t waiting for the aid or consent of
any other nation on earth; and upon that issue we expect to carry every
State in the Union. I shall not slander the inhabitants of the fair
State of Massachusetts nor the inhabitants of the State of New York by
saying that, when they are confronted with the proposition, they will
declare that this nation is not able to attend to its own business. It
is the issue of 1776 over again. Our ancestors, when but three millions
in number, had the courage to declare their political independence of
every other nation; shall we, their descendants, when we have grown to
seventy millions, declare that we are less independent than our
forefathers? No, my friends, that will never be the verdict of our
people. Therefore, we care not upon what lines the battle is fought. If
they say bimetallism is good, but that we cannot have it until other
nations help us, we reply that, instead of having a gold standard
because England has, we will restore bimetallism, and then let England
have bimetallism because the United States has it. If they dare to come
out in the open field and defend the gold standard as a good thing, we
will fight them to the uttermost. Having behind us the producing masses
of the nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, the
laboring interests, and the toilers everywhere, we will answer their
demand for a gold standard by saying to them: You shall not press down
upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify
mankind upon a cross of gold.

SPEECHES OF C. A. BOGARDUS.

"I don't know much about the tariff | "I don't know much about the
question, but I think I know enough | money question, but it appears
to know that if we buy $20.00 worth | to me that if under the gold
of rails of a foreigner, the | standard we borrow $20,000,000
foreigner will have the money and | of a foreigner, when we pay it
we will have the rails, but if we | back the foreigner will have the
make the rails in America and buy | money and the interest, too, but
them of an American, America will | if we coin the silver (which
have the money and the rails, too." | is an American product) into
| American dollars, borrow
ABRAHAM LINCOLN. | $20,000,000 of an American,
| when we pay it back America will
| have the money and the interest,