whole year, through rain and shine and storm, day and night, and at the end of the year people come to him and want $125 taxes. If the Government can make a $1,000 bill in a second, why should it follow up that poor man? I wish the Government could make money, and that I could get my share now. I regret that the Aladdin palace made by the Greenback party consisted only of glorified mist. I am sorry that its dome was only a rainbow of hope. I wish it had been a reality. I wish the government could make money out of paper so that the luxuries of the world would be at American feet. I wish we could make money so that we could put every poor man in a palace. I wish we could make money so that our life should be a continual and perpetual feast. But the trouble is, we can't; that is the trouble.

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Money Does Not Make Prosperity.

Now, then, my friends, if there is a solitary Greenbacker here, now in the Democratic party, that once belonged to the Republican party, I ask him to come out. I ask him to admit that to-day we have got money enough. I want him to admit that an amonnt of money does not make prosperity, but prosperity makes the money. I want him to admit that when the country is prosperous then every man trusts his neighbor, but if you buy a pound of sugar on credit then you inflate the currency. If you give your note for a horse, then you inflate the currency; if you give a mortgage or deed of trust, you inflate the currency; and every fellow that says Chatge it," inflates the currency. So that in times of

prosperity that is to say, that in times of general confidence we have all the money we want.

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Tramps.

I sympathize with the wanderers, with the vagrants out of work, with the sad and weary men who are seeking for work. When I see one of these men, poor and friendless- -no matter how bad he is, I think that somebody loved him once-that he was once held in the arms of a mother-that he slept beneath her loving eyes and wakened in the light of her smile. I see him in the cradle, listening to lullabies, sung soft and low, and his little face is dimpled as though touched with the rosy fingers of joy. And then I think of the strange and winding paths-the weary roads he has traveled from that mother's arms to vagrancy and want.

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National Prosperity.

Since 1873 thousands of millions of articles have been made that could not be sold, and I may say that a majority of the men who have been employed are bankrupts to-day. Let us be honest, let us teach others to be honest, and let us tell these men not to envy the man who has been successful. That is not right; there is no sense in that. Let each one rely on himself and help others all he can. and let all understand that we are entering upon an era of prosperity such as America never knew before.

We are a great people; we are a free people; we make our own laws; we have the power in our own hands; we

can protect ourselves, and I beg the laboring man to see that the laws are all enforced. We want honest money, so that when a man gets a little laid by for wife and children when he is dead, that it will be a consolation to him, so that he will know that it will stay good after he

is dead; that it will in some degree take his place and buy food and clothing, so that he will not be compelled to close his eyes on fiat money.

I am in favor of having that as money which no human being can create. I believe in gold and silver; I believe in silver because that is one of the great productions of

our country, and when you add a use to a thing you add a value to that thing, and I want silver money; but I want a silver dollar big enough to be a gold dollar, if you have to have it made three feet in diameter.

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Hard Times and "Repudiation."

No man can imagine, all the languages of the world cannot express what the people of the United States suffered from 1873 and 1879. Men who considered themselves millionaires found that they were beggars; men living in palaces, supposing they had enough to give sunshine to the winter of their age, supposing they had enough to have all they loved in affluence and comfort, suddenly found that they were medicants with bonds, stocks, mortgages, all turned to ashes in their trembling hands. The chimneys grew cold, the fires in furnaces went out, the poor families were turned adrift, and the highways of the United States were crowded with tramps. Into the homes of the poor crept the serpent of temptation and whispered the terrible word, "Repudiation." I want to tell you that you cannot conceive of what the American people suffered as they staggered over the desert of bankruptcy from 1873 to 1879. We are too near now to know how grand we were. The poor mechanic said, "No;" the millionaire said, "No; we will settle fair, we will agree to pay whether we pay or not, and we will never soil the American name with the infamous word 'repudiation."" Are you not glad? What is the talk? Are you not glad our flag is covered all over with financial honors? The stars shine and gleam now because they represent an honest Nation.

They said during that time, "We must have more paper," and the Republican party said: "Let us pay what we have."

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The Minister's Collection.

Do you want them to get rid of paying their taxes? Do we want the people where the soil is rich to have their taxes paid by people where the soil is poor? How many illicit distilleries have been found in the South? Just guess. I'll tell you. In the last four years, in the Southern States, 3,874 illicit distilleries have been uncovered. If you trust them you'll be like the minister. Two ministers were holding a revival in a certain place. After the services one of them passed around the hat. The congregation threw in a lot of old nails and sticks, but no money. The minister turned his hat up, and out came the old nails. He couldnt find a cent of money, "Well," said the other minister, let us thank God." "What for?" asked the first minister. (Laughter.) "Because we've got the hat back." (Uproarious laughter.) You depend on the Southern people for your revenue, and you'll be fortnnate if you can thank God you've got your hat back.

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