Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-09-19
BRYAN At GOLDsBORo'.
He Makes n Speech which Arouses
Great Enthusiasm.

GOLDSBORO', N. c., September 49,
Goldsboro' did not sleep much last night.
William J. Bryan had arrived just before
midnight. and everybody stayed up to
receive him and forgot TO go TO bed. In
order that Mr.. Bryan might sleep the
special train furnished him by the North
Carolina State escort was hauled out OF
town, and the sleeper In which the can
didate spent the night was slde-tracked
away from bonfires and brass bands and
strong-lunged enthusiasts.
This morning at 3 o'clock Mr.. Bryan's
train was hauled back to town. At the
station the candidate was met by "A local
reception committee, which conducted
him to a speakers stand. on Center
street, broad. main thoroughfare.
brass band and the Goldsboro' Rifles, In
full uniform, and with arms and equip
ments. marched ahead. Centre street AT
the point where the stand was erected
was crowded. the gathering numbering
between three and four thousand.
G. b. Aycock. a prominent attorney,
presented Mr.. Bryan. who made a speech
that worked his hearers up to a high
degree of enthusiasm.
Mr.. Bryan said: Sometimes they ac-
cuse us OF raising n sectional issue. One
of the best evidences that the platform
adopted at Chicago does not raise a sec
tional issue Is found in the language or
the platform adopted yesterday in New
York Let me read II to you. After I'M
reservedly endorsing the platform and
the candidates of the Chicago convention.
the New York platform contains these
words: 1t declares as its deliberate
judgment that. never in the history of
the Democratic party has platform been
III. LOT
ly the interests OF the whole people.
as distinguished from those who seek
legislation for private benefit, than that
given to the country by the National
Democratic Convention of 1896. tCheers)
There within the shadow OF Wall
street; there. against the combined op-
position of those once leading Democrats
of New York, who have left the Demo-
cratic party and either gone over entire
" to the Republicans or stopped for a
moment at the halfway house. the De-
mocracy Of New York declares that the
platform adopted at Chicago is the most
Democratic platform ever put before the
country by Democratic convention.
(Cheers)
"In the State OF Connecticut they have
endorsed our platform. and in Penrisyl-
vania and New Jersey. In these and
other Eastern States the Democracy Is
beginning to realize that the Chicago
platform presents to the American peo-
pie those great issues around which the
people must cluster II they are going to
retain a government OF, by, and for the
people.
THE INCOME-TAX.
1.-THE Chicago platform contained
plank expressing a desire for an income
tax. not saying that we are going to
ignore the decision of the Supreme Court,
but that an income-tax should be re-
tanned and enforced so far as the deci-
sion of the court would permit and that
we would abide by the principle still, II
a future court should exercise the same
right TO reverse the decision recently
given that the present court exercised in
overthrowing the precedent OF hundred
years. We should go back to the doc
trine we used TO have. and declare that
under the Constitution II Is possible to
make those who have large incomes pay
their share OF the expense Of the govern
ment. (Cheers)
'Tn my judgment. the income-tax IS
Just. II is not war upon property, but
il Is demand that those who have pro-
perty, and who demand the protection OF
that property by Federal laws. should
be willing to support the government to
which they look for that protection, and
not seek 10 use the instrumentalities OF
government for their own benefit and
then throw the burden OF supporting that
government on the backs of those not
able TO bear It, (Cheers)
THE MONEY QUESTION.
1.-THE three parties that have Joined In
my nomination agree that, while there are
other issues before the people aside from
tho money question, yet the money ques-
ton rises paramount 10 them ALL and
must be settled first. Other questions can
wait: the money question cannot.
IF we have the universal gold standard,
IL means that the annual supply OF money
given TO all the people OF the world must
be drawn from our gold mines each
year. and not all of that can go to the
mints, because the great bulk of Ii is
used I'm the arts. The gold used In the
arts is increasing every year, and we
shall reach time-in fact. some insist
that time Is already reached-when the
total amount of gold produced every year
will be needed for the arts, and leave
no annual product TO keep up with the
demand for money.
"Our opponents talk as If we could get
along with less and less money as the
years 20 by. Some of them have such
confidence in the substitutes for money
that they believe the time will soon come
when we will need no money at all. They
remind me of man who thought fish
could be made TO live without water. lie
took a herring and put it In a pail OF
salt water. and gradually took out the
salt water and put i'm fresh until the
water was almost entirely fresh. But
the change was made so gradually that
the fish did not notice IT, and kept on
living Having succeeded that far he
began 10 take out the fresh water lit
tie each day. and did it so gradually that
finally II was all gone. and yet the fish
had not been able TO detect the decrease.
Then he took the fish out of the jar and
put il i'm bird-cage and fed 1t like a
bird but one day, when he was gone. his
attendant thought the fish needed water
to drink, and placed a small quantity OF
it in the cage. When the man came back.
behold the fish had got his head in the
water and been drowned. because 1t was
not used to 1t. Great laughter.)
"My opponents think they can gradu-
ally substitute something else for money,
and do II so gradually that after awhile
people won't know what TO do with money
If they have ii. But, my friends, 1t won't
work
DECREASE OF CIRCULATION.
"rrhe law requires that national banks
shall keep on deposit Is per cent. Of the
funds left with them. That proportion
shall be kept In the banks all the time
as security for those who have deposits
there. II n bank has 100000 deposited
with 1t, 1t must keep $4,000 there all the
time. That money cannot be kept there
unless II Is In existence first. Now, II
and business prosperity in
crease. don't you suppose bank deposits
will increase, also? If bank deposits in
crease. then the reserve must increase.
What are you going to do II your money
does not keep pace with population, in
dustry. and prosperity? How are you.
going TO have morey 10 act as security
for depositors? Yet. our opponents in