The herald., 1896-09-01

present campaign was declaring for the
gold standard. and that never in the
history of the United States had a ma
tional party dared to write in it's plat
form single sentence in approval of it,
The gold standard was conceived in
avarice" and Fastened upon this coun-
try by fraud" and the speaker declared
that IL would be continued by fraud and
deception. At this juncture some one
created great applause by shouting:
Down with Mckinley" Mr.. Bryan
added that the gold standard had never
fought an open fight and that it car
ried the mask of the burglar and the
knife of the assassin
In the legislation which fastened i.
upon the country every step had been
taken at night and without the knowl-
edge or consent of the people. Mr.. Bry-
an said the Republican party at st.
Louis had such an opportunity as sell
dom comes to party, adding: 1.-THE ad
| ministration had advanced the gold
standard, had forced through, under
whip and spur, law that repealed the
purchasing clause of the Sherman law.
The administration had issued bonds in
time of peace, and, worse than ALL it
entered into contract with few
financiers in New York and London, by
which it paid those financiers an enor-
nous profit for protecting the treasury,
which 100000 people stood ready to
protect"
But the Republican party did not de-
nounce these transactions, he said, be-
cause it was dominated by the same in
f1uence that has dominated in the af-
fairs of both great parties, and the Re
publican party had been deaf to all
sounds. save the clinking of gold and
blind to all color save the glittering yell
low." (Great applause.)
Mr. Bryan repeated his argument that
the Republican platform confesses the
gold standard to be bad, when it says
it ought to be abandoned, and yet con-
fesses it's impotency to govern this coun-
try when it onfesses that it must ask
for foreign aid" If the toiling masses
in this country could not excite pity in
the minds of the party in this country
which they had made great he asked
how could they expect pity from the ma
tions from which they had wrested an
empire? He asserted his opponents
were preaching the gospel of despair,
that they were asking a people to con-
tinue a policy from which there was no
hope. not promise, not prospect. The
speaker added that the country was
but upon the treshold of a period of
depression which was indefinite in dur
alton, if the old standard were to be
continued, and if times were hard now,
he asked, what might be expected when
all the nations came to demand gold.
He added: you say you are not con-
cerned in what others do. Let me beg
of you to be beware of subjecting the
interests of the greatest nation on earth
to a gold standard until you are pre-
pared to accept the legitimate and nat
ural results of such an act. If greed and
avarice can blind the judgment or stifle
the consciences of 900 of people in
the United States, do you not know that
when this policy is consummated here
the same influences will be turned
toward other silver using countries?
If they can drive silver out here, what
nation can stand it's influences? Wait
until these' influences, wait until these
heartless, ,merciless influences have driv-
en- silver from here and they will turn
to other nations. Wait until they have
driven silver from India and $50, 900
of people reach out after their share of
the worlds supply of gold.
Wait until they have driven silevr
from China and 100000, 900 of people
reach out after tlOir share of the worlds
supply of gold; wait until they have
driven Japan to the gold standard, and
Mexico and South America, and then
you will put gold on an auction block
and every toiler under the sun will bow
to it and work little harder and get
little less of the yellow metal And at
whose bidding do you destroy silver?
At the bidding of the farmer of the
world? The farmers have never asked
for the crucifixion of silver. At the bid
ding of the laborers of the world? The
laborers of the world have never de-
manded the death of the white metal.
Who has demanded it? CA voice, wall
street.') The money changers whom the
Saviour drove ont of the temple. Go to
the great centers where a few men can
corner the worlds gold and let it out for
little while to the uation that will
pay the highest price for it. Go to the
large holders of fixed investments, who
find that their property rises as stagna-
ton and istress prevails throughout the
world. These are the ones who come to
you and in the name of honesty beg you
to give them the bread earned by the
sweat of your brow. They appeal to the
laboring man to help them fasten this
standard upon the country. My friends,
you have the right to ask them, when
they tell you that they are laboring for
the benefit of the laboring man, you have
the right to ask them to produce some
of the statement that they feel an in
terest in those who toll. When did these
Sauls of Tarsus become converted to
ministers of our religion? When did
these men who stoned the prophet turn
around and say peace on earth and good
will to men? You have a right to con-
slider the manner and the words of
those who come to preach gold stand
ard-these defenders who raise them
selvesto their full height and say Shall
we allow the poor ignorant, incompe-
tent people to ruin themselves?' CA
voice, "By what means does money get
into circulation?'D
Mr.. Bryant am glad friend askd
that question. The best way to investi-
gate the question is to put yours into cir
culation. My trouble has been to keep
my money from getting into circulation