it a law, in every State where such a bill has been defeated by the Democratic party. That ought to satisfy any reasonable man to satiety.

WHO SHALL COLLECT THE REVENUE?

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I am not only in favor of free speech and an honest ballot, but I am in favor of collecting and disbursing the revenues of the United States. I want plenty of money to collect and pay the interest on our debt. I want plenty of money to pay our debt and preserve the financial honor of the United States. I want money enough to be collected to pay pensions to widows and orphans and to wounded soldiers. And the question is what section in this country can you trust to collect and disburse that revenue? Let us be honest about it. What section can you trust? In the last four years we $467,000 of the internal revenue taxes. lected principally from taxes upon high wines and tobacco, $468,000,000, and in those four years we have seized, libeled and destroyed in the Southern States 3,875 illicit distilleries. And during the same time the Southern people have shot to death twenty-five revenue officers and wounded fifty-five others, and the only offense that the wounded and dead committed was an honest effort to collect the revenue of this country. Recollect it don't you forget it. And in several Southern States to-day every revenue collector or officer connected with the revenue is furnished by the Internal Revenue Department with a breech-loading rifle and a pair of revolvers, simply for the purpose of collecting the revenue. I don't feel like trusting such people to collect the revenue of my Government.

During the same four years we have arrested and have indicted 7,084 Southern Democrats for endeavoring to defraud the revenue of the United States. Recollect3,874 distilleries seized, 25 revenue officers killed, 55 wounded, and 7,084 Democrats arrested. Can we trust them?

The State of Alabama in its last Democratic Convention passed a resolution that no man should be tried in a Federal Court for a violation of the revenue law-that should be tried in a State Court! Think of it-he should be tried in a State Court! Let me tell you how it will come out if we trust the Southern States to collect this revenue.

A couple of Methodist ministers had been holding a revival for a few weeks; one said to the other that he thought it was time to take up a collection. When the hat was returned he found in it pieces of slate pencils and nails and buttons, but not a single solitary cent-not one-and his brother minister got up and looked at the contribution, and he said:

"Let us thank God!

And the owner of the hat said:

"What for?"

The brother replied:

"Because you have got the hat back."

If we trust the South we won't get our hat back.

HONEST MONEY AND AN HONEST NATION.

I am next in favor of honest money. I am in favor of gold and silver; and paper with gold and silver behind. it. I believe in silver, because it is one of the greatest of American products, and I am in favor of anything that will add to the value of American product. But I want a silver dollar worth a gold dollar, even if you make it or have to make it four feet in diameter. No Government can afford to be a clipper of coin. A great Republic cannot afford to stamp a lie upon silver or gold. Honest money, an honest people, an honest Nation. When our money is worth only 80 cents on the dollar, we feel 20 per cent. below par. When our money is good we feel good. When our money is at par that is where we are. I am a profound believer in the doctrine that for Nations, as well as men, honesty is the best, always, everywhere and forever.

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What section of this country, what party will give us honest money-honor bright-honor bright? I have been told that during the war we had plenty of money. never saw it. I lived years without seeing a dollar. saw promises of dollars, but not dollars. And the greenback, unless you have gold behind it, is no more a dollar than a bill of fare is a dinner. You cannot make a paper dollar without taking a dollar's worth of paper. We must have paper that represents money. I want it issu

ed by the Government, and I want behind every one of these dollars, either a gold or silver dollar, so that every

greenback under the sun can lift up its hand and swear, "I know that my redeemer liveth.

When we were running into debt, thousands of people mistook that for prosperity, and when we were paying they regarded it as adversity. Of course we had plenty when we bought on credit. No man has ever starved when his credit was good, if there was no famine.

in that country. As long as we buy on credit we shall have enough. The trouble commences when the payday arrives. And I do not wonder that after the war thousands of people said:

"Let us have another inflation."

What party said, "No, we must pay the promise made in war?" Honor bright! The Democratic party had once been a hard money party, bnt it drifted from its metallic moorings and drifted off in the ocean of inflation. I understand it. A man, say, bought a piece of land for $6,000; paid $5,000 on it; gave a mortgage for $1,000, and suddenly, in 1873, found that the land would not pay the other thousand. The land had resumed. And then he said, looking lugubriously at his note and mortgage:

"I want another inflation."

And I never heard a man call for it that he did not also say:

"If it ever comes, and I don't unload, you may shoot me."

It was very much as it is sometimes in playing poker, and I make this comparison, knowing that hardly a person here will understand it. I have been told that along toward morning the man that is ahead suddenly says:

"I have got to go home. The fact is. my wife is not well."

And the fellow who is behind says:

"Let us have another deal. I have my opinion of a fellow that will jump the game.'

And so it was in the hard times of 1873. They said: "Give us another deal; let us get our driftwood back into the center of the stream."