The San Francisco call., 1899-09-07

deals with the citizen its power is un-
limited, but when it deals with prop
erty its power is limited. Under our
present conditions and under Repub-
lican rule, blood is not as precious as
money. The Government can draft the
citizen but cannot draft the pocket
book.
In an hour of peril the Government
can take the son from his mother, no
matter how much she needs him; in
an hour of peril the Government can
take the husband from his wife, no
matter how much she needs him; in
an hour of peril the Government can
take the father from the children no
matter how much they need him; in
an hour of peril the Government can
take the son, brother, father, the hus-
band and stand them up in front Of the
enemies guns But in an hour of peril
this Government is powerless to lay its
finger upon accumulated wealth and
make that wealth bear its share of the
burdens Of war. prolonged cheers and
applause)
WHY is it? 1t is because the Repub-
lican party is putting the dollar above
the man, and it is giving to aggregate
wealth an influence over the destinies
of the nation and every policy of the
Government more potent than it gives
to the great common people of this
country.
Corporations Make Senators.
But that is only one question. I am
not sure but you had a Senatorial con-
test in this State recently. daughter
and applause) The Fifty-secOnd Con-
gress and the Fifty-third Congress-
these were Democratic congresses and
these congresses passed through the
lower house by more than tWO-thirds
vote a resolution submitting to the
States an amendment to the constitu-
tinn providing for the election OF United
States Senators by a direct vote OF the
people. (Applause.) There have been
two Republican congresses since and
neither of those congresses passed such
a resolution. Why? Because under the
present method of electing Senators
corporations can elect Senator's to rep
resent corporations instead OF the peo-
pie in the State. (ChecrsD And the
Republican party does not advance
that measure which is in the interest
Of the people and desired by them. The
election of Senator's by the people the
Republican party does not advance be
cause it is controlled by corporate
wealth and dares not refuse to do the
bidding of these great corporations. In
another instance you see the Repub-
lcan party is putting the dollar above
the man and insisting upon the reten-
tion Of a method Of electing Senators
that permits money to elect instead of
the people. It is putting the dollar
above the man. (Applause)
A Procession of Funerals.
There is another question that I al
most hate to mention before this en-
thusiastic audience-befOTe an audience
that seems to be so good -natured. /
hate to drag in funereal question be
fore such an audience, and yet l must
speak of the silver question. daughter
and applause) l must speak for a lit
tie while, even if it is not welcome.
(Applause) They say that the silver
question is dead Uaughter) Well,
my friends the fact is that the gold
bug has buried it so often that a fun
eral has lost all its terrOrS. and we
have come almost to eXclaim, in the
Bible language, 20 death, where is thy
sting? Q grave, where is thy victory?
Uaughter) I remember that in 1892
my opponent for Congress said We
would never hear of the silver Ques-
tiOn after that election. 1t was less
than g year from that time when the
President called Congress together TO
repeal the Sherman law, and buried it
again. When the Sherman law was
repealed they said that it was buried
again, but it was UP in 1894 and had to
be buried again, and some of you prob
ably remember that it was up again
in 1896. daughter and applause) But
the Republicans said that they had
buried it again. l remember reading
about that myself: it was in large
print GaughterD Then it was up
gain in 1897 and had to be buried
again. It had to be buried again in
1898, and if you will read the Repub-
lican papers you Will find that the OBJ
sequies are still in progress. l have
examined. very carefully this corpse
and my candid opinion is that it viii
last until 1900 daughter and ap-
plause)
Now why is it that they have to bury
it so often? Why don't they bury it
completely and be done with it? Be
cause no tomb was ever made so strong
that it could imprsOn a righteous
cause. (Applause) I am not going to
enter into discussion of this question,
but l am going to call your attention
to few facts of history and then pass
on Why, you hear people talk as if
free coinage was something new. They
hold uD their hands in horror at the
thought Of trying to experiment The
fact is that We had the double standard
for eighty-One years in this country,
from 1892 TO 1878, and during all that
time no party, whatever the name. ever
declared against it. Isn't that strange?
What record! Now, l hear people
say that we never had the double stan
dard at all: that bimetallism was never
had: il was something else. | never
quarrel with them. When n man tells
me that we never had the double stan
dard or bimetallism I simply reply to
him, Give us what you had. and you
can name it" Naughter) What you
want is the law, the law that Andrew
Jackson signed the law that stood un-
til in the night, and without warming
il was stricken from the statute books.
We want the restoration Of that which
was, because we got the gold standard
without any party asking for 1t.
A Concealed Blessing.
I remember that in my boyhood days.
when l attended a debating society. we.
used to discuss the question; Resolved,
That there IS more pleasure in anticlpa-
ton than in possession; and 1t provokes
me now to think that we got the gold
standard without passing through period
of pleasant anticipation of it. 1t lust
came upon us like a thief in the night
and then we had II for twenty-three years
before any party dared to defend it, Isn't
that strange? Tell me the gold standard
is a blessing, and ! ask you why is it that
that blessing was so mysteriously con-
cealed that no party found it out? DO you
tell me that the victory Of 1896 was "A vic
tory for the gold standard? I point out
the fact that three parties united in de-
nouncing the gold standard as un-
American and nti-American. Three par
ties pledged that the gold standard should
be driven out Of the United States and
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