Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-10-16

publican party ship upon which III
had fought go many successful battles
when he saw the hull of the old shil
riddled with British gold and tin
masts swept from its deck under tn,
fire OF jeers and sneers of a subsidized
press, Mr.. Teller stepped down an,
made his way in open sea until h'
reached the platform at Chicago or
the 7th OF July, uproarous applause
and upon that platform he will con
tinue to fight until he wins victory
| Applause.
My father was Republican. He wal
a Republican in the days when to be {
Republican was to be called a niger
stealer, a black abolitionist and a de
flyer of the law. He was Republican
in the days when the Republican party
was criticising the Supreme Court O
the United States and the Federal
courts. The platform that that glori
Gus statesman, Abraham Lincoln, was
elected upon criticised the Federal
courts and Congress and a platform
that was good enough for Abraham
Lincoln is good enough for me. Con.
tinued applause.
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM, CHICAGO, MAY II, .,
1860.
SEC. t. That the maintenance invio-
late of the rights OF the States, and espe-
cially the rights of each State to order
and control its own domestic institutions
according to its own judgment eXclu-
sively, is essential to that balance of
power on which the perfection and en-
durance OF our political fabric depends
and We denounce the lawless invasion
by armed force on the soil OF any State
or Territory, no matter under what pre-
text, as among the gravest of crimes.
SEC. Z. That the new dogma, that the
Constitution of its own force carries
slavery into any or all of the Territories
of the United States, is dangerous po-
litical heresy, at variance with the eX-
plicit provisions of that instrument it.
self, with contemporaneous exposition,
and with Legislative and judicial prec-
edent is revolutionary in its tendency
and subversive Of the peace and harmony
of the country.
A part of section Q reads as follows
"That we brand the recent re-opening of
the African slave trade under the cover
of our national flag, aided By perUerSion
IF judicial p0,oer as u crime against hui
manity and burning shame to our
country and age"
This campaign to great extent
might be called a silver campaign.
But to my mind the silver question is
only one small part Of it. Silver is
but the foam on the crest OF the wave
of an outraged social sea.
Let us go back little in history
and we find that thousands Of years
ago all of the common labor that we
perform to-day was performed by
slaves. A little later on in the history
of the world we find that through the
feudal period all the work WAS per-
formed by serfs, one grade higher than
slaves. AS the mass OF the people be-
came little more intelligent and as
they threw off the yoke of the feudal
lords they became wage earners, and
to-day the great mass Of the people of
the world that perform common labor
are called wage esrners.
In the United States, through the
of those grand institutions
the public schools, free education, free
press and free speech, the wage earners
have been lifted up and the masses
have been lifted up until we are all
pretty near one level. There is not
room enough to day in the professions
for all the educated men and women
that our public schools and academies
are turning out; and when the pro-
fessions are full and the mass of COM
mon labor must be done by educated
laborers, it will be just as impossible
to stop the forward march OF evolution
that is lifting the masses out of that
condition of serfdom as it will be to
stop the revolution OF the world. You
can never expect the educated laboring
classes to be crowded down and tram
pied upon as slaves and serfs of past
ages and to live off the crumbs that
fall from the table of Shylock. APP
plause.
The public school system is the
greatest institution that was ever Or
ganized by the human race for the
OF the masses, and against
it the hand of the bigot shall not be
raised and upon it the blighting curse
of corporation greed shall not fall.
[ Cheers and applause.]
BIMETALLISM.
We come now to the subject OF BIZ
and the theory of money.
What is bimetallism? Bimetallism
is the use OF two kinds of money at
the same time. II there was one sill
yer dollar and one million gold dol
lars or one gold dollar and one hun
dred million silver dollars it would
be bimetallism according to that
theory. l call bimetallism the free
and unlimited coinage of both gold
and silver at the mints of the United
States without waiting for the aid or
consent Of any other nation. APP
plause.
Now what is the theory OF money?
Thomas B. Reed Of Maine says that
bears the.same relation to the
and business of the
world as the hayrack and horses do
to hay. 1t is a means of conveyance.
1 agree with him. Money is simply
a means of conveyance, that is all.
Farmers, when they go to town with
their produce, butter, eggs or hay, do
not go to get money as a rule, they
take their farm produce to town, sell
it and bring back groceries and dry
goods, or whatever they may need for
use on their farms.
Money is medium OF exchange
that enables you to take your pro-
duce to town and exchange it for what
you want, if you can make that ex-
change with the man that has the
dry goods and groceries to sell, no
money whatever is needed. If there
was no money, no silver or gold in the
world at all, would we starve to death? ?
You do not want it to eat; or to wear,
only just little Of it for jewelry. The
whole world could be without it and
we would not starve. This planet
might be robbed OF its gold and silver
and the seasons would change,
the rain would fall, the crops grow
and mature, the beasts of the field