The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-26
Mr.. BRYAN SPEAKS AT ALBANY
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eff you want to restore confidence you
have got to restore prosperity to the
great masses of the people, and talk as
much about good property as they have
been talking about good money. Money
can be too good. 1t can be so good that
you can long for it and pray for it, but
cannot get hold of it. :. Remember that
whenever you make money dearer, when
you increase it's purchasing power, you
have simply driven down the value of
other things and if those who own money
and who hold contracts payable in dollars
are willing to legislate as to make their
property more valuable how can they ap-
peal to those who own property and owe
debts to join them in that sort of legisla
ton. have asserted assert again
that without the aid of the money owning
classes the gold standard would not stand
for one day in any nation under sun.
assert that behind the gold standard in
this country, the only potent force con-
sists of those who hold fixed investments
and those who as brokers profit the
greater by greater bond issues. They tell
the laboring man of this nation that they
ought to support gold standard. The
laboring men have never found the finan-
ciers of this nation the men who have ex-
ertcd themselves to improve the condition
of the laboring man. AS rule the men
who have spent their time trying to break
down labor organizations--the only pro-
lection that the laboring man has had
these are the menwho now come to.ask the
help of the laboring man. l ask you if
you ought to expect blessings from those
from whom you have only received ours
ings in the past? Cries of "No, no.'O
notice that one of our opponents the other
day said that the old soldiers would be
opposed to free coinage.
They gave the impression that the
financiers are very much interested in
maintaining gold standard for the ben
eft of the soldiers, but, my friends, these
men. forget that all of the soldiers lived
during the war, and that during tile war
the soldiers knew that the financiers
made their bonds payable in gold and
left the soldier to offer his life upon the
battlefield. (Applause). More than that,
my friends, do not believe that the sol
diers who are willing to offer their lives,
If need be, lin. behalf of their country are
to-day going to join in a conspiracy to
enslave seventy millions of people by fet-
tering them to a gold standard
MY friends, there is this general prin-
ciple that you can use in governing your
course. You may rest assured that in the
long run any policy which brings pros
be shared by all the people. If you can
not see just in what particular way any
given measure is going to benefit You in
your business, if you can satisfy yourself
that the general public will be benefited
by that measure, you can rest assured
that you will receive your proportionate
share of it. But l challenge you to
search in all the pages of history for n
single instance where the mass of the peo-
pie were ever benefited by legislation that
increased the value of the dollar in which
debts had to be paid (Applause)
My friends, our opponents sometimes
tell us that this silver sentinel is dis
ease. If so it will run it's course, like
friends, it is not disease. The silver
sentiment is the outgrowth of condition
and you cannot destroy the sentiment
until you have remedied the condition
out of which that sentiment arose. l can
retalfate upon our opponents and tell
them that this gold standard idea is a
disease. 1t is the new yellow fever.
daughter and appiause). But there is
difference between the rev yellow fever
and the old yellow fever; the old yellow
fever killed the people who had the fever;
the new yellow fever is death to people
who do not have the fever. (Applause.)
How can you restore bimetallism? You
have got to have a plan if you want to do
it. Our opponents tell you that our pol
icy would disturb their business. We
tell them that business is already dis
turbed.n