The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1896-10-02
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ENrHusl sTIc BRYAN MEET.


Judge A. S. Bennett, OF The palles.
addressed goods red and enthusiastic
audience OF ladies and gentlemen at the
court house last night. He said this was
not a light between the so-cal.sd repab-
lican and democratic parties, but fight
for the preservation of the rights OF free
men On the one side were arranged
the standard Uil trust. the greedy rail
road and money ioAning corporations,
sugar trusts, aud every ombination os
capital seeking to get their flngers in tue
pockets of the people through manipula.
lion OF legislative enActmentE; and on
the other side were those who had out
grown partiz2nship aud were Tailyius
around the standard OF that honest and
fearless American citizen, w j. BRYAN,
who proposes that no trust nor unia = tuI
aggregation of capital shall find room
any longer TO feast of the producer and
consumer by prices liked by uniAw fil
trusts he showed from speeches de-
livered by candidate Wan Mckinley iu
1891 and in lsg2. prior TO Cleveland :
eleciion that the low nEic 9 Of all farm
psodGst ts were due TO world wide causes
lie showed that the handred-, yea, oy.r
Thousand labor strikes and locsouts &C.
curing ia 1891 ard more than one Thou<-
and strikes aud iockouts occnrrsng in
lssl2 had not been forgotten, and the
statistics OF those proofs still remained
regardless Of campaign stories 10 the
contrAry. The Wilson-Gorman tariff
was not passed until 1884 50 that in iacs
the failures oi 1898 xere under the Me-
kinlry iaflH act but the Judge showed
thai tie gradually declining prices prev
i1us 10 lSs9 acre prodns,e1 by sor.d
wid- causes. Silver had been until aboas
1873 primary money, thHtis money o!
last redemption 10 the L. 3. bns shea
the U. :. defnonatiEed silver. that is iaok
from Its functions as naoaey Of EinAl re
iempsann. other countries followed sui.
Silver then became aud is now in nsoss
countries token money onIy A token
money Is money that is reasonable Ia
the primary money or monry ot final re-
dempsion ol couniFy. As there ID less
than four billions .. gold there il ard
hercSf1 Eili be greater than ever q
scramble among the nzgsons nf the earth
10 obtain this gold nos ih2s ilIey expec:
10 Circulate iae gold. bat that shrv de-
sire 20 keep - IN gosSrament vaults and
"a hanks NJ money of tinal redemption,
as money 10 TcSiecsn The token money
NoH silver was formerly equally asih
geld : money OF nnsi redemption. and
had . place long side Of gold as primary
money. Then our goSercDeai eonld
either redeem its token nonay, consist
ing os outstanding paper mouey IN either
/ - ID or silver. The governments ssiver
then stood for something. Nov under 4
conspiracy 10 increase ahc purchasing
I SaNE 4. A a
no longer money ol 6nal redemption
Silver nos sinks 10 the mere level 6g q
token money aud may Just as veil have
no more intrinsic vAgue snzn paper, for
A.: II i under the new order OF things 10 IL
considered as nothing unless redeemed
in gold. As ssnld is limited and a. values
must necessarily b. adjusted 10 the
measure OF the whole amount Of money
of dual redemption in countrg, 1t fol.
.ovs that as the money OF fnal
redemption becomes scarce,
that values aud pr:ees Of all pro.
duets, and lands, fall. This has beer
going on ali over the world as = result o.
q gold standard, and as a consequence uC
tariff under heayen or on earth could
now or ever change prices until ths
money system, the great primary cause
II changed The scarcity OF the money
OF final redemption il gold, increases ihs
purchasing price OF su>h dollar, aud il IL
fEffsct has become SO far as measurin.
values 20 per cent dollar.
We must return to q bincs2ilic basis
where silver and gold shall be equal,
the money ol final redemption. Thi
uew-fsngled idea Of rcsieeming silver il
gold is a monstFoeisy in finance.
tie said the Law of Injunction that en-
abled the court 10 try men Hitho It Civ
ing them the benefit OF jury trial was
pToces ding that needed tie condemna
tion OF all i'berty-loyiug people. 1t ha
come to = poor pass when in a free eoan
try, courts get 50 sacred that they ar
above the criticisms OF the people VIII
formed and made them.
Lincoln was brave enough TO denounc
supreme decisions and as be was cham
pIen OF tue liberties OF the whole hgmaI
race and a dciiycrer in his day, 50 evel
now W. J. Bryan, following IN the foot
tteps OF the Immortal Lincoln, appeal
10 the people who believe in ti4e tight
aud liberties OF the common people a
distinguished from the synd'cates tina
rally around the standard OF Mark Han
ma. We want an American pFesideH
for the American people, run under
sys em that Is American, one that wi
bring prosperity and peace.
. The court house was nearly full an
, cheered the speaker repeatedly. BryA
men were asked to stand when more tha
! thre,s-tourths present aroee and CAV
three mighty cheers Ior w. J. Bryan Il
next president OF the United States.