The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-23


what was right he could wait for the
people to come to him. l was taught to
believe no man could afford to be wrong,
no matter how many he had in his COM
pany. l studied the question. l read
books on both sides and compared them,
and the more / read the deeper became
my convictions until ] became so firmly
of the opinion that there could be no
prosperity In this country until free silver
was restored, that / was willing to risk
all l had or hoped to have on the correct
ness of that conclusion. Great applause.)
We have gone through in Nebraska the
same process people have gone through in
other states. We began the fight in Me-
braska. 1t is the pioneer. The platform
at Chicago on the silver question was first
adopted in Nebraska by the silver demo-
Gratis there. (Applause). When we
did It we had boilers then
as they have had since. We
had men who claimed to be democrats
who would not agree to our platform.
They called themselves better democrats
than we were. and voted the republican
ticket to prove 1t. CGreat laughter) We
believe the democratic party which owed
Its success to the toiling masses must
still stand by them in their fight against
the few, If 1t deserves to continue its eX-
istence. We organized in Nebraska a
democratic free silver league. The mem
bers Of that league made an open fight
They did not go around in the dark wear
ing a mask. They said to the democracy
of the state we are going to take pos
session of the machinery Of the party If
we can We are going to submit this
question to the voters We went out and
presented the questions. When our state
convention met we had three to one, and
we adopted that platform which has been
readopted by the national democratic con-
A
fairer contest ever waged Then we or
ganlzed L bimetalllc democratic national
league, which went out to do in the ma
tion what the free silver democrats of Ne
braska had done In that state. We car
ried the question to the primaries, and
the voters instructed the delegates TO the
county convention. and from there
to the state convention, and from
there to the national convention.
We never had a convention in this coun-
try which more correctly Represented the
sentiment of the people who sent the del
egates than that convention which met st
Chicago. 1t Is honor enough to be the
nominee of a convention for a President
But II is a higher honor yet to be the
nominee of the most democratic conven-
tion ever held in this country. (Applause.)
II Is sufficient honor to be nominated by
the machinery Of party. but 1t is a
higher honor still to be nominated by the
people of a party regardless Of the ma
chinery. (Applause)
Since that platform was adopted the
people have commenced to study the
money question. What do they find? They
find that the people Of the west and
south, who have been asking for the
restoration of bimetallism instead of try
ing to ruin the country. are trying to save
It, Great applause) We are trying to
help our people. That is true. but I want
to- tell you that our people cannot buy
of you unless they can sell what they
raise. We must have more than appetites
out there. Laughter) We must have
money to pay for these things which graf
ify the appetite. Because you have food
to sell, don't think you can sell 1t just
becase people are hungry. You have got
to have people who want II and who have
the money to pay for something to eat
Great applause.) Your people are pro-
ducing manufacturing products here
largely. Where do you get your consum-
ers? Where is the farming pop
ulation and where Will you
sell the goods you producer
You virtually wipe out the farmers as
consumers when you drive down the price
of their products, so they only realize
enough to pay taxes and interest. Great
applause.) You have many truck farmers.
When they take what they have to sell
lllO lHt lDWH lDty llnu ltit HldIkeL II
rather dull and what they get is small,
compared with what It used to be- Does
It mean the people of Philadelphia are
not as hungry as they ever were2 / vent
ure the assertion there is more hunger
here I'm Philadelphia than there was five
years ago. Great applause) IL is because
people have lost their taste for the good
things which you producer There Is as
much taste as ever, If they could get a
rhanpa n II n a0r4pfhiner fGrQaf n n
plause) How are you going to increase
your markets? BY increasing the number
of people. able to buy what you produce.
VIII you do that by making dollars
dearer? No, dollars do not eat. They de-
YOUR a great DEAL but they do not eat.
QIaughter) How are you going to create
markets? BY increasing dollars in the
hands of the few? No. you have got TO
restore prosperity by stopping the fall Of
prices, so men VIII sell what they pro-
duce TO get money to buy what you pro-
duce." (Applause)
Mr.. Bryan gave quotations from John
Sherman, James G. Blaine and John q.
Carlisle, showing them to have formerly
been in favor of the free coinage of sill
yer.
Mr.. Bryan continued as follows: Every
one of them when the utterances quote1
were made were older than / am now.
II they attribute my division Of people
into two classes, the idle holders OF Idle
capital and the producers of wealth, to
the fact that / have had not as mucn
experience as some others, how are they
going to explain the language of Blaine
and Carlisle and Sherman? / divide
classes the same as they do, except,
should say, on one side are the drones
and on the other side the bees that make
the honey. Applause) The gold stand
ard newspapers think we won't be able
to get silver into circulation II we had
free coinage. ! want 10 tell you that they
will be mighty glad TO have sub
scriptions paid in silver dollars II these
people who they have been trying to de-
stroy In the interests Of foreign capital
lists will continue their papers into their
houses. (Great applause) Our oppo-
nents who are so confident that money
cannot be an argument in a campaign
are glad to use silver dollars for a cam
paign fund. (Applause). II you destroy
part OF our money you must be content to
take a lower price for what you have to
sell. When you drive down the value of
your property, you don't drive down the
value Of the mortgage you have agreed
TO pay. That man still asks the same for
Il. we don't ask to reduce the amount
of mortgages, but say the man who holds
I'D ptu f.t, to u,l ~.