The herald., 1897-07-06

selfish-I want to be selfish enough,
however. to get. not temporary ad-
vantage but a permanent advantage. l
don't want an advantage today that
costs more tomorrow than 1 can get
today. i want to be selfish enough
10 look after all my interests and to
include my children and my children's
children in my interest when 1 decide
what is best for me. 1 believe that
bimetallism Is good for me. I believe
that as a lawyer, 1 can make a better
living when people are prosperous than
l can when people are bankrupt, and
II could make money today by the
appreciation of gold. I would not be
sure that 1 could continue to my chill
dren the advantage which | myself
would enjoy, no matter how much I
might profit, no matter how much
blood might be upon the dollars which
found their way into my Golfers. I
| don't know but tonight my soul may
be required of me" and then my friends
know not how my children would
use that which I left But if I leave
them good coin, if leave them just
| laws, that protect them in the enjoy
| ment of health and liberty and prop
erty. leave them richer inheritance
than the parent leaves the child, If he
measures it out in dollars and cents.
THE BASIS OF PROSPERITY.
I believe too that there can be no
| permanent prosperity unless it comes
up from the masses Of the people. AS
lawyer, I am not a producer Of wealth,
| but as a lawyer, 1 do not believe that
I can prosper if undermine the found
| alton upon which I stand. Lawyers,
| doctors, bankers, merchants, traders,
| professional men, are not producers of
| wealth, but my friends, wealth cannot
| be divided among them until it has
| first been produced by the people who
| toll. I may be wrong in my philosophy
| but instead of believing that society is
| suspended from the neck, instead of be-
| neving that Lazarus should be satisfied
with the crumbs that fell from Dives's
table, believe that permanent pros
perlty and peace and happiness is only
| possible when it commences with those
who are in contact with the soil and
| finds its way up from the other classes
OF society. [Applause.]
l would not attempt to tell you in
my own language what I believe will
| be the result if the world goes to this
universal gold standard. I am afraid
that If I express myself in language
| which would convey my real feeling
that you might call me a fanatic. I
used to call people cranks who talked
about the money question, and when
l called them cranks I thought it was
l got to studying the money question
myself, and the more studied it, the
deeper became my conviction, and
when got to think so deeply upon the
subject and to express myself so for
clpIy that others called me a crank.
| found that to be a crank wasn't
| nearly so bad a word as I once thought
| II was. The crank is simply person
who thinks on subject so deeply that
ne makes himself a nuisance to those
VINO oon't think on the subject at all.
l was very much consoled once when I
neard a lady expressing the process
oy which person became less Of
| iensive by holding to an idea. She said
snat Wnen one person saw a thing only
he was a fanatic. That when a
large number saw the same thing he
| became an enthusiast, and when every
| Dody saw it he became a hero NV
friends. honor the heroes and pioneers
VINO blazed out the way and pointed
out the threatened evils to persons like
nnyselI, ana who recognized the i'm
| pendlng calamity and recognized these
evlls twenty years ago and pointed out
the enect of such legislation; pointing
out the consequences if such legislation
were persisted in. Today we find the
| people aroused and taking the same
position that was taken by these pio-
| neers. say. my friends, that it Is not
SO bad to be called fanatic Or a
crank as you think it is when YOU
| apply the name to some one else. I
don't want you to think me extraya-
CANT, and therefore when I get real
mad when l want to say real harsh
| things, hide behind the language used
by others, and when get just as mad
| as l can be, so 1 can never be any
| madder, I hide behind what John a
Carlisle said in 1878. If you think that
some OF these advocates of free coin
age are extravagant, write down what
| they say, and then after you put it
| into black and white compare it with
what Mr.. Carlisle said and see how
tame it sounds Mr.. Carlisle spoke in
| 1878 and said that the conspiracy which
seemed to have been formed in this
country and in Europe to destroy by
| legislation or otherwise from three
sevenths to one-half of the metallic
money of the world was the most gil
gantic crime of this or any other age.
CONSPIRACY AND CRIME.
Think of it. Conspiracy and crime.
"The most gigantic Of this or any other
age" Can you put it stronger than
that? He did. In the next sentence he
said: "The consummation of such a
| scheme would ultimately entail more
misery upon the human race than all
| the worst pestilences and famines that
have occurred in the history of the
WOIlu. IOu Call go beyond that, but
he did. He said: THE instantaneous
destruction of one-half of the movable
| property of the world, including houses,
| shops, land all the means of communi-
ration, while it would produce a greater
| erect at the moment, would not ulti-
mately produce such a wrong as would
| be caused by the total annihilaton of
| one-half Of the metallic money of the
world" Why, my friends, if We're to
| try to organize a society for the pur-
| pose of burning half the houses of the
| United States they would call me an
anarchist; they could not find words
| harsh enough to characterize me, and
| could not get anybody to join my
| society. But Mr.. Carlisle says "that
the people who stand behind the gold
crusade are engaged in a conspiracy
| to produce more harm than would be
| produced by burning half the houses
| of the world, and sinking half the
| ships and tearing up half of the rail-
roads and the means of communica-
| tion." If I were to organize society
| to burn house they would put me in
| the penitentiary. But those engaged in
| this infinitely greater conspiracy ex-
| pect to be put in positions of trust
where'they can carry out their conspir-
| acy. My friends, I believe what Mr.
| Carlisle said was true. When a man
| utters a truth he can never take it
back, how much he may regret it. The
| truth once spoken goes on. A man
| can change, but the truth does not
change. If it were true then it is true
now heliaUe was tr11a yybar, he