, and the St. Louis Athletic club should offer $50,000 as a purse
for a fistic contest between these two champions, $40,000 to be the
reward of the winner and $10,000 to soothe the wounds of the defeated
pugilist. We will suppose the fight is arranged and the men go into
careful training, the time for the mill has at last arrived, the ring
is complete, and all details perfect. A large audience has assembled
and betting is liberally indulged in; of course Jacksonville sports
back their home man. At the appointed hour the contestants enter the
ring. Then you see your Jacksonville man is much the superior in
appearance to the Springfield upstart. Your man being the quicker and
stronger, has a longer reach, and is the more scientific. (America is
quicker and stronger, has a longer reach, and is more scientific than
any other nation on earth.) You feel sure your man will win the fight
on short notice, in fact you almost pity the man from Springfield, to
see that he must compete in a fistic combat with such a giant as the
Jacksonville Gladiator. The referee announces that Marquis of
Queensbury's rules are to govern, he looks at his watch and announces
that in one minute the fight will be on, the fighters raise their hands
to position. When just a few seconds of time still remains before the
slugging is to commence, your Jacksonville man says to his opponent,
hold on, if you don't run, I will. What, I ask you, would you think of
your prize fighter then? Think of the United States training for a
century for supremacy of American self-government over foreign
monarchical governments, then when all things are completed for the
final fight of the survival of the fittest, a great party saying to the
monarchies of Europe, "we know bimetallism is right, but if you will
not consent to it, then we will stick to the gold standard. If you
don't run, we will." (Great laughter and applause.)

Party prejudice prevailed and through the misrepresentations of the
papers and certain unscrupulous politicians the party making those
representations carried the election. International bimetallic
commissioners were sent to the foreign countries to procure this great
international agreement, and did they get it? Facts answer no.

Let me again implore you to lay aside party prejudice and look matters
squarely in the face, and we will immediately see, that not only did
Mr. Wolcott and his party make a signal failure in procuring
international bimetalli