The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-10
GOLD HELD UP AS A GHoUL.
BRYAN AGAIN SAILS INTO THE YELL
Low METAL STANDARD.

Its Alleged EVIL Effects Explained
Advocates of the Gold Basis Ac-
cused of Trying to HOOdwink the
PeOpIe-CrnVvdS of People Try to
ROut Mr.. Bryan Out of His Berth
All Through the Night.
Sioux City, Ia, Oct 9.-The people who
got up early to see William ]. Bryan
would not let him sleep this morning. They
banged on the windows of his private car
at Marshalltown up to the time he left
there at 1:43 o'clock, and it was hardly
daybreak when it was renewed at little
stations where the train halted on it's way
to this city. There were crowds at Adel-
bert Arthur, Battle Creek, Danbury, Ma
pleton, Oawa and Within.
Mr. Bryan was obliged to rise early in
response to shouts at several stations of
"Trot him out" and Let's see him" He
made a number of brief speeches. The
biggest crowd that heard him was at On
ava, populist stronghold.
1t was raining hard, chill cold rain,
when the candidate reached Sioux City
at 1920 this morning. He was escorted
to the big train shed of the union passen-
ger station and mounted on a truck and
addressed an audience of several thousand
persons, huddled together there. After
an introduction by Judge Wagenan, can
didate for congress in the Eleventh dis
trict Mr. Bryan said
Fellow Citizens: If our opponents are
"A
standard ought to be maintained in this
country until foreign nations consent to
| it's abandonment, then, my friends, the
! election of an advocate of free coinage
would be an injury to the country. IT, on
| the other hand, we are right in our con-
| tention that there can be no permanent
relief until we have restored silver to its
| ancient place and permitted it to enter
| the minis on equal terms with gold, say
if we are right, then the maintenance
of the gold standard is a crime against
the American people. CCheers.)
"In the discussion of a great question
like this there are several things THAI
throw light upon the controversy. If you
go into court and find a witness who IS
willing to clearly state what he knows,
who gives his testimony without evasion,
you believe that he is an honest witness.
If, on the other hand you find a witness
who deals in ambiguous phrases, who
attempts to evade questions, and who at
tempts to cover up his ideas with words
of a double meaning, you doubt the hon
estv and sincerity of the witness. So in
a controversy like this, when our people
who advocate free coinage openly declare
what they want, why they want it, and
how they expect to get; when they give
YOU reasons for their faith, you have a
right to have confidence in the honesty
of their purpose. But when our oppon-
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out daring to advocate it, when they talk
about sound money when they mean gold,
when they talk about an honest dollar
when they mean the most dishonest dol
lar there is in the land to-day (cheers)
you have a right to question their sin
cerity.
MY friends men who have a cause in
which they believe are not ashamed to
state their belief, and when you find writ
ten on republican banners that decep-
tive phrase sound money you have a
right to believe that the men who use
the term use it because they are not will
ling to tell the American people what
they mean by sound money We believe
in sound money and we believe that the
free coinage of silver at 16 to / gives
us a sounder money than can be had by
the gold standard. We believe in a safe
financial system, but we believe that in
order to be safe a financial system must
system to rest upon. (Cheers) Our OPP
ponents tell you that they want bimetal-
lism whenever foreign nations will con-
sent to having it, and yet they secretly
use every effort to fasten the gold stand
ard upon the American people. GAP
plause) Let me ask you this question,
and you can repeat IT to the advocates
of the republican platform: is the gold
standard a good thing?' (Cries Of mo;
No" from the crowd, and one cry of
''Yes.) My republican friend says the
gold standard is a good thing. l ask him
why the republican party promised to
get rid of the gold standard as soon as
they could (Cheers)
departing from their platform, the re-
publicans will tell you that gold is good
money, because it is good all over the
world. My friends, no money is good
which raises in value and robs the pro-
dtIcers of this country to the benefit Of
the bondholders. They say the gold dol
lars is honest. No dollar is honest which
rises in value and gives an unearned adj
vantage to the man who loans money and
imposes an unjust burden on the man who
agrees to pay It. There is something nee
essary in money, besides the quality.
There must be quantity as we'll as quail
ity to money" (Cheers.)
on the conclusion of his speech Mr..
Bryan returned TO his train, which left
at lbs O'Clock over the Chicago and
Northern for Sioux Falls, S. ID.
Sioux Falls, s. D., Oct. 9.-Elk Point was
the first place at which the Bryan special
stopped after It crossed the Missouri from
Iowa into South Dakota, and the crowd
that had braved the rain to see the candi-
date heard him make little speech. "You
will see men who handle money and own
money, and change money, who are anx-
ious for money to rise in value" he said
you see men who handle corn, and raise
corn, who are anxious to have corn rise
in value. The people who raise corn have
"A right TO protect themselves and to pre-
vent an additional fall In the price Of corn.