The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-08-29

good thing, that no party has ever
seen fit to say so in a platform?
''And that is true. 1t is true that no
National party has ever endorsed
gold standard, and yet there are people
who favor it. Why don't they have
the courage to write a platform and
risk an issue before the people? But
no, they do not do that. They go to
St. Louis and adopt a platform which
says that the Republican party
pledges itself to secure h-metallism,
which, of course, is denunciatiOn Of
the gold standard. (Applause) If
the gold standard is good, why should
we try to get rid of it? (Applause.)
If the gold standard is good, why did
not the Republican party pledge itself
to help keep gold standard? But no,
it pledged itself to get rid of the gold
standard just as soon as other nations
will aelp. (Applause). That is not
my language, my friends, that is the
language of the Republican platform
and that is the construction placed
upon it by the candidate who runs
upon it on this letter of acceptance.
He says in his letter that the American
people cannot enter upon h-metatlism
without the concurrent action of other
nations. Does he say that we shall
| maintain gold standard for ore Year,
No For four years? No. but thai we
must maintain forever if other nations
| say we must. (Applause.) 1t is not
d question of politics, my friends.
| Whole parties are divided On this issue.
L rises abovt the question Of politics.
| They have declared against the right
| Of the people of the Unite States to
| govern themselves. They nave declaT-
| Ell that, while we want to get rid Of
LINE gold standard, we must kee? the
| thing which we don't want until aliens
| Shai1 bring us the relief which We
| should achieve for ourselves. Cap
Tause.
AMERICA FOR AMERICANS.
Il know not what view you may take
| of il. my friends. but IL my himble
| ,dgment the American peop > are the
| only people who have right to say
what the American shall have for legs
laton. (Applause)
| "They have driven down the price
| of your products. They have increas-
| ed the burden of their debts. They
| have foreclosed your mortgages. They
| are degrading and lowering the stand
| ard of civilization by driving people
| who want to work out upon the streets
| and then idleness breeds crime and
crime menaces the safety of every citi-
| zen OF the land. (Applause.)
| A voice-'How about free trade? ?"
THE TARIFF QUESTION. g.
Mr.. Bryan-"My friends it is not
more taxes that the people want but
| more money to pay taxes with. Great
1 applause y If there is any farmer here
| who has not taxes enough / beg him to
| go to his county treasurer and get
| enough more to satisfy his conscience
| and not try to tax all the rest of the
| public. (Applause.) But / care not
how men may differ upon the subject
| of taxation. The subject of taxa tion
is ever present with us. We can
| change our tariff system any time, but
we have reached our crisis in our none
| tary affairs and we have got to decide
whether the American people will run
| our finances or turn our government
| over to syndicates to take care of us.
| Upon the action of the United States
| may depend the action of other ma
tions. If the influences which are at
work here are defeated they will be
turned against other nations that now
use silver and IL they succeed in the
United States they will succeed in
other nations and every nation that
goes to the gold standard increases
| the demand for gold, and every in
| crease in the demand for gold raises
the purchasing power of AN ounce of
gold and lowers the purchasing power
of wheat and corn and other products
of the farm. You enshrine gold as the
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kind pays tribute to the golden calf
| and asks the privilege of working lit
tie harder in order to enjoy the wor-
ship. (Applause.)
ut is no laughing question, my
friends. This question is of much inn
.portance to those who are seeking to
raise the value of gold by legislation,
and should it not be important to those
who for 26 years have suffered from
this financial legislation? / met
farmer over in Illinois. He was
school mate of mine in college. He is
a man of exemplary habits, honest,
frugal and Industrious. He had his
three children with him in the room
and the tears rolled down his cheeks
as he told me that if conditions remain
ed as they were it was the saddest
could not give to those children the
education and advantages he wanted
to. That home is multiplied by thou
sands and tens of thousands in this
land and you tell me that it is just
to have a system of legislation that
takes away from the parent the possi-
bility of educating his children as he
would and is compensated for it by
giving money undeserved into the
hands of those who, by Vaccinations,
corner the money market and spend
the money by buying foreign titles for
their daughters. Uong and continued
applause.)
CIVILIZATION At STAKE.
"My friends, civilization is wrapped
up in the solution of the money ques-
tion. 1t is the main question involved
in this issue. The right of self gov
ernment and the existence of Republi-
can institutions in involved in it. If
foreign nations can force a financial