The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-09-28

frame and administer laws that nsv.r
again shall a rich man be permitted TO tate
ron poor man a dollar that he has hon.
estiy earned. (1remendous applause.l We
MAKE no war upon capital. but We swear b.
.ne throne OF the God OF nations that, given
,ae power capital shat! mako no war uppn
LABOR ever again Great applause).
While Our gold standard friends arr d..
nounchng US as the enemies OF law and or
uer anu property, We are exhibiting our.
serves 10 DO the firmest, the best, the wis
est irlends that law and order and prop
.ny have in this Republic. We have borne
thelr obloQuy because we know our cause "
just admonish them, Is the slx aud 4 half
millions OF men who followed us in the last
PRESIDENTIAL campaign and the 5000. 900 who
waii toliow our flag in the next are anar-
ohls's in fact. then they had better make
nas,e to follow the example of William
Waldorf As,or and take their fortunes be-
yohu tho seaa tApplause) They ought
to go there anyway. because they are cou-
stahiy teaching us that we are not great
enough 10 mako our own financial system
WITHOUT tho consent Of foreign nations
Ihey say We need thsr capital TO conduct
our business on, and In the next breath
Vhey want 10 rob other peoples OF their re-
pupllos IN order TO employ our idle capital.
Now. fellow citizens. some men think that
would be great hardship but | am not
one OF them. think IL would be a greet
deal DETER for us 10 economic aud not to
borrow am ono tina, believes In the
lemersonian policy or paying as you GO Il
may take You longer TO develop the coun-
try, but IL VIII be ours when 1t "a devei-
oped. ] would rather take a thousand
yedie TO reach point that might otherwise
ho reached In a hundred years II Il belonged
10 us when We reached 10 at the end OF a
thousand years than II Il belonged to Great
Britain at the end of hundred years.
believe In progress, but believe mora in
SAFETY than do In progress. But espe-
cially ann opposed to a progress that 10
made for an enemy and an alien.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
"Twonty years ago there were not
twenty public men In indiana that dared
TO advocate the single gold standard. not
twenty. Conditions are worse today than
they were then. Why do they advocate IL
now because the people have suffered so
long they have got used to Il, and they
think they dare now so where they desired
to so thou but dared mot do SO.
Tho American laborer Is hopeful He ~
sclf-resreoting He viii bear tho OWLS OF
THE life 30 long as they can be borne.
Turned out of employment himself he will
seek new labor. lla viii seek IL day afier
weeks and the weeks into mouths and the
months into a year. He sim hopes against
hope that the times viii improve. that not
only the old factories viii be opened, but
new ones win be built 10 employ I'M
When at last he realizes the vanity OF that
hope and instead OF new factories being
built 10 employ idle labor. he Gees the Cd
ones close and new laborers turned upon
At
his hope turns into despair, At
night. whon no goes TO his hum
bis home and looks into the pale aud
hungry faces OF his wife aud children, he
ceases to DO a paaeeablo and law-aading
citizen. and he welcomes any change,
revolution itself as an Improvement in his
condition. Great app!auseD All, my
countrymCn, they call us anarchists. They
are multiplying tho anarchists ~ thhs land
by narrowing the field OF labor through
this long and disastrous fan Of prices. But,
fellow citizens, must not detain you long.
! doAre to say in conclusion that here in
this splenGid State above all others in the
Union The people are looking Tor grand re-
suits The dom0cyt{s Of INDIANA have
proved themselves faithful In darker and
more trying times than this. Throughout
the war, whcn your opponents unlusuy
you as sympath.2ers with the
rebellion when the war was over and they
sought TO place upon you the odium Of that
unhappy struggle. yet you bore 1t all with
a courage. with manllness, with devo-
tiun to duty which hao commanded the ad-
miration OF your fellow democrats in every
quarter OF the Union. tApplause.) In
Texas In Mississippi, IN Maine. in far-on
California, VIC have learned to expect that
an Indiana democrat viii do his duty. We
expected IL last year. and some VI those
whom You had honored and trusted be-
trayod the peoples sacred cauN. You have
separated them from you today and many
OF their misguided followers are anxious
to come back and Join you In this supreme
and mighty struggle for the rights OF the
ma ssee and the purity Of the government.
That YOU viii do your duty, have no doubt.
You have done II on every field OF battle
where American courage has been tried
and proved You have done Il Ia great
civil conflicts which inyoited even more
thsu the issue OF a battle. Everywhere you
have responded nobly TO your country's APP
peal. | will not permit myself to doubt
that you will respond again Here Is the
very place 10 test your splendid devotion to
the principles OF our parry, In my State
Il takes neither courage nor conviction 10
be Il democrat becaueo our majority 10
Overwhelming, but here, where every cleo
zion Is closely and stubbornly contested, q
man s.ouly democrat because he rever-
ences tho principles and cherlshcs the ira
litsons 81 Thomas Jefferson and Andrew
iApplauSt.J nuliS spuis 10 tuo
struggle, yours Is also the honor. II takes
neither courage nor devotion to espouse q
cause that has no enemies to meet and no
battle TO fight. The tine which tries
mans soul and puts his principles TO the
crucial test is when false frients betray
and malignant foes revile. a timl6 heart
may venture out to sea when the winds
blow fair and the waves lay peacefully
sleeping before him. But when the storm
king wakes from his slumber and goes rid
ing the wild blast with furious haste.
when darkness is over all and danger IS
everywhere, then II takes bold sailor,
with lion heart. TO stand by his post and
do his duty, but he is hero who stands
there and he deserves above all other men
what the matchiess leader has said IS the
true glory and the true honor the glory Of
duty done, the honor of integrity and prin-
riple Such glory and such honor have
been the portion OF Indiana democrats In
the years that have gone ! confidently be-
lieve II will continue to be their portion In
the years to come Tremendous and
greatly prolonged applause and cheers).
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