The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-10-09

A Morning Address to Massacnur
sotts 6hoemakers-
Matters TO Think Over n Re'asson 9" the
Money Question and the "~y 10
Restore business Conddsncs
In the Country.

1kao
Rrvan reached Lynn from Bath NJ
s.a0 - NJ. Five hours Of sleep had
been his preparation for the day'shard
work he reached Newouryport a'
A.xs. where q reception committee
from Lynn boarded his train, and At
the station here other local deiegs-
tons met him and led the cheer
ing for a knot of sleepy people
who were awaiting his coming
With Mr.. Bryan were Arthur
Sewall, who will accompany ms
running mate to New York; J~osephns
Daniels, of North Carolina; Fred w.
Plaisted, of Augusta, and s. and M. w.
sewall. nephews OF the vice-Presi-
Dental candidate.
The party was taken to n hotei
Seymour, and while breakfast was be-
ing prepared Mr.. BRYAN tried to get a
little more sleep. At 1870 Mr.. Bryan
md Mr.. Sewsll left the Hotel Seymour
for Highland square,, where the presi-
Dental candidate spoke. Despite the
early hour a great crowd had gathered
there.
Mr.. Bryan was introduced by Jchn
Drescoll, and made q h~alf-hour's
speech. He said:
MR. CHAIRMAN N FELLow-CirizkHe-
without attcm pting TO enter into any extended
argument on the money question, uesire
sabmit for your consideration a Few mat'ets
which / think you ought 10 give Attention .
Our opponents are all the time asserting tnas
business men ought TO take an interest In tnis
campaign in order to protect their ousi-
ness interests. 1t has always MADE mo
Indignant that a few people In each commuhi
~ should assume TO be the only business
people In IL, and should always insist upon
thrustine their business interests forward III
nr.ferenee 10 ANYBODY else's business inter-
ests. Ihaye always believed that any one VINO
contributed - q nations prosperity, VINO
added TO a nations wealth or TO q nati'hs
greatness, was a business man. Applauee)
The man with small business interests mas ~
much right to protect shose small inter-
ssts nv his ballot as the man with
iarre business interests has TO protect his
interest, by his ballot tApplause) want 70
show you how the coin question concerns the
various classes OF people Sometimes our OPP
ponents try to array the waee-earning class
those who work in factories or by the day TOT
an employer, against the farming classes 1
want to show you that you can not separate
the interests OF the wage-carning classes from
the interests Of the farming classes. You 90
not produce shoes for ornament. but for wear.
People can not wear shoes until they are aole
10 buy shoes and they can not buy
shoes unless they have the money to buy with;
ard they can not get money to buy shoes Win
until they sel something they have ana ger
that money. Now. you sell shoes 10 the people
OF tnr VEST and south. IL you drive down the
nrices Of All those things which the farmers
produce, SO that whel they shall sell tneir
irons they can not more than pay their oeot'
and interest and taxes, what money VIII they
have to buy shoes within Are you going 70 auu
to the prosperity OF Lynn by making more peo'
plo 20 barefoot tCries OF mo. never
rrl. waua e.rners of LYNN Will Dt
idle until there Is o demand Tor IN
product OF the factories OF Lynn and there cal
be no demand for that product as long as yo'
drive money up aud property down falhh0
prices mean hard times. and hard times nav
never been advocated In q platform py an
party. although the republican platform thi
year. without directly saying so. promises !
continue times hard and make them hardei
(Applause) Do you deny that proposltionf
want you TO look at that PLATFORM IL declare
4 gold standard Is not desirable because IN
party pledges itself to get rid OF IT.
III The double standard Is not more desirabl
than the gold standard. why does the repup
lean party want to make any changer III IN
Qold standard is good. we want To keep III pu
when the republican party attempts TO get ri
OF II 1t admits that II Is not as good as bimet
suism. But they promise you, notwithstand
ING their desire to get rid OF the gold STANDARD
that they will keep II until other nations hel
us 10 get rid Of 10. Until then, they say. W
must maintain the gold standard. IA voice
ayes. bu. we WON'T No. | don't think W
will myself. II We maintain the gold standar
we must MAINTAIN those things which ar
necessarily attached to them. We must main
:. tain th.s system OF issuing bonds to buy col
>. whenever We want gold When we issue bond
!. aod buy gold we create a demand Tor COLO an
ra Sc its purchasing power throughout IN
world. but We are contracting our currency b
: piIing II up in the vaults at wdshington. whe
II ought 20 be out doing business anon
IL the people tApplause-) You MANUFACTURED
:. and merchants go to the banks for money. IN
- hanls tell you they are very sorry. but the
,t can not laar any more just now. There can ,
is no more mo,ey in this country than the pcopl
10 permit. IL sou make your laws so you draw
n part OF the money out Of circulation and loo
% II up, you can not use II in your business an
have IL in the vaults at Washington both .
n. the same time. That looks plain enough, "
o there are fnanciers who go on the theory thu
the moro money you take out OF the ctrculi
D. tlon the more you have left In It. uLaugi
lie teri There are fnanciers who ac
q. ually rejoiced at tho issue OF bont
n and said il would restore confidence. They o.
" are trying to run business In this country wi,
r larger and larger percentage of confidence
ID the amount OF money on hand. daughter
re And II they go on the peoNe Will have all IN
- confidence and no money. UaughterD N
u observation has been that II n confidence ms
comes into a community the man who has q
10
NJ shen the fellow goes out tLaugl
teri You say: II am hungry" They sa
~ IL have got a remedy. Just have con
Or dence that you have had a full meal and "
IN will be just as well OF as IL you had" u.aug
60 teri You say you can not get work. Tn
7. say: Just have confidence; you Will ha
~ work and 1t will be all right" OLaughtel
You say: I'VE can not ind a market for 0
shoes" Just have confidence that the peor
4 win buy, and they will buy OLanghtcr)
4. There is only one place where they think I
10 confidence game won't work. You 90 TO o
Of these men who Is all the tr
:. talking about confidence and ask
rs borrow money. He says: What securi
10 have YOU'D You say: Il will give you all
IN confidence you want" He will tell you he
A. not loaning on confidence this year. tLaug
-. teri Why is & these financiers are so anxio
I'll for you to have confidence In them when tn
he do not have any confidence in you' They wa
security. and tell you TO get a good name
:. your note or put up something that - 50
~ able. The trouble is things that used TO
m, salcable are not any more. Secur
ri. that used 70 be good Is not good
CURLY any more. They are driving do
q the value Of your security by driving up
Die valpa NJ money There is only one way