The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-15
DBMOCRACY'S CHIEFTAIN.
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thew did last fall put on spring clothes
and came down town. But what right
did the Republicans have 10 rejoice
over the discovery Of more gold? Didn't
they tell us there was enough gold III
the world? II there was enough gold.
any more would be too much. And
vet the Republicans actually laughed
To find out il was well to have more
gold. We were not 80 particular about
money as the Republicans were. They
insisted that We had enough gold in the
world and enough money in this cOun-
try. We wanted more gold 10 be found
and more silver 10 be found, and we
had right rejoice in the discovery
Of more gold. We insisted that more
money meant more happiness, and, if
you doubt it, see how happy the Repub.
licans were when there was more gold
found.
Where did the next ray of hope come
from? From the wheat field. Whea.
had gone up. Why, nv friends, dollar
wheat is on our side. We wanted dol
lar wheat. What the Republicans said
we want is 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 work
ing for wages to have the products rise,
and yet you find them rejoicing 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 advantages of
discovering more gold. Take what they
said about the advantage of rising dol
lars, and what they now say about
rising prices. They remind me of a
man who was travelling in the mountain
by path that was so cooked that he
often met himself coming back.
daughter and applauss.) 1 want TO
ask you, are not the Republicans meet
ing 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 them
selves face to face?
81 submit 10 you that the Republi-
cans are to-day answering their own
arguments. Why, | noticed the other
day up in Iowa a paper said, be
patient, prices will rise, and so will
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 them
selves 10 the new level, and yet now
Luey are u ing " get circuit lOI the
spasmOdic rise in certain products, but
tell the laboriDg man TO be patient, that
prices will rise, and his wages will RISE
so he will not suffer anything. Well,
they are learning. 1t is a slow process,
| but they are learning. Last year was
| the first year that they admitted any
thing was wrong. Before that they
| said be content with our lot When we
said anything was wrong, they 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. believe in
contentment, but l think it can be car
ried too far.
! "But my friends, | 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
opinions are right. You tell me that
! the silver craze is going to die out; |
tell YOU it will not die out as long as it
is being vindicated as it is now. You
cannot kill thing by proving it is
right, and the Republican party is adj
hitting now nearly every important
position we took on the money question
last fall, and instead of being ended
the money question is just being begun.
Those who began last year the warfare
for financial independence are waging
it this year, and / want to warn you
nv friends, that this contest is not over
when we secure merely financial indie
pendence. 1t will 90 on until that doc
trine of equality before the law, of equal
rights to all and special privileges to
none, is inscribed upon the walls OF
every executive office, of every legisla
tive hall, of every room where a court
meets, from Justice Of the Peace to the
Supreme Court Of the United States. II
means that the people who constitute
this nation, those described by Carlyle
in ls7S as the ones who produce the
wealth and pay the taxes of tn,
country, can make their wants felt il
legislation, and that the non producer.
Of the nation shall no longer have :
monopoly on the production Of laws
II means, my friends, better govern
ment, more economic administration o.
government, more justice in the levyins
Of taxes; it means that this shall be
government of the people, for the peo
! pie, and by the people, and this govern
ment shall not perish from the earth.