Show DOING AND UNDOING undoing an act or a course of action is of the nature of repentance to do to pursue course of action to po is of the nature of progress this distinction applies to the Ilo publican and democratic parties in relation to the sliver question what both parties leave to do is to repent both bare astray both bare plotted treason to the welfare of the people both have received the reward of iniquity if it were a simple case of progressive action if it were new ground that we were urging the party to take the case would be different conservatism would have its rights and merits it is not that the party should take new ground but that it should recover lost ground that it should restore stolen foods that it hould make restitution the slave holders rebellion wa a great crime against the nation but the of silver has caused ten fold more suffering it was a shrewder more cipan tic evil ave have little patience with that class of who speak and act on the dilver question as though a vast deal of patience and kindergarten work were necessary and proper the fact is the leading schemers know that they have achieved an unjust advantage they know that the world is that commerce and enterprise are benumbed through their machinations they have attained a guilty supremacy they are not going to dlf forge themselves of their spoils until they are compelled to do so no class wails so piteously and so loudly a the class that has perpetrated this most gigantic spoliation it has augmented the value of money and credits at least twenty billions it has depreciated property and products vastly more the thing to be done is not much a matter of progressive action as that of retroaction tro action the goodites gold ites ought to suffer he that to do and boeth it not hall be beaten with many strides thus far the innocent are taft sufferers ereis they suffer at the bands of the prosperous no more highhanded outrage has been perpetrated pet rated in the history of the world custom and constitutional right hav been beet aside labor has been paralyzed for all this the world and the truth of things demand retribution the command is not so inucci to go forward as to repent to re store to do over aaen the fint borki hence the silver caus Is not a plea for new privileges and advantages rather it is a claim of right for property that has been stolen for wealth that has been subjected to an unrighteous and worldwide world wide |