The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-06
To GO 1T ALONE.
Bryan at Memphis Contends For
American Finance.
Opposed to e'Ready Made For
eign Financial Policies
PROHIBITIVE TARIFF.
He Would Put 1t on Alien Fin
anciers.
Enormous Corruption Fund of
Republicans Spoken Of.

Memphis. oct. 6--The following is
that part of Mr.. Bryan's speech here
yesterday afternoon too late for yes
terday's papers.
MY friends. / am not here to inter
fere in your state campaign, or local
politics but am here to SO deepen the
convictions Of those who believe in free
coinage that there viii not be q man in
this state who agrees with US, who will
not be willing to sacrifice anything that
is necessary TO secure the advancement
of this cause. Great applause.)
II am here to increase the enthusiasm
If can until the men who stand In the
way Of complete success VIII be brand
ed as an enemy Great applause-) How
you may ind best to unity your forces,
you are to judge, but my friends, 1
want you to remember that you cannot
help our cause by helping those who
are lighting US. Great applause) If
we are right in the position We have
taken, If the Democratic party IS right
In its platform then the man who does
not stand upon that platform no mat
ter how good a Democrat he may have
been before is no good Democrat now.
And no man can claim to be a friend
of mine, who says that he wants to
elect me because i am q regular nomi-
nee and then 60 down there and tie my
bands and make me powerIess. CAP
plause.) ITO those who believe in Tegu-
larity. my nomination appeals to those
Democrats who are willing TO trust the
judgment of a majority of the Demo
cratic party, more freely expressed
than in any Democratic convention
ever held before, to these my nOmina-
ton appeals But. my friends, could
not feel the interest that DO in this
campaign III all I had to commend me
was party regularity (Applause.)
appeal to you on higher grounds than
that have a stronger claim upon your
support than can be given by the reg
ularity of a convention. / stand by the
right of the American people to have a
financial system of their own Applause
And therefore my candidacy appeals
to every American citizen who believes
in the right of the people OF this coun-
try to govern themselves regardless of
the consent OF any other nation GA
earth (Cheers.)
II am not appealing to any senti-
ments hostile to foreigners. but ] say
TO you my friends. that nation does not
deserve TO be called a nation which viii
accept q financial policy. ready made
from some other country Our oppO-
nents say that the tariff question is the
important issue in this campaign. / tell
them that until they put a prohibitive
tariff on foreign nuanciers i W0nft talk
tarim with them. tApplause.) So long
as We must go to others to ask them
what we can have, there is no use no
discuss any question until we decide
that we have right to express our
own opinion, when we have one.
When We establish the right of hav-
ing a policy, when we decide on it, it
viii then be time to discuss the other
questions upon which parties and PEG
pie diner But until we have N1ndIca-
ted the right of this people to legislate
Tor themselves on every issue, they can
not drive tariff into the people with a
The gold standard gives US a rising
dollar and a rising dollar means bond
age, distress and misery to those who
profess thus to form the basis Of all
and bulWark of every government If
gold is to be our standard and a gold
dollar is to be the unit and were to be
content with Its upward fig hts. then
my friends. i believe we ought to change
the dies; that the dollar viii properly
describe itself as it passes from hand
to hand If we must have it because
foreign nations insist upon it, then /
think we should change it and in the
place of the face above which IS writ
ten Liberty let us have q picture of
a woman in chains and above it written
Bondage And instead of having on
the other side the eagle, the emblem of
national freedom, let US put a vulture,
that lives upon the devouring of human
kind. They call the gold dollar an hon
est dollar They know that it, is not an
honest dollar and those who love that
dollar must, love it because it is the
most dishonest dollar the world has
ever seen and the more dishonest it be-
comes, the greater their affection for
it. What is an honest dollar? An hon
the purchasing power would be stable;
q dollar which rises in purchasing pow
er is as dishonest as one which falls in
purchasing power And that PROPOSE
ton is recognized as true by all except
those few who regard nothing as honest
which does not add to their pOcket.and
everything as dishonest that treats eve
ry person as we'll as it does themselves
important thing, and the only way that
you can secure stable dollar is to Sc
cure a dollar of which there viii be
enough to keep pace with population
and industry. (ApplauSe.) The gold
dollar is bad. not because the quality
OF the metal is not good, because guam
tity is as essential in money as quality
You may show me a particular kind Of
food which is excellent in quality but
If there is not enough of it to sustain
life, viii never call it good food. CAP
plause)
They say the gold dollar is a good
dollar; that it gives us good money
My friends, we want money good, but
how gcod2 Just good enough. not too
plause) we don't want a dollar so good
that you can pray for it and long for it
but never get hold Of it, daughter
and applause-) have described the
gold dollar as the balloon dollar. 1T
keeps rising all the time and those who
were in the basket when it started M
Of the great masses Of mankind. CAP
plause.) We are tired of the balloon
dollar. We want a dollar to look at US
as It passes from US. We want a dollar
20 handle as it passes among US. I
want binetallism. because it requires
all the gold and all the silver to furnish
q. safe basis for the immense conner
cial affairs of the nineteenth century
Tt requires them both. You talk to me
about a flood Of money when we have
free coinage Ny friends. I know the
people who lived SO long in the south
that they are watching fer the first
drippings of the flood (Applause.)
am not afraid that when all the gold
available for coinage and all the silver
available for coinage, that with them,
there viii be poured into the money
volume Of the world, that there VIII be