The Irish standard., 1898-01-15

Ii.oieS ~ pas tHe, expenses % 2 commls.
crying "Helpl heip!" tApplause) Do you
| Republicans belieYe that your congress
would sauander slo6. 900 Of the hard earned
money Of the people, trying to get rid of a
thing they wanted, to keep: Oh, no, my
| friends. Why would the Republican party
| try to get rid Stiff 1t is Il blessing; why
| would president, elected by the Repub-
lean party, send a commission abroad to
| get rid of the gold standard if it Is a bless
Ing: why wouldlR Republican congress app
proprlatc the peoples money to pay for
| the expenses of u commission in trying to
| get rid Of the gold standard, II the gold
standard is a blessing?
But, my friefIdS, that is not all. Our
commission went to Europe, went TO
France. France has had the gold stand
ard for 20 years, and yet France at once
consented to join in the effort to secure
| bimetallism. loud applause.) Republic
/, cans. why did Franco join us in desiring
! bimetallism IL she had found the gold
standard a blessing during the 20 years
that she has had it? tApplause) Our
commission went to England accompanied
| by the French representatives. and what
there' Why, there they found the farm
ers OF England crying out against the gold
| standard You tell me the gold standard
| is good: l say to you that the gold stand
ard has never been Endorsed by the pro-
| ducers Of wealth in any nation of the
| world that has ever had the gold standard.
| CRlTlClZEs TIE COMMISSION.
Within one year q commission appointed
/ by the English government has made Il re-
| port. II was appointed TO investigate the
/ condition OF agriculture and that commits
| sion appointed by Il gold standard govern
! ment. i'll gold standard England, has with
! III year reported, and the report is signed
! by IL out of the IA members-more than
/ two-thirdi that commission reports that
! the English has suffered from the gold
! standard. and points out the restoration
| or binetstl:iSm as a relief, not to American
/ farmers. but to the farmers OF England,
/ iibiit in the shadow OF Lombard street
! Appause) And Willie the English govern
: ment Was celebrating upon tie plans pre-
/ scented by our commissioners, society after
| society or labortng men in England asked
! tho government to make concessions to
! bincta!l'sn. Agricultural societies asked
| the government to make concessions to
i bilnetal!isIn, and the manufacturers of
Manchester ard other manufacturing CEN
| tiers petllioncd the government to make
| concessions 10 bimetallisn, ard the dis
patches stated that our commissioners were
| conildent that Il conference would be held.
| | remember that one dispatch, which was
| found in the papers or July % stated that
| the conference would he heiu-at least, they
| felt confident Of it-but that the movement
| met with the solid opposition of the British
| iinanc!ers.
| That was not a free silver spcech that
WIS Il press ulspdtC1, lclllnS you mat the
movement i'll favor Of tnterna tional bimetal-
| lism met with the solid opposition of
| British fnanclers. And then what? We
waited and listened and finally on Sept. %
] they had meeting In the clearing house.
! The London bankers met so few of them
that they could meet in Il clearing house,
| and they pledged themselves to secrecy
| and passed a resolution protesting against
| any concessions to binetallism. And then
! IN little while the English government
decided that they could not accept any
of the plans offered by our commission, and
| one of our commissioners believe they
have all come home My friends, want
| you to remember that the sending Of a
commission abroad was 4 confession that
the gold standard is bad; that Frances CO.
| operation was an admission that she suf-
| fered from the gold standard. and that the
| fact that the laborers. the farmers and the
manufacturers of England Joined in ask
| ing for blnietallism Is evidence that they
| have suffered from the gold standard But
| the iinanciers say that the gold standard is
all right.
Republicans last year, the Aepublican
party declared that the control Of our fl
nances must be transferred from the United
| States to Europe. The Republican party
declared that we must maintain u system
that we didn't wan until the leading COM
mercial nations off Europe should join US In
abandoning it-didnt attempt to defend
| the gold standard, but we must have 1t
nations wanted lis to have, the Republi-
| can party proposed to surrender control Of
all our finances into the hands Of Europe
| ana Europe turned the matter over to
England and England turned 1t over to
tho bankers and the bankers met behind
closed doors and decided that 1t would not
be q good thing for us to have bimetallism,
daughter and applauscD
l believe the Republicans love their coun-
try. and l belve that they love their coun-
,,y>1Sx,
they think Of the demand that this nation
shall submit to the gold standard, not be-
| cause we want 1t, but because Il handful
Of fnanciers demand that we shall have
1t whether we want 1t or not.
DON'T OBJECT TO HARD NAMES.
My friends, I was called hard names a
year ago or more. Every name that sounded
harsh. all the way down to anarchist, was
employed. Well it didn't bother me, be-
cause l knew that names wouldn't neces-
sulily make me one thing or another and
l didn't worry about names; but want to
say to you that there Is name so harsh
that it can be applied to me and even to
the least degree change my fixed purpose
to do whatever in me lies to prevent a
handful of English bankers from meeting
behind closed doors to determine the future
OF this, the greatest nation on Gods green
EARTH cloud and prolonged npplause.)
l don't profess to love my children bet
ter than a Republican loves his children,
but believe those that determine our
financial policy determine the conditions
that shall surround your children and
mine when we are gone, ind shall not
transfer from my own shoulders to q
handful Of foreign Gnanclers the duty of
determining the conditions that shall sur
round my children as long as l can prevent
1t. Cloud appauscD That is the condi-
tlon In which we find ourselves now. Nine
ty-nino per cent of the people protest
against the gold standard. and vet a secre-
tary of the treasury saying that his first
purpose Is to commit the government more
thoroughly to Il policy that 80 per cent of
the people cry out against rs unjust and
destructive. (ApplauseD My friends,
want YOU who have been dcluded by the
phrases employed, to ask yourselves wheth-
CT there is any good defense for the gold
standard if that defense has not made Itself
apparent to more than ono per cent of the
people OF the Unitd States, and vet | in
vite tho Republican party on the charge
that 1t Is not only trying to surrender the
control of our primary money into the
hands Of foreign tinanciers, but adding to
that 1t proposes to turn over the control
of our paper money to national banks to
run IN their interests instead OF in the in
tercst of tho people of the United States.
(AprauscD The secretary OF the treas
ury is planning not only to commit this ma
tlon more thoroughly to the gold standard,
but he is planning to drive the government
out OF the issue Of any paper money and
turn that over to the national banks to do
as they please with 1t for their own GOOD
My friends. what l say against the
finnncier I say against every other class