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October 29

Rochelle, IL (Excerpt)

Omaha World-Herald (Morning Edition), Omaha, NE, 30 October, 1896 and The Evening News, Lincoln, NE, 30 October, 1896.

"They tell you that silver agitation has scared gold out. Gold is a mighty cowardly thing, if it is sacred by a craze that is nearly dead as the Republicans say ours is. (Cheers.)

Is it sufficient to build up a financial system upon gold as a base when you cannot find gold when you want it? Do you build a house on an invisible foundation? (A voice, "Yes.") Well, a Republican would if he acted in house building like his party in finance." (Cheers.)

FORGETS BUSINESS RULES.

"Why is it that when a man begins to advocate the gold standard he has to forget what he ever learned in ordinary business transactions? Why is it he refuses to apply to the money question the things that govern him in his every day life? How can a man chloroform himself when he comes to discuss the money question so that he can believe in gold, any how? (Cheers.)

Ask yourselves these questions and decide, my friends."

© Nathan Sanderson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2008