Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-21
PRINCIPLES EXPOUNDED.
BRYAN DISCUSSES THE FouNDA-
TON OF PROSPERITY AT
ST. PAUL.
No Railroad Wreckers or Trust Operators
Under Good Government True Pros
Perity Must First Start with those who
Labor and Create Wealth

ST.. PAUL, Oct. 12.-Mr. Bryan had
tremendous audience here Saturday.
The usual demonstrations of approval
were very marked and thousands were
turned from the hall where he spoke
Among other things he said:
Il would not favor the free coinage
OF silver did not believe it would be
beneficial to those who toll, because,
my friends, my political philosophy
teaches me that there can be no pros
perity in this nation unless that pros
perity begins first among those who
create wealth and finds its way after
wards to the other classes of society.
''My friends, when government is
properly administered there will be no
railroad wreckers to make themselves
rich by bankrupting those who put
'ir confidence in them; when gov
eminent is properly administered, there
will be no representative of a coal
trust; sitting by every fireside to ex-
act tribute from those who desire to be
protected from the cold of win ter;
if government is properly administered
there will be no syndicate fattening
out of the governments Universities
after they have brought those adver-
stiles upon the government for their
own benefit; when government is pro-
perly administered, there will be no
corporations which assume greater au-
thority than the power which created
them; when government is properly
administered, it will recognize those
fundamental principles set forth in the
Declaration of Independence. All
men are created equal that they are
endowed with inalienable rights, that
governments instituted to preserve
these rights and that governments de-
rive their just powers from the con-
sent of the governed
when these four principles are ap-
piled, then the government will be
what it ought to be.
jackson has we'll said that there
are no necessary evils in government,
that evils exist only in it's uses, and,
my friends, it is not government that
we raise our hands against. No man
who understands society, or the nee
essity for government, will ever raise
his hand against government. It's
against the abuse of government, and
we shall not be driven from our pur-
pose to eradicate these abuses, al
though every man entrenched behind
special privilege shall heap abuse
upon those whom he robs.
'We have made the money question
the paramount issue of this campaign
and yet our opponents are not satisfied
to meet this question openly. They
have never been satisfied to meet the
money question. The advocates of
the gold standard never fought an
open fight in all their lives, and never
will
'You ask me why they don't? 1 will
tell you Shakespeare explains it,
that it is conscience that makes cow
ards of men, and the conscience of the
advocates of the gold standard tells
him his policy enriches some, but is a
curse to the great masses.
81 said the advocates of the gold
standard bad never fought an open
fight. l repeat it. The advocates of
the gold standard are not fighting an
open fight in this campaign. Before
the republican convention did not you
hear'a great many people talk about the
impossibility of having two yardsticks.
Didn't you hear them talking about
gold being the only money for civilized
nations? Didn't you hear them talk
about having outgrown silver? Didn't
you hear them talking about the mine
owners profit on free coinage. and the
demagogues who tried to curry favor
with the people by advocating free
coinage and the dishonest debtor who
wanted to pay his debts in cheap dol
lars? You heard all these. But when
the republican convention met and
they had number sufficient to write q
platform did they put in there any.
thing about two yardsticks? Did they
put in anything about the demagogue
who was advocating bimetallism:
Not at all. The republican platform
expressly declared the gold standard
was not desirable thing; that repub
lican platform expressly pledged the
republican party to get rid of the colo
standard and substitute the double
standard-when? When the LEADING
commercial nations would help to de-
it. But my friends, the very fact tina
that platform pledges the republican
party to substitute the double stand
ard for the gold standard Is a positiv,
assertion that the double standard il
better than the single gold standard
But the trouble is that, having de
clared that bimetallism was bette
than the gold standard, they said w,
could not have it until the leading ma
tions of Europe should cooperate
which in my judgment is equivalent t.
saying they never expect to have tn,
double standard. Now, if the advo
Gates of the gold standard had beef
willing to fight an open, honest, mani,
fight, why didn't they declare the golt