The San Francisco call., 1896-09-29

business man. [Applause.l Sometimes our
| opponents try 10 array the wage-eArning
! cass-they who work in factories or by the
| day for an employer-against the farming
| classes. want to show you that you cannot
separate the interests OF the wage-earning
classes from the interests of the farming
i classes. You don't produce shoes for orna-
ment, but for wear.
People cannot wear shoes until they are able
| TO buy shoes and they cannot buy shoes unless
| they have the money to buy with, and they
cannot get money to buy shoes with until they
sell something they have and get that money.
| Now, you sell shoes 10 people West and South.
| If you drive down the price OF all those things
| which the farmers produce so that when they
! sell their crops they cannot more than pay
4 their debts and interest and taxes what m oney
will they have to buy shoes with? Are you go
| ing TO add to the prosperity of Lynn by max
ing more people go barefoot? [Cries OF '.No,
never.'l The wage-earners of Lynn will be idle
until there is a demand for the products of the
factories OF Lynn, and there can be no demand
Tor that product as long as you drive money
Falling prices-hard times, and hard times
have never been advocated in a platform by
any party, although the Republican platform
this year. without directly saying so, promises
| 10 continue times hard and make them
| harder. lApplause.l Do you deny that propo-
sition? l want you to look at that platform.
| cause the party pledges itself to get rid of it.
If the double standard is not more desirable
| than thu gold standard why does the Republi-
! can party want to make any change? If the
| gold standard is good we ought to keep it, but
when the Repu blican party attem pts to get rid
OF 1t 1t admits 1t is not as good as bimetallism.
| But they promise you, notwithstanding their
desire TO get rid of the gold standard, that they
will keep 1t until other nations help us to get
rid OF 1t. Until then they say we must MAINTAIN
| the gold standard A voice: Eyes, but we
won't" mo, L oon't think we viii myself.
If we maintain the gold standard we must
maintain those things which are neees sarily
attached to it. We must maintain this system
! OF issuing bonds to buy gold whenever we
want gold. When We issue bonds and buy
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| purchasing power throughout the world, but
we are contracting our currency by piling it
! up In the vaults at Washington when it ought {
! to be out doing business among the people.
| lApplause.
You manufacturers and merchants go to the
| banks for money. The banks tell you they
are very sorry they cannot loan any more just
now. There can be no more in this country
| than the people permit. If you make your
laws so you draw part of the money out of
circul alton and lock II up you cannot use it in
your business and have it in the vaults al
| Washington at the same time.
That looks plain enough. Yet there are
| finaEciers who go on the theory that the more
money you take out OF circulation the more
you have lett in it. lApplause.l There are
tinanciers who actually rejoiced al the issue OF
bonds, and said ii would restore confidence.
They are trying 10 run business in this coun-
| try with larger and larger percentage of con-
idence TO the amount of money on hand
llaughterl, and if they go on the people Will
nave all the confidence and no money.
lLaughter.1
There is only one place where they think the
confidence game won't work. You go to one
i OF these men who is all the time talking about
confidence and ask him to loan money He
says; , IMhet ne security X have you You say
He will tell you he is not lOaning on conf
denee this year tLaughter)
nny is II the nnanclers are SO anxious for
| you to have confidence in them when they
don't have any confidence in you? They want
security and tell you 10 get good name on
your note or put something uD that is sala.
| { Mt I
be salable are not so any more. Security that
used to be good is not good security any more.
They are driving down the value of your Sc.
eurity by driving up the value OF money.
| There is only one way TO restore confidence
aud that is to give confidence a basis to rest on
Mr.. Bryan returned with Mr.. Sewall and
the other members of the party to the
Boston and Name Railroad station, FOL
lowed by big crowd, which cheered him
repeatedly. The party took the 500 ex.
press for Boston.
BOSTON, MASS, Sept. 2s.-Arriving al
the Union station here at S:28 A. NJ. the
candidate, ana those accompanying them
jumped into carriages and were driven
rapidly across town 10 the Park-souare
station, where they boarded the Colonial
express of the Providence division of the
New York, New Haven aud Hartford
Railroad, which left at o clock Tor Provi-
dence.
George Fred Williams met Mr.. Bryan
ana hr. vail az the Tark-SQuare station
and left with them on the ira n.
PROVIDENCE. r. l., Sept. 2S.-Mr.
Bryan's trip from Boston to Providence
was without special incident. No stops
were made en- route, and Providence was
reached at 10:0I. Fifteen thousand people
greeted MIR. Bryan in this city A plat
form had been erected near the soldiers
and sailors monument on Exchange
place, and here Ex-Governor Davis intro
duced the Democratic candidate. After
warning the crowd against pickpocketS
Mr.. Bryan said:
When define an honest dollar as an homes
dollar which does not change in its purchas
ing power, 1t may give TO you q definition
which has been sound definition among al
writer's on political economy. When l give
you that definition am simply giving you
definition which has been given to the world
by that distinguished educator who lives in
this city aud who is an honor, not only TO the
city and to this State, but to the Nation. Zap
plauSeJ President Andrews in q recent Worl
eutitled can Honest Dollar" commences the
first chapter with the words which / shall
quote: "It is always assumed or admitted thai
the ideal sort OF money would be money wifi
a unit, having a steadiast general PURCHASING
power" When President Andrews describes
The ideal money as money whose unit is the
steadfast or general average OF PURCHASING
power, he planted himself upon the solid rocl
and all the hnancleFs OF this or other coun
tries cannot prevail against The character o
this detinl lion. LApplause.l
The poet has told us that "An honest maj
is the noblest work OF God" We may supple
ment this statement by adding that an homes
dollar. wherever ii is found or made, will b,
the noblest work of man. But my friends, thu
gold dollar which is praised to-day as the
honest dollar, is not the honest dollar, anc
. those who love it most, love ii because of it.
own dishonesty dollar. [Applause.l Al
honest dollar is one which preserves its gen
eral purchasing power from day to day anc
from year to year. Then the dollar which rise,
in purchasing power is just as dishonest al
the dollar which falls in purchasing power. II
one OF our Western men advocates bimetal
lism and calls attention TO the injustice OF tn,
gold standard, they say that he lacks educa
lion, and when a learned man like Professo
Andrews advocates bmetallism and denounce
the gold standard with emphasis which can
| not be surpassed, what do they say OF him P
"Much learning hath made him mad"
We say that anybody who has a piece o
gold sufficient TO make one dollar can have
that dollar coined into dollar. And the fac
that any holder of gold bullion can at an,
time convert that bullion into money enables
him to charge for that gold bullion the min
price. The mint price for silver would be es
, tablished the same as the mint price for golC
has been established. Under free coinage a
10 TO / a man VINO owns silver bullion know
. that he can take it TO the mint and have /
| converted into dollars of 100 cents OF United