Excerpt from Proceedings at the Twelfth Annual Dinner of the Republican Club of the City of New York: Celebrated at Delmonico's on the Eighty-Ninth Anniversary of the Birthday of Abraham Lincoln, February 12th, 1898 While we are apt here in the vanity of our concentration of all the intelligence of the country in Greater New York - (laughter) to look with a certain degree Of contempt upon Colorado, or upon Kansas, the responsibility is as great upon us as upon Colorado or upon Kansas. We, the greatest of business States, with the largest stack in sound money, have in the Senate of the United States cast one-half of our vote for a debased currency - (hisses) - and the responsibility is ours. Gentlemen, we meet to - night while discussing frankly these questions and expressing our Opinions honestly, with Lincoln's motto when he was pleading with the misguided Southern brethren, Charity for all and malice toward none. (great applause.) But, as Lincoln met the mis guided Southern brethren, the fight is on and must be fought to a finish. (applause) Debased currency and slavery must take their same positions. (applause) But, gentlemen, all of us who have been in any form teachers, whether they have been members of the national Congress, whether they have been writers for the newspapers, or whether they have been orators upon the plat form, whether they have been Republicans or sound-money Democrats, we all want to crawl under the mantle Of charity. We have all preached bad currency. 'we have all preached bi metallism, which is another name for all the worst that there is. We have all tried to fool ourselves in the hope that we would fool the people and get them to our side. I met last week in Washing ton a distinguished Senator, and he said to me: I have been for years preaching and teaching bimetallism to my constituency, and I never awoke until the last fall's election to the fact that I was teaching them the very heresy that I was trying to extirpate. (laughter.) We had it in our Republican platform that we should send a commission abroad to see whether we could estab lish bimetallic relations with the Older nations of Europe, and we have been speaking In Senate and In House that we hoped it would succeed, and with what result? Multitudes of Republicans taught by ourselves that bimetallism was wedded to prosperity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.