The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-10-17

place whence cometh their hope; and the
first ray of hope came from the discovery
of gold in the British possessions at
Klondike. And they rejoice, and men
who had been silent for six months ac
tually laughed on the streets. Many men
who had not been able to give an ex-
cuse for what they did last fall put on
spring clothes and came down town.
But what right did the Republicans
have to rejoice over the discovery of
more gold? Didn't they tell us there
was enough gold in the world? If there
was enough gold, any more would be too
much. And yet the Republicans actually
laughed to find out it was well to have
more gold. We were not so particular
about money as the Republicans were.
They insisted that we had enough gold
| in the world and enough money in this
country. We wanted more gold to be
found and more silver to be found, and
we had a right to rejoice in the discov-
cry of more gold. We insisted that more
money meant more happiness, and if you
doubt it, see how happy the Republicans
were when there was more gold found.
"Where did the next ray of hope come
| from? From the wheat field. What had
gone up? Why, my friends, dollar wheat
| is on our side. We wanted dollar wheat.
What the Republicans said we want is n
dollar to buy more than it ever bought
before. You read the pamphlets sent out
to railroad sound money clubs, telling
them what would be the effect on those
who were working for wages to have the
products rise, and yet you find them re-
joicing in the rise of products, and thus
they find their second inspiration. Take
what the Republicans said last year
about having money enough and what
they are now saying about the advan-
tage of rising dollars and what they now
say about rising prices. They remind me
of a man who was travelling in the noun
tain by n path that was so crooked that
he often met himself coming back.
daughter and applause.) | want to ask
you, are not the Republicans meeting
themselves coming back? Why don't
they admit it? 1t is because they are so
ASHAMED of what they said last fall that
they will not recognize themselves face
to face?
81 submit to you that the Republicans
are today answering their own argu-
ments. Why, / noticed the other day up
in Iowa paper said to be patient, prices
will rise, and so win wages. They said
last year they would now. We wanted
a general rise in prices and we insisted
that the wages and all other things
would adjust themselves to the new lev
ell and yet now they are trying to get
credit for the spasmodc rise in certain
products, but tell the lahoring man to be
patient, that prices will rise, and his
wages will rise, so he will not suffer any
thing. Well, they are learning. 1t is q
slow process, but they are learning. Last
year was the first year that they adj
mitted anything was wrong. Before that
they said be contented with our lot.
When we said anything was wrong,
lthey would point to some other nation in
Europe and say we were better off than
they, and ought not complain. Up to last
year they said be content. l believe i'll
lcontentment, but ! think il can be car
ried too far.
But my friends. l have now stood
here in this night air and kept you here,
calling attention to these evidences OF
the fact that We are right and our Opin-
lions are right. You tell me that the sill
yer craze is going to die out; tell you it
will not die out as long as it is being
indicated as ii IS now. You cannot kill
a thing by proving il is right, and the
Republican party is admitting now near
iiN every important DOSlliOu We lODh OIi
the money question last fall, and in
stead Of being ended, the money question
is just being begun. Those who began
last year the warfare for financial in
dependence are waging it this year, and
/ want to warn you, my friends, that
this contest is not over when we secure
merely financial independence. 1t will go
on until that doctrine of equality before
the law, of equal rights to all and spe-
Icial privileges to none, is inscribed upon
1.-THE walls of every executive office, Of
every legislative hall, of every room
where a court meets, from justice of the
lpeace TO the Supreme court of the
United States. 1t means that the people
who constitute this nation, those de-
scribed by Carlisle in 1873 as the ones
who produce the wealth and pay the
taxes of the country, can make. their
wants felt in legislation, and that the
non-producers of this nation shall not
longer have a monopoly on the produc-
ton of laws. 1t means, my friends, bet
ter government, more economic admins
tration of government more justice in
the levying OF taxes; it means that this
shall be government of the people, for
the people and by the people, and this
government shall not perish from the
earth"