The broad ax., 1896-10-24

Mr.. Bryan said to ten thousand peo-
pie at Milwaukee:
Since the public officers are elected
10 carry out the will OF the people, 1t
Is essential that the public should
know two things. First, for what poll
sies does q candidate stand? Second.
viii he carry out those policies II elect
ed? While there may be things
In q platform with which you cannot
agree, and things out Of II which you
would like to see in It, 1t is necessary
that the candidate should believe In
the platform upon which he stands. I
believed IN the principles Of our plat
form long before 1t was written In Chi
ago.
We have suffered some assertions
Why? Because the paramount issue OF
he money question. 1t is easy enough
10 hold q party together when Q plat
form means nothing, but when any
party stands for q great principle. II
must expect some people who do not
believe In u to leave 1t.
Ny friends, this great money question
has been forced upon the people, not
By the advocate OF free coinage, but by
the gold standard people. After the
election in 1892, Q money combine was
formed for the purpose Of repeating the
Sherman law. They did not take the
democratic platform and live up to It,
but they took one sentence which de-
clared for the repeal Of that law and
demanded its repeal They said the
law was a make-shift. What Is a make
shift? Something that will do until
we get something better. The demo-
cratic platform declared for the repeal
of the Sherman law and the free and
unlimited coinage of gold and silver.
The money interests combined to re-
peal that law and leave nothing In its
place. They claimed gold was going
abroad. Did they stop 1t? No. They
started an issue to furnish bonds. They
had $50, ZOO, 900 issued, and then had
10000 more issued, and then e.
tered with the Rothschild CONTRACT
Ny friends, while the administration
entered into this contract. want to Gay
that all the leaders of the republican
party were In favor Of It.
The republican party did not de-
nounce 1t in their convention. Nex, /
want to say that 1t was the most in
famous contract ever entered into by
any nation. That contract employed
certain Arms in London and New York
to look after and protect the govern
ment's interest They purchased the
good will Of these people. When you
purchase the good will of any person.
It is because you admit you ara In his
hands. ! am not willing to admit that
the government must purchase the
good will of anybody. am not willing
to admit that 10000, 900 Of people are
permitted to govern themselves by the
aid Of any syndicates, but that they
win govern themselves in spite of
them.
am not surprised that the members
Of that syndicate are opposed to the
democratic party. / believe thar the
democratic party can get albng with
out them. / believe that theJ ought to
be treated as any other ccnspirators.
A man said to his sons: "Dsn't 90 into
the retail business; 90 into the whole
sale business. That is respectable"
This applies to you. II q man at
tempts to do the governn snt q small
injury, 1t Is contemplate II II is q
wholesale injury, 1t is respectable.
Mr.. Bryan then told tho story Of the
successive bond deals ana the plan to !
again issue bonds to q private syndi- |
cate which was defeated, and how, J
when the bonds were sold In open mar !
ket, the president OF that syndicate |
paid more for them than he paid at !
secret sale. Mr.. Bryan continued:
What does 1t meant It means that |
the people who would pose as the
guardians Of the treasury would rob the |
people. This fact did not excite the
Indignation Of the oficials Of the gov
eminent, and a short while later the
chairman Of that syndicats was present
where an Official Of the government
was the honored guest at . banquet. II
We believe in equality before the law,ve
cannot make any distinction between
The man who takes s5oo.00o and the
man who takes 800.
Now, they talk Of honor Of the gov
srnment / believe that the honor OF
he government car be better maintain
ID by 100000 Of the people than by
with handful Of fnanciers.
The republican party does not denounce
he bond syndicate. The democratic
party doea