The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-26


not say that, because, my friends, they
must first produce wealth before there is
wealth to be distributed. VIII you say
then, that having the right TO have their
| interests respected, they have not the in
telligence to know what is best for them?
No, you dare not say that, because you
know that in public life and in business
life the best brains that you have come
from the farms of this country. (Ap-
plause). What answer will you make to
them? When they ask for bread viii you
give them a stone? When they ask for
fish will you bestow serpents upon them?
That has been the policy of the iinapciers
of this country, and in their selishness
they have been attempting TO force their
ideas upon others, while others have fall
len down beneath the weight of those
ideas and the financiers themselves have
risen to prosperity on the PROSTATE forms
of the fallen. (Great applause and cheer
ing). No person can accuse me of at
tempting to deny the financiers, or even
to the money changers, right to their opin-
ion, the right to their votes, the right to
every legitimate influence. What / deny
to them is this, the right to think for any
body but themselves, the right to act Tor
anybody but themselves, the right to put
themselves above other people and so
through the world crying, Il am holier
than thou / am holier than thou"
(Cheers and applause).
my friends, let me give you one way
by which you can determine the sincerity
of men. 1t is not a new rule 1t is as
old as the law of evidence 1t applies to
all walks of life and to all conditions and
to all subjects. The man who believes
he is right tells you what he believes AMI
why he believes it. A man who does not
believe that he is right is the man who
has filled the dictionary with ambiguous
terms and fills his speech with words of
NH a mn H.a
man who talks about sound money and
then refuses to tell you what sound
money means can get certificate of hon
esty only from himself. (Cheers and ap-
plause)
IF the advocates of sound money bo-
lieved that their money was good, they
would tell you that by sound money
they meant a gold standard. l asked a
man why 1t was that he was opposed to
using the word gold in the platform.
Well he said, we have an unreasonable
prejudice against the word gold, and
therefore, it was to avoid that prejudice
that they used the phrase sound money
(Applause)
MY friends, the people have no preju-
dice against the gold, but they have
prejudice against system that is based
upon gold and does not furnish the gold
when people want 1t. Great applause.)
There is one advantage of being a BIZ
metallist. You can like gold and silver
BOTH while gold standard does not dare
to like silver, and he does not get much
gold to like. (Applause) maa told me
that out of nearly 100000 collected in
taxes at Hartford, Conn, less than $100
was collected in gold. Our opponents
tell us they want sound money, but they
want financial system built upon an in
visible foundation. Do you call that
soundness, my friends? If you do, you
have got to write a new meaning for
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that which Is dangerous. (Applause)
Our opponents talk about honest
money and yet, my friends, they never
touch upon the purchasing power of a dol
lar in defining what is an honest dollar
They tell us that they want good money
My friends, there are two things that we
need in money. We must not only have
money which is good but we must have
money which we can get hold of. Gap
plause). If money is so good that you
can pray for it and long for it, but can
never see 1t except when you have the
privilege of gazing through some grated
door and looking at somebody else's pile
then it is too good for the masses of the
people (Applause). Money ought not to
be built on the balloon plan. Balloons are
built to go up and the higher they go the
higher they are as balloons, and If dollars
are built on that plan the higher they go
the greater is the misery they bring to
mankind. (Applause). Our opponents want
balloon dollar. Our opponents
want dollar that gets higher and higher
all the time. If we are going to have
gold standard, If we are going to have
gold dollar whose appetite is never salts
fed, and gold dollar which in
sists upon eating more of the
products of toll every year, we ought
to change the dies at the mints
and so describe that dollar that people
will understand it. Let us take off the
emblems that have adorned ii src5n the
beginning and put on one side the picture
of the horse leech, and under the picture
let 1t be written, as in Proverbs, Give,
give, give and on the other side of the
gold dollar let us put the picture of an
open grave and above 1t let us write, as in
Proverbs, 1T sayeth not, it is enough
Great applause and laughter).
my friends, that is the sort of dollar
that the gold standard has given US. Thai
is the sort of dollar that the gold standard
will continue to give to us. If oats get
down to 10 cents bushel 1t means that
81 will buy ten bushels of oats, and II that
dollar is not good enough you can send
its value up until 81 will buy twenty BUSH
els of oats, and II the farmer Is troubled
with getting too money for his
oats, you can still send 1t
up higher so that it will get
100 bushels of oats. You can make the
dollar as dear as you want to, and the
dearer you make 1t the worse 1t is for
everybody except the owners Of the fixed
investments, and the men who sell bonds
for the government after having driven
the government into the position where
1t wants to issue the bonds. (Applause)
When they talk Of a gold standard 1
always think of what Lincoln said when
a man once asked him how he liked his
speech. He replied: Anybody who would
like that sort of a speech would be very
much pleased with It, applause and
laughter) l find that the people who like
the gold standard are very much pleased
with it, but / am glad to say that the
number of people who like the gold
standard is growing less every day, even
In New England" Great applause and
cheers)
Worcester, Mass, Sept. 25.-Still in the
special car of the Massachusetts, commit
tee Mr. Bryan made the trip from Spring.
field to w orcester. He talked most or the
way with George Fred Williams.
During the run the train halted briefly at
Palmer Warren and Westbrookheld.
where small crowds saw and cheered the
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