The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1914-11-06
THE SPEECH THAT
DID THE BUSINES SIS

r...,.,t ,1,,,;rors ~ 10, G w
menus -
Cooper, lately calluiadtC loi ~
United states senate on lhe "0ol"!ls'
ticket, and one OF INC mos ellcI.,Ye
campaigners IN the parry, mas requesI-
ed The tribune 10 puD,Iriisn thG Speech
which dad the work. ms ADDRESS Is
undoubtedly Responsible IoI lHc la :
increase IN the So'l3liSt VOC III 'n's
lmmedlateI section OF me state.
Mr.. Cooper was unable to give rs
his address IN 1ull as riuch OF II was
cXtemporanous beng changed some
what from time. to time TO SUIT the
which 1t was Delivered. Inc SaIleflt
points OF the address dellVcrcd Nv MI.
Cooper IN the city hall i'll TINS CITY
are as follows; 1910
lett the Dcmocratic party III Io/o.
as l STUDIED me science OF money y
from a Grecnbacker standpoint, !
saw the Democratic party controlled mt ;1
by the money interests, became lden-
tined with the RreehDaCk movement
ITS complete science OF money was
worth all haYe got To-Day,
me tarlit IS an issue, because !
IS not an issue, Moncyed interests
always confuse ihe people. we never
yet had complete money system o.
money lhc greenback was lhc pesi
system, but 1t had rcdcemer, Hood
money needs no redemption, 1t IS IKE
blood, towing through the arteries OF
commerce. we ought to haYG today
seventy-llVe Uo( billions OF doliars IN
circulation we nave one hundred ana
htty millions as reserve to redeem
greenbacks. Since resumption COM
mencing IN 1872, not quite, $zoO,OoO
has ever been ohercd 1or redemption,
where man wanted gold instead OF
grcenDacks. ms imbeclle science
looks like childs play, as rather re-
deemlng the best money, win inler-
ior money. The business OF the c0un
Try mas adjusted itSeli 10 inc k'nu o.
money we nave Let Is. TOOK a. w Hl
that loU millions OF dollars co9ld nave
done IN eirculatloh wv Ile last % years ye@IS'
but l mus SNOW hGW tiie DCh'
Gratis KEPT }lY the NepIDllean Pay ~
FoweIii my et ny So ',ni,.aJ 80
elup theln asaii VIZ toil.od tbot ~
III ~ t"e PoP 1b;n" +ho1. co,,ld do ,yae f.
~. le oniy n ttte 10y as tboIl ia IN Sbi.
800 osC[l, n 1900 Then thev had mag
,,;sc;on+ 1Iatfo-n, "a o. before t6e |
naonIe With Rrvan,s Gross of gold
asnd crouyn ri tborns The GOLD stan
Jard RenrbI;cans raised Ia millions |
fon a. campaign fund on a ratio OF
S21 n "a Rrvan's one dollar. Then |
{ortv thousand votes divided in
the doubtful states. would have elect
ed Rrvan They amalgamated the
"popsJ In 1900, led them back to the
issues, such as Imperial
ism. and so the party began to die.
Again in 1904 in putting up Parker a
gold Democrat, who bolted the party,
body and britches, in 1896, was de
feated. In 1908 when Bryan gave the
party its does of Republican virus,
that it might die, with blood poison,
there followed at the polls landslide
Tor Taft.
81 bet the Democrats six hundred
dollars that a good silver Democrat
would not follow Bryan into the Re
publican party. The electoral vote
showed 154 votes as the largest ma
oritv ever cast for a president While
he Democratic party, dying with Re
publican virus, going down in poverty,
Mr.. BRYAN was becoming a multi
Then again in 1912, when
Roosevelt split the old machine open,
lie done what no other Democrat
ould do. He made of himself a glut,
devise used to split open log, after
IL the iron wedges were fast. Again
landslide from Taft to Wilson, but
he poison from Republican virus had
o saturated the Democrats that it
an not be any better than the Re