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to cut down his wages or to get his raw
material at a relatively and a properly
less cost, he will go out of the export busi
ness and will no longer trade between
Shanghai and Ban Francisco. And the
same Is true If ho undertook to sell in a
neutral market, where the Shanghai ex
porter would meet him In competition. He
would be obliged to take Just as much less
In sliver as was represented by the decline
In the exchange. On the contrary, the ex
porter from Shanghai would receive. If he
were able to take 850,000 In San Francisco
for his cargo, 10 pot- cent, and he would do
the same with his silver that he could be
fore tho fall In the exchange. My friends
this has been the chief difficulty so far as
the English discussion of It Is concerned
with Ihe gold standard. It has ruined al
most the commerce of Great Britain with
the silver using countries. You ha- c «»en
India, and then Japan, and now China
usurping the place of the British manu
facturer and exporter, and so It must con
tinue to bo seen until the gold standard
Si*! . 13 ab,olu tcly ruined, or until
this disparity between the gold and the sil
ver exchange has been rationally cured
by a return of the coinage of sliver upon
the same terms ns gold. (Applause.)
INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT
These facts have been known, I say, for
twenty-four years. Ono great interna
tional conferenco after another has met
to undertake an investigation of the means
of restoring the coinage of sliver. No
sooner had the. great nations In 1873 taken
this action excluding silver from tho mints,
depriving Jt in Increasing measure, one
after another the rights of full power In
the payment of debts, than the notions be
gan to feel the constricting force of the
appreciating money measure, and by 1890,
three years after It had been done, there
met In this country a silver commission,
and there was appointed in England a sil
ver commission to Inquire Into tho causes
of the disparity In the value of gold and
silver bullion, and the means whereby that
difficulty might be surmounted. In 1878.
two years afterwards, on International
conferenco met, to try to get rid Of the
single gold standard. They failed. Why?
Becstise Great Britain, the great creditor
nation of the world, the nation to whom
all the world pays tribute, and pays It in
commodities and upon an appreciating
money measure, pays constantly more and
more commodities for the same amount of
interest or of principal of the debt. Great
Britain said. It Is for our advantage, as the
consumlhg nation, to have low prices on
what we eat and wear. It. is to our Interest,
es the creditor nation, to got as many or
the commodities of other places for our
money as possible, and therefore we will
not consent to a change In the Increasing
purchasing power of the gold unit of coin
age, and we therefore are opposed to any
International agreement whatsoever. In
18S1 they tried It again, and with the same
result. In 1889 they met at Boris during
the exposition, and met with the same re
sult. In 1592 they tried It again, and tho
position or Great Britain caused a failure
again to be recorded, and for the same
Identical reasons; and notwithstanding all
these demonstrations of tho absolute fu
tility of attempting to secure the concur
rence of Great Britnln in an international
settlement of this question, the Republi
can administration of IR9Gappointed v com
mission, consisting of Senator Wolcott
General Payne and ex-Vice President
Stephenson, humbly visited the court of
Great Britain to prostrate themselves once
more in the dust before thut autocrat and
asked humbly that they would permit the
people of he United Slates, by a rational
reform of their money system, to get them
selves out from this industrial bondage
(Applause.)
THE FOLLY OF IT
Why, my friends, an appeal lo the mercy
to the gentility of a robber, is always in
»am. Yon must assert your own rights,
or you will not have any on the present
(applause). And the grand old Republi
can party, the party so mailt' of us have
loved so long, the party that we believed
tn, the party that had our allegiance next
to our country, was the.first party to get
together In solemn national convention in
the United States und pass n deliberate
declaration that the American people were
offering on a vote to govern themselves.
They never exported the International
agreement to be achieved. Nay, more, they
never desired that it should be achieved.
(Applause.) And I state, with full re
sponsibility for what 1 say. that the powers
that be tn the control of the Republican
party have determined to back out of those
negotiations If they look like success at
any stage ot the game. (Applause.) Do
you want proofs? Consider for a moment
this.
SENATOR WOI.COTT'S POSITION
A tew weeks ago the distinguished sen
ator from Colorado, Mr. Woleott, made a
epeech In the senate of the United States
that was a keen disappointment to himself,
to his friends, and to those who would like
to be his friends but whom he has prevented
from being so for the last three or four
years. Senator Woleott had. of course, to
acknowledge a present defeat. After elab
orately cutting all the ground from under
his feet In regard to an International
agreement In favor of the restoration of
silver coinage, he had to stand upon the
ground that he had already swept away.
