The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-09-06

the things that people do not seem to
be able to understand. What We COM
plain OF Is that the money owning and
money changing classes have been
making dollars dearcr and therefore
have been making dollars scarcer. and
they have done II because they are In
terested In having money go up, and
YOU people who have property have
right to protect yourselves against the
conspiracy 20 destroy part OF the value
Of your property. (Applause.)
81 know a banker In Buffalo. who
wrote an article the other day, In
which he said that upon the success OF
the business man depended upon the
cess Of the laborer and the farmer.
(Laughter.) Think OF that. There Is
not a person In this audience who
would make that mistake, because no
man who will stand here In the rain
would make that kind of a mistake.
(Applause.) Why. my friends. II sim
ply reverses the process. Upon the
laboring man and the farmer depends
all the rest of society. They do not
depend ON the business men. You have
to create wealth before you can ex-
change wealth. The business man Is
the man who exchanges wealth, not
the man who produces II. Now l
want to ask YOU who are the producers
Of wealth."
Here the part of the audience ON the
other side Of the platform called for
Bryan to speak from their side. Mr..
Bryan then tried to go to the other
side, but II being impossible. turned to
the audience again and addressed
them as follows: Nov. just a word
in conclusion: / want you to remem-
Der, my friends, that on every ques-
tion which concerns the public, each
man must speak for himself, and
want to warn you against the efforts
which will be made by some OF the
employers of labor to vote their labor
ers as II they were chattels instead OF
free men. i want to warn you against
the attempts which will be made by
some financiers TO secure the votes of
the men to whom they lend money.
We have no objection TO the money
lenders. They are a part of society
and we need them. When need
money borrow money from them, but
when / want to vote. l do not 90 to
them and ask them how ! am going TO
vote.
You say you want to hear a little
about the old soldiers? Well, my
friends, the crisis which 10 approach
Ing now. the question before the coun-
try now. appeals 10 the old soldiers as
much as It did in 1861. II the men In
this country were willing to march out
upon the field to sustain the govern
mont of the people and by the people.
] want to know why they cannot give
one day in the year, and that election
day, to stand by the government OF
the people and by the people still.
(Applause and cheers.) My friends.
am not afraid that any man who
risked his life in his nations behalf Is
going To be influenced by the argu-
merits that are addressed to the SOL
diers now by the financiers who, dur
ing the war. were looking out for them
selves and letting the old soldier. lock
out for himself. / am not afraid that
the men who were willing at that time
to endure the dangers of war. because
they believed that the black man
should be free. are going to allow the
hosts of the gold standard to enslave
10000. 900 Of people. whites and blacks,
In this country. In 1873 when we
closed our mints. silver fell. When we
stopped buying silver In 1893. silver fell.
Under bimetallism our laws will bring
demand into existence. and that de-
nland will fix the price Of silver We
believe that the demand furnished by
10000 900 of people is sufficient to Use
all the silver we can get to our mints.
| If that be true. there Is no person In
the world who will sell his silver for
| less than S1.29 per ounce because by
| bringing II 10 our mnts he can con-
vert II into money and use that money.
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before you iet anybody do your think'
ing ior you' pe sure that that man
interest Us the same as yours.
They say that We are arraying on
! class OF society against another' NJ!
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nave rlght 10 can all my FAMILY ul
10 Keep MIN out. Ana IL does not max
me MAD ", as ne starts away, ne turn
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