Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-07

labor. The best money in the world is none
too good for those who have got 1t, but how
Is 1t with the 80 per cent of our people who
have got it to get? How is it with those
who must buy this best money in the
world with the products of their own la
Dor? These are the people for whom the
Democratic party would legislate. What
is the best money for these people is the
question for all to ask who really love this
land. How else can you increase labor's
purchasing power but by increasing the
price of labor's product? Is it a fair
measure of values that in our great pro-
ducing section ten bushels of potatoes
must be paid for dollar; ten bushels of
oats for dollar; six bushels Of corn for a
dollar; three bushels Of wheat and all
other products of the soil and mines, and
the labor Of all wage-earners at the same
ratio? Does any fair mind say that this
is honest money that forces such an ex-
change; and if it is not fair exchange
is 1t honest. is 1t less than robbery?
This is the condition to which the sin
gle gold standard has brought US. Under it,
the appreciation of the best money Of the
world has increased the wealth of the
rich. and for the same reason has increas-
ed the debt of the debtor. So 1t has BEEN
SO under the present standard it must con-
tirue to be. With these object lessons
about me. little need have We for history
AMI statistics and the studies of scholars.
Little satisfaction it is to us thar they have
warned us long since of the deadly evil
least to the parting of the ways. Whittier
shall the people go-in the way that has
led to their enslavement, or into that
which offers them their only chance 10 re-
gein individual liberty, lasting prosperity
aEd happiness.
Let not our opponents charge us with
creating class distinctions. Alas for the
republic, they are already here, created by
the Republican policy of the last thirty
years, created by the very system we would
now overthrow and destroy. Nor do We
raise sectional issue. The nomination you
tender repels the charge. None knew bet
ter than that this nomination is meant as
no personal tribute, but as an assurance
that our party is non-sectional party.
Not by our policy, but only by the con-
tinuance of the gold standard can sectional
ism be revived.
Neither shall our opponents be permitted
to terrify the people by predictions that
temporary disturbance or panic will come
from the policy we propose. The American
people will be loyal to the nations money,
will stand behind and maintain it at what
ever value they themselves may put upon
Il.
"Once before in the present generation
have our people been called upon to face
a momentous crisis. What then said Mr.
Lincoln the chosen leader of the plain peo-
pie Of the land? Was he awed by threats
or weakened by the willy persuasion of the
false friends who, as to-day, pleaded for
compromise with wrong? His answer was:
If our sense of duty forbids this, then
let us stand by our duty feariessly and eff
fectively. Let us be diverted by none of
these sophistical contrivances wherewith
We are so industriously piled and belabored.
contrivances such as cropping for some
middle ground between right and wrong.
reversing the Divine rule and calling not
the sinners, but the righteous, to repent
ance, such as the invocations to Washing
ton. imploring men to unsay what Wash
ington said and undo what Washington
did. Neither let us be slandered from our
duty by false accusations against us. Let
us have faith that right makes might, and
in that faith let us to the end dare to do
our duty as We understand it
I'VE know we'll the nature of the strug-
gle in which we are engaged. We are
anxious only that, the people of the land
shall understand 1t, and then our battle is
won. Behind the strong intrenchment of
the gold standard are gathered ali those
favored classes 1t has fostered, the only
dangerous class of the land. Avarice and
unholy greed are there. Every trust and
combination are there. Every monopoly Is
there, led by the greatest monopoly of all
the monopoly Of the power of gold.
with US in our assault upon these in
trenchments are all these unselhsh men
who. not now suffering themselves, cannot
rest content with conditions so full of suf-
ferings for others, and that vaster number