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erty knew when he parted with it what
he was getting for it.
THE POPULIST IDEA


THE POPULIST IDEA.
AT last, in 1875, after all these tre-
mendous fluctuations, which 1 have not
time to go into but which any gentle
man here conyersant with those mat
ters will remember, when specie pay
ments were about to be resumed, then
the Greenback party came UP because
the Government agreed to redeem it
in gold. But that is not the Populist
idea at all. The idea of the Populist
is that if the Government owes one
hundred millions of dollars it shall take
printing press big enough to print
them all and get paper and ink and
stamp them, and stamp them, and
stamp them, and hand them out, pay its
debts with them and let everybody else
pay their debts with them until they
are burned up. Now Mr.. Mcguire is in
favor of that proposition. You may
run all that platform down, including
the single tax business and that other
rambling statement that the wages of
all public officers, including the execu-
tive, the judicial and legislative and
every other department of the State,
shall be the average wages of labor
and no more. I wonder when Mcguire
will disgorge. Oaughter) I wonder
II when standing on such platform as
that he will lay aside his six thousand
dollar salary as Governor of this State,
turn it all back into the treasury ex-
cept two dollars day. / fear he will
not Uaughter). I am apprehensive he
Will omit that part Of the ceremony
If l had time 1 would like to discuss
that initiative and referendum be-
cause Judge Mcguire says that when
talk about that show that I have no
confidence in government by the peo-
pie. But I omit it. 1 may see you
again before this campaign is over,
because there are some things that I
would like to present to the people of
sacramento County which are of in
terest in this fight, but it is too late now
to do it.
THE BLESSINGS WE ENJOY.
only want to say to you, ladies and
gentlemen, in conclusion that we don't
love our country half we'll enough.
There is no one of us that sufficiently
appreciates the blessings that we en-
JOY Of liberty, Of the rights Of prop
erty, of the right Of descent Of prop
erty, Of liberty under the law without
sign Of the power of the law Where
else on the face of the globe can you
travel distance like that from San
Francisco to Portland six hundred
miles, from city to city Of which to-
day, in the final glory of the telephone,
the Mayors have been talking as
though they were in the same room to-
gether-travel those hundreds of miles
without seeing a sign of power. I
went from this city north to Portland.
Nowhere did I see, in all that journey,
any visible sign Of power. but every
where prosperity, happiness, average
peace; and the only sign of power I
saw was at Ashland, in Oregon, where
there was a man who wore a little
badge called Town Constable" and
ne was sitting on a box eating grapes.
Qaughter).
10 you appreciate what a country we
have? Let us love it and watch it.
After the rain God placed his bow in
the heavens, that it should be for man
an everlasting sign, and it's ends fade
away and it's glories fade when the
drops OF rain cease to fall: but over
this splendid country there is a bow
OF promise which stands forever. It's
base is founded in Justice, hope, liberty,
ioFe lOr nufnanlty-and that bow VIII
live forever, unless by our supineness
and folly we shatter the foundation and
crumble the arch. Let us stand by
our country and by our flag; and when
the time comes that we have to have
Governors who declare sympathy for
anarchists and the destruction Of indi-
vidual rights of property, we may look
to see the stripes fall oAt Of the flag,
and those stars Of ours disappear from
the worlds heaven as the sunlight puts
out the stars that shine at night.
(Thunderous and prolonged applause).