The herald., 1896-10-30

way of shrinking when the assessor is
about and not all assessors are perfectly
incorruptible. Do you say tax their
lands up to their full rental value and
turn their profits into the public treas.
ury?. Good again; but will the free and
unlimited coinage of silver bring the
majority to assent to the taxing away
of all a mans income and all his profits.
except enough to equal the average
workman wages? And If not, will the
strong grow stronger and the rich richer
despite heavy tax? Competition still
obtaining, will not the old law still hold,
To him that hath shall be given and he
shall have more abundantly, while from
him that hath not shall be taken even
that which he hath?
will the free and unlimited coinage
Of silver cause a soulless corporation
to become tenderly conscientious and
philanthropic? Will it, for example, bring
the Los Angeles City Water company to
such sanity living that 1t shall ap-
proach the city council and say, We no
longer seek our own, but every man of
us his neighbor's good. We see that, in
the possession of the community, the
city water system might be SO arranged
that the water on its way from the noun
tains should develop power enough, by
means of turbine wheels and dynamos,
to light the city five times better than
1t Is lighted now. to turn every car wheel
in the city and to supply the place of
fuel in every kitchen, and that after the
water has done all this it will be as clear
and fresh as ever for irrigation and all
uses; that the city might charge the peo-
pie less than half what they are paying
for each Of these utilities and still turn
a sum into the city treasury sufficient to
meet all requirements, so as to do away
the city can DO this and employ large
part Of its people at better wages and
fewer hours than the present average;
and therefore we present, without money
and without, price, all our rights and
titles to the city only asking that we
be employed as managers at the same
wages as other workmen in order that
the city may have the benefit of our
experience? Will such things be said
and done by the Southern Pacific COM
pany, by the Standard Oil company and
the owners Of this country generally
as soon as our mints are open to all the
gold and silver that may offer? And
amount Of money, however good and
sound-do away with the wage system
and its expressions, slaveries? Will it
break every yoke and let the oppressed
go free?
And once more, will free and unlim-
tied coinage Of gold and silver give us
the ideal money! Is tool that costs
you $40, and that is neither so conven-
lent nor will do the work so we'll as one
that you can get for one cent good econ
omy? Must we ever more spend our
lives getting gold and silver at great
cost of muscle and nerve to do work
that good paper will do much better, the
metals to be for the most part buried
in vaults or hidden away, while paper
after all does the work? Why not use
the metals in the arts and to adorn our
public buildings and preserve them?
do you say we must have the gold
and silver with which to redeem our
paper? answer that is the very mischief
from which we are suffering; a money
of redemption, of only one substance.
which can be cornered and controlled by
a few men. The money of the United
States should be redeemable in all the
products of labor and made legal ten
der for all goods and all debts. 1t needs
but to be properly limited in supply and
guaranteed by the United States"
The speaker warned his hearers that
it will be better to join in an evolution
that shall eventually but surely bring
about needed reforms than to plunge
into revolution in hopes of accomplish
ing the change in a day.
At the conclusion Of Mr.. Webster's
speech President James made some an
nouncements, one of which ELECTED great
applause. That was, that the member
ship roll of the Silver Republican club
now numbers 1890.