The San Francisco call., 1896-10-09
|NGERSOLL TALKS
FOR SOUND MONEY
Ringing Words That Rout
All Arguments by
Bryan.
" Better to Be an Honest Bank.
rupt Than a Rich Thief
Says the Colonel.
COLLEGE BsY5 ARE sUBDUED.
An Attempt to Shout Down the Great
Orator Promptly Checked by
the Police.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Oct. S.-Twenty thou
sand people went to the big Republican
tent on the west side tonight to hear
Robert Ingersoll speak. The grafton was
the first that Mr.. Ingersoll has delivered
in political line since the last campaign.
He was loudly cheered when he stepped
on the platform erected under the tent,
but it was just thirty minutes from the
time he attempted to commence speaking
to the time when sufficient order was se-
cured to permit of his proceeding. A
number of boys from the Chicago Uni
versity to the left of the platform brought
their college yells with them and evidently
had planned a repetition OF the expert
ence that Candidate Bryan met with in
Connecticut For time there was trou-
BILE, but squad of twenty policemen with
their clubs succeeded IN quietlng the en-
thusiasm of the youths, and after one on
slaught by the officers the yelling ceased.
Colonel Ingersoll requested those who
did not want to hear him to go home and
managed to get in few cutting remarks
at the outset of his speech, but the quiet
which reigned when he finally got
launched into his argument was unusual.
He said:
1 ADMIT that all the parties who disagree
with me are honest. Large masses of man.
kind are always honest; the leaders not al
ways, but the mass of the people do what they
believe TO be right. Consequently there is no
argument in abuse, nothing calculated to con-
vince in calumny. To be kind, to be candid,
is far nobler, far better and far more American.
We live in a democracy and we admit that
every other human being has the same right
iUl, tor hi nh
the same right to vote that we have. Zap
| plause.] And want every one who hears me
| TO vote in exact accord with his sense, to cast
| his vote in accordance with his conscience.
1 No man ever made or created money. 1t is be-
yond the power of Legislature and Congress.
Money is not something that man can create.
Money is something that does not have to be
| redeemed. Money is the redeemer. Zap
| plause.] Anything that has to be bolstered up
with the promise of an individual or nation
| is not money. A nation can no more create
money by law than it can create corn and
wheat and barley by law. [Applause.] And
the promise to pay money is no nearer money
than bill of fare is elnner. [Laughter.I
| Twenty-three and twenty-five one hundreth
| grains of pure gold make one dollar. That is
| the money to-day of the civilized world. All,
but they say. Cannot you make dollars out
| OF silver?" Isay yes, but when you make
dollar out of silver you have got to put a
dollars worth of silver in silver dollar.
| IApplause.1 If you make money out of some
thing else you have got to put dollars worth
| OF something else into the dollar. 1t takes
dollars worth of paper to make good paper
dollar. [Laughter.l 1t takes dollars worth
| of iron to make an iron dollar, and it takes
dollars worth of silver to make silver dollar.
| You do not add the value of gold by law any
| more than you add to the value of coal by
weighing 1t. All, but they say, what makes
| gold valuable is that the law places it at
| legal tender" Again you are arguing back
ward Because it was valuable the law made
it legal tender. And yet these gentlemen
say that it got all its value from the law
making it legal tender. 1t is exactly the
other way.
tine legal tender law rests on the value of
the metal Why is gold valuablef do not
know. Why do most people love oysters? L
don't know. Why do so many people GET
idiotic about election? 1 don't know. Jap
plause] But these are facts in human nature.
For some reason, or for money, people give
value to gold. And that value is recognized
by the law-making power, and that is all there
is to the legal tender act.
"But," says Mr.. Bryan, ''our money is too
good" How can money be too good2 He
says, s'We want more money" say yes, we
want good money, and the more good money
we have the better. There has been added to
the money of the world 1925 900 600 In gold
in the last year. dug from the miserly crevices
of the mountains But, he says, we want
cheap money. Why? Because the money Is
so dear now the people cannot get 1t.
He wants to get money that nobody wants.
If we get that kind OF money, who will take
ii? Do you know that the words "cheap
money" are a contradiction in terms? Cheap
money is always diseoun ted where people find
out that il is cheap. They have said to me
that l used to talk another way. Twenty
years ago at Cooper Union, in New York,
made speech favoring honest money. l said:
81 am in favor of paper. with gold and silver
behind it. l believe in silver, because 1t is
one of the great American products; but
want silver dollar worth dollar, even If
you have to make it four feet in diameter.
[Appl ause.l No Government can afford to be
clipper of coin. Honest money for an honest
people issued by an honest Nation"
That was where was twenty years ago, and
tnat is where / am tonight. Better be an
honest bankrupt than rich thief. Poverty
can hold in Its hand the Jewel, honor-a jewel
that outshines all other gems. thousand
times better be poor and noble than rich and
fraudulent [Applause.l