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Having behind us the producing masses of this 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.
FOOTNOTE:
[38] From a speech delivered in the city of Chicago before the
Democratic National Convention of 1896.


DEATH OF CONGRESSMAN BURNES
J. J. INGALLS

At this crisis and juncture, when every instant is priceless, the Senate
proceeds by unanimous consent to consider resolutions of the highest
privilege, and reverently pauses in obedience to the holiest impulses of
human nature to contemplate the profoundest mystery of human
destiny--the mystery of death. In the democracy of death all men at
least are equal. There is neither rank, nor station, nor prerogative in
the republic of the grave.
At that fatal threshold the philosopher ceases to be wise and the song
of the poet is silent.


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