The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-10-20
BRYAN'S CAMPAIGN SPEECHES.
AT LYNN, MASS.

~S N&~~N ~ 04S&S ~N&N 49,
Monday morning at Lynn, Mass es
he was returning from the visit to
Maine. His remarks were pointed end
appropriate as follows:
Mr. Chairman and Fellow Citizens:
Our opponents are all the time assert
ing that the business men ought to
take an interest in this campaign in
order to protect their business inter.
ests. IL has always made ms indignant
that a few people in each community
should assume to be the only bu mess
men in 1t, and should always insist
upon thrustiDg their business interests
forward IN preference to any body else's
business interests. I have always be
lleved that anyone who contributed to
a nations prosperity, who added to a
nations wealth or to a nations great
ness was a business man. (Applause.)
The man with small interests has as
much right to protect those small in.
forests by his ballot as the man with
large business has the right to protect
his interests By his ballot. Npplause)
| want TO show you how th9 money
question concerns the various classes
OF pecp'e.
| / want 10 ehow you that you cannot
separate the interests Of the wage earn
ing classes from the interests OF the
farming classes. You dent produce
shoes for ornament, but for wear. PEG
pie cannot produce SHOES until they are
able TO buy them, end they cannot buy
shoes unless they have the money to
buy with; and they cannot begin to
buy shoes until they sell something
they have and get the money.
Now, you sell shoes to the people
West and South. II you drive down
the prices Of all those things which the
farmers produce, so that when they
| sell their crops they cannot more than
pay debts and interests apd taxes, what
money will they have to buy shoes
with7 Are you going to add to the
prosperity of Lynn by making more
people go barefooted2 (Cries of mo,
no."O
The wage earners of Lynn will be
idle until there is a demand for the
products of the factories of Lynn.
There can be no demand for the prod
uct as long as you drive money up and
property do Wn. Falling prices mean
hard times and hard times have never
been advocated in a platform by any
party, although the Republican plat
form this year, without saying
80, promises to continue hard times
and make them harder. Do you deny
that propositi0n7 l want you to look
at that proposition. It declares a gold
standard is not desirable, because that
party pledges itself to get rid of it. II
the double standard is not more desir,
able than the gold standard, why does
the Republican party want to make
any change2
II the gold star d ard is good, we ought
to keep it, but when the R publican
party attempts to get rid of it, it ad
mits it is not as good as bimetalijsm.
But they promise, notwithstanding
their desire to get rid of the gold stand
ard, that they will keep it until other
nations have helped us to get rid of it.
Until then, they say, We must maintain
the gold Standard. a voice, 'Y+s,
but we WON'T
No, l don'G think we will myself. If
we maintain the gold standard, we
must maintain those things which are
necessarily attached to it. We mus5
maintain this system Ct issuing bonds
Tor gold whenever we want gold.
When we issue bonds and buy gold We
create a demand for gold and raise it's
purchasing power throughout the
world, but We are contracting Our cur
rency by piling it up in the vaults 1t
Washington when it ought to be out
doing business among the people.
You manufacturers and merchants
go TO the banks for money. T4e banks
tell you they are very sorry, but they
cannot loan any more Ist now. There
Can be no more money in this country
shan people permit. If you make your
laws so you draw a part Of your money
out of circulation and lock it up, you
can't use it in your business, and have
it in the vaults at Washington, both at
the same time. Tnatlooks plain enough,
yet there are financiers who go on the
theory that the more money you take
out of circulation the more you have
left in ii.
There are fnanciers who actually re-
soToo o+ ALo ioo,1o Of h0vIo ord cold II