The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-09
ROANOKE VA. WEDNESDAY,, SEPTEMBER s,


they dare not approve of the conduct of
these corporations that are attempting to
vote their employees. We may be the ones
to suffer now butt warn you, fellow citi-
zens, that the time may come when these
very corporations; will turn themselves
againsty you and your families with all
the accumulated power that your endorse
ment of their conduct now will give
them. Not only have some of these cor
porations attempted to coerce their en-
ployes but the great money power centre
in; New York has been attempting to
coerce the people who do business with
it "A paper few days ago said of o
Montana bank which had failed, that the
reason given was that the managers of
the bank were advocating free silver and
therefore the New York banks refused to
extend credit any longer and forced the
collection of note which they held, which
suspended the bank. My friends, do you
think you are under government of the
people? ] want to ask you what you
think will be the result if we get to be g.
government by banks.
"lf we could trust our affairs to New
York banker we might endure it for a
time, but when you remember that the
the London banker / ask you to reflect
before you submit the destinies of free
people to few gnanciers.
We had a failure in this city last win
ter, failure, which in my Judgment, was
largely due to the sale of bonds and to the
fact that the eastern bank was drawing
in money from circulation from business
from the channel of trade to invest in
government bonds. If, my friends, you
haye,a financial policy which permits
few financiers to close your banks at will
Il
erish your people, want to ask you if it
is not time for you to consider whether
this cannot be stopped.
1--WE have been told that we cannot
borrow money from abroad unless we
have financial system that is satisfac-
tory to the people abroad. My friends
you let them control your financial sys-
tenn and you will never see q time when
you can get out of the clutches of those
who are dominating your financial policy.
"a i assert the right of the people of this
country to have their own financial sys-
tenn and to regulate their own affairs and
II foreign people do not want to loan
money to us under these conditions we
will have the consolation of knowing that
the conditions will be SO favorable that
we soon will have money to loan them
I'm my. humble Judgment, proper
financial policy for the last twenty years
would have left the people of the United
Staes independent of foreign money. But
instead of that we are more dependent
to-day than we were twenty years ago.
II that is so where will it be twenty years
from now If we follow the same system?
I'VE have allowed them to drive down
the value of our products by their finan-
cial policy and then when our exports
have not been sufficient to pay the enor-
nous drains of New York exchange they
have taken our gold and when they take
our gold they do not want to leave us any
money to do any business with in its
place. te-.sll.r
"They tell us that If we have the free
coinage of silver that silver will come in
and run gold out. We reply to them that
while we deny that, yet it is far better for
the American people to have silver ccme
in and run gold out than to have foreign
hnanciers come in and take it out and
leave nothing in it's place
"Our opponents tell us that they want
good money; SO we do. We want good
money as much rs they do, but we differ
MS to what good money is. They want n
dollar so good that those who have the
dollar can buy n great deal from those
who need dollars. We want dollars that
are not so good that we cannot get hold
of them when we have wheat and corn to
SELL
"The interest Of the farmer is not the
same as the interest of the money
changer. They tell us not to array one
classsof society against another; we are
not. They are the ones that are arrayine
classes.
Talk about arraying one class against
another. want to ask you why it is that
every Democrat who is interested in a
syndicate or trust or has salary from
railroad corporation that is more than
his other property want to ask why
they are all arrayed against the Demo-
cratic party. Why is it? 1t is because
the Democratic party has declared against
the issue of bonds in time of peace and
Che trafficking with syndicates 1t is be-
cause the Democratic party is opposed to
the trusts and the prices which the trusts
have instituted
ANOTHER NOTIFICATION.
Mr.. Bryan Accepts the Nomination of