The San Francisco call., 1896-10-18
Five Minutes of Wild Applause
When the Illinois Gov.
ernor Appeared.
AssAILs THE GOLD STANDARD
And Tries TO Justify the AnarchiStic
Planks in the Chicago
Platform.

German Democracy OF New ork City.
When the famous Governor appeared
upon the platform. tianked by the officers
of the meeting, the audience arose as one
man and cheered and cheered until it grew
hoarse of voice.
The cheering broke from them like a
mighty cyclone, swiried, eddied and beat
in enthusiastic fury until tired nature
would permit no more. Then it iulled it.
self to prepare for another outburst. The
second came when Congressman William
Sulzer introduced the Governor as the
'Tribune of the Middle West" Standing
on their seats, and yelling like madmen,
waving little flags and bannerettes, the
entire audience broke forth in cheer after
cheer.
The applause fell and rose alternately
for fully five minutes. Henry George was
among those who were applauded by the
crowd present.
After a speech by Fred Schrautz, the
Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor, who acted as chairman, the follow
ing telegram was read:
BIG RAPIDS, MICH, Oct. II, 1904 cor
dial greeting 10 the COMMUNICATIONS. Free
coinage at 10 to l without waiting for other
nations will iurnish q sounder currency than
is possible under gold standard, and Will, In
the language OF Bismarck, exert most salu-
tary influence in restoring bimetailism
throughout the world. w. J. BRYAN.
Congressman Sulzer made somewhat
lengthy speech, euiogistic OF the illinois
Governor, and when he closed With the
formal Introduction and the chief speaker
stepped forward the audience cheered for
fully five minutes.
In Ia 90
/ have come to bring the patriotic people of
New York and of the East the greeting of
the great Mississippi Valley; of that hard yeo-
manry OF the Central aud Western States that
has always rallied TO the support OF the Ameri-
can flag in times OF danger and that supports
and maintains our institutions in times OF
peace. Those great toiljng and producing
masses who make our civilization possible feel
that their destiny is linked with the sons OF
liberty who inhabit the East. We are unwill-
ing to believe out in the West that patriotism
has died east of the Alleghanies and that
Mammon is the only god at whose shrine
Eastern people bow. We are unwilling to be-
lieve that the few men in your large cities
who use the Government as a convenience to
make fortunes, who use our Republic as q
mere foraging ground to amass wealth, who
cringe to EuroI can aristocracy, and who wave
the American flag with one hand while rob-
bfng the public with the other, represent the
sentiment of that section OF the country that
was the cradle of American liberty.
We do not believe because you have in your
midst men who value the privilege OF taking
breakfast with the Prince of Wales more than
they do the blessings OF free government;
that because you have in your midst men who
are re idy to undermine and to overthrow re-
publican institutions in our land In order to
gain a temp Iorary personal advantage for
themselves, that therefore the fires OF liberty,
which for more than a century burned upon
your hill tops and illumined the world, are ex-
tinct. We believe that the hearts OF q jority
OF your people are loyal to the institutions of
the fathers, and that they beat in unison with
the hearts OF the great people OF the Sou tn and
West, who believe that the time has not come
for converting this republic into an oligarchy.
At present there is in addition to the gold
standard quartz OF bl1ghting sisters in our
land, respectively called: "Federal lnterfer-
ence in local affairs, Government by in
junction." "Usurpation by the United States
Supreme Court" and fourth, corruption"
All flour are clothed in pharisaism and pre-
tense and all recognize the gold standard as
their natural or foster mother We believe
that these blighting sisters, whose smile means
paralysis and whose embrace means death,
have no more admirers among your people
than they have among ours.
This campaign is to decide not only whether
we shall perpetuate the experiment OF this
English financial system, which is prostrating
our Nation, but also whether we Shall per-
manently adopt these four sisters into our
household and make them the ruling men,
bers of the family.
Thema has been torn from the gold STAN
dard. Our people are beginning 10 UNDER
stand the attemp pit to introduce II throughout
the commercial world is disastrous expert
ment; that down to 1873 the world used not
only all the gold and all the silver as money,
but SO great was the worlds business that
every dollar was loaded with twenty times as
much credit; that all the great achievements
OF mankind were accomplished under the Di-
metallic system; that under this system every
thing that makes the civilization OF this CEN
tury was done, and that since the introduce
ton OF the universal standard the wheels OF
progress have stood still.
Our people are beginning to understand
that formerly there were added every year to
the worlds stock of money nearly ell OF the
gold and silver that was mined, which In
measure kept pace with the increase OF popu-
latlon. but that since 1873 only the gold has
been added-that is, only half as much has
been added each year as there formerly was,
while the population has increased more
rapidly than ever, and that this fact alone
must produce continuous fall in prices.
Our people are beginning to understand
that making money scarce makes money dear,
tnat dear money means low prices for prop
erty, for the products OF the earth and for the
products of labor. They further understand
that as taxes and debts were not reduced low
prices have destroyed the purehasing-power
OF the farming and producing classes SO that
they can no longer buy the products OF the
factory and the mill they formerly did, in
consequence of which the factory and the mill
had to partially or wholly shut down. thus in
turn destroying the purchasing power OF the
laborer,seand that in this manner the gold
standard has spread paralysis, not only over
America, but over Europe and the civilized
world
Our people understand that when the gov
ernments of the earth forced the world off
the bimetallic standard OF prices down TO
the low gold-slandard prices they practically
doubled the burden of all debtors, and that,
strange as 1T may seem, none OF the Pharisees
who now cry aloud against making money
cheap and injuring the creditor ever uttered
word OF sympathy for the poor debtor. They
understand that the bull ion in one OF the So
called ''5C-cent dollars"-treated as bullion
with the stamp OF the Government erased-has
substantially the same purchasing power and
Will buy as much property. as much OF the
products of the earth and of labor as had or
did any of the dollars which the Englishmen
gave US for our bonds They understand that
the gold dollar has been forced up to where 1t
will buy twice as much property and products
as 1t formerly did: that the governments by
destroying silver reduced the worlds supply
oi money, and by making gold alone do the
worlds work they increased the demand OF IT.,
thus interfering with the law OF supply and
demand and that as soon as this legislation is
wiped out gold win OF necessity come down to
It's former position.
Our people understand that it will be i'm
poss bic 10 open the mills and restore pros
perity to the world until the purchasing
power OF the farming and the great producing
Classes of the earth Is restored and that this
ca only be done by putting an end TO this
eoid standard experiment and restoring BIZ
metallism.
Governor Altgeld spoke on Federal in