The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-24
BROOKLYN ABLAzE FOR BRYAN
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TaTCg ElNeS LIICy sJITT
endless chain as soon as they get through
with the present endless chain.
We have got to have either
one kind of standard money or two
kinds. If we cannot have two kinds. then
there must be one, and the government
must have the right to use silver dol
lar. If the government cannot use sill
yer dollar to pay all the debts that it
owes then the silver dollar is not as good
as the gold dollar. l believe this govern
ment has a right to use its silver dollars
as 1t uses its gold dollars, but our oppo-
nents have gone on a different theory,
and they have taxed tho people OF this
country to pay interest on S2cOoo,oo0 in
bonds, with which to buy gold.
my friend when / see bonds worth $l19
sold for s104lk, and try to describe what
kind of a transaction II was, l regret that
my parents did not teach me more tongues
in which to express my ideas. And yet
the people who sell for s1.o4l4 bonds worth
81 10 assume that they are the only peo-
pie who understand flnanciering. be-
lieve that instead OF the Secretary of the
Treasury getting down on his knees and
asking these men to please tell him what
he ought to do that he ought to stand up
and with 100000 of people behind him tell
them what they ought TO do, and make
them do it. You say that 1t is not pos
sibe. The great trouble has been. in my
judgment, that our treasury officials in
stead of being in sympathy with the mass
of the people of the United States have
been in sympathy with the syndicates and
the financiers of the United States. Our
platform declares for the double standard
without discrimination or charge for
mintage. Our platform is but a reitera-
ton of the main part of the platform of
1892, without the steps Oaushter). We
left the steps off because the candidate
did not care to step down this time.
Great applause). Our platform is not
made SIMPLY that they may get on, but 1t
is made to stand on after election. / am
in favor of free coinage whether we pro
duce an ounce of silver in this country or
not. l am in favor of the use of silver,
not because we produce it, but because we
own it. (Applause). If we need it, and If
it is best for us at our present ratio, 1 am
in favor of having it even if to have it, it
gives the people who produce silver
chance to do what they did
before the law struck silver
down. They tell you that free coinage
helps those who delve in the NINE Ad-
mittei. 1 tell you that when they bring
out metal they pour 1t into the channels
of trade and we are blessed by its dis
covery Who will be helped by the gold
standard? Not those who produce the
metal and pour it into the channels of
trade, but those who corner the money
Of the world and keep it out of the chan
going to be an enormous increase in pro-
duction. That is guess work. You say
it is possibility; but we do not leglslara
on possibilities. You tell me there may
be a flood of silver It is possible, but
look back and see we have used silver for
GOO years and never a. flood of silver in
all that time I base our rea soning upon
the past. We judge what may be
by what has been. And yet our
friends forgetting the past, or at
least disregarding previous experience tell
us that legislation can have no effect
whatever onthe value of silver. Legisla
ton creates demand. Demand acting
with supply fixes prices and whenever
you can create a demand greater than
the supply, you can fix the price wherever
you will. (Applause) We do not want to
change the ratio. 1t is not because we
produce silver that we want 16 to l, but
because we own property and owe debts
and we do not want to make our debts
any heavier by law or wipe out our prop
erty by legislation. Applause.) But must
not detain you longer" (cries Of GO on"
"go on.')
Mr.. bryan then went over his favorite
argument of Bismarck and bi-metallism
and said: Shame on the cowardly Ameri-
can who thinks this nation is not as big
as Bismarck thinks 1t is. (Applause)
1--WE say that if this nation cannot have
an independent financial system it cannot
have a foreign policy of it's own either.
(Applause) We have opposed some of the
policies of the President, but be it said
to the credit of the people of the west and
south that in spite of their opposition to
the Presidents financial policy they stood
by him on the Monroe doctrine when your
cowardly financiers begged him to submit
to anything. Great applause and cheers)
my friends the circulation of this
country is to-day $50 900, 600 less than 1t
was two years ago. and republican sue
cess means a further contraction of the
currency. If you want hard times the
republican party promises hard times,
because It promises the same financial
system. If you want an American finan-
cial system, system by this nation, re-
CARELESS of what other nations may ask
of them or wish, you have got to get it
by defeating the republican platform and
republican ticket" Great applause and
cheers.)
When Mr. Bryan concluded he was
cheered loudly. He presented Senator
Blackburn. asking the audience to listen
to him, and most Of those who had heard
the presidential candidate remained.
The meeting at the rink was under the
auspices of the Bryan League OF eKings
county and was a genuine workingmen's
gathering. Fully 5000 persons were in at
tendance, while an immense number of
others were unable to obtain admission
John Phillips, national secretary of the
United Hatters of America, presided and
called the meeting to order. His brief
address consisted Of an appeal to work.
ingmen to band together, and work for
the election of William Jennings Bryan.
Resolutions unreservedly endorsing the
candidacy of Mr.. Bryan were presented,
and adopted by rising vote, after which
kilograms of regret from Eugene v. Debs
president of the American Railway Union
and John w. Hayes, general secretary
and treasurer Of the knights Of Labor
were read.
Mr.. Bryan was late in arriving at the
rink. 1t was 1926 o'clock when he ar
rived. He received a most enthusiastic
reception, the cheers and applause lasting
fully five minutes. His speech was main
ly a repetition of the one delivered at the
academy, dwelling particularly on the
financial issue. He was loudly cheered
when he declared that this country does
not want money that is too good. Bimct-
allism. he declared, meant more money
and one cannot sell their goods unless peo-
Die have money to spend. The gold STAN
dard, he said, means hard times and pow
erty for the laboring man.
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