Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-09-05
TALKS TO FARMERS.
Tells his Hearers That the p1eney
Problem Overshadows An 9th
ers-Quotes Carlisle's Free
SILVER Speech.

Tells his Hearers That the MONEY
Problem Overshadows All 9th
ers-Quotes cariisie's Free
SILVER Speech.
Knowlesville, N. ", Aug. 2o.--Thc
Bryan party reached here at 40 p. nj.
yesterday. During the afteroon Mr..
Bryan attended Farmers alliance
picnic and addressed large audience
Mr.. Bryan spoke as follows:
MIR. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,
| My voice Is so husky that you will have to
help me to speak by being perfectly quiet
| This Is very unusual spectacle. have
| had immense audiences In the cities where
q great many people live In small territory.
| but this is the largest audience that ever
| raw assembled In the midst of an agricult
ural county.
quotes from Carlisle.
| Politics Is practical question. IT is SO
| simply because II can be comprehended by
our people. want to talk practical poll
tics to you for little while this afternoon
speech made by John @. Carlisle in1S7S. and
want you to mark the political philosophy
| therein set forth. He was speaking on an
amendment to the Bland act and he used
| these words: III the execution Of this meas
IRE could be intrusted to a public officer
cord with those of q great majority of the
| American people. and whose sympathies
were with the struggling masses who pro-
duce the wealth and pay the taxes Of .he
| country rather than with the idle holders of
Idle capital the provision alluded to would
| be of little consequence because he
| would coin the maximum instead OF the
minimum amount allowed by the amend
mcnt but, situated as We are, we all know. 4
or at best. we all have feHsen to believe.
that not dollar beyond The minimum
amount Will be coined, and consequently
| the process Of getting this money into cir
culation will be too slow to afford the full
measure of relief which the people. nowsde-
| mand and need
Analyses the Sentiment.
Mark those words. John G. Carlisle d.
vided society into two classes. On the one
side he put the idle holders of idle capital,
| on the other side he put the struggling
| masses, who produce the wealth and pay
the taxes of the country. II the division
| existed then 1t exists to-day. More than
| that, John G. Carlisle said that a pub
| lie officer sworn to do duty would be con-
| trolled in his official conduct by his sympa-
| thies, and Ii his sympathies were with the
idle holders of idle capital he would coin
| as little money as possible, whereas, II his
| sympathies were with tho struggling
masses he would coin as much as the law
| would permit him. This is the language or
John @. Carlisle.
The Issue To-Day.
MY friends. the issue to-day IS an issue
between the idle holders of idle money and
the struggling masses who produce the
wealth and pay the taxes of the country
and, when this question is understood.
when men find out about the money ques-
tion, you will find that, if there Is a man
In your community whose interests or
whose sympathies are with the idle holders
of idle money, he will be In favor OF gold
standard, and, not daring to say so, he
will talk about honest money and O
sound money and a sound dollar But
II his sympathies are with those who pro-
duce the nations wealth, he Will be for the
gold and silver coinage of the constitution,
no matter how many times you call him an
anarchist
VIII Not Stop Bolt.
"They tell us that these financiers are
going to leave the democratic party be- |
cause 1t declares for the restoration of sill |
yer. We shall not go into court to secure |
an order to prevent their going. The DEM
Ocratic party has been weighted down by |
these millstones long enough. 1t is glad
to be rid of those who want to use the par
~ organization for private gain and their
country for public plumber.
Follows Up Carlisle.
what Is going to be next? Mr.. Car |
Isle knew. In 1878 he said: Under its infiu- |
ence the exchangeable value and the COM
modities, including labor. will soon begin |
to RISE That is what he said in 1878. But, |
what will be the effect Of It? Thus invit-
ing investments. infusing life into the dead |
industries of tho country and quickening |
the pulsations of trade In all of its depart |
lnents' He understood the laws of finance. |
"IIe understood what was the effect of |
adding this money to the circulation, and,
my friends, IL he stated the truth then, |
that truth has not changed since then, nor
can II be changed, though every one who |
spoke for 1t should turn his back upon 1t. |
Truth lives. 1t Is the one thing that will |
not die. Iquote these words to you to show |
you that by the increase of the volume of |
money we expect to stop the constant de-
probation of property.
IT assert that the gold standard could |
not live for one day In any other nation I'M
der the sun without the aid of the money |
owners and the money changers to keep |
It In existence. assert that the gold stand |
ard has never received the Endorsement of |
any class of people except those who pros
per as society Is destroyed by rising dol
lar.
He Offers Proof
Now, want to say to you that my de-
nunciation of the gold standard is sus-
tanned by events which you can see. Let
me give you proof IL q man tells you
the gold standard Is good thing, you ask |
him why 1t Is that no party In the history |
of the United States has ever declared IT.
self for gold standard in its platform.
Isn't 1t strange. IL the gold standard Is a
good thing. that no party has ever seen fl
to say so In platform? And that Is true.
1t is true that no national party has ever
Endorsed a gold standard, and vet there are
people who favor 1t. Why don't they have /
the courage to write q platform and risk
an issue before the people? But no, they
do not do that. They go to st. Louis and |
adopt platform which says the repub-
lican party pledges itself to secure BIZ
metallism, which, of course, is q denuncia-
ton of the gold standard. If the gold |
standard is good, why should we get rid
of It? II the gold standard is good. why /
did not the republican party pledge itself
TO help keep gold standard? But no, I
1t pledged itself to get rid of the gold
standard just as soon as other nations will
help.
THAT is not my language, my friends,
but is the language of the republican plat
form, and that is the construction placed
upon 1t by the candidate who runs upon 1t
in his letter of acceptance. He says In
his letter that the American people cannot
enter upon bimetallism without the con-
current action Of other nations. Does he
say we shall maintain gold standard for
one year? No. For four years? No. But
the conclusion IL that we must maintain
1t forever II other nations say we must 1t
IL not question of politics, my friends
Whole parties are divided on this issue. 1t
rises above the question Of politics. They
have declared against the right Of the peo-
pie of the United States to govern them
selves. They have declared that, while
we want to get rid of the gold standard l.
We must keep the thing we don't want I'M
til aliens shall bring us the relief which
we should achieve for ourselves. Zap
plause.l
A Question or Rights. .fls
II know not what View you may take
Of 1t, my friends. but In my humble judy
ment, the American people are the only
PEOPLE who have any right to say what the
Americans will have for legislation. They
have driven down the price OF your prod
ucts. They have Increased the burden or
Your debts. They have foreclosed your
mortgages. They are degrading and low
ering the standard OF civilization by driv-
ing people who want to work out upon the
streets. and then idleness breeds crime.
and crime menaces the safety OF every
citizen OF the land.
my friends, 1t is not more taxes that the
people want, but more money to pay their
taxes with. But care not how men may
differ upon the subject OF taxation. The
subject of taxation ID ever present with
us. We can change our tariff system any
time, but we have reached crisis In our
monetary affairs, and we have got to decide
whether tho American people will run our
nnances or turn our government over to
Fyndicates to take care Of u.s. Upon the