The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-25
Mr.. Bryan's Campaign Tour
Through Connecticut.
GREAT CROWDS GREET HIM
The Most Enthusiastic Recep-
tion at Bridgeport.
SAYS GOLD DOLLAR is a FRAUD
Under Gold Standard the Gold Dol
lar Grows Fatter Every Day
and is Therefore Not An
Honest Dollar.


Bridgeport, Conn.,, Sept. 24-Ihe
first stop of the Bryan party was made
at Stamford, where several hundred
persons surrounded the car and cheer
ed time and again for the nominee.
The train stopped but a moment, but
in that time Mr.. Bryan had chance
to say a few words.
The crowd at South Norwalk was
about the same IN size anu
the enthusiasm was as great
as it was at Stamford Mr.. Bryan told
the people he was trying TO save hls
voice, and he thought that they would
agree with him that it needed saving.
The most enthusiastic reception OF
the day was that accorded by the
citizens of Bridgeport. When the tram
rolled into the station, NUMBER OF
carriages were in waiting. In these
Mr.. Bryan and party were taken TO
Washington Park, in the heart OF the
CITY, where Mr.. Bryan spoke TO a
crowd of several thousand, saying III
parts
to sneak to the people of Connecticut.
They accuse us of raising a sectional
question. We have not raised sec
fional question. The restoration OF bl-
metallism is good, not for the West
and South only, it is good for the peo-
ple of Connecticut, also. (Aplause.)
The gold standard is fraud zap
Dlausel. and is as detrimental to masses
of the people of Connecticut as it is
to the masses anywhere else. Some
times they have accused people who
live in Connecticut of making wooden
nutmeps and selling them for the real
article. / want to tell you that man
who palms off a wooden nutmeg as a
real nutmeg is man of honesty COM
pared with the man who advocates
gold dollar and calls it an honest dol
lar. (Great applause.) The gold dol
lar is not an honest dollar, and the
reason why our opponents insist on
using the phrase honest money,
instead of gold money is because they
recognize the difference between an
honest dollar and gold dollar. When
they talk about honest money and
then a gold standard at the same time,
they remind me of the man who went
TO a cemetery and saw an inscription
z1Y,on a monument, Here lies a lawyer,
an honest man. (Laughter.) And the
man who read the inscription remark
ed that the grave did not look like it
was big enough for two men. (Laugh-
teri / do not speak of this to slander
the lawyer. / am a lawyer myself
n.aughter), and I believe that a lawyer
can be an honest man, but / spoke
of it, my friends, to show you that
you cannot have honest money and
gold standard at the same time.
A voice: "Why?A
ah Mr. Bryan.-tBecause a gold dollar
under a gold standard, grows fatter
every day, and that is not an honest
dollar Great applause). Now, what
would be an honest dollar? Why, they
say dollar which, when you melt 1T,
loses nothing. According to that the
Mexican dollar is an honest dollar,
because You can melt it and 1T does
not lose anything.
A voice: "How much is it worth?'
Mr. Bryan.-"It is worth just the
same as the bullion in it is worth
Now, If the Mexican dollar is worth
lust as much as the bullion in it,
and the bullion in it is worth just as
much as the Mexican dollar, / want to
ask you if it is not an honest dollar
according to those who say that an
honest dollar is a dollar that loses
nothing by melting? (Applause). A
4MHAlGbI AlO1Aal lo fSOt btA ~ &NiiA9 11A
our money. An American dollar win
buy about two Mexican dollars, and
also about two bushels of wheat at the
same time. Great applause). There
was a time when an American dollar
would only buy one Mexican dollar,
and then an American dollar would
only one bushel of wheat. II the time
ever comes when an American dollar
will buy three Mexican dollars, then
it will buy three bushels OF wheat.
ssThis is a manufacturing CITY. You
manufacture sewing mecnlnes here'
NY friends, let me ask you no" you
are going to increase the output VI
your machine factories? Are you go
ing to make it so that only few Ieo-
pie can afford to use sewing mechlnes'
or do you want the people prosperous
so every wife can have a sewing ma
chine?
81 understand that some OF
your employers are very much worried
because they fear that their en-
ployes will only get fifty cent
dollars They need not be worried.
If they have as much love for the labor
ing man after the election as they have
now, even if free coinage meant the SO
cent dollar, they could pay their la
boringmen twice as many dollars and
save them from any harm done them.
(Applause) You say they won't do
it? If they won't help you when they
have a chance to, why do you believe
them when they tell you they're losing
sleep at night now for fear you will
hurt yourself? (Applause.)
'eThe gold standard destroys the OPP
portunity to work; the gold standard
makes men work half time because