The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-10-08

get, out there, l am reversing the process
and coming to see the people. As / go
about from place to place | find a great
variety in the manner in which the re-
ceptions are arranged and today | find
something new here. l believe this is
the first place where they have brought
the 16 to l idea in use in arranging the
horses for the procession. (Applause)
| This 16 TO | idea has been set forth to-
| day III the arrangements, so that we
| have sixteen white horses and one yellow
horse. (Applause.) That was all right,
but what pleased me more was that the
seemed to be so small in this community
that they had to get a silver man to act
| for the one gold standard man in the
crowd. ,tApplause.l Now, 16 to l has
come to he well understood. 1t used to
be that the people did not know what it
meant and they would ask if it meant
that the government would coin sixteen
silver dollars for every dollar it coined
i'll. gold. Others would want to know
| whether II meant that the government
would redeem every gold dollar with
sixteen silver dollars, and some gold
standard people thought it meant that
the, government would give sixteen silver
dollars to every one person. IaughterD
WELL. IT did not mean any of these.
Somebody thought it would be about
sixteen times easier to get Il dollar under
free coinage as it is now. A.Applause)
There is some truth in that. There are
some who say it means that every free
| silver man shall try to get sixteen
others to vote with him this fall. Cap
plause) But | don't care how you de-
| fine it as long as you understand that
under free and unlimited coinage at 16
to l, sixteen ounces of silver shall equal
one ounce of gold in the payment of IA
debt and i'll the making of money, so
that anybody that wants money can get
gold or silver and have the bullion CON
verified into coin and use that coin. We
want, as the boy said, free silver and
more of it,"
At the fair grounds Mr. Bryan was in
troduced by eX-Congrcssman John w.
Anderson and spoke rs follows:
Mr. Chairman and Fellow Citizens
| desire to express my thanks to those
who have so kindly presented me with
this gavel, made from the wood of the
house in which Stonewall Jackson was
born. (Applausc.) We are far enough
removed from the war between sections
Of this country to give to the great and
the southern side that credit for military
genius which was denied in the bitter
ness of strife. ! can rejoice that the
valor shown on that side gives Il guaran-
tee that in any future struggle the north
and south shall stand side by side. pre-
pared to drive back any invader or to
guard and carry forward the greatest
country on earth. lApplause.) | shall
be glad to place this among the other
mementos which | have received as |
have gone from section to section. and
thank again those who have been kind
enough to remember me.
1T gives me pleasure to talk to the
people of West Virginia. l am here, my
friends: to present to you the issue
which is paramount in this campaign. l
am here to impress on your minds the
Importance of your responsibility as citi-
zens this year. Every hour is of the
same length and yet there are hours into
which are crowded great results. There
are moments upon which turn the desti-
MES of nations and when the people go
to the polls this fall and deposit their
upon the result of this election much de-
ponds; much for veal or woe, much for
good or i'll; and. my friends. as the cleo
ton may turn upon the electoral vote of
any one state. SO the electoral vote of
II state may cause Il turn in the vote of
one citizen. No one can afford to tritlc
with citizenship. 1t has rejoiced me to
see that all over this country people were
taking an interest in the campaign.
Sometimes in campaigns we find the peo-
ple lukewarm. but in this campaign we
have no lukewarm people. They are all
for or against us. lApplause) We find
some who are bitterly opposing the sue
cess of free coinage. but as against them
we ind an intense carneStneSS among the
advocates of free coinage as much as was
ever manifested by the advocates Of
any cause. My friends. we must de-
pend upon this earnestness among the
people themselves 20 offset the tremcn-
dous influences of Il corruption fund,
such as was never known before in
| Am, piyIt ~,
the position which we have taken, then
our cause must appeal to the hearts of
the American people and they must see
in this election an opportunity which
may not soon come again to restore to
the people of this nation Il government
which respects the humble members of
society and is not terrified by the people
of any country. tApplauseD
you must see in this campaign an
opportunity TO restore to the people Il
financial system suited to the needs of
our people, financial system which is
American and which is not received by
importation from abroad and then held
here by the domination of capital zap
plause.)
MY friends, | want you TO understand
the necessity for financial system
which will give to the people of this
country enough money to carry on the
| business OF lnlS COUNTY, WANT W I'M
press upon your minds this fact, that
there is in circulation S15O,OO0,OO0 less
than there was two years ago. as shown
by treasury statistics. What does it
mean? 1t means with increasing popn-
lation we have Il diminishing supply of
money, and vet. my friends, when we
call this to the attention of our republic
can opponents they seem unconscious.
Since when have they forgotten that
there is Il necessity for an increasing cir
culation? Since when have they dis
covered this new idea that the less money
you have in the country the more money
an individual can get. | want to quote
you, not from democratic authority, bur
from republican authority / want to
quote you. not from lesser republicans
but from the greater ones, not from the
rank and file of the party, but from the
great leader of the party himself. |
want to compare what the republican
candidate for president said this year
with what he said six years ago with re-
gard to the necessity for an increasing
circulation. You will find i'll his letter
of acceptance this year this statement:
1T is not more money we want. What
we want is to put the money we already