The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-25
YOUNG BRYAN TALKS
He Answers CarliSle'S Sound Money
Arguments Without Effort.
YEARS CHANGE HIS IDEAS
In 1879 the Secretary Spoke In
About the Same Strain That
His Opponents Do Now
Catchings Gets IL Also.

Memphis, May 24.-Memphis is the
storm center of the South Just now in
the agitation of the all-absorbing cur
rency question. Close upon the ev-
ents of yesterdays sound money con-
vention at the Auditorium. at which
the economic views of the secretary of
the national treasury were expounded.
comes a rousing meeting tonight of
an equally numerous class of citizens.
whose slogan is honest money" and
whose guest of honor was the eloquent
young Nebraska congressman, Will
lam j. Bryan. The meeting was held
at the Grand Opera house tonight.
The structure seats only about one
third as many people as the Auditor
ium, in which yesterdays convention
was held, and a large number of peo-
pie who sought admittance could not
be accommodated.
Mr.. Bryan was introduced by w. ii.
Carmack, editor of the Commercial
Appeal, and received an enthusiastic
reception. A considerable part of his
speech was taken up with compari-
sons of Secretary Carlisle's speech
with utterances said to have been
made by him in 1878. The telling points
of Mr.. Bryan's speech were loudly ap-
plauded. He was followed by Congress
man j. NJ. Allen of Mississippi in a hu-
morous and interesting speech. Mr..
Bryan said in part: Il read the speech
delivered by Mr.. Carlisle in this city
also that delivered by him at Coving-
ton, KY, last Monday evening, and l
have compared them with the speech
delivered by him on February n, 1875
in the house of representatives, and l
am reminded of the language used by
David in lamenting the death Of Saul:
How are the mighty fallen IN 1878
Mr.. Carlisle was hurting the pebbles of
truth at the giants of the Phillistines
John Sherman: to-day, as a Goliath, he
daily issues challenges to his former
friends. Mr.. Carlisle did not refer while
at Memphis to his speech of 1873, but
he did refer to it at Covington, and
said: Some of the opinions then ox-
pressed have been modified, and some
of them have been changed altogether
by subsequent events and by a more
thorough investigation of the subjects
to which they related, but on the ques-
| ton Of free coinage my convictions
have never been shaken for a moment
But he did not state, even at Cow
ington. what parts of his former speech
he repudiated and what parts he modi-
ate for about Is years after the making
of that speech and never, upon a sin
gle occasion, did he attempt TO with
draw the utterances of 1873, or to modi-
| fly the emphasis with which he then
| spoke. He explains that he voted for
| free coinage in 1873. in the hope that
| it would be amended in the senate, but
| he never voted against free coinage
| until after the nomination of Mr.. Cleve-
| land in 1892. 1t is true that in 1873 Mr.
| Carlisle did say that he was opposed
| to the free coinage of silver, but he
| ought. in all fairness, to have stated
that he was at that time opposed TO
the free coinage of gold also. He said
in his speech in 1873: L am opposed to
the free coinage of either gold or sill
| yer, but in favor of the unlimited coin
| age of both metals. upon terms of ex-
| act equality Not only was his present
| language contradicted by his former
| speech, but n letter written in 1890 by
| him says that he was at that time in
favor of the free and unlimited coinage
| of silver.
"Mr. Carlisle, in 1873, said: The
| struggle now going on cannot cease
and ought not to cease until all the in
| dustrial interests of the country are
fully and finally emancipated from the
| heartless domination of the syndicatcs.
stock exchanges and other great COM
binations of money grabbers in this
country and Europe Now, Mr.. Car
Isle is the honored guest at a conven-
| ton attended by bankers and 1nan-
| ciers who are opposed to the use of
silver as standard money. Mr. Car
| Isle asks why the advocates of bi-
| metallism are not in favor of the resto-
ration of silver gradually. What mock
/ cry this is. Did they not secure the
| passage of the seigniorage bill. after
| the repeal of the Sherman law. and did
/ not Mr. Carlisle's chief. Mr.. Cleveland,
| veto this bill. Notwithstanding the fact
/ that IL was voted for by more than
| two-thirds of the democrats of both
| houses? Did not the advocates of bi-
| metallism I'm the senate offer to sup
| port a bill providing for the unlimited
| coinage of silver with the provision
| that the government should charge a
| seigniorage equal to the difference be-
| tween the bullion and coinage values
| Did not the opponents of silver oppose
this measure as vainly as they did the
free coinage of silver?
In 1875 when Carlisle was in SYM
| pathy with the masses of the people.
he said: Let us. If we can do no bet
ter. pass bill after bill. embodying in
each some substantial provision for re-
| lief. and send them to the legislature
| for his approval II he withhol1s his
| signature. and we are unable TO Sc
| cure the necessary vote here or else
| where TO enact them into laws, notwith-
| standing his veto. let US. as a last re-
| sort. suspend the rules and put them
! into a general appropriation bill with
/ the distinct understanding that if the
! people can get no relief, the govern
! ment can get no money
| These are the words Of the same dis
! tingulshed statesman who. at Memphis
| and Covington, assures the people that
/ There is NOW mo- need af relief. and We.