Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-29
IN THE BAY STATE.
Mr.. Bryan's Campaigning Tour Of
Massachusetts.
he SPEAKS IN A NUMBER OF TOWNS.

HE SPEAKS In A NUMBER OF TOWNS.
Extracts from His Addresses at SPRING.
field and Worcester-Goid Standard Z
/: 8ren, He Says, Want a "Bal,
loon Dollar" i5,
Springfield, Mass, Sept. ;e.-Ana audi.
ence numbering about 10000 people
heard William j. Bryan deliver an adj
dress half an hour long in the Court
square here Friday afternoon. Mr..
Bryan reached Springfield at 1905.
Mr.. Bryan was cheered as he entered
the square. He was introduced by
Mayor Winter Mr.. Bryan was APP
plauded enthusiastically and spoke as
follows:
II challenge you to find in all political
contests which this country has passed
through q single contest which has aroused
more earnestness than this contest through
which we are now passing. challenge you
to find among all the hosts who have de-
Tended a cause more earnest men than
found to-day among the advocates of the
right Of this government to legislate fof
Itself without regard to other nations. It
will not do to say that there is no cause
for such feeling as Is manifested now. r
you read the dispatch which appeared IN
Thursday mornings paper from London
you will find that great meeting Of
agriculturists was held in Buda Pesth and
In speaking Of that meeting the dispatch
said that practically all of those represent
Ing agricultural societies were in favor OF
the restoration of bimetallism My friends.
our opponents sometimes tell us that this
movement in favor Of free coinage is
started by the mine owners and kept UP by
the mine owners.
Il want them to understand that they
cannot explain this great uprising of the
people on the theory that it is instigated
by man who owns bullion and wants to
sell 1t at higher price. This great upris-
Ing comes from the masses of the people
who do not produce bullion but they pro-
duce property and they realize that the
gold standard has been driving value out
OF the property which they produce
THE opposition press may well afford
to pause in their ridicule of the advocates
OF free coinage in their denunciation Of
them as lawless characters, to find out
whether there is a well founded reason for
this advocacy of bimetalliSm among the
farmers of the United States, of England,
OF Germany, of France and of every nation
which has been cursed by the gold stand
ard.
Labor Wants Free Coinage.
"Our opponents appeal to the laborIng
men. The laboring men have already de-
manded sixteen to one and free and un-
limited coinage. Do they not know what
they want. or must they depend on the few :?
The gold standard was never endorsed by
the labor in any nation of the world. In no
country has 1t received the support of the
1aboring men. and it never will, because
they know what is good for them. The
money changers stand by gold. The re-
publican does not propose to change
the present policy or to add to the volume
l1at inf mad t,y =,
been decreased. The republican party does
not propose to stop contraction. There
1s no use to open the mills until the people
are able to buy what the mills can pro-
duce. Until the people are to buy, the
mills will be idle There is willingness
to work just as much as ever Stagnation,
which you say Is the result of tariff re-
form. pervades Canada and England,
where they have no such reform on which
to put the blame. Bismark says, after %
years OF gold, he wants bimetallism. Our
people out west thought of these things
before you did in the east. because your
legislation drove them to think. Your peo-
pie would not believe our complaints If
you foreclose your mortgages You will find
you cannot make as much out of the
tenants as out of the owners"
ss4 Bryan at Worcester. -.
Worcester, Mass, Sept. 26.-Still in
the special car of the Massachusetts
committee, Mr.. Bryan made the trip
from Springfield to Worcester. He
talked most of the way with George
Fred Williams. During the run the
train halted briefly at Palmsr, War
rem and West BrookfeAf, whene crowds
saw and cheered the nominee. During
his 1remarks at this place Mr.. Bryan
said:
What Is Needed in Money.
Our opponents talk about honest money,
and yet, my friends. they never touch upon
the purchasing power of dollar in de-
lining what is an honest dollar. They tell
Us that they want good money. There are
Swo things that we need in money We
must not only have money which is &C cd,
but we must have money which we can get
hold Of If money is SO good that you can
pray for it. and long for it, but can never
BEE 1t except when you have the privilege
OF gazing through some grated door and
looking at somebody else's pile. then 1t is
TOO good for the masses of the people
Money ought not to be built on the balloon
plan. Our opponents want a balloon dol
lar. They want dollar that gets higher
and higher. If we are going to have gold
standard, II we are going to have gold
dollar whose appetite is never satisfied
and gold dollar which insists upon cat
ing more of the products of toll every year,
we ought to change the dies at the mints
md 30 describe that dollar that people
VIII understand 1t. Let us take off the
emblems that have adorned 1t from the
beginning and put on one side the picture
OF the horse leech, and under the picture
let 1t be written as in Proverbs: Give,
give, give;' and on the other side let us
put the picture Of an open grave and
above 1t let us write as in proverbs: 1T
sayeth not, 1t Is enough My friends that
Is the sort of dollar that the gold stand
ard has given us. That is the sort of a dol
lar that the gold standard will continue to
give to U.S. If oats get down to ten cents
bushel, 1t means that one dollar will buy
ten bushels Of oats. and If that dollar is
not good enough, you can send its value
up until one dollar will buy 20 bushels of
oats; and IL the farmer is troubled with
getting too much money for his oats. YOU
can still send it higher, SO that it will get
LOO bushels of oats. You can make the dol
lar as dear as you want to, and the dearer
you make 1t, the worse it is for every
body except the owners of fixed invest
ments and the men who sell bonds to the
government after having driven the gov
eminent into the position where 1t wants
to buy the bonds.''
Train Goes Over an Embansment.
Butler, Pa, Sept. 26.-Thursday q
construction train of 10 dump cars on
the Butler g. Pittsburgh railroad was
thrown over an so foot embanliment,
owing to failure of the brakes 10 work.
One man was killed and number were
badly injured. All were foreipners and