The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-30

Give us good money, the lifeblood of busi-
ness, and let 1t flow freely through the veins
and arteries Of commerce. That Is what we
want-business. We won't have 1t unless
we have confidence In the future, and no
sensible man In the United States will
have any confidence in an administration
to be governed by the new Democracy.
| We want credit. Credit is based on con.
hdence, and when we have good times, you
know, everybody nearly has credit. Every
mans mouth is a mint that issues dollars.
| When good fellow with good job goes
| to the grocer and says, "Give me So worth
| of sugar, So worth of coffee; charge it,
he has added $40 to the currency of the
| United States. He has inflated the money,
and when another buys horse and gives
| his note for 800 he has inflated the money.
| And afterward, when times get hard and
they won't credit, then they say money Is
scarce. There is just as much money as
there was before Credit is scarce. That
Is the trouble Confidence Is gone, and
yet they are going to give prosperity at 10
to /. What does that mean? That will
mean 10 men for 81, 16 men hunting one
job That is what it will mean. And of
the 10, Is failures, bankrupts.
Government by Law.
And now what is the next question? Is
this government of law? If we cannot
make money by law, can we keep peace by
law? That is the question. Is this gov
eminent Of the people? Can the people
make laws that the people are bound to
obey9 Shall we be bound by the decision
of the highest tribunal or shall we depend
upon the mob? That is the question.
1 hate the mob spirit Civilized men
obey the law. Civilized men believe in
order. Civilized men believe that man
that makes property by industry and econ
omy has the right to keep it. Civilized
men, believe that that man has the right
to use it as he desires, and they will judge
Of his character by the manner in which
he uses it, If he endeavors to assist his
fellow men, he will have the respect and
admiration of his fellow men. But we
want government of law. We do not
want labor questions settled by violence
and blood.
I want to civilize the capitalist so that
he will be willing to give what labor is
worth. want to educate the workingman
so he will DO willing to receive what labor
is worth. l want to oivilize them both to
that degree that they can settle all of their
disputes in the high court of reason.
the commercc of the nation, then you
preach the gospel of bludgeon, the gospel
of torch and gun. l do not believe in that
religion. 1 believe in a religion of kind
ness, reason and law. The law is the SUI
preme will of the supreme people, and we
must obey it, or we go back to savagery
and black night.
1 stand by the courts. 1 stand by the
president, who endeavors to preserve the
peace am against mobs. am against
lynchings. And l believe it is the duty of
the federal government to protect all of its
citizens at home and abroad. And l want
q government powerful enough to say to
the governor Of any state where they are
numbering American citizens without
process of law-I want the federal govern
ment to say to the governor of that state:
"Stop! Stop shedding the blood of Ameri-
can citizens. And If you cannot stop it
we can"
believe in government that will pro-
tect the lowest, the poorest and weakest
as promptly as the mightiest and strongest.
That Is my government. This old doc
trine of state sovereignty persisted In the
flame of the civil war, and tell you to-
night that that infamous lie was surren-
dered to Grant with Lees sword at APP
pomattox.
Work of the BondhoIders.
Then there Is another thing The can
didate for the presidency is trying to poison
the poor against the rich simply because
they are rich. He hates bondholders Who
are the bondholdersp Bondholders of the
government, bondholders of the railroad
companies.
And who are the bondholderso Of the rail-
road companies They are the mon that
advanced every dollar to build every mile
of railroad in the United States. They are
the men who paid every man that cast
shovelful of dirt. They are the men that
paid every man that cut down d tic in the
forest and paid every man that dug the ore,
paid every man that melted it i'm the works
and cast it into form. They are the bond
holders, q set of wretches.
Who are the bondholders of the govern
ment? During the war we sold our bonds,
and people who believed that the north
would triumph bought those bonds, and
every man that bought bond added to
the credit of the great republic.
Very few men own them now who
bought them then. They have been bought
many times since, and all who own them
now paid about $1.20. And what did they
pay 1t fnp They paid 1t In gold, every
dollar.
And, let me tell you now, every cent that
has been borrowed in the United States
since 1878 has been borrowed in gold, and
it is no great hardship to, pay 1t back in
the money that you borrowed. If they say
that money has increased SO In value, then
tho fellow who borrowed it should have
kept 1t and made himself rich.
Mr.. Bryan hates the rich Would he
like to be richf Mr.. Bryan hates bond
holders Would he like to have 81 ZOO, 900
in bondsp Mr. Bryan hates the successful
Has he an ambition to be O failure2 If he
has, wait until the 4th of November, and
he will be satisfied.
Why should we hate the rich? Some
rich men are good, and some poor men are
mean. Some poor men arc good, and some
rich men are mean. You cannot like
man just because he Is poor, and you can
hot hate him just because he is rich.
"Why Envy the Rich?"
And why should we envy theSrichf Let
me tell you something. The Vanderbilts
and the Astors and the Rockefellers never
drank any colder water than have. They