The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-25
BRYAN AND THE BUTTONS.
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saying that the free coinage of silver
would result in a panic. 1 have not said
so; l do not believe it. l believe, my
friends that the moment this nation has
declared that at a certain time the mints
of the United States will be open to the
free coinage of silver on equal terms
with gold, at the ratio of is to l. that
moment the value of silver will rise, as
measured by gold and that by the time
of the opening of our mints, silver will
reach the point where an ounce of it will
be worth 20 in gold, and from that time
we pass on with the parity maintained at
16 to l."
The Vice President went aboard the
Bryan special after the meeting and ac-
companied the presidential candidate to
Quincy.
Quincy, ILL.,. Oct. PA highly demon
strative audience of 1900 people at the
Monmouth fair grounds heard Mr. Bryan
make the speech of the day just as the
sun was going down. His remarks were
brief, but he showed some feeling, Most
of his speech was devoted to answering
the reported utterances of Bishop Worth
ington of Omaha, giving his reasons for
intending to vote for Mckinley. Mr..
Bryan took up the statement of the bishop
that the present political agitation was
caused by dissatisfaction among the
farmers through over-education. He said:
Il want to call your attention to an in
terview which appeared in yesterday
mornings papers. 1 hope that I may find
out that it is not true wait
ed until to-day before using 1t,
thinking that possibly this mornings
paper might make a correction, and when
l speak Of it want you to distinctly I'M
derstand that if there be a subsequent
denial of the language used, than all
shall say about it shall fall to the ground.
1t is a dispatch from New York giving
an interview with Bishop Worthington of
Omaha, in which he says: The trouble
with the farmer, in my judgment, is that
we have carried our free educational sys-
tenn entirely too far The farmers sons,
great many of them, who have abso-
lutely no ability to rise, get a taste of co.
ucation and follow it up. They will never
amount to anything--that is, many OF
them, and they become dissatisfied to fol-
low in the walk of life that God intended
they should, and drift into the cities IT
is the over-education of these who are not
qualified to receive it, that fill out cities
while the farms lie idle
Il say, my friends, l hope that ii NAV
prove that these words were not uttered
by Bishop Worthington, because I hate to
think that any man used words like these
that 1 have read. (Cheers.) To talk
about generalization of our farmers sons
and to attribute the difficulties which sur
rounu US to-day TO generalization, is to
my mind, one of the most cruel things
that man ever uttered The idea OF
saying that farmers sons who are not
able to rise in life get taste of education
and then enjoy the taste so much that
they follow 1t up and become dissatisfied
with the farm and drift into the cities.
The idea of saying that here is over-edu-
cation among our farmers sons My
friends. do you know what that language
means? 1t means a reversal of the prog
ress of civilization, and a march towards
the dark ages again. (Cheers).
How can you tell which one of the
farmers sons is going to prove a great
man, until you have educated them all.
Cheers. Are we to select a commission
to go around and pick out the ones that
are to be educated? All, my friends, there
is another reason why people have gone
into the cities and left the farms. 1t is
because your legislation has been causing
the foreclosure of mortgages on the
farms and the farmers, 1t is because
your legislation has been making the
farmers life harder for the farmer 1t is
because the non-producng classes have
been producing the laws and making it
more profitable to gamble in the farm
products than it is to produce them"
(Applause)