The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-02

ago IN the discussion OIL the sherman
bill: I am for the largest use of sill
yer in the currency of the country.
would not dishonor it. 1 would give 1t
equal credit and equality with gold.
would make no discrimination.
would
UTILIZE BOTH METALS
as money and discredit neither. 1 want
the double standard and 1 believe con-
fidenee will accomplish this purpose
He wanted the double standard
then; he wants the gold standard now
What change has taken place!
(Cheers). If the double standard was
good six years ago, it is good now.
(Cries of Good" and aDplause). 1
call your attention to this extract from
a speech made by the Republican can
didate in congress and compare it with
what he says now, not because [ deny
but, my friends. / insist that when a
to man the right to change his mind,
man changes his mind he ought to
have reasons for it, that he is willing
to give to the American people" Cap
plause).
Give it to Grover" came voice
from the crowd. daughter and
cheers).
Mr.. Bryan-No, my friends, I am not
going to say one word against the
Democratic president | am willing to
leave history to record that the man
who went into Office with an over
whelming majority went out of Office
supporting a ticket which will not
carry a single county in the United
States. (Applause.) The ticket which
has the support Of the administration
was only put before the people 10 de-
ceive them, and TO furnish q ticket for
those few Democrats who objected to
the Chicago platform, and are still not
quite ready to enter the Republican
party. Great cheering)
AT 11:30 the special train pulled out
for Parkersburg, where the largest as
semblage of people Parkersburg has
ever known heard him deliver an ad-
dress this afternoon at Stephens
grove. Excursion trains brought in
large crowds from the nearby places.
From Washington county. Ohio, the
railroads and steamboats, carried more
than 1900 and perhaps 5000, and from
ELSEWHERE IN MKINLEY' S
STATE
large crowds came 4 big parade had
to be abandoned on account of the
muddy condition Of the streets Mr.
Bryan proceeded directly from his train
to Stephens grove, where fully 1900
people gathered in an uncomfortable
drizzle and cheered him wildly.
Governor William McCorkle Of West
Virginia and General A. G. Warner Of
Ohio, president of the National Bime-
tallic League, had made speeches be-
fore the Democratic candidate arrived
Judge Mcclure, formerly of the court
of common pleas, presided at the meet
ing, and introduced Mr.. Bryan. There
was more wild cheering when the can
didate stepped forward. He spoke in
part as follows:
Let me state two or three PROPOSE
tons for you to consider in the dis
cussion Of the money question. The
value Of a dollar may be increased by
legislation. If you want money dear,
you
CAN MAKE IT DEAR
by making it scarce If you want
money to keep pace with property, if
you want average prices to be main
tanned, you can maintain them only
by increasing the amount of money as
rapidly as the demands for money in
crease. There are those who don't
want more money brought into the
country, and if they have control of
the legislation, they so legislate as to
create q large amount Of money. There
are those who want less money be-
cause they are money owners and
profit by q rising dollar. Suppose that
q man has a hundred thousand dollars
invested in 4 per cent bonds, running
for thirty years, and draws a thousand
dollars every three months. Now, if
the value of the dollar rises, if the val
ue of the dollar doubles, it means that
prices fall one-half, and that, there
fore, when he receives his thousand
dollars every quarter, he can buy twice
as much with that thousand dollars
as he could before. 1t is virtually
doubling the interest which he receives.
1t is virtually doubling the value of
the bond which he has Are you sur
prised that such a man may be IN
able to understand how there is any
suffering in the country? Why, you
say to him, Times are hard
"'Oh, no. he says; times are not
hard Times were never better. l
never knew times to be better than
they are now Why. 1 am getting
along better than / ever did before in
| my life
''You can understand why those peo-
pie are Indifferent TO
THE WELFARE OF OTHERS.
because they cannot appreciate the
suffering of others. l have so much
faith in the better nature of some peo-
pie, that I believe that many who are
now against bimetailism do it in abso-
lutte ignorance of the misery which
their conduct is causing great cheer
ing). and vet I don't understand how
in the midst Of a. great struggle like
this, our opponents can keep them
selves ignorant OF so great a subject
and continue blind to the results Of the
gold standard" (Cheers.)
Mr.. Bryan recited his oft-quoted ex-
tract from John G. Carlisle's speech of
1878. about emancipation Of the indus
trial classes from syndicates, etc, and
after commenting on it in substantial
ly the language used by him, proceed
ed as follows:
"My friends, you must not believe
what YOU sometimes see in the papers
to the effect that 1 am about to give
up. 1 am not If you will let me do
this work by degrees and not compel
me to attempt too much, 1 will prom
Use to keep it up until the evening be-
fore election and on the last day have