East, is readily nc-
np,1 tS.fn In,
fully remembered. We owe you much, gen
tIrmen of the convention. and for what we
owe You of the East is the force hill ana
me Mckinley bill and the Sherman law.
the triple infamy of Republican legislation.
IN" iirst was aimed not more ut the South
than at the great cities of the East, anl
chief among them the great Democratic cily
of New York with It's magnificent pa,roli.
age That bill got It's death blow in the
senate. but there was not n single Ecmo-
crat In New York or New England to vote
against 1t. Ii you, gentlemen, have helped to
save the South 1t also has helped To save
you In the East; but whether the South
should he saved or not those great Amer
lean Republican senator's from the West
Teller and Wolcott and your Jones ami
your Stanford Of California, sank their par
tiSln feeling Oh the order Of their p,tr.ot-
Ism and came forward to the res; Tie OF
American institutions.
No gentlemen In this high noon of our
couatry's fraternity can revive force bills
now In this r"conciled AMI lcunite I republic
Our opponents themselves have uinuuucd
them. There is none that can stand lm-
tween the union Of hearts and the union OF
hands that Grant In his dying vis:On saw
was coming on angels wings to all the
SONS Of our common country. When Chicago
dressed Southern graves with flowers she
buried scct1OnaliSm under Il mountain OF
fpt
t"rlny checred til" wounded hero Of the
North In Richmond the South answered
back. ''Lct us have peace, union and lib
city now and forever"
AS the majority of Democracy is not Soc
tional. neither does II stand for any priv
ilcse or classcd legislation. The active Lusi-
ness men Of this country, It's manrfattu. crs,
merchants. farmers, SONS Of toll In count
Ing room, factory, field and mine know that
contraction OF the currency sweeps away
with the silent and rcSistlcSs force Of CRAWL
tattOn the annual profits Of their cnterpiis.
| and Investments. They know. too, that the
gold standard means contraction and tho
| organization Of disaster. What hoIc is there
for the country and what hope for the
Democracy unless the views Of the majority
here shall be adopted? DO not the reople
know that 1t was not silver legislation. but
legislation dictated by the advocates OF the
tinues the financial depression! DO they
not know that when their demands upon
Democracy were complied with IN 1888 and
the Sherman law repealed without II sub
stitute. that the very states Of the East
| that demanded 1t turned against the De-
mocracy who granted 1t aud swept away
their mnjOrities in Il torrent OF ba 10 8? Had
the silver men had their way Their, ins cad OF
the gold mOnOrlptalists. what storms of
abuse would here to-day be cmptied upon
their heads; but the people applying the
| power OF memory and analysis alike to dis.
| cover the causes Of their arrested pros.
| perity need not go far to lind them. They
| do not forget when Democracy came tn
| power in 1893. 1t inherited from It's R"pub
liran predecessor the tax system and the
| currency system Of which the Mckinley
| law and the Sherman law were the culni
| mating atrocities. 1t cam" to power amidst
| n panic. Which fitly followed upon their eli.
actmcnt with strikes. lockoutS, riots and
| civic connexions, while the scen, OF peace
full Industry in Pennsylvania had become
military camps. l:t sides manifold Olplcs
sive features. the Mckinley law had thrown
away fifty millions OF revenue derived from
sugar under the special plea of a free break
fast table, and had substituted EOuntics t.
| sugar planters, thus Decreasing revenue and
| increasing the expenditure, thus burning
| the candle ut 10th ends and making tile
breakfast.
From the joint operation Of the Nc
Kinlcy law and Sherman law an adverse
| balance Of trade was forced against Ii.
in 1SH. a surplus Of one hundr"
| millions OF dollars In the trensiry
was converted into II deficit OF scy
en:y millions in 1894. and engraved bonds
prepared by Il Republican secretary TO l,or
| row money to support the government
| were the ill-omrns of the prcoryanizcd ruiz
| that awaited the incoming Democracy
More significant still. the very authors Ol
the il!-Starred Sherman law lakc>hif
| were already at confessional upon the stoo
to help them TO put out the c0nilagrnt ioi
| OF disaster that they themselves had kin
died.
FnvOrn an Income Tax
| So far as revenue to support the gov
| crnmcnt is concerned. the Democratic par
| ty, with but IL slender majority In the sen
| ate. was not long providing IT. and had no
| the supreme court OF the United State,
| reversed its settled doctrine Of one hun
| dred years. the income tax incorporated IL
| the tariff bill would long since have abuntl
antly supplied 1t. Respecting finance. III,
Republicans. Popnlists and Democrats
while differing upon almost all other sub
jccts. had united in 1892 In declaring To-
| the restoration OF our American system O.
bimctallism. by Republican and Demo
cratic efforts alike the Sherman law wa
swept from the statute books. the eager
ness to rid the country OF that Republican
| incubus being so great that no prudcn
effort was made to provide a substitute
| In the very act by which the Sherman
law was repealed 1t was declared to be th'
policy OF the United States Of America t.
continue the use OF both gold and silvc
! as standard money and to coin them int
I dollars OF equal intrinsic and exchange
able value. The Republican party has nov
renowned the creed OF its platform an'
our national pledges. ana presented to tn
country the issue Of higher taxes. NOR
bonds and less money. 1t has proclniIne,
nt last. throwing away the disguise. th
British gold standard. We can only expect
should they succeed. my countryu,en,
specimen Of panic aud a long prolonged
| period OF depression.
DO not ask US. then, to join them in an!
Of their propositions. Least OF all. asl
us not to Join them upon the money ques
ton and fight a sham battle over scttict
tariff, for the money question is the para
mount issue before the American people
and 1t involves true Americansm more
than any economic issue that ever wu
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