Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-10-09
AMERICAS SAMSON.
If the Farmers Fall All Others
Must Go Down.

If the Farmers Fall All others
Must Go Down.
! Bryan, in his speech at Bridgeport,
Conn, said:
al am glad to have the opportun-
ity to speak to the people OF Connecti-
cut. They accuse us OF raising a Sec
tional question. The restoration of
bimetallism is good, not for the West
and South only, it is good for the peo-
pie of Connecticut also. The gold
standard is fraud, and is as detri-
mental to the masses Of the people OF
Connecticut as it is to the masses
anywhere else. Sometimes they have
accused the people who live in Con-
necticut of making wooden nutmegs
and selling them for the real article.
1 want to tell you that a man who
palms off wooden nutmeg as a real
nutmeg is man of honesty compared
with man who advocates a gold dol
lar and calls it an honest dollar.
Great applause.
"The gold dollar is not an honest
dollar, and the reason why our op-
ponents insist on using the phrase
honest money instead of gold
money is because they recognize the
difference between an honest dollar
and a gold dollar. When they talk
about honest money and the gold
standard at the same time they re-
mind me of the man who went to q
cemetery and saw an inscription upon
q monument reading Here lies law
yer and an honest man. Laughter.
And the man who read the inscrip-
ton remarked that the grave did not
look like it was big enough for two
men.
81 do not speak of this to slander
the lawyers. am lawyer myself.
and believe that lawyer can be an
honest man, but l speak OF it my
friends, to show you, or to comment,
rather, upon the fact that you can not
have honest money and the gold
standard at the same time.
az understand that some of your
employers are much worried for fear
their employees will only get fifty cent
dollars. They need not be worried if
they have as much love for the labor
ing man after election as they have
now, even if free coinage meant fifty
cent dellar, they could pay their
laboring men twice as many dollars
and save them from any harm done
them.
"You say they won't do it. If they
won't help you when they have a
chance to, why do you believe them
when they tell you they are losing
sleep at night for fear you will hurt
yourselves. Employers don't pay
wages because they like to. They pay
wages because they have to, and
when there is greater demand for
labor there will be better price paid
to labor than there will be when two
men are looking for the same job.
warn you that the farmers OF
this country are the Samsons, and
when they fall they will pull down the
pillars OF the temple with them. You
can not take care of the upper crust
of society and ignore the rest of So
ciety. And yet the gold standard has
for its object the benefit of the money
changer, the note shaver and the
holder of fixed Investments. They
tell you that those with fixed incomes
are going to lose. How many fixed
incomes have We in this country?
will give my opponent the votes of all
the incomes that are fixed, if he will
give me the votes of the people who
would like to have fixed incomes in
this country.
"But did not want to talk long.
simply wanted to meet you people
and to tell you that there is not spot
OF ground in this union where l am
not willing to defend the cause of BIZ
metallism against any man who
champions the gold standard. There
is not spot over which the American
flag floats which will not be benefited
by the restoration of the money OF
the constitution. There is not . spot
which will not be cursed by a contin-
uation of the gold standard. l do not
know how you feel about it. You
people down here have not studied the
money question as much as we have
in some parts of the country. But
my friends if you imagine the silver
cause is a craze and is going to blow
over don't you hold your breath until
it blows over. 1t is growing cause.
Its friends know what they want, and
are not afraid to defend the principles
which they advocate, and this crusade
which we have undertaken is going
on. If you turn deaf ear to us, we
will come again and again until you
will open your ears and listen to the
truth.
"If you are satisfied with the pres
ent condition then vote the Republi-
can ticket, because you will have GER
tain conditions, only a little harder
conditions than you have at present.
II you want change in the financial
policy, there is one way to get that
change, and that is to defeat the party
that declares we must endure the gold