Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-20

ocrats. the poor republicans VII flock
in to take their places; it will be just
the same in the end But didn't know
the poor republican then so we'll as l
do now. (Applause.) 1t was like the
Irishman who was driving a mule to
his cart. The mule stopped and began
to kick. All right said the Irishman,
If you want to get in and ride, you're
welcome, but when you get in, I'll get
out The republican party was bad
enough before it got our worst demo-
Gratis: since then 1t has had several
m1llstones hanged about its neck.
But the people see what 1t is to
have a government, limited in its pow
ers to deal with the dollar, but unllm-
tied in Its powers to deal with the man.
Our government can resort to the draft
to call men Into its armies. but 1t can,
not tax the wealth of the millionaire
to support them. In the hour of ma
tional peril, 1t can take the father, how
ever much the family may need him;
1t can call the son., the husband and
send them to face the guns of an enc
my; but it cannot lay the weight of
one finger on accumulated wealth. to
compel it to bear its share of the bur-
den. (Cheers.) And why? Because
the republican party has put the dollai
above the man; because 1t holds none!
more sacred than blood.
There Is another question, too. Pos.
sibly ought to apologize to this audi.
ence for bringing in funeral subject
But must dwell little time on dead
issue-the money question. u.aughter.|
Did you ever see anything that had SO
many lives as the money question:? In
1892 they said 1t was dead. But in 1898
the president had to call congress to-
gether to bury it. Again they buried it
IN, 1904 iy,1 AM
may remember that 1t was up again in
1S96--and had to be buried again.
Gaughter.] Then they said that did
settle It,. read the headlines myself
But again 1t was up in 1897, and in 1898
lit is here now, apd they are burying
1t again. But l have examined the
corpse, and find it in such a good state
of preservation that / believe 1t will
last till 1900.
Righteous Cause Will Not Down.
why is 1t? Why is 1t that they find
1t 80 hard to bury the silver cause?
Because no tomb was ever made so
strong that 1t could imprison a right
eous cause. Why is 1t that our oppo-
nests continue to bury the silver cause?
Because they would rather go to fu-
Ieral than debating society. Laugh
tero You tell me that this question has
been eliminated from politics. Who
says this? 1t requires all my patience
and Christian forbearance to keep me
from getting mad when talk to
| goldbug. do not mean TO use the
term 'goldbug' In contemptuous or
critical sense. ! only use 1t as brief
descriptive term-with all the kindli-
| Sess of feeling that he uses when he
calls me scoundrel, lunatic or any
thing of that kind. console myself
| with this thought. that If he calls me
| name and deserve 1t. / have no right
| to complain because he has found me
out; but II he calls me name and I
| do not deserve 1t. l can call him an
| other. What provokes me is that when
you talk to goldbug, he doesn't reason
| with you. He simply smiles down upon
you with look of contempt l don't
like to have man look down upon me.
| His strongest argument is an express
sion of contempt. The argument is
somewhat like this. The goldbug says.
1 Why, are you silver man.? The sill
yer man looks small and says Yes
1 Then the goldbug says. What, man of
| your intelligence?' The silver man
mods his head. and then the goldbug
smiles eontenptuoasly. That ends the
| argument. 1t is too awful to think
| about, and the goldbue will not think
| about 1t; 1t is too awful to talk about.
and the goldbug will not talk about 1t.
| If any man is entitled to look down
| with contempt upon another man. 1t Is
the bimetallist upon the goldbug. For
eighty-one years we had the double
| standard. from 1892 to 1878. and no par
| ty ever declared against it. Is that not
| a record?
| Former Rimetallism.
Some people say we never had a
double standard or bimetallism. If a
man says this, all we can say is give
| us what we had, and call it what you
please Give us the law that Andrew
| jackson framed. the free coinage of
| gold and silver at the mint at the ratio
| of 16 to without waiting for the aid
or consent of any nation. Give us this.
and apply to 1t what name you will.
| We not only have had the double
standard. but we have had the gold
standard. and this without asking for
| ii. 1t came upon us like thief in the
| night. When / was young, l remem-
Der at the debating societies, we used
se ho ths Siassa2 heh hsrs
than in possession. l have always re-
| GREETED that we were not given the
pleasure of anticipating the gold stand
| ard. The gold standard concealed its
blessings. and we had it for twenty
three years before anybody found out
| about 1t, and before any party dared
to defend IL. After nineteen years, all
three parties asked for bimetallism.
| and the republican party, which claims
| all the intelligence and all the patriot
ism, met at Minneapolis. Mckinley
was the chairman of the committee on
resolutions, and platform was adopt
| ed saying that the American people.
! from traditions and interest, favored
bimetallism. Now as to 1896. We had
| campaign then. which even man OF
| my years can distinctly remember.
| Three parties denounced the gold
! Standard as un-American, and threat
ened to send it back to England
| whence IL came. Six million votes were
| polled, and not one of them was bought
or intimidated. More votes were polied
than were ever polled for any other
| PLATFORM But you say that the repub-
| licans polled more votes. Yes, accord
! ing to the returns. We did NOT know
| where they all came from. IL was no
doubt thought twice as right to vote
| for honest money as for dishonest
money. VIVA. did the 7,00O000 people
vote for? For the republican ticket,
| for the republican, platform, which
| promised 10 see what could be done
| toward getting other nations to help us
| to get rid of the gold Standard
What has happened since the cleo
| ton? President Mckinley sent co!n-
mission of three learned men to Europe
| to ask the European nations to help us
| to get rid of the gold standard. ] am