The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-10-28

full well that European nations. while
disdaining any interference Of the
United States with their financial pol.
icy, would never lend helping hand to
establish bimetallism in the United
States. And the advocacy OF an "inter-
national agreement with the leading
commercial nation Of the world" which
could not be accomplished, was de-
signed to hold on TO a class OF free sill
yer Republicans. who. like Democrats.
believed the American people. as GER
tainly as Englishmen. Frenchmen, Ger.
mans. Italians and Spaniards, could,
and of right ought. to shape their own
financial policy without consulting any
foreign nation whatsoever.
But neither the treachery nor the
sneers of Republicans. press or speakers,
high or low. rich or poor. black oI
white, lords or vassals. plutocrats Oh
their menlals. can intimidate or STAN
pede the Democratic party in its advo
cacy Of a measure, which Republicans
have said from tradition and interest
is demanded by the American people
The free and unlimited coinage oi
gold and silver at the ratio Of 10 to 1, il
as American as the declaration OF indie
pendence, as American as the constitu
ton, which was ordained" by I'VE
the people" The gold standard il
British, as much so as the house of lords
or the British throne. The gold stand
ard is autocratic, plutocratic and aristo
cratic. 1t is not Democratic. 1t wal
never "ordained" by 1--WE, the people.
Ii never regarded the interests. the wei
fare or the liberties of 1--WE, the people
as Bryan and Lincoln would say
'the plain people" The gold standard
in Europe is the standard of kings an,
the lckspittals of kings. the parasites o
kings-the vermine who live in tn
hair OF kingly dogs-who are. not lik'
Americans, sovereigns in their OWL
right. and TO "the manner born"
The Democratic party stands un
swervingly by the free and unlimite,
coinage Of silver, because IL is an Ameri
can issue. because 1t is in the interest o
the rank and fils Of the people. becaust
behind IL are all the glorious traditions
of the government from its foundation.
because its history is free from spot OF
blemish, because neither individuals
communities, municipalities, states MOI
the nation was ever harmed by the fire.
and unlimited coinage Of gold and silve
at the ratio Of l6 TO !.
This cannot be said of the gold stand
ard infamy. 1t has wrought incalcula
BILE disasters wherever il has been tried
1t has placed the money and the wealtl
of nations in the hands Of the few, an
has made the many the degraded vassal
of the rich. and this is what it is doing
in the United States Of America.
The Democratic party is pledged Il
fight the gold standard iniquity. /
does not ask to be discharged from thu
free silver army. 1t does not ask to b
mustered out" Of the service. 1t Il
enlisted for the war. 1t bivouacs on TIT
battlefield. 1t makes no compromise
Defeat may come as it did to the minut
men at Bunker Hill, but the revolution
will proceed. though. via Valley Forge
until Yorktown is reached and the gold
bug British surrender. The sneers o
such Repu ublican sheets as the Indianap
oils Journal and the Indianapolis New
will not deter the Democrats from bat
Ting for free coinage till the sun set
Nov. s. 1898.