The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-09-26
BRYANs FIRST SPEECH.
What He Said to the Great Open
Air Audience on Mount Royal
Avenue Last Night.
From The baltimore Herald of sunday

Chairman ana fellOH II You VIII
be quiet now for moment would like to suggest
for your consideration some matters which are
pertinent to the decision of the issues involved in
this campaign. The paramount issue of this cam
paign is the money question. That should be set
tied before we takeup anything else. (Cheers.)
Our opponents say that it is not money we need:
we have enough of that now. but what we need to
restore prosperity is open factories instead Of
our minis My friends. il is no use to open our fac
tories until the people have money to buy what the
mills produce. Until the people have the money to
buy what the mills produce Until the people
have the money to buy goods you cannot find pur-
chaser for your goods no matter how much you
produce This is a commercial city. II is founded
upon the exchange Of wealth. Wealth must be
produced before 1t can be exchanged. Unless you
make it possible to produce wealth you will have
no wealth in which merchants can trade.
4 Buffalo banker wrote pamphlet the other day
in which he used these words 1.-THE success of the
farmer and laborer depends upon the success of the
business man." There is not person in this audi
enee but who knows better. That man simply re-
versed the process Instead of the laborer and the
farmer depending the business man, the business
man depends upon the laborer and the farmer
applause A man who thinks society is so con-
structed that those who toll depend for their pros
political economy the science of finance. The
great tofling masses who work in the workshops
and on the farms are the foundation Of society.
The business men are the building which stands
upon that foundation, and the fuanciers act as u
sort of roof to the building. You can take off
the roof and put on another roof. You can change
your financial system and adopt another one. But
while you can change the roof of the house with
out destroying the house you cannot destroy the
foundation without demolishing the house. ZAP
plause.)
Prosperity comes up from below. 1t does not
come down from the upper crust of society. ZAP
pause) My friends, it is the purpose of the Demo-
cratic party in its platform to restore prosperity to
those who produce the wealth of this country.
And when the wealth producers are prosperous
then everybody who lives upon the wealth-pro-
Queer will share in that Prosperity. tApplause.)
Our opponents tell us that legislation is unim-
portant: that law cannot accomplish anything /
have known lots of people to get their first idea OF
the omnipotence of law after they had gone to the
penitentiary and stayed awhile. Applause and
roars of laughter.)
"A Voce-Handle the Baltimore sun for few
minutes)
Against MOnOpOlies.
The law san important thing. Law can do much
TO change the conditions which surround us.
The law which secures man in the enjoyment
of his property encourages him to labor in order to
acquire property. But the law that allows a few
men TO monOpOlize the business of the country
and drive the hungry members Of society out of
business discounges industry and enterprise ana
simply encourages greed and avarice. (Applause.l
A law which makes money dear makes every
body Try TO get hold Of money, and law which
makes property cheap makes everybody to get rid
of property "A voice, That's right!'9 The gold
standard is bad because it makes money the only
thing worth having, and, therefore, niensifies the
struggle to get it. (ApplauseJ
The gold standard is bad because the man who
has money can profit by the rise in the value of that
money without using it in commerce and trade
Therefore, law which makes money dear encour-
ages boarding. encourages the miser and drives the
aboring man out upon the streets to beg for a
chance to earn his daily bread. (Applause.l
Our opponents tells us that the gold standard is
good for the laboring man. Ny friends, wouid
rather risk The laboring man TO find out what is
good for him than to leave to the great monopists
of the country find out what is good for the la
boring man. (Applause.l
Our opponents appeal to the laboring man to
stand by the money changers in Wall street.
want to ask the aboring man when the money
changing class did anything to help the labor
ing man from the history of creation down to now.
Great applause and cries of NO never.") If. in
all the history of the past, the men who are stand
ing behind the gold standard have never been in
terested i'll improving the condition of the laboring
man, what reason have you to believe that now
they have become converted and are giving their
lives and services for the uplifting of those who
toll? (Applause)
Not Arrayiny the Glasses,
our opponents tell us that we are arraying Class
against class / deny il. "a voee-"So do ID
We are simply telling people that they have right
to keep other mems hands out of their pockets.
(Cheers) our opponents are trying to array the
aboring men of this country. Ny friends, | want
YOU laboring men to investigate and find out
who il is that has stood by the laboring men
in all their struggles TO improve their condition
Is it the farmer or is it the presidents of the rail
roads? Great applause. voice-'Thats not
oner' Another voice-"Give EN- --gD
My friends, want you to remember that every
citizen to whom the ballot is given should nvesti-
gate every question which is committed to the
American people, and my confidence in the intelli-
gence and patriotism of the American people is
such that believe no question which concerns the
welfare of the people is too deep 20 be considered
and settled by the people themselves. (Cheers-l
Our opponents are inclined "a distrust those who
believe in free coinage. Theyare inclined to apply
abusive epithets to those who stand upon the Chi
cago platform. They are inclined to think that
these people not capable of conducting just
government Ny friends, 1 want to ask who is go
ing to save the people from themselves, because we
have the people on our side. (Applause)
I want to suggest just two or three questions for
you to think about; two or three connected with
the silver question. II anybody asks you why you
want the free coinage of silver yon tell him that
there is not enough gold in the world to furnish
money sufficient for the people to do business with
(Applause.) Ifthey ask you how you are going to
get any of this money even If tits in existence you
ask them how man is going to get any money
until it is in existence tCheers.) The creation of
money comes before the distribution of money, and
until your laws provide for sufficient amount of
money people cannot secure money for what they
have to sell
No Fifty-Cent Dollars
If they ask you whether you want 5O-eent dollars,
you tell them that nobody called silver dol
lar 50cent dollar until after the law closed the
minis of the United States to the free coinage of
silver (Cheers.l Tell them that nobody will ever
call it 50-cent dollar again after the minis of the
United States have been reopened to the people.
If they tell you that you have no right to invoke
the law in order to put money into circulation you
tell them that they invoked the law that closed the
minis to the free coinage of silver and stopped sill
yer from further circulation. If they tell you that
you are ignoring natural laws, you tell them tfat
You are the only people who apply natural laws to
the money question. You say the law will increase
the demand for silver and it will raise the price of
silver, and that when you create demand for all
the silver that can come then there will be nobody
that win sell his silver for less than sl29 ounce
because he can convert it into money at that price
tells you that we are opposed to allow
ing national banks to issue paper money, you tell
them that we had rather risk the control of the
volume of the currency in the hands of the govern
ment than to risk it in the hands private ndivd
uals. (Cheers.)
Use of the Ballot.
Now, my friends, l only came out TO talk to you
a little while, and must go to Music Hail.
and leave another to discuss this question in your
presence. (Cries OF go on Wen stay here,f') /
leave with you one parting word. have not been
in your midst long. donot understand your local
condition. But have been in places where the
employers instead of being satisfied to receive the
work of their employees, and pay them for that
work, have become teachers in political economy