Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-09-03
BRYAN ON BOLTERS.
COMPLIMENTS OF DEMOCRATIC
xo,rryEE TO INDIANAPOLITANs.
HICKORY.TREE NOT PROPER DEVICE
WHY Not the owl, which Looks Wise
and Works In the Dark, or the
Mole. which Operates Under
rround.-A New Yellow-Fever.

train bearing Mr.. Bryan arrived here at
9:s5 A. NJ. The booming OF cannon an
nounced his arrival, and the crush from
the steps Of the car to the platform was
simply terrible, @Ooo people being pre-
sent. Mr.. Bryan spoke as follows:
Gentlemen: For few moments only
I shall occupy your attention. because
a large portion Of my voice has been
left along the line OF travel, where 1t
is still calling sinners to repentance.
Great laughter)
81 am told that in this city you manu-
facture more agricultural implements
than are manufactured in any other city
Of the country. l am glad to talk 10
a people who recognize their dependence
upon the farmers Of this country. / have
had occasion TO talk TO some who seem
TO imagine that the harder up they could
make the farmers the better off they
would be. / am glad to talk TO some
who recognize that the dollars which you
receive are earned by those who convert
the natural resources or this country
into money. those who TIL the soil from
whose fertility springs forth this nations
primary greatness. As a matter or fact,
the farmers and the laboring men are
the foundation Of society. (Cheers) Upon
this foundation is built the commercial
class. and the financier acts as a sort
Of roof over the whole thing. You can
take off the roof and put on another
but Won cannot destroy the foundation
without running the whole building. (Ap-
nIause1 Goldsmith has well expressed
it when he says:
" princes and lords may flourish or
"'A breath can make them as a breath
has made;
"'But the bold peasantry, a nations
pride,
when once destroyed. can never be
supplied
DEMOCRACY FOR THE MASSES.
"The Democratic party, in its platform
adopted at Chicago. is pleading the cause
of the nations peasantry, that cannot De
destroyed until you sap the foundation OF
our nations greatness. upon the pros
perity of the great producers OF Wea.th
whom we call the masses. as distinguished
from the classes. depends all the pros
ueritv OF this city III you have gold
standard YOU legislate the value or money
I'M. and YOU legislate the value OF pro-
perty down. DO you remember, When we
were young how we used 10 get on the
teeter-board. ard when one end OF IL was
I'D the other end was down? II has re-
mained for modern fnanciers 10 declare
that Won can keep both ends OF the
teeter-board up at once. daughter As
suming TO be statesmen, they disregard
every law of trade every law or econo-
mics. every law Of nature. and every law
Of God There Is not a law. human OF
divine they respect, because they thihh
they are bigger than the government and
greater than the Almighty. Great
laughter) The very legislation that in
creases the purchasing power Of the dol
lar simply enables that dollar 10 buy
more Of other things. How can dollar
be made TO buy more OF other things? BY
making more wheat sell for a dollar
more corn sell for a dollar more oats
sell for a dollar. more potatoes sell for a
dollar. more OF the products Of toll eX-
changeable for given amount OF money
II is a good thing for the man who owns
money and buys property, but 1t is a
mighty had thing for the man who has
TO pay money with the property that he
produces. Applause)
THE GOLD STANDARD.
How does the gold standard affect you
You make your implements, and you sci
them 10 the farmer. Suppose the farmer
finds that his taxes do not 90 down hi.
interest does not go down, his debts d,
not 90 down. but the price Of all that h'
sells goes down. What does IL mean? il
means that he has a less and less amount
TO expenl on agricultural implements. auc
in the support Of his family. II you sci
him agricultural implements. ne promises
10 pay you. and then legislation destroys
his ability 10 pay Then you ind fault
because you have TO take your implements
back and sell them secondhand 10 som'
one else (Cheers)
That is the effect of legislation. Oul
opponents are trying TO throw upon Provi
dence the fault for our condition. II a
farmer complains that he is not maMnl
much out Of his potato crop. they tell hin
IL is due TO the potato bug. II he is no
making much out OF corn, they tell hin
A IS due TO the chinch bug. III he H. no
making much out Of wheat, they tell hin
il is due to the army worm. But. let m,
tell YOU. the gold-bug is destroying NOR,
crops than all OF them. Great laughter.
The farmer is the most helpless victim o
circumstances of all the producers o
wealth If a man is engaged I'm manu-
featuring. and finds the demand is de
creasing he can close his factory anC
stop the expense Of production, but th'
farmer cannot. When he plants his croI
in the spring he does not know whether
there II going to be flood or drought
whether il is going TO be hot winds ol
,oId hail. He takes his chances, and
sssert when he has taken more chances
than ANYBODY else. and survives all the
DestiIences and calamities that visit th'
farm II is not fair to drive him between
the bulls and bears OF Wall street. anC
10, them take from him what is left
Great laughter and applause)
THE DEMOCRATIC BOLTERS.
"The Democrats of this State have done
well against great ODDS. In spite OF grea
influences, the Democrats OF this stat'
declare for the restoration of the money
~ The Constitution. You meet your op-
nonents I'm open conflict. and by suDe-
r,oritv of numbers overcome them. What
40 they do? The very people who have
heen calling all silver Democrats PoDu-
lists. who have been trying 10 read US out
Of the party for years, when they found
thev could not read us out, instead OF
Going out to some other party and giving
us the name we have proven our right TO
thew try to go out and take the name
with them. and call us Anarchists be-
cause we don't go with them. CAD
nIause) | understand these gold-standard
Democrats. by resolution. declared that
their emblem should be the hickory tree
we have heard about Satan stealing the
livery of Heaven. but we have never be-
fore seen men try to use the name of that
oreat hero and statesman to undo all ht
fried 10 do. (Cries of 'Good.D
"Talk about Andrew Jackson belonging
IN the gold-bug Democracy. daughter.
co back to the time OF Andrew Jackson
and who had he arrayed against him?
The very men who. after trying to use
the Democratic party for private gain
and having failed. are now trying Il
-. H. Rnnnhlican candidate for Presi.