The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-22
Began His Weeks Campaign
Early Monday Morning.
STRONG SPEECH AT DOVER
Heard by a Large Crowd From
Maryland and Delaware.
GOLD STANDARD PROSPERITY
He Shows by MckinIey's Report TO
Congress on the Tariff That the
Country Has Not Been
Prosperous.
Prosperous

Dover, Del, Sept. 81. Wm. j. Bryan
began the weeks campaign by rising
at o'clock and taking the 6:@5 tram
from Baltimore for Dover. lt was
nearly 12 o'clock before he retired last
NIGHT. but to-day he was remarkably
refreshed. Y4ot
Mr.. BRYAN left the Carrollton Hotel
IN baltimore shortly before six O'Clock.
He was accompanied by the Delaware
escort committee and Josephus Dan
iels. of Raleigh, N. c., who Will make
the trip with Mr.. Bryan throughou6
New England.
Candidate Bryan began his speech-
making in Delaware this afternoon oy
addressing a large crowd which had
assembled at the Fair Grounds to hear
him. Excursions brought many people
from the lower part of Delaware ana
fbe eastern shore Of Maryland Mr..
BRYAN said in part:
MKINIEY AND PROSPERITY.
..Now. want to talk to you while
this afternoon about our financial con-
dition. If things are good, then there
is no reason why we should make any
change in legislation. If our present
condition is satisfactory then we ought
to leave it alone, and not make
change No one can advocate any KIND
of remedial legislation except on the
theory that there is something that
needs remedying. Our opponents con-
fess the condition and when tell you
that Won cannot remedy the present
condition except by financial legisla-
tion our opponents tell as that the
tronble is the tariff question and that
IF we could lust have more tariff then
times would get good again. 4 Wiiile
TO read YOU an extract from q speecn
made on last Saturday by the Republ1-
ear candidate for President, at Canton.
He said: Under the Republican protec-
five policy we enjoyed for more than
thirty wears the most marvellous pros
nerify that has ever been given to any
nation of the world. We not only had
individual prosperity but we had nat
iona1 prosperity
Snow there is a statement made
within week by the Presidential cam
didate on the Republican ticket, point
ing back for thirty years, from 1860 TO
1890. and telling the people that dur
ing the period we enjoyed the most
marvellous prosperity of any nation in
che world, and that we had both indi-
yidual prosperity and national pros
perity. / want to show you how dis
fance lends enchantment to the view.
T want to show you by this same wit
ness very testimony, given six years
ago. that after 30 years of his kind of
policy the farmers of this country were
not prosperous. IF you win take the
report fled with the Mckinley bill on
the 10th of April, 1890, you will find the
words which / wish to quote:
AGRICULTURAL DEPRESSION.
That there is widespread depres-
sion in this industry to-day cannot
be doubted, speaking of agriculture,
That is what the Presidential candi-
date said when he deliberately wrote
the report and fled it with his pro-
posed legislation. That there is wide
spread depression in this industry to-
day, cannot be doubted (Applause).
Again. in that same report he said:
~One of the chief complaints now prev
alent among our farmers is that they
can get no price for their crops at all
commensurate with the labor and cap
ital invested in their production That
IS what he said after thirty years of
that kind of policy which the candidate
of the Republican party says viii bring
you prosperity. Let me read again:
we have not believed that our people,
already suffering from low prices can,
or will be satisfied with legislation
which will result in lower prices. No
country ever suffered when prices We're
fairly remunerative in every field Of Ia
bor'
''After thirty years of that kind of
policy he tells you that the people are
suffering from low prices and that the
country ever suffered when prices were
fairly remunerafive in every field of
labor. Now, let me read you again what
he says in this same report: This great
industry speaking of agriculture
SIS foremost in magnitude and import
ance in our country. Its uccess and
prosperity are vital to the nation
No prosperity is possible to other in
dustI-ies of agriculture anguish
That is what he said in 1890, that there
was depression in agriculture after
thirty years of his tariff policy and
that without prosperity in agriculture
there could be no prosperity among
the other industries of the country.
Let me read you just one more extract:
The depression in agriculture is not
confined to the United States. The re-
ports Of the Agricultural Department
indicate that this distress is general;
that Great Britain, France and Ger
many are suffering in a larger degree
than the farmers of the United States.
There he is telling us that there is de
preston in agriculture, and giving the
1,anes of the three prominent agrieul-
4ural nations of the old world, and tell
ING us that that agricultural depres
sion is ever. more marked over there