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2 SIBLEY ON SILVER THE PENNSYLVANIA CONGRESS MAN SPEAKS TO A LARGE : AUDIENCE AT CARY'. WANTS ALL SILVER MEN UNITED. He Thinks the Men of All Parties Should Come Together in the Free Silver Movement—The Crowd Com posed of Men of All Shades of Po litical Relief, but the Populists Were Largely in the Majority—Rntler, Thompson, Mewborne and Graham Made Short Speeches. Special to the News and Observer. Cary, N. 0., Aug. 15. Early this morning wagons and bug gies began to roll into the place and the little town was, by eleven o’clock thronged by hundreds of people who had come hear Sibley. Sibley arrived here early this morning, accompanied by Senator Butler, Dr. J. J. Mott, Congressman Stroud, Congressman Shu ford and other prominent political leaders. The speaking began with short ad dresses by Allianeemen at eleven o’clock this morning. Ex President Mewborne, of the State Farmers' Alliance, made the opening ad dress, which was greeted with loud ap plause. W. A. Graham, of Lincoln, followed Mr. Mewborne. Mr. Graham said that instead of doing like the wild horses on the plains, put ting their heads together and kicking in concord at all their enemies, we do like another animal with longer ears, kick ing at each other. “If you drag the Alliance into politics it does nobody any good. We must not impugn a man’s motive because he votes a different ticket from us. Meet your brethren half way, and take them back. People are bigger fools over politics than over anything else. * * * We have no fight to make on the other professions, but only want to protect ourselves. Let the cities and towns set politics aside, and talk business together like brothers. Don’t belong to your parties, but make your parties belong to you. * * * When we started the Alliance we said that you might regulate everything else, but until you fix the money question the country will never be prosperous. The ques tion is not how much a thing is worth, but what you have to buy it with. The Alliance has always taught and preached that. * * * You might as well be a gold bug, as to use your influence to put the gold bug in power. We must get together. In the revival of the Alliance is the hope of North Carolina. The people in the cit ies think we are Anarchists, and are mad with everybody who has two shirts, and eats three square meals a day. * * * I am for any plan that will save us our homes.” Dr. Cyrus Thompson, the new Presi dent of the Alliance, made the next speech. “The Farmers' Alliance never fails to resurrect a large crowd of noble women and good. The Alliance was primarily a political organization, if not it has no business for existence in a re public. The Alliance is in politics and in politics to stay. Its grand declara tion is educating the people of North Carolina in economic questions. * * * There is more eating crow in silence in North Carolina than any other diet to day. We are teaching to day what we have taught all the time. If we are dying, we are unconsciousab’y long about it. The Alliance is here and here to stay, it is never going to die off. In spite of the hard times, we have had one of the most enthusiastic sessions we have ever had. They have fought us on the stump, in the Legislature and through the Press, but “McGregor’s on j the floor.” * * * By the Alliance you have been disappointed, you have been fooled, and that is all you have got. The genius of this organization is essen tial Christianity, made manifest “in love toward His creature here on earth.” He told the story of Abou Ben Adhem. “When the church fully comprehends its mission the men at the altar will crowd the Alliance. The Church to dayßtands where it has always stood on the side of human slavery, and not on the side of liberty. I thank God that even the pul pit is learning that we must live now as hereafter.” Senator Marion Butler:—He said Sib ley was a distinguished member of the Farmers’ Alliance of .Pennsylvania. “He is rich. I went into the Allianee be cause I was poor. He had to have phi lanthropby and Christianity and love of his fellowman in his heart to get into the order. * * * You have all heard me before, for it is an old thing for Marion Butler to speak in North Caro lina. I can stand here and look you in the face and tell you now, what I told you then. You k*ow now that what I told you was true. There are men here who never attended an Alliance meeting before. Are we any nearer relief than we were when we began the fight? Yes, for we have swept away the cobwebs of prejudice. When I began the fight as your President 1 was denounced as an an archist. All the great leaders were telling you that the tariff was what was tfie matter with the country. The men who told you that on the stump (I have found by examining their tracks in Washington) voted more times on the financial question than on any other question before the country. They voted on one side or the other, but never would explain how they voted. They either knew or didn't know what they voted on. If they didn’t know, they were un tLt to represent us; if they did they were dulhoneet. They take either horn of that dilemma and perch on it till it hurts them They howled ‘tariff.’ These Congressmen told you you were robbed by tariff barous. Everybody knows that the trouble is with that thing which sucks the wealth out of the pockets of the producers. For every $1,000,000 made by un just tariff laws ten times that many millions have been drawn by the men who fixed on you this financial trust. Every time a millionaire is cheated, a million men lose a dollar each. If you had been put in the garden of Eden where Christ was born and earned a dollar above expenses every day, yon wouldn’t be worth a million dollars. It you had been born with Adam you wouldn’t have as much money as the Vanderbilt estate. * * I wish I had a million dollars and had a heart as pure as Joseph O. Sibley. There jp something wrong with the laws of a country where such conditions exist. We all ought to wake up and study this question. An Allianceman is a traitor if he doesn't vote, and a double traitor if he doesn’t vote tor his principles. * * You have gone on making more that makes the country rich, but you have grown poorer all the time. God didn’t intend us to plaut seed and raise dollars, lie intend ed that you should raise products and send men to Congress that would mako dollars enough to exchange t hose pro ducts. * * * Every man in this au dience who has a piece of gold raise his hand! (Not a single hand raised.) There’s plenty of good things to eat on these tables. Suppose you should say that you would eat nothing but spring lamb, and they hail none here. You would back up against a tree and starve to death, and nobody would cry because it would just be ono fool less on earth. “To-day your circulating medium is in the hands of greed. Will you break off the yoke of tyranny? Men in each party say they won’t whip the gold-bugs unless they can do it in their own parties. These men are the best agents and ser vants of the gold-bugs and the devil that were ever born. Our ancestors drove the red coats from our shores, the British are now on your shores in posses sion of your government and are fighting you with gold instead of bayonets. May God bring us together that we may drive the gold-bugs and British Shy locks from our shores.” Mr. Butler’s speech was greeted with long and loud applause. The large crowd then adjourned to a near-by grove, where a bountiful dinner was served, and the succulent bar becue vied with the luscious watermelon. At one o’clock the crowd assembled again at the speaker’s stand. In the audience were “all sorts and conditions of men,” the farmers being largely in tbs majority. Mr. Ed. Chambers Smith, Dr. J. J. Mott and S. Otho Wilson were all close to the platform and, like them, men differing in political views and party affiliations listened attentively to the speaker. Mr. Sibley’s face is open and frank, his forehead broad, his chin firm—he looks like a philanthropist, and an origi nal thinker. He can hardly be called an orator, for there is some lack of oratori cal fire, but he is earnest and forceful and punctuates his speech with telling periods. After a few introductory remarks he plunged into the silver question: “We want back,” he said, “that out of which the American people have been defrauded. No one who will read the Horr-Harvey debate, no honest man can have a doubt that that crime was accom plished under cover of darkness. But two men on the North American conti nent knew of that crime. You can’t read this Horr-llarvey debate in any of the gold bug papers. The first day they pub lished it with blare of trumpets, the sec ond day they printed it. The third day they criticised it severely, and then drop ped it altogether. He laid down the following financial axioms: Double the volume of money and you double prices. Divide the volume of money and you divide prices. Double the volume of money and you divide debts. Divide the volume of money and you double debts. “The whole measure of value has res ted on these two metals, gold and silver. The values of the world, amounting to $450,000,000,000 rest like a pyramid on these narrow foundations. We have taken away one half the base; that pyr amid must be dwarfed and shriveled until it accommodates itself to still that nar rower base. “I ask my monometallic friends, ‘ When will this decrease in values still cease ?’ There is not a gold maD here who will venture a prediction as to when the end will come. Thirty jears ago 30,000,000 of people in the world were on a gold, basis. To-day the 30,000,000 are 360,000,000 . Debtor nation after debtor nation has been bidding for the gold of the world, willing to give up all their products for this small volume of gold. “You can enslave any nation on God’s globe if you can impoverish them suffi ciently. Anglo-Saxons even have been put into slavery. In Green’s History of the English people you may read how they were held like slaves by the lords of the manor. “What value is it to you to know that food is cheap, when you have no money to buy? “When beef could be bought for two shillings a head and wheat was three pence a busnel more people starved to death in England than ever before, or since. “We ask our Father to give us our daily bread, and then say He has an swered us too literally by an ‘overpro duction’ of wheat, yet in these United States more people starved, more people went naked, more people were tramping last year than ever before; and yet cot ton and wheat were lower than in any former years. “Arthur Pue Gorman said at Saratoga this week that he favored the issue of more bonds. And yet I see some South erners advocate him for President, and these are free silver men, too. Bather expect, to gather graphs from thorns and figs from thistles than to expect to get what you want by electing a candidate who holds different views and different principles from your own. “In the last Congress I spoke of the ter rible ravages of the chinch bug and other bugs among the farmers of the West. We are trouble too with the’bed bug and many other bugs, including the gold bug. We have found antidotes for all of them, including the gold bug. But the bug I am most afraid of now is the straddle bug, who is on one side one day and on the other thenext “You can’t point me to one reform thait ever started with the politicians and then worked down through people. They start in the brave hearts of the fpeople and make the politicians bow or crush them. “I heard a respected Senator, a South erner and a Democrat, say the other day The News and Observer, Friday, Aug. 16, ’95. that he would like to see silver restored to its rightful place, if it could be ac complished in the Democratic ranks. ‘But if not,’ he said ‘I am still a Dorno crat.’ “I want every Democrat here who feels proud of that principle to stand up. “If you believe in that doctrine and still claim to be for free silver, you are consorting with the enemy, and are the worst of traitors. “Say to those Democrats of the North who are attempting to enslave you, ‘lf you want these loaves and fishes you must conform to this great principle?’ “They know if they don’t take care of the gold-bugs they will vote against the party, but down here they think you vote as the bosses tell you. What have your politiciaus done for you? Have they been your servants or your auto crats? “A certain showman had a dog. He held up a piece of meat in front of the (log’s nose, and told him to stand up, to lie down, to play dead, always holding the meat just above the dog’s nose, and the dog did all that was told him. ‘Well, I’ll keep the meat for another dog,’ remarked the showman, ‘you per form well enough without any.’ “That’s the way they regard the Southern Democrats. You have always performed well for them in the past, and they expect you to keep it up in the fu ture. “A noted German patriot in warning Germany of the evils that would come from monometallism, said it would de crease all the values of property and prices of labor, and breed strife and promote strikes; and when that time came the cause would be attributed to the strikes and disturbances which are the effects of this single standard and to every cause except the right one. “A noted English member of Parlia ment said, in an address in that body in defence of the gold standard, that it tended to destroy America as the cotton and wheat producer of [the globe, and to substitute their own colony of India in its place.” Referring to John G. Carlisle, he said: “As a plebeian standing in the temple pleading for liberty he could speak like an archangel, but when a high priest in the temple of Mammon he has fallen to a lower plane. I refer to John G. Car lisle, from whom I drank in my Democ racy. He is to-day sent out to nullify the doctrines of Jefferson and Jackson. If Jefferson and Jackson were Democrats, Cleveland and Carlisle are not. Jefferson said we might have a moneyed aristoc racy, but never a moneyed Democracy. On the floor of the House in 1878 John G. Carlisle, in the following lan guage, predicted the evils which would torment the race with the destruction of the money of the common people: “I know that the world’s stock of pre cious metals is none too large, and I see no reason to apprehend that it will ever be so. Mankind will be fortunate indeed if the annual production of gold and silver coin shall keep pace with the annual increase of popu’ation, com merce, and industry. According to my views of the subject, the conspiracy which seems to have been formed here and in Europe to destroy by legislation and otherwise from three sevenths to one-half of the metallic money of the