The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-08
BRYAN EN- ROUTE WEST.
He Makes N Speech at Aurora, and Is
Asked About the Tariff.

AURORA H., Sept. On the train leav
ing Chicago was a reception committee
from Aurora. and these gentlemen had pre-
vailed on Mr.. Bryan to stop off thirty min
utes and address them. AT $50 the train
arrived at Aurora. The platform was
crowded with men, women and children,
anxious to catch sight of the nominee and
hear him speak. Across the street from the
railroad tracks a platform had been erected,
and Mr. Bryan spoke to the audience from
it. He said:
Ladies and Gentlemen-In the short time
I have to speak it will be impossible to
more than touch upon the one great issue
before U.S. The people are thinking as they
have seldom thought before upon a great
economic question. Some consider the
money question too deep for the people, but
question which concerns 70000,000 people
is too deep for the people themselves. No
class settle the question for another
class. We have none in this country who
with the privileges of thinking for others.
Each one must determine where his inter-
ests lie. l want to assure you that the
money question is sufficiently settled to De
understood by all.
Our opponents declare in favor of inter
rational bimetallism. They do not say the
geld standard is good Ii you find person
opposed to free coinage ask what he pc
leyes in. If he believes in a gold standard
tell him he cannot stand upon the Repub-
lican platform, because it pledges the Re-
publican party to get rid of IL But when?
When other nations will help US. zap,
plause.) If the gold standard is a good
thing why not keep it? "a voice, we Will
] am glad to find one man who Is Tor the
standard and not hypocrite claiming to
be for bimetaiiism. 1Cheers) I wish our
opponents would say they are for the gold
standard and not hypocrite, claiming TO
say they love the money owners better
than the toiling masses. (ApplauseO The
man in favor of a gold standard cannot
point to a single instance in the history OF
the world where the people have 1ndorsed
the gold standard. 1t is the money chang
ers' standard, and if you take from it the
support of the money owning and chang
survive a day in any nation of the world.
That is why the Republican party did not
declare for it. 1t made as bad a mistake
as if it had because it said that while it
desired bmetallism, the American people
them, but they must wait until foreign
nations take pity on But the Republic
an party refused to take pity. on the Amer
lean people. They said we must MAINTAIN
the gold standard until commercial ma
lions will join in international agreement
Why wait if we are strong enough to do
if ourselves? / assert that seventy millions
of people not only have a right to nave a
financial system of their own, but are able
print upon a card and wear it upon their
breasts: / an American citizen, but l
think America has to aDpetahi 10 aorelgn n
people, Some may think this country not
great enough to legislate for itself but
that idea is among people who know more OF
Lombard street than of the Industrial
masses of the United States"
A Voice-What's the matter with the
tariff?
Mr.. Bryan-We are going to regulate
that by international agreement as we Will
bimetaIlism. Then we will call an inter-
rational conference and adopt q foreign
policy and at last we will annex ourselves
TO some nation big enough to take care OF
us and relieve us of the trouble. (Cheers
and prolonged applause.l
Mr. Bryan then took the limited train at
$40 and the next stop was at Plano, where
he shook hands with a few hundred people
gathered at the train.