The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-15

try to get international himetallism,
until we can put our plans in operation,
we ought to help him. am in favor Of
helping WOlcott to try and scare those
capitalists, and | am speaking twice
day to back him up. He says if they
don't do something right away the
free-silvcr party will win, and | say so,
too. He points out that the silver senti-
ment is growing, and | want to make it
grow. Well, my friends am so earn
est in this matter, am so anxious to
have bimetalism, if the Republican
party brings it | am willing to give the
Republican party a plan which they
can use to accure international bemetal-
lism and get the credit for it. | will
tell you what my plan is: We have cleo
tions 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. ] want
to carry every state where there is an
election by an overwhelming majority
for free silver. Then what? The news
will go across the ocean; Wolcott will
be waiting to get the news, and when
he gets the message that everyone of
these states have gone for silver, he
will rush to the big tinanciers and will
show them the telegram and say,
"DidD't ! tell you so. If 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"
Necessity is the mother of invention.
When man needs a thing he looks for
1T, and | have sometimes used this as an
illustration. A man never studied the
subject of boils so intelligently as he
does when he has bols. Someone has
said that the only good place to have a
boil is on someone else. | have been
having some trouble with boils. !
know | have been more interested
during the last few days in finding out
what is good for boils. | have given
more attention to the subject of boils
since last Saturday morning than | had
for five years before. Why, because
| had boil Now, my friends, reforms
come to get rid of abuses, and reforms
are initiated and supported by the peo-
pie who suffer from abuses, 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 countrv-the
future Of our country and the welfare Of
our children, not to local but to foreign
! tinanciers. ! denOunce that platform
as the most Infamous one ever adopted
and any man ought to blush to stand
upon it.
"But enough of Tint 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 it went their way;
and according to the headlines, they
cannot complain Of the size Of their
majority. They said confidence was
restored. They said, Now prosperity
would come and it did for two months.
Why, the trade papers told us how busi-
ne IS was looking up. The boom lasted
nearly month; long enough for the
people to spend the money the Repub-
licans 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 re-
stored than there had been failures in
the corresponding six months of the
year before. More business houses
failed i'm the first six months after the
restoration Of confidence than had failed
during the same period Of the year
previous. Times got bad, and then they
got worse, and then they got worse still,
until they got so had that many people
concluded that | must have been
elected.
"But after about six months things
began to look up. Do you know where
the first ray of hope came from? II
came from the Klondke. read You a
dispatch from London, aud since the
Republicans have transferred the legis.
lative power TO the hands OF foreigners,
London is the 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 rejoicey, and men who had been
silent for six months actually laughed
on the streets. Many men who had not
been able to give an excuse for what