He showed that it was impossible to declare
an International agreement, and then de
clared himself for It. He showed that the
administration was against It. and then
declared his faith In the administration
He showed Great Britain had refused to
entertain It, and then declared he proposed
to wait until she did. In the course of
that statement he undertook to recite the
causes that had Interfered to prevent a
euccessful event of thoso negotiations.
Among them he said that he encountered
In France letters and hut note
the significance ot the first word—letters—
from tho secretary of the treasury of the
Tlnlted States government, Inimical to the
auceess and purpose of the negotiation, de
claring that the administration was op
posed to international and every other
kind of bimetallism. Said the sen
ator: "I hope, and desire to believe (sub
atantlally that) that those declarations
were forgeries." Hut Senator Woleott
know better, and I think it is no breach of
confidence to declare that the senator to
day Is absolutely convinced, and has been
aver since he was In England, that the let
ters which he saw in France were only
duplicates, or similar In their tenor to let
ters which have been sent by the same au
thority to the powers that be in Great
Britain in the midst of the negotiations
(Applause.) Then he said that he found
tn England several agents of great banking
houses In New York who declared, under
L h hr * ath - but ln l «e places of power,
where those to whom those negotiations
were addressed should be sure to hear it
.that the administration ttse"Fw« InMn
cere In its attitude to International "metal
llsm He need not have gone to the extent
of visiting this upon the agent pnla other
wise of these gold syndicates. My friends
every man of intelligence In the world had
■ a far more authoritative basis for°he con
clusion than that as to the attitude of
administration upon the sub/co tobirne,
alllsm. They knew that from the a "
of Lyman J. Gage to be secre"
tary. (Applause.) B °be secre "
A WORD TO REPURI.ICANS
I desire to address a word to Renuhll
cans. I havo been among them St
assumed to have left them, to speak wUh
a due degree of modesty. I know he7are
; men of at least ordinary Intelligence and ?
■ay to you men of average Intenigencc"nfl
•turdy honesty and patriotism, as I know
you are, you want to bring to the otS
eratlon of this question only the same
; amount of good, common, practicabevcrT
day sense that you use about the everv-dav
affairs of life, and on that topic I ask You
md- from that standpoint I ask you &
jonslder the attitude of the admln°stra
lon ln regard to bimetallism, when It
h?«t° U nf ,nT St notorlo »s. Perhaps the
>b!est, of all the practical gold standard
* he UnltCd States t0 »c secretary
>f tho treasury and have charge of thl,
! r „ y .,5 O ",T Whatever may
>c said of Lyman J. Gag e . he.has the cour
age of his convictions. He has always do
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dared that he was a gold standard man:
he has never made any secret of it from
tho time he voted for Mr. Cleveland to the
time when—lt was only a little while later
—he accepted a cabinet portfolio from Mr.
McKlnley. (Applause.)
A PLAIN DECLARATION
But there are facts more relevant than
this. On the 24th day of July—and if you
will examine the Itinerary of this wander
ing mission abroad you will find July 24th
was just about the point of the most deli
cate situation In all these negotiations for
an international agreement—on the 24th
day of July there Hashed under the ocean,
upon the wings of the cable, the language
of a special message to congress by the
president of the I'nited States himself,
wherein those who were receiving a dele
gation from him in favor of international
bimetallism read the astounding fact that
the president recommended favorably to
congress a plan In favor of sound money
which had been declared ln so many words
In a resolution adopted ln Chicago six
months before a plan of currency reform
which It should recommend to the people
of the United States would ho based upon
three fundamental principles: First, the
maintenance of the existing gold stand
ard. Docs that have an echo of the Re
publican platform in It? The only differ
ence Is that Instead of saying that tho
existing gold standard must be preserved,
it declares in favor of the maintenance of
tho existing gold standard. If that Is not
quite an echo then it Is almost a repeti
tion. Secondly, that the United States
notes and the greenbacks, all forms ot
government paper. Is the expression, should
bo retired. Thirdly, that a system of
banks of Issue should be established, over
to which should be delivered the sover
eign function of paper money Issue. Many
of the people of the United States remem
ber this. The establishment and mainte
nance of the gold standard; secondly, the
retirement of the greenbacks and the
treasury notes, and thirdly, the establish
ment of a great banking system that
should Itself discharge the sovereign func
tion of paper money issue.
