The San Francisco call., 1896-10-25
Democracy Accused of Being
Shifty and Without
Principle.
TALK ON THE SILVER ISSUE
What the Republican Party Has Done
in the Interest of the Whole
Country.

Z.
ter certificate of popularity than the crowd
which greeted him at the Auditorium last
night.
People blocked up the aisles and the
lobbies and filed the stage from the rear
wall to the footlights, and remained there
for two hours laughing ana applauding
to the graceful things, the witty things
and the other things that Mr.. Knight said.
It was a warm audience and thoroughly
in accord with the sentiments expressed
by the speaker.
His speech was of the fervid kind, with
passages here and there in beautifully
rounded periods that caught the applause
of the crowded building, and with here
and there a drou story that set them
laughing.
In his exordium he spoke of the dark
days of the Republic when ''that home
", long, lean, God-fearing, good. lovable
man, Abraham Lincoln" took a piece of
paper and wrote on 1t, The United States
promises to pay the bearer at the city of
Washington five dollars" and handed it
to the people. 1t didn't even say when it
would be paid, yet with the great big
heart of patriotism in the Nation that
paper was accepted by the volunteers who
followed the flag. They took this piece of
paper, which said that some time out of
the darkness the Government might pay
that piece of paper.
Every time that a rebel bullet pierced
our flag gold went TO premium and the
greenback went down. every time that
the army of the Union met disaster on
ho4 al
time the armies of the Union were sue
cessful gold went down and the green
back went up.
Mr.. Knight next turned his attention to
the alleged love OF the Democratic party
for the constitution, and went on to say:
'If you can find me ten Democrats
anywhere 1 will find you nine const;tu-
tional lawyers among them, and these
tobacco shirtIront stained, crooked
grained Democrats thought to cripple the
army by starving it and they said it was
unconstitutional to print money on a
piece of paper. When Grant ran for
Presidentevery Democratic constitutional
lawyer in the country declared that the
issue of greenbacks was unconstitutional.
Then it was not long after that when they
argued that the greenbacks was lawful
money and that the National debt should
be paid in greenbaoks, and from that
time on the Democratic party has been
sort of political piece club, shifting from
one principle to another"
The Republican party, he added, has al
ways been in favor Of internal improve
ments and protective tariff.
The Democratic party has an idea now
that South Carolina can do what she
pleases. She had a little difficulty with
the American flag some years ago, and she
is still true to her traditions, for she has a
man like Tillman following the red flag,
or rather trying to follow it, for she hasn't
a corporaps guard to follow it.
Z The Democratic party never has been in
favor OF protection to labor, argued Mr..
Knight. "Our fathers had to come here
by the gods of war they had to come here
to live. They had history aud we re-
member it. They brought no class dis
tinctions with them. There ought not to
be any distinction OF class in this country.
The divine right OF kings does not exist in
this country. We believe that all men are
created Tree and equal, and we propose to
live up to that belief" ApplauseI
In speaking of the high plane of Amer
ican civilization Mr.. knight said:
"You can't make good citizen unless
you couple him with good wife, good
home, schoolhouse and an interest in it.
When You enjoy the schoolhouse, the
church and the family circle, what in the
name of God do you want more? And
when you have that you have the founda-
tions of a government that the earth
quakes cannot shake"
The speaker had the following to say on
the evils of pauper labor competition:
You have across the water 400, 00O, 900
of Chinese, with quick transportation. a
quick, initiative people, sober and indus
trious, who face US and who say, We will
fight you to a finish. Among them are
men scientific in military research, ,schooled
in our colleges. Tonight their messages
are going across the water ordering iron
clads and torpedo boats, and soou they
will be able to dictate to US if we let them
do so. Twelve dollars year is good pay
for Chinaman and SIS year for Jap
anese. and they can make anything from
a cambric needle to an ironclad war yes
sci.
whats the remedy2 Keep out all
.pauper labor and keep out all its products.
at has been said would it not be better
for them to manufacture their goods here
than in China because they will be forced
to spend some of their earnings here p
No; it would be still better to keep them
out and their products altogether.
"Il-paid labor is degrading and subver-
sive of civilization. Ill-paid labor is de-
grading to the laborer as well.
/ Who ever heard OF q woman wheeling
eoal in a wheelbarrow in coal mine for
i % years and never seeing the light of the
SunP Who ever heard of a woman
chained to dog and drawing water like
an animal2 Nobody has seen that in
America, but it is sight as common in
Europe as is the dust and cobbles in the
streets OF San Francisco.
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