taring them in the face. I want to ask you
if you do not think that if Mr. Wolcott would have taken a carload or
two of the Republican literature of 1896 and handed out the pamphlets
to the Englishmen, saying this is what we think of free silver in the
United States, will you help us to have it by an international action?
Would not that kind of literature hurt the cause instead of helping it?
For my part, I have no objections to the President sending a Senator
from Colorado to the foreign countries to advocate bimetallism, but I
do insist that he sent the wrong senator. Most certainly Mr. Teller
could have gone abroad with a little handful of free silver literature
that was left over in the campaign of '96 and accomplished more, in a
day's honest consistent work, for bimetallism, than could Senator
Wolcott with the tons of gold standard pamphlets published by the
Republican party. (Great applause.)

A noticeable fact is that one of the greatest job lots of political
trickery and deception that was ever attempted in America has been
practiced in the United States since the month of June, 1896.

Later in the season the so-called Gold-standard Democrats conventioned
in Indianapolis; their money plank reads, "We assert the necessity of
such intelligent currency reform as will confine the government to its
legitimate functions, completely separated from the banking business,
and afford to all sections of our country a safe, uniform and elastic
bank currency, under government supervision, measured in volume by the
need of business." Strange as it may seem, while Mr. Wolcott was
abroad, pretendingly for the purpose of procuring bimetallism by
international agreement, the President and Secretary of the Treasury
were working up a scheme to have the gold standard adopted according to
the tenor of the Indianapolis platform. When we consider 7,000,000
voted for international free silver, and 6,500,000 voted for
independent free silver, we see the United States has 13,500,000
bimetallists; only 134,000, or less than one per cent, voted the
Gold-standard Democratic ticket. Yet, my friends, we today find Mr.
Gage trying to overrule the desire of more than ninety-nine per cent
and put into law the will of less than one per cent of our voting
population. And what amount of money do the gold standard people want?
They say they want it safe, uniform and elastic, measured in volume by
the need of business. Will you tell me by whose busine