The herald., 1897-07-06

! final weight that takes this nation to
the gold standard, then, my friends,
you must be prepared for the legitimate
and natural and logical consequences
of such an act. If we go to the gold
standard, or rather if we declare our
purpose to maintain it and to make it
complete by wiping out silver as a
standard money, then, my friends, l
ask you where can mankind hope to
fight this battle with greater assura nee
of success? Where is the battlefield? =?
Where are the people where this great
contest between money and mankind,
between mammom and humanity,
where can this contest be fought II we
are defeated here? My friends, we are
fighting our battle upon the '.illtop, and
all the nations of the world are looking
on. Show me anywhere the aristocrat,
the monarch, the man living upon the
toll of others, the man who is jealous
of the rights and liberties of the peo-
pie, and l will show you man who is
hoping that the gold monopoly will be
made permanent in the United States.
Show me anywhere a man or citizen
longing for greater liberties for himself
and children, show me a man looking
for light and waiting for hope, and
care not in what tongue he lisps his
prayer, he will ask Gods blessing upon
those who fight for bmetallism in the
OnlteQ states.
NOT A BLESSING.
You tell me that the gold standard
has been tried. We have tried it in
this country. If it is a blessing, why
has no party recognized it? We have
had it for twenty years. If 1t has
brought us good, why do we send three
distinguished men to Europe to get rid
of good thing? Has it been satisfac-
tory here? No, my friends. No person
can say so, unless he indites the wis
dom of the Democrats and Republicans
and Populists of the nation, who all de-
clare that bimetallism should be re-
stored What other nations do it.
Other nations have tried it, and yet no
nation has ever tried it where the toll
ing masses have ever on a single occa-
sion given it their communication.
Boards of trade have praised it. Cham
bers of commerce have praised it, the
money changers have praised 1t, Dus
the producers of wealth have never
praised the gold standard in any nation
that has ever adopted it.
My friends, Is this not condemnation
enough? Are you going to say tnat the
people who produced the wealth have
not the intelligence to determine what
is good for them? Are you going to
say that just a few people must every
four years tell the rest of the people
what good things they have enjoyed
without knowing it? Oh. no, my
friends. If the people had prospered
under the gold standard they would
like it, and If they had prospered they
would know it, but they have not NY
friends. in supporting bimetallism, the
doctrine of the past the doctrine OF
this nation, the doctrine Of the world,
we are planting ourselves upon the
experience of mankind. We prove our
cause by the application OF everyday
principles. We prove 1t ny aulnorlty'
We prove it by analogies porn Oh ma
was also infinite in love. lie never
gave to mankind a need, without CIV
ing means Of gratifying II. Wneh ne
made food necessary for Ulan . eA
istence, He covered the earth wlt,e his
bounties so that there might alwa,
be enough food for the children OF the
world. When He made water neces-
sary for the human existence, He filled
the earth with veins and planted liv-
ing springs of water in the bowels
of the earth When He allowed Wear1-
ness to creep over the limbs Of the
toiler, He sent sleep, tired natures
sweet restorer," to renew his strnsth.
When He gave to mankind capabili-
ties of development and thirst for
knowledge, He filed and enthroned
within him that desire for knowla lge
and truth which occupies the thoughts
of men.
AN ELOQUENT PERORATION.
So when He made man a social crea-
ture and placed him here and fash
ioned him generous and true, He stored
away in the secret places Of the noun
tains the gold and silver suitable for
the worlds money. Mankind found
those precious metals, dragged them
from their hiding places and for six
haN down
to us side by side ministering to the
wants of man. / may be in error. II
1 am 1 hope l may be led in better
way, but in my humble judgment the
man who would rob mankind of his
food and leave his appetite, who would
corrupt the spring from which he
drinks and yet leave the necessity for
water, who would allow weariness to
come again and yet rob him of his
needed rest, is no more an enemy to
his race than the man who, knowing
the condition and suffering Of the
poor, would strike down and out of
existence one of the precious metals
given by the Almighty to satisfy the
need of commerce.
My friends, we should support bimet-
allism and we who are supporting 1t
are standing here supporting a theory
which has been tried. Those who sup
port the gold standard are pleading for
the continuation of experiments that
have nothing to commend them except
the misery that has followed wherever
they have been tried.
My friends, I believe that in the
restoration of bimetallism will be found
the beginning of a new era, a new era
when humanity shall again start up
ward, a new era when the producers of
wealth will begin to plan their camp
upon high ground, and that the restor-
alton of bimetallism will be but be-
ginning of that era which shall usher
in. not the destruction of society, not
the leveling of society, but an era in
which equality before the law shall be
the motto, and equal rights to all with
privileges to none shall be the watch
word under which humanity shall