The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-10-17

80 oen ses cnence 70 put our plans Ia
eAecution For three years we must wait,
enu IN the meantime am willing TO help
the republicans get international bimetsi-
ism. 4 there is any possibility Of securing
u ! know they will get the credit II they
BRING IT, but II they bring 1t they are en-
Titled to the credit for t., and " they
bring II shall rejoice as sincerely, as en-
phaticslly, as any republican who favors
International bimetallisn,. belisvc that
when they try to get International bimet-
ailisin. until we can get our plans In OPP
favor OF helping Wolcott to try and scare
those capitalists, and I am speaking twice
day TO back him up. He says II they
don't do something right away the free sill
yer party Will win. and say So too He
points out that the silver movement Is
growing, and want to make 1t grow.
Well, my friends, I am so earnest in this
matter, am so anxious to have oimetal-
lism, Y the republican party brings II, l am
willing 10 give the republican party plan
which they can use to secure international
btmetallism aud get the credit for It, I
will tell you what my plan is. We have
elections in several States this fall. Now.
my plan is for all republicans who believe
In international bimetallism to join with
us this fall TO make the vote for silver as
large as possible. l want TO carry every
State where there is an election by an
Overwhelming majority for free silver.T
what? The news will go across Of the
! ocean: Wilcott will be waiting to get the
news. and when he gets the message that
every one OF these States have gone for
| silver, he will rush 10 the big financiers
| and will show them the telegram and say.
Didn't tell you so? II you don't hurry
and send delegates to that conference the
free silver party will win. You have got
to have those delegates sent at once
Now, my friends, reforms come to get
rid OF abuses, and reforms are initiated and
supported by the peorlc who suffer from
buses. and every reform that has been
achieved Of great benefit to mankind has
come in spite of and not because OF the
capitalist. And yet the republican party
would turn over the finances OF this coun-
try--the future of our country and the
welfare OF our children--riot to local but to
foreign inanciers. I denounce that plat
form as the most infamous one ever adopt
ed and any man ought to blush TO stand
upon 1t.
But enough OF that Let me call your
attention to another fact that has been
exploded in their argument They said all
| we needed was confidence. We had an
election and II went their way, and ac-
cording to the headlines, they can not COM
| plain of the size of their majority. They
| said confidence was restored. They said
| Now prosperity would come and did for
two months. Why, the trade papers told
| us how business was looking up. The
| boom lasted nearly a month, long enough
for the people to spend the money the re-
publicsns put in circulation on election
day, and then It dropped again.
Then times got worse. There were more
banks that failed within the first six
months after confidence was restored than
there had beel failures In the correspond
ing six months Of the year before. More
business houses failed in the first six
months after the res Grafton OF confidence
than had failed during the same period
Of the year previous. Times got bad and
they got worse, and then they got worss
still until they got so bad that many peo-
| pie concluded that must have been elect
| ed
But after about six months things be-
| gan to look up. Do you know where the
first ray OF hope came from? 1t CANE
from the Klondike. l read you dispatch
| from London, and since the republicans
lave transferred the legislative power u
| the hands of foreigners, London Is tht
place whence cometh their hope; and thu
| first ray OF hope came from the discover,
OF gold In the British possessions at klon
dixie And they rejoice, and men who ha'
been silent for six months actually laugh
ed on the streets. Many men who had no
been able to give an excuse for what the,
did last fall put on spring clothes am
came down town. But what right did TIT
republicans have to rejoice over the DIS
cpyery of more gold? Didn't they tell Vi
there was enough gold in the world2
there was enough gold, any more would b.
too much. And yet the republicans actual
Nv laughed to find out 1t was well TO nav
more gold We were not so partdcuia
about money as the republicans were
They insisted that we had enough gol'
in the world and enough money IN I'M
country. We wanted more gold to be foun
and more silver to be found, ana we ma
n right to rejoice in dhe discovery OF NOR
gold. We insisted that more money mean
more happiness, and II you doubt 1t, Sc
how happy the republicans were wne
there was more gold found.
"Where did the next ray oil nope com
from? From the wheat field. wheat ma
gone up? Why. my friends, dollar wnef
; is on our SIDE We wanted dollar whsa'
What the republicans said we want IL
dollar to buy more than 1t ever pousn
before You read the pamphlets sent on
. IA railroad sound money clubs. tell,n
them what would be the erect on tnos
who were working for wages to nave III
: the products rise. and yet you find tnei
rejoicing in the rise OF products, ana thu
they find their second inspiration. TAX
|. what the republicans said last year aoon
having money enough and what they az
now saving about the advantage OF dis
covering more gold. Talte what they sal
about the advantage OF rising dollars an
what they now say about rising prices
They remind me Of man who was tray
, cling in the mountain by path that wa
SO crooked tht he often met himself CON
|, Ling back. daughter and applause
! want to ask you. are not the republican
, meeting themselves coming back? Wh
, don't they admit it? Is IL because the
, are SO ashamed of what they said last IA
, that they will not recognize thenseive
face to face?
~ submit to you that the republican
, are today answering their own argument
: why. | noticed The other day up in low
paper said to be patient prices VIII ri'
/, and so will wages. They said last ye;
! they would now. We wanted gener'
rise in prices and we insisted that u
wages and all other things would adju
Z themselves to the new level, and yet no
they are trying to get credit for the spa
q mode rise In certain products. but tell II
; laboring man to be patient. thst prices WI