The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-04


dicates who have been bleeding the |
United States Treasury make applica- |
tion. for membership in a club and de- |
clare Vthat the free coinage of silver |
is injurious to their personal interests. |
(Applause). Why do not the bond |
holding classes in their applications |
state that it would be injurious to their
personal interests? Why don't they
money changers and the attorneys for
these great trusts and corporations
write in their applications that the
success of the Chicago ticket would
be injurious to their personal inter
ests? They want it understood that la
boring men are Influenced by personal
interests, but that these great leaders
of the gold standard are simply inter
ested in the public veal. There is a
great difference between those who adj
vocate bi-metallism and those who adj
vocate a gold standard.
ASK a farmer why he wants BIZ
metallism and he says because it would
be good for him. He is not worrying
about somebody else. He has troubles
enough of his own. It is the same
with a laboring men or business man
or professional man. They say they
cannot prosper unless the great pro-
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rests also prosper. They want BIZ
metallism because it is for themselves,
as we'll as for the mass of the people.
Ask a fnancier why he favors the gold
standard. VIII he tell you because it
is good for him? You never heard one
of them say it.. (Laughter.) They
want something that will help some
body else. They say they want it so
6 bn 1CITD~
when he gets a dollar-(great
laughter) will get a good dollar. They
want it because it is good for some
body else. Tell them that these peo-
pie whose interests they plead are will
ing to risk the effects of bi-metallism
and they rise to the full height of their
moral stature and say, shall we let
these people hurt themselves-them-
selves? Great Iaughter.) We will ram
the gold standard down their throats
whether they want it or not, because
we love them better than ourselves.
Il know that whenever we express
an opinion on the money question that
we subject ourselves to the contempt
of the New York fnanciers. (Cheers.)
But, my friends, when l have read
their ideas on the money question and
the ideas of every one also on that
subject I am constrained to believe
that there is only one passage of the
scripture with which they are fami-
liar and that is that passage which
says that a great many years ago, GER
tain wise men came from the East
(great laughter and applause.) They
think that they have been coming from
that direction ever since. (Laugh-
ter and applause.) =
BOLTERS AND THE PLATFORM.
I'VE expect some men to leave the
kept Them i'm had we wanted to, if we
had made the platform to suit them.
applause If the Democratic platform
on the money question had been what
our opponents wanted,it would have
been just like the Republican platform,
because both would have been frauds.
(Applause). If we had adopted a plat
form like the Republicans and nomi-
mated candidates who would pledge
themselves not to do anything with
out first going down to New York and
asking what ought to be done, what
would have been the result? Why
these magnates would have been able
to sit back and say they are both good
men, the country rs safe under either.
(Laughter). We could have had that
SORT of campaign if we had wanted it,
But somehow the majority of the peo-
pie in that convention decided they
wanted another kind of a campaign,
and so they made a platform that
breathes the spirit of the Declara-
tion of independence. Tremendous
and long continued applause).
The very parts of that platform
which have been most hurtful ito the
men who have used the Democratic
party for private gain and their coun-
try for public plunder, are those near
est the hearts of the American people
We are not losing anybody from the
party except the great big Democrats,
and don't you know when a great big
Democrat breaks into the Republican
party he makes hole so big that
great many little Republicans can run
out? (Applause.) We cannot have their
moral support, but we will get along
without their immoral incubus also.
(Laughter.)
eve won't have their approval, butit
is an awfully high priced approval any
how to buy in these hard times under
a gold standard" Great laughter and
applause.)
At SOUTH BEND LAST NIGHT.