Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-10-09
mr.. BRYAN N IOWA.
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one We place our argument on solid rock.
We tell you that there is something neces-
sary in money besides quality. Our oppo-
nents are always talking about wanting
good money. Everybody wants money
but. my friends. we want quantity as well
( as quality in money. You cannot interest
me by telling me that a certain kind of
food is the best kind of food and tell me
that it is so scarce that I cannot have
any of It. Money good. How good do you
want money? Just good enough; not too
good They have been making our money
too good. When dollar is so good that
it will buy ten bushels or oats it is too
good a dollar to use in this country. (Ap-
| plause) They have given us the balloon
dollar. II keeps rising. And balloon
| dollar maybe a good thing for a few
! financiers who happen to get into the bas-
! lIet, but it is a mighty bad thing for the
| farmers who can simply stand and watch
| Il as it scars through the sky. Applause.)
| We are tired of the balloon dollars. We
want to bring it down to earth again and
get it within the reach of the masses of the
| people The gold standard instead of be-
/ ing 8 st measure of deferred payments,
! and hope deferred makes the heart sick.
! On this money question society IS divided
/ into two classes. Mr.. Blaine divides soci-
ETY.. I told you l could sustain my posi-
/ ton by quoting from Republican authori-
| ties. No Republican who has lived in the
/ last % years is more popularity an idol
/ that Mr.. Blaine. His name is still cher
/ ished as the name of the greatest Repub-
/ lican who has existed in the last % years.
/ In 1878 Mr.. Blaine said that the destruction
| of silver as money and the establishment
/ OF gold as the sole unit of value would
/ have a ruinous effect on all forms of prop
/ erty except those investments which
/ yielded a fixed return In money. That
! those would be enormously enhanced in
| value and would gain a disproportionate
! and unfair advantage over every other
/ species of property. My friends. If that
was true then it is true now. On the one
| side Mr.. Blaine put the holders of fixed
/ investments; on the other side he put the
/ rest of the people and he tells you that the
! destruction of silver as money and the es-
! adjustment of gold as the sole unit of
/ value would have a ruinous effect on those
/ who own property and would give an UNI
D
/ hold fixed investments. Where does the
+ gold standard come from? 1t comes from
the holders of fixed investments and the
trader in money; it comes from the money
owner and the money changer Do you
believe that these people who profit as the
dollar rises are seeking to make the dollar
rise without understanding that they get
any value out of it? DO you suppose they
do it because they think It helps society?
l do not believe it, my friends. They tell
US they are intelligent; in fact, they as
sumo TO possess all the intelligence there
is in this country. and if they have so
much more intelligence than We don't
you suppose that they can see their in
terests in the gold standard? Applause.)
Our laws recognize the right of each
one to use his ballot as he pleases, and
the only offense that We give TO the
financiers is that we are not willing
to have them stand up and cry: - am
holier than touu" without being re-
Duked. l am willing TO let flnancier
think as he pleases, but I demand that
all the rest Of the people shall have
righ. to think as they please.
am willing that he should
act as he p.eases, but l demand
that all the rest OF the people shall have
a right to act as they please.
| denounce the attempt OF the money
owners to indmidate and terrOrize by
threatening to withdraw their loans
from those who dare TO exercise the
right of American citizens.
The great beauty about being a BIZ
me,al.ist is that We can love all kinds
/ of money, gold and silver both. But
/ I must not de,ain you longer. I have
over-talked my time. (Cries Of How
about GrOyer?'O
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
ta.ng about it.
After the Coliseum speech Mr. Bryan
spoke twice from the carriage, asking
the people to study the question Of
finance and to make their silver speech
on election day.
Cedar Rapids was reached shortly
after O'Clock and the local committee
/. escorted Mr. Bryan and his party in car
riages to the base ball park, near the
outskirts of the city.
Al Bell Plain, Mr.. Bryan was again
/ reminded Of his opponent by the cheers
given for the Republican candidate by
a few Of the large crowd Of farmers
gathered about the train when that sta
ton was reached. The enthusiasm,
however. was on his side, and the cheers
for Mckinley served as stimulus TO the
I admirers of the Democratic nominee Tor
effort in the cheering line.
A short stop was made at Tama City,
/ and Mr.. Bryan spoke moment 60 the
crowd which assembled there, it being
one of his regular platform speeches.
The special train on the Chicago y
Northwestern to which Mr. Bryan's car
was attached at Cedar Rapids, arrived
in Marshalltown at 7:20, making an
average Of 81 miles an hour, including
two stops of ten minutes each, one OF
the fastest trips made by the party since
Il started. The train was in charge Of
S. b. Jones, the district passenger agent
of the Northwestern road.
Mr.. Bryan made two speeches here,
the first in large tent erected in
public square in the center of the city,
and the second in the Odean theatre.
Big crowds greeted him at both meet
ings and the enthusiasm was the most
marked OF The day. In his first speech,
the nominee spoke but briefly, reviewing
his principal arguments against the
gold standard and covering practically
the same ground as in his day talks.
It was 10 o'clock when Mr.. Bryan con-
cluded and he was then conducted to
his car where he soon afterwards re-
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