The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-09-26
A SIMPLE QUESTION.
FINANCE NOT TOO DEEP FOR THE
COMMON PEOPLE.

candidate Bryan Tells Them They Mus,
Think For Observation-Disclosures Record.
Not q Single Instance Where the People
Have Endorsed the Gold Standard.
The people are thinking as they have
seldom thought before upon a great
economic question. Some consider the
money question too deep for the people,
but no question which concerns 20, OOO..
900 OF people is o deep for those people
10 consider.
NO class can settle the question for
any other class. We have none in this
country who either by birth or by law
are lntrusted with the privilege of
thinking for others. Each one must de.
termine where his interests lie and what
is best to be done.
L want to assure you that the money
question is sufficiently simple to be un-
derstood by all. Our opponents declared
IN favor OF international bimetallism.
They do not say the gold standard is
good. 1t you find a person opposed to
free coinage ask him what he believes
In. If he believes in a gold standard,
tell him he cannot stand upon the Re-
publican platform because it pledges
the Republican party to get rid of it. If
1t is good, why try to get rid of it?
When will other nations help us? I
have asked the question time and again
and expect to continue to ask it. If the
gold standard is a good thing, why not
keep it? l wish our opponents would
come out and say they are for the gold
standard, because they would have to
say that they loved the money owners
better than they loved the toiling mass
es. The man in favor of a gold stand
ard cannot point to a single instance in
the history of the world where the peo.
pie had Endorsed the gold standard. It
is the money changers standard, and
you take from the gold standard the
support of the money owning and chang
ing class and the gold standard will not
survive a day in any nation of the
world.
The Republican party knows it, and
that is why it did not declare for the
gold standard, but it made as bad a mis-
take as that, because it said that while
it desired bimetallism, and the Ameri-
can people would be better off under it,
the American people were too feeble to
have what was good for them, and they
must wait until foreign nations took
pity on us. But the Republican party
refuses to take pity on the American
people. They say we must maintain the
gold standard until the commercial ma
lions will join in international agree.
ment.
Why wait if we are strong enough to
do 1t ourselves? l assert 70, 900, 900 of
people not only have a right to have a
financial system of their own, but are
able to have it. I wish our opponents
would print upon a card and wear it
upon their breast, 81 am an American,
but l think America has to appeal to
foreign nations for legislation for the
people," Some may think
this country cannot legislate for itself,
but that idea originates among people
who know more of Lombard street than
of the industrial masses of the United
States.
When you discover some way of stop.
ping hunger except by feeding a person,
you will find a way Of stopping finan-
cial depression other than by increasing
the volume of money.
IA Voice-What's the matter with
the tariff?]
We are going to regulate that by in
ternational agreement as we will BIZ
Then we will call an inter-
national conference and adopt a foreign
and at last we will annex our
selves to some nation that is big enough
take care Of us and relieve us of the
trouble.