The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-26
THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OF AMY NORTH CAROLINA DAILY

cause you know that in public life and
in business life, it is the best brains
that you have that come from the
farms and country. (Applause.) What
answer will you make to them? When
they ask for bread, will you give them
a stone? When they ask for fish will
you bestow serpents upon them? That
has been the policy of the fnanciers
of this country, and assembling their
selfishness they have been attempt
ing to force their ideas upon others.
While others have fallen down be-
meath the weight of those idea the
financiers themselves have risen to
prosperity on the PROSTATE forms of
the fallen. Great applause and cheer
ing.) No person can accuse me Of at
tempting TO deny to the financiers. or
even to the money-changers the right
to their opinion, the right to their
votes, the right to every legitimate in
fuence. What / deny 10 them is this:
The right to think for anybody but
themselves; the right to act for any
body but themselves; the right to
put themselves above other people
and go through the world crying, i
am holier than thou am holier than
thou Cheers and applause)
''The man who believes he is right
tells you what he believes and why
he believes it. A man who does not
believe that he is right is the man who
has filed the dictionary with ambi-
guous terms and fills his speech with
words of double meaning. (Great APP
plause.) The man who talks about
Sound money and then refuses to tell
you what sound money means, can
only get a certificate Of honesty from
himself. Cheers and applause.) IF
the advocates of sound money be-
lieved that their money was good, they
would tell you that by sound money
they meant a gold standard. / asked
"a man why it was that he was opposed
to using the word gold in the plat
form. Well he said, people have an
unreasonable prejudice against the
word gold and therefore it was to avoid
that prejudice that they used the
phrase sound money (Applause.)
''My friends, people have no preju-
dice aginst gold, but they have a preJ-
ndice against a system that is based
upon gold, and does not furnish the
gold when people want it. (Applause).
There is one advantage in being a
bi-metallist. You can like gold and sill
yer both, while a gold standard man
does not dare to love silver, and he
don't get much gold to love. Gap
plause). IA man told me that out of
nearly S1,000,000 collected as taxes at
Hartford, Conn, less than 500 was col
lccted in gold.
"0ur opponents want a dollar that
gets higher and higher all the time.
If We are going to have gold stand
ard, if we are going to have gold dol
! lar, whose appetite is never satisfied,
and a gold dollar which insists upon
eating more of the products of toll
every few years, we ought to change
the dies at the mint and so describe
that dollar that people will understand
it. Let us take off the emblems that
have adorned it from the beginning,
and put on one side the picture of
the horse leech, and under the picture
let it be written, as in Proverbs: Give,
give, give and on the other side of the
dollar, let us put the picture of an
open grave and above it let us write,
as in Proverbs, 1t sayeth not, it is
enough (Great applause and laugh
teri.
''My friends, that is the sort of dollar
that the gold standard has given u.s."
There was large crowd about the
special ear that had been provided for
Mr.. Bryan. When attached to the 1.13
regular train 1T was pulled out of the
Springfield station. The crowd was
demonstratiye, and the candidate was
given three cheers and tiger, which
must have, in great measure, acted as
an Offset to the heretofore not too
enthusiastic reception.
Short stops were made in order to
give the people of Palmer, Warren and
Brookfield a chance to see the nominee
and to allow few of them to shake
hands with him.