world is the most gigantic crime of this or any other age. The consummation of such a scheme would ultimately entail more misery upon the human race that all the wars, pestilences, and famines that ever occurred in the history of the world. “The absolute and instantaneous de struction of half the entire movable property of the world, including houses, ships, railroads, and other appliances for carrying on commerce, while it would be felt more sensible at the mo ment, would not produce anything like the prolonged distress and disorganiza tion of society that must inevitably result frem the permanent aunihilatian of one half the metallic money of the world.” Mr. Carlisle, your diagnosis was cor rect. Each symptom ot the evils you then described appear with alarming im port and irresistable certainty. Let me again quote Secretary Cailisle, who, standing on the floor of this House as a representative of the people at an hour before his eyes became dazzled with the golden glitter of Pluto’s palace, at an hour prior to Rothschild fixing a golden halo above his head, portrayed, in lan guage stronger than any I am capable of framing, the necessity for patriotism to gird itself for the resistance of powers financial and powers executive. It seems to me that this great mind has blazoned out a path of duty that in the present hour of danger we may follow with safe ty: . „ “The struggle now going on cannot cease, and ought not to cease, until all the industrial interests of the country are fully and finally emancipated from the heartless domination of syndicates, stock exchanges, and other great combinations of money grabbers jn this country and In Europe. Let us, ts we can do no bet ter, pass bill after bill, embodying in each some substantial provision for re lief, and send them to them to the Exec utive for his approval. If he withholds his signature aud we are unable to se cure the necessary votes, here or else where, to enact them into laws notwith standing bis veto, let us, as a last resort, suspend the rules aud put them into the general appropriation bills, with the dis tinct understanding that if the people can get no relief the Government can get no money.” “No man was more cognizant of this conspiracy than was John G. Carlisle. He saw it clearly until he was called into the cabinet as Chancellor of the Ex chequer. Carlisle says he has never been for the free and unlimited coinage of silver, and yet he has voted for every free coinage bill that has been introduced in Congress. “Along this highway of monometal lism are buried 18,000 suicides, and on it wmlk more beggars,’.tramps and bank rupts than have ever before been known in our htetory. When the Democrats in Congress passed the free coinage bill and Ilayes vetoed it, Carlisle in common with the other leaders said it was tho duty of the De mocrats to stop every dollar of ap propriation for conducting the govern ment, until the president signed the bill. But somehow the bees have been buzzing in his ears, and in his mind the golden halo of the Rothschilds bangs over him.” Coming back to the gold standard, he said: “Wc have had the gold standard heretofore in the world’s history. The Bible records how, when Moses was above the clouds on the mountain-top, receiving the tables of stone, Aaron set up a gold standard on the plains below, and God in his wrath wiped it away. We also read in the third chapter of Daniel how Nebuchadnezzar, the King, caused to be erected an image of gold, and made a decree that when the musical instru ments sounded forth, all the people were to bow down and worship it. It is re corded that on the day appointed all the office-holders of the Kingdom were there. They wero all command ed to fall down and worship tha golden image or be cast into the fiery Furnace. Just read President Cleve land's letter to Stone of Mississippi. I think he must have modeled it on the exact lines of the decree of Nebuchad nezzar. “Three men, Shadrack, Meshack and Abednego, refused to bow down to the image, ar.d Nebuchadnezzar commanded that after the furnace had been heated seven times better, they be thrown into it. But when this was done they walked in the furnace, and one like unto.the im age of the Son of God walked with them. “You may set up your images and heat your furnaces seven time 3 hotter, my modern Nebuchadnezzars, aud not three, but there are three times three millions who will not bow down uor wor ship them. “I believe that in the Providence of God all things come right, and Nebu chadnezzar got down to his level; and he ate grass for seven years with the other beasts of the field. “We may feel discouraged in this fight, but God is on our side. The ladder up ward is all right, only its end is obscured in the clouds. You can win an apparent victory over truth and even bury it, but after three days there will be a resurrec tion. 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