Omaha daily bee., 1896-11-01
END OF BRYAN,S LAST TOUR
Nominee Crosses Iowa on His Way to His
Home m Nebraska,
INSISTS HE CAN MAINTAIN THE PARITY
Declares Again th6t silver Can tic
Doubled In itS tsoid value Under
Free Coinage! hut OTcrs
Noih Proof.

o'clock this morning and made his first
speech OF the day at Mount Pleasant at
o'clock, before he had had his breakfast The
| air was cold and crisp and seemed to give
| tho candidate new vigor for his last tour
across this state. lie appeared in good
voice, and spoke so distinctly as to be heard
with case by the large crowd which had
! congregated thus early in the day. the
audience was an enthusiastic one and was
evidently in sympathy with the speaker
! Mr. Bryan's speech at Mount Pleasant was
devoted largely to a discussion on the usual
| lines of his later campaign efforts.
| At Fairfield, where he was met by large
crowds, Mr.. Bryan devoted himself to ques-
tions which had been propounded to him by
! telegraph and spoke as follows:
Ladies and Gentlemen: In going from
place to place, | have but a few moments
at each place and am not ape 10 onV 10 omes. omSe
| tion, but take these occasions to discuss
various phases of the money question.
| Some times | have questions put to me
| the answers to which aid in the discussion.
So this morning l have two questions TO
| answer. one of them is: Granting Tor
moment that we have the right TO pay
the interest on our bonds In coin ana not
| in gold, is II not at least rair after having
| paid continually in gold to suddenly swHch
to silver without warning and compel The
| acceptance thereof when the face value
of the bonds themselves at the present
moment and for many years has been me ths
| same as their value in gold; In other words
| is II fair to the holder to suddenly chahgS
| his gold bonds or his bonds as good as gold
| into mere silver bonds?'
! that gold and silver will not be Maintained
| at parity, whereas we insist that under
| the free and unlimited coinage OF silver
at 16 to / we shall maintain the parity be
| tween gold and silver at the present legal
ratio. and by offering demand Tor sllNer
| sg,lF. oil tc m hfa @
we will be able TO make silver dollar
as good as a gold dollar, whether melted
or coined, here or anywhere else In the
world. That is our contention. Therefore
we cannot admit the position assumed by
The question makes another assumption
and that is that the administration having
surrendered to the holder of the obliga-
! tion the option to demand his kind of coin
we shall not assume the right which the
law gives to pay in either kind of coin 1t
goes upon the theory that because you
have given man an unfair advantage for
long time you must continue to give
him that advantage and not resume the
right to pay in either kind of coin When
you maintain the parity between gold and
silver 1t matters not to the holder of the
obligation whether you pay In gold or sill
yer. but the very fact that the debt6- -cx-
coin serves to keep the two metals to-
gether. Bimetallism implies that the
debtor shall choose the coin of payment.
The bonds issued by the United States
call for coin and the Matthews resolution
in 1873 declared that this nation had the
right to pay its coin obligations in either
gold or silver. and that resolution has never
been rescinded. The president of the
United States has no right to change the
laws Of the land and when he tries to-
! the law instead of the administrations
QUOTES CARLISLE AGAIN.
You will find that Mr.. Carlisle in dis
cussing this subject before the committee
| on appropriations on January q, 1895, said
that If the executive officers had in the
either coin II would have done no harm but
| would have worked well, but his conten-
tion was that, having established a prece-
dent II would be necessary to follow that
precedent instead of exercising the right to
pay in either gold or silver.
We say that IL the administration has
surrendered the rights that the people
have, the sooner another administration
resumes those rights the better for the
render of the rights.
Again, let me say that we have sold
bonds payable in coin, and the purchasers
OF bonds have made a difference In the
price they paid in some instances because
of our right to pay In silver; and | believe
| made difference between coin bonds and
gold bonds and charged us for the risk
that they took that they cannot complain
If we exercise the right to pay in either
coin.
And now. here is the other question:
Granting that silver and gold may reach a
that the wages of yorlSingmen will double
as quickly? Have they ever done so under
similar circumstances"
My friends, the trouble Is that under the
gold standard so many workingmen do
not have the opportunity earn any kind
of dollars. Bimetallism restores prosperity
and gives the workingman a chance to
work the whole week instead of half the
week, and then the demand for work raises
the wages. When two jobs of work are
looking for one man the workingman is
more prosperous than he is under sys-
TEN which compels two wOrkingmen to look
for the same job. In all times past the
laboring men have been more prosperous
under system where prices were not
falling than under a system where the
prices were falling, and If you have any
doubt about II. go back to yne times when
had rising prices and you will find that
all kinds of people, including laborers, were
prosperous; whereas under falling prices
the only men who are prosperous are the
money loaners and the money changers
and the holders of fixed investments, and
they stand today in favor of the gold
standard.
He arrived at Ottumwa at o'clock He
WIS met at the station by reception COM
mittee who escorted him to the city, where
he remained for more than an hour address,
ing the crowds which had gathered to hear
him in several different places.
Mr.. Bryan made eighteen speeches be-
tween sunrise and his time OF retiring at
Council Bluffs tonight. Three OF his ad-
at Council Bluffs and one each at Mount
Pleasant, Abba, Charlton Osceola, Creston
Corning, Villisca, Red Oak, Hastings, NAL
vern and Glenwood. The democratic can
didate was met at each stopping place by
crowds. At some OF the stops there were
practically no yellow badges, but in one
or two instances gold was the predominating
color. There was no disposition manifested
to interrupt any OF the speeches.
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