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Rh the helpless is heard on every hand? Shall we wait while our institutions are crumbling?" (Cries of "No—no—no!")

"This is a struggle for humanity. For our homes and firesides. For the purity and integrity of our government.

"That all the people of this country sufficiently intelligent to vote cannot understand that the reduction of our primary money to one half its former quantity reduces the value of property proportionately, is one of the inexplainable phenomena in human history.

"Those who do understand it should go among the people and awake them to the situation of peril, in which they are placed. Awake them as you would with startling cries at the coming of flood and fires.

"Arouse them as did Paul Revere as he rode through the streets shouting: 'The British are on our shores.'

"To let England dictate to us was not once the spirit of Americans.

"When Benjamin Franklin was minister to England he attended a banquet in London, at which, toasts were responded to by the Premier of England, and the ministers of France and the United States. The toast in each instance was the government represented by the official responding.

"The toast to England came first and was responded to by the Premier. He was eloquent in praise of his country, and at the close of his speech took up his wine-glass and said, 'Now drink with me again to England, the Sun that gives light to the world.'

"The toast to France came next, and the French minister did great justice to his subject. Imitating the English Premier he closed his address by lifting his wine-glass high, and saying, 'Now drink again with me to