Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-07-11


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pledges the party to get rid of TN
gold standard and substitute bimetal
lism. If the gold standard is g0o
thing, why get rid of it?
"These very people -four months age
were open and ayOwed advocates q
the gold standard, and telling us tina
we could not leglslate two metals TO
gether, even with all the world.
want to suggest this truth; That 4
the gold standard Is good thing, W,
ougdt TO declare In favor OF It's reten
tion, and not Of abandoning 1t; aud Il
the gold standard Is bad thing, why
should we wait until some othel
nations are willing to help us to let II
go2
"Here is the line of battle, and we
care not upon which issue they
force the fight. We are prepared To
meet them on either issue, or on both.
IL they tell US the gold standard is
the standard of civilization, we reply
to them that the most enlightened OF
all nations OF the earth have never de-
clared for the gold standard, and both
parties this year are declaring against
II. If the gold standard is the stand
ard Of civilization, why, my friends,
shonld we not have il? More than
that, we can tell them this: That
they will search the pages of history
in vain TO hnd Il single instance in
which the common people of any land
have ever declared themselves In
favor Of the gold standard. Mr..
Carlisle said in 1873 that the struggle
was between the holders OF idle
capital and the struggling masses who
produce wealth and pay the taxes Of
the country. My friends, IL is simply
this question that we shall decide -
upon which side shall the Democratic
party fight, the side of the idle hold
ers of idle capital, or upon the side of
the struggling masses? That is the
question that the party must answer
first, and then IL must be answered by
each individual hereafter.
at is the issue OF l776 over again.
Our ancestors, when they had 3,OOO,-
600, had the courage to declare their
independence of every other nation on
earth. Shall we, their descendants,
when we have 100000 declare that
we are less independent than our fore
fathersg No, my friends, lt.will never
be the Judgment Of the people. There
fore, we care not upon what lines the
battle is fought. II they say blmetal. |
lism Is good, but we cannot have Il
till some nation helps us, we reply ,
that instead OF having the gold stand
ard because England has IL, we shall
restore bimetallism and then let Eng
land have bimetallism, because the
United States has IL, II they dare to
come out in the open and defend the
gold standard as good thing. we
shall fight them to the utmost.
"llaying behind us the commercial
Interests, the laboring interests, and
all the toiling masses, we shall answer
their demands for the gold standard
10y saying TO them: you shall not
press down upon the brow of labor
this crown of thorns. You shall not
'rueify mankind upon the cross of
gold"
Ihe conclusion OF Bryan'S speech :
was marked by the most enthusiastic
demonstration OF the convention m
% that time. The whole convention
prang TO its feet, and 10000 threats
Dared while twice 10000 arms waved
rantically' Handerchiefs and flags
lew wildly. Hats were hurled aloft.
Umbrellas We're waved. Men shouted
Ike maniaes. From every quarter OF
he hall came the hoarSe roar. Sud.
enly the Texas delegation uprooted !
he hanner M tha T.ona Sto, s.o.. =