Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-10-30

bleeding the people Of this country. am
willing to let the American people decide
whether our government Is safer in the
hands Of those who believe in our form Of
government and would die to perpetuate
it, or whether it is safer in the hands of
few financiers, who cannot think on thu
money question until they cable to London
to find out what they think"
After closing his remarks Mr.. Bryan
was driven to the Auditorium Annex.
Tho Night Demonstrations.
AT night the democratic nominee adj
dressed five meetings in various parts OF
the city. He spoke first at Arcade hall,
Sixty-ffth street and Wentworth ave-
nue., at seven o'clock; was whirled away
in a carriage to Boulevard hall, Fifty
fifth and Halsted streets, and adj
dressed in turn audiences in Polish
School hall, Thirty-third and Laurel
streets; in big tent at Twenty-ninth
and Halsted, and at Tattersall's, Six
tenth and State streets.
AT Arcade hall Mr.. Bryan spoke brief
ly, explaining the chief issue of the
campaign, and closed with the assur-
ance that the advocates of free coinage
did not desire to coerce anyone, but only
wished each voter to study the question
for himself and vote as his conscience
should dictate.
At Boulevard hill, o small place, he
addressed 1900 persons. Mr.. Bryan
commenced by impressing on his hear
ers the gravity of their duty in deciding
between q gold standard and bimetai-
lsm. Herepeated his oft-made assertion
that the people who teach gold are the
money changers who are working for
their own interest to the detriment of
the masses. He said that the monied
men were working for the protection
of their interests and that if the masses
did not work for the protection of their
wives and children that there would be
no one to blame but themselves.
AT the Ploish School hall Mr.. Bryan
spoke against allowing foreign influ-
ences to predominant, and said the reo-
pie Of Poland, many of whose sons were
in the audience, knew the effect of for
eign domination. In conclusion Mr..
Bryan warned his hearers against al
lowing employers to influence their
votes. saying the employer had no more
right to dictate to them how they should
vote than they had to dictate to the EN-
ployer how he should vote. The fnct
that some employers are resorting to
coercion shows that they have lost faith
in the justice of their cause and are
afraid to trust the wisdom of the people.
In the Big Tent.
Inside and around the mammoth
tent at Twenty-ninth and Halsted
streets about $4,000 people were massed
when Mr.. Bryan and his escort arrived
at 9:15. The nominee was cheered
heartily. He said:
Agitation Necessary.
Our opponents have condemned agita-
ton OF the money question on the ground
that It disturbs business. Whenever hear
man eondemning agitation, I wonder how
he ever made up his mind to live in
country like this. Agitation is nothing but
discussion. and discussion is the only
means by which you can remedy legisla-
tive evil, and when find a man who con-
dennis discussion, find man who would
feel more at home under monarchy than
he does in republic. whore the people gov
ern themselves. When our opponents con-
denim discussion, let them remember that
agitation has cause. When conditions are
pau, people CoHplal anu you cannot stop
complaint by telling people to keep still.
You cannot stop complaint until you re-
move the cause of complaint, and our op-
ponents would be doing their country bet
ter service if they tried to change bad con-
ditions instead of denouncing people be-
cause they complain of bad conditions. II
foreign substance gets into the flesh,
there Is agitation around 1t. You can tell
the flesh to keep still, but it will not keep
still. It will agitate until that foreign
substance is expelled from the body. They
have injected into the body polite Of this
nation foreign financial system and the
people have agitated, and they will agi-
tate until that foreign policy is expelled
and the body is again healthy In this coun-
try"
At Tattersalls.
twenty-five thousand people were