Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-29

piekpocket. You watch them" (Cheers.) }
After these few remarks Mr.. Bryan
paused for brief time, gazing again up
on the surging mob with compressed
lips. Chairman Davis rose and requested
the crowd to give attention.
You cannot all hear from this stage,
and not half as many as will be able to
hear unless you keep quiet. 1t is useless
ter. Now, will you all stop and stand still
for little while?" said Mr.. Bryan.
Cries of Yes, yes" were heard on all
sides, and he continued:
Il do not come to preach to you new
gospel. The position which we take on
the money question is an old position
not new one. We are not flying in the
face of natural laws, as our opponents
sometimes assert, nor are we trying to
overturn the principles of political econ
omy. Those who advocate bimetallism
are the only ones in this campaign who
are telling economic truths and defending
the natural laws of trade. When l define
An Honest Dollar
as an honest dollar which does not change
in its purchasing power it may give to
you definition which has been a. sound
definition among all writers on political
economy. When l give you that defini-
ton l am simply giving you a definition
which has been given to the world by that
distinguished educator who lives in this
city, and who is an honor not only to the
city and to the state, but to the nation
(Applause)
president Andrews, in recent work
entitled AN Honest Dollar commences
the first chapter with the words which 1
shall quote: 1t is always assumed or
admitted that the ideal sort of money
would be money with unit having
steadfast general purchasing power
When Professor Andrews describes the
ideal money as a money whose unit is
the steadfast general or average pur-
chasing power he plants himself upon the
solid rock, and all the financiers of this
and other countries cannot prevail
against the character of this definition.
(Applause).
1.-THE poet has told us that an honest
man is the noblest work of God We may
supplement this statement by adding
that an honest dollar, wherever it is
found or made, will be the noblest work
of man. But, my friends the gold dollar,
which is praised today as the honest dol
lar, is not the honest dollar and those
vino love 1t most, love it because of its
own dishonesty as dollar. (Applause).
An honest dollar Is one which preserves
its general purchasing power from day
to day and from year to year. Then the
dollar which rises in purchasing power
is Just as dishonest as the dollar which
falls in purchasing power.
"If one of our western men advocate
bimetallism and calls attention to the
that he lacks education, and when a
learned man like Professor Andrews ad-
vocated bmetallism and denounced the
gold standard with emphasis, which can
not be surpassed what do they say of
him?
Much Learning Hath Made Him Mad
1--WE say that anybody who has piece
of gold sufficient to make one dollar can
have the dollar coined into dollar. And
the fact that any holder of gold bullion
can at any time convert that bullion into
money enables him to charge for that
gold bullion the mint price. The mint
price for silver would be established the
same as the mint price for gold has been
established. Under free coinage, at 16 to
1, a man who owns silver bullion knows
that he can take 1t to the mint and have
it converted into dollars of 100 cents of
United States money.
"Some of our opponents have been cal
culating as to how much money they
could make under free coinage In buying
silver for so cents and having 1t coined
into 100 cents. If any of you held silver
bullion would you sell it to anybody for
half the market price and let the pur-
chaser make the profit? The republican
party does not present any financial poll
cy and say that they purpose that the
policy will benefit the people. The repub-
lican party simply proposes to maintain
the policy of their platform, and that
PLATFORM. processes 10 De Ddu WHen IL
promises to maintain that policy until
foreign nations come to your relief. But,
my friends, IL you believe the United
States government should have finan-
cial policy OF it's own, suited to its own
needs, it's own people, administered by
the hands of those who love her, then
you can only express yourself when you
act with those who advocate bimetallism
at 16 to /, without the aid or consent of
any other nation upon the earth. If the
financiers who want the government TO
issue bonds so they can buy bonds have
the right 20 keep the government issuing
bonds, al the time putting a debt upon
the people, then you, the people, have to
be taxed to pay these bonds"
Questions and Answers at New London.
New London, Sept. 2S.--Mr. Bryan
reached New London from Providence at
1911 on the Colonial express, accom-
panied by members of the local reception
committee, George Fred Williams, Ar
thur Sewall, Josephus Daniels and
others A stand had been erected at the
Soldiers and Sailors monument adjacent
to the railway station and from this Mr..
Bryan made an address an hour long to
an audience of about 1000 people. He was
cheered frequently and asked several
questions by people in the crowd. He
said:
'sMr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
I am Informed that am speaking today
in the county in which Lyman Trumbull
was horn When went to Chicago as a
law student found a place in his office
and for nearly two years was associated
will, him as student is associated with
an instructor And 1t is one of the friend
ships which / prize. because the ac-
quaintance then formed grew into attach