M'KINLEY'S ATTITUDE
President McKlnley, when he stepped
before the people of the United States
seeking the highest trust within their gift,
placed himself on record with great care
and deliberation in a letter of acceptance.
Here is his sacred contract with the people
of this country. Said he, "It"—Referring
to the Republican party—"lt will maintain
In circulation and as good as gold all kinds
of silver and paper moneys now Included
In the circulation of the country." Those
are his words: "It—the Republican party
—will Include and maintain In circulation
all the paper moneys of the country." That
was In June, 1890, when he was nominutcel
for president: In July, 1897, he declares
in favor of an Indianapolis sound money,
favoring the monetary commission scheme
governed by the gold brokers and bankers
of the world,, which declares that silver
and-paper moneys of the United States
mnst be retieedi-tßet'gold alone shall'be
LOS ANGELES HERALD: SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 13, 1898
full money, and that the banks shall ex
ceed the government In the high function
of the issuing of paper money. And then
In his annual message of December last
be comes out and himself recommends,
despite the general weakness and hesitan
cy of the document as a whole, he recom
mends at least the locking up of two hun
dred millions of greenbacks, which he in
his address to the people of this country
when he sought their votes, had solemnly
pledged himself to keep in circulation.
(Applause.)
THE PRESENT CRISIS
My friends, I have not recited these
facts with any great enjoyment, I assure
you. It is a humiliating exhibition to make.
1 myself llnd no particular cause of con
gratulation. But we are dealing with a
great crisis In the affairs of of this coun
try, and ln the cause of civilization Itself.
We are. at a pass in the history of the re
public where a false step taken here may
lead to Irredeemable mischief. If the peo
ple of the country will do what they know
they ought to do, then they will exercise
the same judgment in regard to public af
fairs that they do In regard to their own
private concerns. If they will not dispas
sionately examine the history of
the political power which they from
time to time confront, and then will not
fearlessly Inflict their punishment or hon
estly grant their reward for duty failed to
be performed or for duty done, then. In
deed, Is this union but a rope of sand, with
the Institutions of the country more idle
than a dream, and the hope ot eventual
salvation, In the temporal sense, of the
masses of mankind is idle imagination.
My friends, in order to win this great
battle it Is absolutely necessary that we
should go over Into the enemy's camp, to
use the figure of speech, for they are not
enemies except In a metaphorical sens!;;
but we must go over into the camps of
those who fought *for the gold standard
and who in 18% got honest, patriotic Re
publicans to leave those who had already
deserted them, and hearing the voice of
duty calling upon them as citizens to come
over and unite their forces with those who
followed the banner of reform in IS9G, and
with them take part and parcel ln the sal
vation of the country. If we cannot do
tills, then Indeed Is the battle lost, and
that is the reason why, as I go from
place to place, I try to fix the attention
of members of the Republican party upon
the great fact that that was a bimetallic
party in 1892, and declared for the gold
standard in 1896, and that since its decla
ration for the gold standard tn 1896, every
bit of Its public policy has been In the
direction of the carrying out of the scheme
of that policy.
GAGE'S POLICY
Why. my friends, look at the recent
proposition of the secretary of the treas
ury himself. He comes before the congress
of the United States with a bill. He ap
pears before the committee on banking
and currency to explain and to
defend It. He prepares a written
statement giving the reasons why
the bill is proposed, and what Its present
and ultimate objects are. He says that his
lirst object, and the preparing of the bill
is in his own hand, is to commit the coun
try more thoroughly to the gold standard.
That is his language—to commit the coun
try more thoroughly «o the gold standard.
Is that consistent with a desire to prose
cute an attempt at International agree
ment to get rid of the gold standard?
When you are asking foreign nations to
help you to get rid of it, is it an earnest of
your honest intention to say to them at the
very same moment that the highest official
dealing with finances in your country Is
proposing, advocating and attempting to
secure the adoption of a proposition to
commit the country more thoroughly to the
gold standard? The house of representa
tives at Washington is ready to carry out
the behests of this power, for whom the
secretary of the treasury Is spokesman.
The senate of the United States is today
the bulwark of the safety of these United
States. (Applause.) The house is no
longer a representative body. Under the
rules that prevail In the house of repre
sentatives, particularly as enforced and
dominated by the person of Thomas B.
Reed, there is no freedom of discussion, no
liberty of debate. Everything is under
the absolute control of the will of that
single man, and those Interests that either
overtly or in some other way dictate
and control his action in regard to them.
