The San Francisco call., 1896-09-09
IN AFTERNOON GRAFTON
Bryan Talks about the Rule OF Trusts
and SundicdteS.


IN AFTERNOON GRAFTON.
Bryan Talks about the Rule or Trusts
and Sgndicates.
LINCOLN, NEBR., Sept. SIN the after
noon mass meeting was held in front OF
the State Capitol building. A parade
composed of Bryan flambeau clubs, free
silver clubs, some in uniform and some in
plain dress, and floats bearing free silver
devices were IN attendance. The parade
formed at City Hall square and escorted
Mr.. Bryan to the State House. He rode
with Mrs. Bryan, Lawrence Humphrey,
chairman of the local reception commit
tee, and George a. Groat, chairman of the
National Silver Notification Committee.
As the head of the procession neared the
Capitol grounds a salute was fred by a
volunteer battery. The stand from which
Mr.. Bryan spoke had been erected on the
north front of the State House.
It was covered with bunting, and the
walls of the building were also decorated.
A large photograph of the Democratic
nominee above the platform was rivaled
by many little photographs of Mckinley
and Hobart. which some of the Repub-
lican State officeholders had placed in the
windows of their offices and then gone
away after locking the doors, Among
those who had seats on the stage were
John A. Creighton OF Omaha, John 1.
Martin OF Missouri, who was sergeant-at-
arms of the Democratic National Conven-
tion, Governor Holcomb of Nebraska,
Ignatius Donnelly, Chairman George A.
Groat and number of the mem bers of the
Silver party notification committee. Five
thousand people crowded the grounds, in
the hot sun, about the stand, and cheered
repeatedly as Mr.. Bryan appeared. He
was introduced by E. E. Brown, former
Republican and president of the First
National Bank of Lincoln. Mr.. Bryan
said:
Ladies and gentlemen: am only going OF
talk 10 you little while. There are Others
here who are prepared to discuss the issues of
the campaign IN your presence, and am try
ing to do as little work possible. / think
have been doing my share so far as time is con-
cerned. lCries of You are right"] Il is now
Just about one month since | left Nebraska
and turned eastward. 1t has been an inter-
est1ng trip. | want to assure you that the
sentiment In favor OF the Tree coinage OF silver
is growing sentiment. lApplause.l 1t lar
surpassed my expectations in the East, and |
found among those people the producers of
wealth, the farmers and the laborers, who are
joining with you to free themselves from the
domination of those financial institutions
which have controlled our legislation and our
financial policies. [Applause1
You viii find IN the very shadow of Wall
street as bitter hatred to the influences from
which you have suffered as you viii find
among the farmers of Nebraska [applausel
and all through the East l found farmers who
had been Republicans who were openly sup
porting the free coinage OF silver and were as
sert1ng that they had as much right to attend
to their business as the New York banker had
to attend to his business. Applause AS
against the maintenance OF a gold standard
either for one day or forever, the Democratic
declared
tion of the money of the constitution. Ap-
plause.l The Silver party and the Populist
party have Joined with the Democratic party
in making this the paramount issue of the
campaign. Our opponents began the cam
paign by asserting that the American people
were not able 10 establish bimetallism, and
when they found revolt among the Ameri-
can people against such policy they COM
menced system OF coercion and terrorizing,
insisting that the masses of the people even
have not the right to determine what kind of
policy they want. [Applause.l
This terrorism and coercion is manifested in
two ways.
In the first place the heads of many great
corporations are undertaking to compel their
employees TO support the gold standard. Ny
sert the right to control the votes OF those who
work for them we have presented 10 the
American people even greater question than
ton has the right to control the vote of an
employe on one question, 1t has the right to
control it on every other question. lCries OF
My friends, do you think you are under
government of the people? want to ask you
what will be the result if we get TO be gov
ernment by banks. lApplause.l IL we could
trust our affairs to New York banker we
might endure it for time, but when you re-
member that the New York banker is under
the control of the London banker ask yon to
reflect before you submit the destinies OF free
people to few financiers lApplausel
We had a failure in this city last winter;
failure which, IN my judgment, was largely
due to the sale of bonds and to the fact tnat
the Eastern bank was drawing in money from
circulation, from business. from the channels
OF trade to invest in Government bonds. II.
my friends, you have a financial policy which
permits few fnanciers to close your banks at
Will and swallow up your deposits and impov-
erish your people l want TO ask you if 1T is not
time for you to consider whether this cannot
be stopped. [Cheers.l We have been told that
we cannot borrow money from abroad unless
we have a financial system tn hat is satisfactory
to the people abroad. My friends, you let them
control your financial system and you will
never see time when you can get out of the
clutches of those who are dominating your
financial policy. lGreat cheering.l
Talk about arraying one class against an
other! / want to ask you why ii is that every
Democrat who is interested in syndicate or
trust or has salary from railroad cor
poration that is more than his other property
l want to ask you why they are all arrayed
against the Democratic party? [Cheersl Why
is it? 1t is because the Democratic party has
declared agaln the issue OF bonds in time of
peace and the tratficking with syndicates.
[''Thars right" from the crowd.1 1t is because
the Democratic party is opposed to the trusts
and the prices which the trusts have insti-
tuted. 1t is because the Democratic party be-
lieves in the control, the regulation and the
restriction of all corporations so that they will
serve the purpose tor which they were allowed
to exist. [Great cheeriug.1
If those connected with trusts are fiocking
together in the Republican party may we not
appeal TO ell the smaller business men who
have felt the iron heel of the trust and who
have been driven out of business by its unlaw-
full competition? [Cheers.1 If we are to lose
all the attorneys of these great trusts IA cry
of LET them go''l may we not appeal with
confidence to the support of the people who
have been plundered by these trusts while
their attorneys have received part of the
plunder? (Cheers and shouts of frYes"1 We
are not responsible for the arraying OF one
class against another. These people have de-
fined the business class to be few of notthe pro-
ducers of wealth but the exchangers of wealth
or those who try to corner our wealth and
they are trying to array them against the rest
OF the people.
The Republican platform in the State of New
fork SAID that we ought to have business
administration conducted by business men in
behalf of the business interests of the country.
Il