Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-09-07
THE PEOPLE FOR BRYAN.
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allowed the bankers to turn it in for
bonds at 100 cents on the dollar.
! c'That is true as gospel" shouted
several old soldlers.)
BARKLEY's CHEAP MONEY.
In reply to the charge that he adj
vocated cheap money, Elder Barkley
said it was true If by that they meant
money as compared to the price of
commodities and labor. He wanted
less of those things in dollar.
Two bushels Of wheat ought
to get the best 81 in God
Almighty's world. | do believe
that TO remonetize our silver means
to increase the volume of our pri-
mary money and that means better
prices for our products and for our
labor If that means cheap money
make the more of it. (Applause.)
We've had the gold standard en-
tirely too long. We are travelling
slowly with a one-horse rig to certain
destruction. Let us go back to- the
system we had for eighty years, and
climb up the hill of financial honor,
with a double team and Uncle Sam
holding the reins. (Applause.) Gen
eral Williams at Salem had said:
Free coinage meant unlimited expan-
sion of the currency" We exported
SAT 900, 900 of silver to European coun-
tries last year at half-price, for them
to buy wheat with in India and
Argentine and thus force our farmers
to sell their wheat in competition
with labor at from to 10 cents day.
(Applause.) General Williams had
said: "No government by its fiat can
fix the current value of money" l
put up against that the declaration of
the constitution making it the duty
of congress ''to coin money and reg
ulate the value thereof"
SENATOR JOHN H. MITCHELL.
said at Woodburn that tariff and sill
yer go together, and that the single
gold standard and protective tariff
did not go together, and further de-
clared he was an independent blmet-
allist, and did not take back word
he had ever said for free coinage.
Elder Barkley complimented Senator
Mitchell for these sentiments, and
said he was the ablest man in the
senate.
In reply to Senator Mitchell's posi-
tion in this campaign for Mckinley
and international bimetallism, Elder
Barkley said:
"Let us first get national agreement,
and then talk about international
afterward. If the common people Of
our country can't be heard at the bal
lot box on these questions, who can
be? Until we can agree among our
selves on national silver policy it is
foolish to talk of agreement with
other nations.
Omitted we stand, divided we fall"
on any great national policy. l hail
as a favorable portent the union of q
pure and honest Democracy, clean
and intelligent Populism and a patri-
otic independent silver Republican
ism, which was united by the fearless
speech of Bryan at the Chicago ma
tional convention, and which is held
together by his unconpromising cam
paign before the people ever since.
THE NEW AND THE OLD.
Senator Mitchell said at Woodburn
that the new Democracy was the
same as the old Democracy. The
senator forgot the history of the day
before. If what he said was true why
had they resurrected that stiffened
political corpse of the Democracy of
Illinois General Palmer-as the gold
standard candidate, if the new Dem
ocracy was the ,same as the old9 |
[Great Cheeringl
"The Oregonian has referred to |
Senator Mitchell's Woodburn speech |
as a persuasive appeal to the silver
Republicans to fall in line, and you
know If it loves anything in the
world better than silver Republican |
II is a silver senator named Mitchell. |
The Oregonian tells the truth about |
senator Mitchell for once in its life."
Laughter and applause.l
THE SUPREME COURT.
'"rhe income tax plank of Bryan's
platform was assailed by the new
Cleveland Republicans. 1t had stood
for nearly century as good law. The
present court had said it was law and
then gone TO sleep, and one Judge
changed his mind in his sleep aud
that declared the law uncOnstitu-
tlonal lApplause,l
when has it been established
that free people shall not criticise
and reverse even the decision of SUI
preme court9 lApplause.l Abraham
Lincoln ran on the proposition that
the Dred Scott decision was wrong
and carried the nation with him.
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