Birmingham state herald., 1896-10-30

It was recently said by an English leader
 that what which England needed most
 was a supreme court like that of the
 United States"
 Relative to the issuing of bonds in time
 of peace, the speaker said the democratic
 administration has been such that they
 were forced to issue those bonds to keep
 up the gold reserve, and MT. Cleveland
 could not have prevented it had he de-
 sired.
 The great west, he says is more thickly
 settled than the people are aware Of here.
 He is somewhat of nimrod, and has fol-
 lowed his gun on the hunt in that section
 He has seen settlements on the plains
 with only imaginary lines separating
 Russians, Poles, Swedes and Irish who
 are the scrapings of Europe, and know
 about as little about this government as
 a hog knows of Christmas.
 The speaker here urged the south to re- tain her faith with the north, and not misplace it with the west. MT. Wise said that he was a goldbug and Bryan a lunatic
 He devoted about half an hour to the discussion of the financial question: ad- vancing nothing new, but handled the subject in a skillful manner. The country he says, has $500, O0,O00 in gold, $559 100000 in silver, $36O,O0 900 in greenbacks and $20000, ,000,00 in national | bank notes.
 A large per cent of this money is in the banks, because the people have nothing | to get 1t out with.
 "Some people in this country believe | that free silver means that wagons will | be driven around and the silver shoyeled | out to all who want It. There is plenty of money with which | to transact the business of the country, and the reason it is in the banks is the I lack of confidence, or not having the | things to get it out with. You can only get it out with your labor or trade unless l you borrow or steal it.
 "Bryan acknowledges his scheme Is an experiment and if it doesn't work we can | try something else. If it doesn't, say we are 'busted.' Y You may be a little SICK | and take quack medicine, but when you are as sick as this country is now you place your quack medicine on the shen 1 and send for skilled doctor. These financiers who are going around promising to put this country on the hlgn | road to prosperity are men who never 1 made any money and generally wear one | gallus' and that buttoned to nail. But | they say they know all about finance ana | the banker is fool. If you don't get your 1 information from the banker when ne mas l gotten rich on finance, in the name or l common sense how do you expect to get l any information from man who never
 made enough money in his life to buy | shirt?
 "They say the rich men of the east 1 coerce ther employees. They tell me Tn Nebraska that western country MT. Bry- an boasts of doesn't coerce, but gets the | gun and say go do, and do 1t quick. "The whole purpose of this silver moVe- | ment is to allow western silver barons to | sell the product of their silver mines or | double it's market value" The speaker said it nearly breaks his l heart to see the south following after the i west, when all our hopes and future de- l pends on the confidence between the 1 south and north.
 1 Don't again build up solid south and l solid north on this financial issue. Do 1 not place yourself in a condition that when prosperity again sweeps over this | country as it will when MT. Mckinley is elected, that when you ask aid of the | northern capitalists, or seek northern l capital to develop your resources, the cap- | italist shake his head and say, NO, you halloaed for Bryan and the free silver | fallacy. We can not risk our money | there. Then what will you do?' l The speaker here branched off into l peroration, in which he criticised strong | ly and severely MT. Bryan, characterized l him as a man of too small calbre in 1 comparison with the great minds of the l east and north for the people to even l think of making president. | The race he said, is now over, and Me- l Kinley is already elected, and the repub- | lican party Is only running against time. | SPEAKS TO THE NEGROES. l MT. Wise spoke to large crowd of me- | groes at Jacksons hall at the conclusion | of his opera house speech, in which he l advised them to vote straightout for the Mckinley ticket.