In the elections that are now not a long
way off, there are several things to be
done. We must secure the house of repre
sentatives In the elections of IS9S. (Ap
plause.) And in addition to that we must
maintain our control, und, If possible.
Increase it, of the senate of the United
States. We are daily making accessions
to our ranks.
BIMETALLISM WILL WIN
I want to say to this large audience of
California that in my judgment the cause
of bimetallism and its associated refine
ment can count among its honest adherers,
and those who at this very moment are
ready to show their devotion with their
votes and their efforts In a campaign,
enough of the suffrages of the people of
this country to carry the elections of IS9S
and of 1900. (Applause.) The people of
this country have learned that psycholog
ical prosperity is a myth and an im
possibility (laughter and applause) of a
good big size: that no man taking thought
unto himself can add a cubit to his stature
and so the newspapers paid by the sover
eign hand and controlled by the monopoly
of the gold standard powers of the world,
cannot make the people ot the United
States think themselves prosperous when
they have so many personal evidences to
the contrary. (Applause.)
A BARMECIDE FEAST
I am reminded of a story that John Allen
of Mississippi told in the house the other
day. It is a good enough story, although
I can't tell It as well as John can, but I
will tell it again.
He told about an old darky, very fond of
'poscum, who was quite hungry, but some
how in the pursuit of the 'possum, which
he had finally secured, had grown so
Ured that while the 'possum was preparing
he fell asleep. A little villain of a
darky came along, and, thinking to have
some fun, took the 'possum, which by that
time had becom well done, and ate it; and
then he took the remains of the 'possum,
some of the fat, and smeared it over the
old darky's lips and over his fingers, put
the bones down in a convenient place, as
though the old darky might just have
finished a repast. He put the bones away,
after taking oft the meat, and then took
himself away.
Presently the old darky awakened. He
looked for the 'possum, and saw that it
was no longer over the lire; and then he
detected the odor of the fnt upon his lips.
He looked nt his fingers; he tasted the re
mains upon his lips; he looked at the
bones, tho precious remnants of what had
been once the most luscious and engaging
'possum. He felt of his stomach, which
was trying to appear sntisfied under the
stress of the Imagination. And finally ho
said; "It done looks as tho' I done nte
that 'possum. Dars do fat on my lips,
and dar's do bones, but afore de Lord dat
'possum has done less good to my consti
tution than any 'possum I ever ate before."
(Laughter and applause.)
And so, said Allen, the people of the
United States pick up the gold standard
newspapers und they say: "Why, prosperi
ty must be here. There is the evidence
of it In the newspaper columns; here are
the statistics; here the editorial certificates
to it; there are the bones and the smell
of the fat before the Lord. This prosperity
has done less good to our constitution than
any prosperity we ever enjoyed before."
(Great applause.) That is having Its effect
on the people of the United States.
CAMPAIGN LIES
Then again, the methods of the last cam
paign are in their nature such that they
expire in their efficiency with one occa
sion. You cannot fool a grown man with
the same transparent trick twice, as a
rule. Tho statement which they made to
the average laboring man in the campaign
of 1896, that all sorts of disasters would
follow the election of Mr. Bryan, and that
unimaginable prosperity would follow upon
the election of McKlnley, has been tried
and found wanting. Men were held up by
the national banks and told that whatever
tho consequences of the restoration ot sil
ver coinage might be, there would be an im
mediate effect on their relations to their
banks at any rate that would level them
ln ninety days to the ground; and then,
even against their own mistrust and mis
givings, they voted for the gold standard
ticket, and have since found that their
career from the time of election has only
been a continuance for the most
part of the unhappy experiences of
the preceding four years: and with every
effort and much travail of spirit and body
they were holding up their tottering indus
tries, and they have come to the conclu
sion, my friends, that an experiment, If
It be such, is worth trying In order to
change the existing order of things. (Ap
plause.)
THE WINNING HAND
They tell a story that I often think of
In this connection. I do not suppose It
ought to be a novelty In California, al
though it is said to have its origin ln
Colorado. A tenderfßot—l suppose that is
what we fellows, recently from the east,
are entitled to be called when visiting
Colorado—was, very naturally perhaps,
asked to sit in a little friendly game that
Is very popular in most parts of the United
States, and that was attended with some
adventure in the way of risking his
money on the correspondence of certain
spots upon the cards. At one stage of the
game this gentleman found himself be
htnd a very Interesting hand, consisting
of four cards, with each one spot, making
four aces, I believe. Of course, he had a
great deal of confidence ln the hand, and
he evidenced it by the money that he put
up to the center of the table, backing his
judgment that it was better than any
body's at the table.
