The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-26

audience numbering about 10000 people
heard William ]. Bryan deliver an adj
dress half an hour long in tine court
house square this afternoon.
Mr.. Bryan reached Springfield at 1905
from Hartford, where a hundred or
more people babe him adieu.
Stops were made at Windsor and
Windsor Locks.
Thomsonville was the last stop in
Connecticut.
The crowd was about equal to that
at Windsor Locks.
Mr.. Bryan spoke briefly.
The tirst person who greeted the can
didate at the Springfield station was
George Fred Williams of Boston, his
former colleague in Congress, and his
most active supporter in MaSsachu-
se.Its.
Mr.. Bryan was cheered as he entered
the square.
He was introduced by Mayor Winter.
Mr.. Bryan was appiauded enthusiastic
cblly and spoke as follows:
Ladies ana Gentlemen: Before en-
tering upon discussion of the
GREAT PARAMOUNT ISSUE
OF this campaign L desire, in this city.
TO pay a. tripute to independent journal
ism. (Applause)
Il respect the Springfield Republican
for the high (grea1 appEause( pane upon
which il discusses political questions. /
respect it Tor the tolerance which 1t
shows to political opponents, and with
out censuring those who substitute
abuse for argument, 1 can commend
those who use argument instead of
abuse. Great applause) l can com
mend, also, TO every citizen the words
of that distinguished editor who was
the founder of this paper. l am told
that he is the author OF the expression
that a man who is not willing to die
for a. cause he believes in is not worthy
TO live. Great applause.) l challenge
YOU to find in ali political contests
which this country has passed through
a single contest which has aroused
more earnesSness than this through
which we are now passing. l challenge
YOU to find among all the hosts who
have defended a cause more earnest
, men than I found today among the ad-
4 vocates of the
RIGHT OF THIS GOVERNMENT
ID legislafe Tor itself without regard to
ktnle1. na6ionsS Great applause.) 1t
will not do for us to say that there is
70 cause for such feeling as is mani
tested now If you read the dispatch
which appeared in yesterday morning s
1,aper from London, you will find that
a great meeting of agriculturists was
held in Buda Pesth, and in speaking Of
that meeting the dispatch said that
practically all of those representing ag-
;-icnltural 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
kent up by the mine owners. l want
=,
EXPECT this great uprising of the people
on the theory that it is instigaetd by
N n who owns bullion and wants to
sell If at a higher price. This great up-
rising comes from the masses of the
<neople who do not produce bullion, but
A they produce property and they realize
shaf the gold standard has been driv-
ing value out Of the property which
thew produce. (Applause)
.sr,F,e opposition press may we'll af-
cord 10 pause in their ridicules of the
advocates OF the free coinage OF silver
and in their denunciation of than as
1awlsss characters, to find cut whether
there is
a WELI-FOUNDED REASON
for this advocacy of bimetallism among
+be farmers of the United States, of
1sngland. of Germany, of France and Of
Gerry nation which has been cursed by
rho cold standard. Ny friends, / as
eer,t mere. and l challenge any goldbug
,anar 10 dispute it, that financial pol
lev which is injurious TO the agricul-
,n,-al classes has nothing to commend
- 10 the government of any nation on
earth. (Applause) The gold standard
1,as never commended itself to the agri-
cultural classes of any country which
has ever had it.
..No person can accuse me Of at
+e,rotinr to deny to the financsers. or
even to the money changers, the right
70 their opinion, the right TO their
,1Sr1es the right to- every legitimate in
f,uence. What s.ly to them IS this,
The right to think for ANYBODY but
themselves. the right to act for any
f,ody but themselves, the right to put
themselves above other people and so
through the world crying: I am holier
than thou. l am holier than thou
CCheers ana applause-)
There is one advantage in being a
l,iraetallist. You can like gold and sill
yer both. while a gold standard man
does not dare to like silver and he does
rot get much gold to like. (Applause.)
a man tcld me that out of nearly
81. 009. 600 collected in taxes in Hartford,
Conn. less than 500 was collected in
cold. Our opponents tell US they want
sound money, but they want finan-
cial system built on an invisible foun-
dation De you call than soundness,
my friends? If you do, you have got to
write 4 new meaning Cor .soundneSs'