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in the interest of labor, he would

| 900. an additional increase OF
$50, ,OOO, 900. That was the Mckinley
of 1890. Let me read you the McKin-
ley of 1896: 1t is not more money
we want. What we want is to put all
the monev we have already at work. ,
"In 1890, when he advocated more
money, we already added $24, 900. 600
to the circulation each year. This
year we have no such provision.
We have repealed the Sherman law
and Bland Act, and made no provi-
sion to utilize silver, no provision to
add to the currency by the increase in
our silver money, and yet the currency
is decreasing and we have decreased
the money in circu alton in the last
two years by $3.50, 600. 900; and yet,
when money is decreasing instead OF
increasing the same Mr.. Mckinley
who wanted more money in 1890 tells
you now that it is not more money we
need, but to put the money we already
have at work. Which does my friend
favor-the Mckinley Of 1890, who
wanted more money, or the Mckinley
of 1896? Great applause and cries OF
"1S9O.'O
"More than that; he said in 1891, in
a speech made at Toledo, O., that Mr..
Cleveland had been discriminating
against silver, had been trying to de-
grade it, had been trying to contract
the currency, and that by lessening
the currency he made money dearer
by making it scarcer, and money the
master and all things else the servants.
If it was wrong for Mr.. Cleveland to
make money dear by making it scarce
and money the master and all things
else the servant, is it right for McKin.
ley to try to make money the master
and all things else the seryant9 ZAP
plause and cries of 'No.'D My friends,
we can support our cause bp appeal
ing to Republican testimony. We
can support every contention we make
by quoting Republican authorities,
and therefore Republicans who come
to us in this campaign do not change
their convictions; they simply change
their party name when their party has
abandoned the position they used to
occupy and now demands that you
shall surrender the convictions OF a
lifetime.
"Somebody may feel like cheering
for ex.President Harrison. II so l
will read what he said. Ex-President
Harrison sent message to Congress
on the first of December, in 1890. You
will remember that in 1890 they passed
what was known as the Sherman law,
which provided for the purchase Of
four million ounces of silver each
year. After the passage of that bill
the price of silver went up, and as the
price of silver went up prices general.
ly began to rise, and on the 1st of
December Mr.. Harrison, then Presi-
dent, sent to Congress message from
which I read the following extract:
The enlargement of our currency by
the silver bullion undoubtedly gave
an upward tendency to trade and had
marked effect on prices, but this
natural and decided effect of the sill
YER legislation was by many errone.
ously attributed to the tariff Act"
:'Mr. Harrison said that the passage
of that silver bill undoubtedly gave
an upward tendency to trade and had
marked effect on prices. You tell
us that we cannot raise the value OF
silver by law. point you to that law
which was not as broad as the one
which we propose Ipoint you to a
limited use of silver, not an unlimited
one like we propose, and, acc ording to
the President, itgave an upward ten.
dency to the market and had a marked
effect on prices. And then he turned
and rebuked those who had attributed
this to the tariff Act, and told them it
was due, not to tariff legislation, but
to silver legislation. (Applause.)
Here, my friends, isauthority that sill
yer legislation will do just what we
claim it will do. More than this:
Mr.. Harrison says that that was not
only the natural effect but the desired
effect of such legislation. Now they
tell us that they do not want prices TO
rise, for fear the laboring mans wages
would not 60 so far, and then they
said it was desired effect.
"Since when, my friends, has this
effect became undesirable2 Since the
money changers wrote Republican
pla.from that compels every Republi.
can to silence the voice Of his consci.
ence. (Applause.) The arguments
which you hear today are arguments
manufactured to support a platform
that in your hearts you Republicans
of Iowa are ashamed to own" Gap
plause.)
Later on, a voice asked, GLOW
about Grover9" and Mr.. Bryan said a:
1--WE are not talking about him now.
Since our Republican friends came to
the support of the administration we
have not found it necessary to say any
thing about it.
After the Coliseum speech Mr.. Bry-
an spoke twice from the carriage, ask
ing the people to study the quess'
ton of finance and to make their sill
YER speech on election day. There
we're but few people at the depot at
Burlington to see the nominee off, and
those who were there were not demon
strative. Between Burlington and
Cedar Rapids three short stops were
made, they being at Columbus juno
ton, Nichols and West Liberty, where
the candidate gave short speeches on
the the same lines followed by him in
his former platform speeches.
Cedar Rapids was reached shortly
after o'clock, and the local committee
escorted Mr.. Bryan and his party in
carriages to the baseball park, near the