Well, after a time, the hands were laid
down. The time came for deciding the
bet, and, with great confidence, he reached
forward and was about to sweep the pile
of ducats into his lap, or Into his hat, as
the case might be, when another gentleman
across the table said to him: "What are
you doing?" He says: "I win this bet; 1
have four aces." The other man says: "It
ain't good," and laid own his hand, and
there wero three spades and two dia
monds. The first gentleman says: "What is
that?" The other one replied: "That Is a
luloo." The first says: "What Is a luloo?"
"Why," replied his friend, "A luloo is three
spades and a pair of diamonds. My friend,
you must play, if you play out ln this
country, according to the rules of the
house. Look here," and he pointed to a
placard on the wall, which said fn very
plain terms: 'A luloo beats four aces.' "
Of course, he was a man of peace. He sub
mitted to the law of the country and gave
up the money.
HE HAD A "LULOO"
A short time thereafter, with varying
fortune, having pursued the game, he
found himself with three spades and a
pair of diamonds. Of course, he thought
here was the time to recoup his misfortune,
and he bet right heavily. After a time
somebody oalled him. With great tri
umph he laid down the three spades and a
pair of diamonds, and said: "It Is my
turn now," and started to rake in the
money, when a gentleman with a full
house—l believe that Is what you call It
—on the other side of the table said: "Hold
on." This gentleman said: "I have got a
luloo." "Well," said the gentleman: "My
dear friend, how often must I tell you
if you want to play In Colorado you must
play according to the rules of the house."
He pointed again to the wall. This placard
was a convenient thing, and meantime had
dropped down, exposing another face to
view, whereof our astonished tenderfoot
read: "A luloo can be played but once an
evening." (Applause.)
Now, my friend, this gold standard game
of ISSIi has been played out. (Applause.)
The coercive terrors of that great contest
will be discontinued next time. There are
enough men to whom that appeal will be
vainly made again, added to those whose
better judgment has since that campaign
operated with them effectively and con
vincingly to have swollen, as I deliber
ately believe, the great army of men in the
United States today who believe against
the gold standard and all Its infamous and
associated wrongs, to give us an absolute
preponderance among the electors of the
United States. (Applause) It is a ques
tion, therefore, only of means and methods,
that is all. It is a time when duty calls
with a trumpet tongue to every devoted
citizen of the republic. My friends, in th»
United States today there are. until this
great question is settle., only two political
parties, those who are for tho gold stand
ard, the trusts and tho monopolies, and
those who are against them. (Applause.)
I have been for thirty days or more at
the city of Washington, engaged ln earnest
and prolonged conference with the repre
sentatives of the Silver Republican party,
the Democratic party and the Populist
party. My friends, I should never have
come to the west, I should never have tried
to raise my voice in the campaign of 189S
ln California and Oregon, unless I oould
come bringing the people of the Pacific
coast the assurance that the leaders of all
the parties opposed to the gold monopoly
party in the United States are ln substan
tial accord and harmony. (Applause.)
IN UNION THERE IS STRENGTH
In the old Roman days, when an especial
danger confronted the republic It was the
wont of the senate, assuming extraordinary
powers, to appoint some distinguished citi
zen of great ability and virtue, who
enjoyed the confidence of the people, as
dictator, the formula investing him with
power concluding to this effect: That
there might occur no detriment to the re
public. We know no dictators In the
United States. It has been for a hundred
years and more our proud boast that every
citizen Is a sovereign—the only sovereign
our Institutions know. In the beginning,
the institutions of the, country were com
mitted o our charge in order that no detri
ment might come to the republic. It Is %
question of the destiny Of the republic It.
self. It Is a danger ln the presence of
which every Individual ambition and every
separte object of mere partyism ought to
melt away and disappear like mists before
the rising sun.
It is not necessary that any political or
ganization now existing should give up tta
Independence or identity. The Populist
party, the Democratic party and the Silver
Republican party may all maintain their
machinery and their organization; and
they ought to extend It, each and every one,
with all possible thoroughness; but the ob
ject toward which, this organization and
the operation of this machinery should be
directed Is not a mere seltl9h partisan ob
ject, but the common good of all. la
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