The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-09-10
MR.. BRYAN At MILWAUKEE,.
LENGTH OF THE SPEECH
AND SIZE OF CROWD.
ONLY ONE WAY 70 GET EMPLOYMENT
BRYAN SAYS That Is to Restore Silver to
Free Coinage--I .aborng Men Warned
That Their Employers Will At
tempt to Vote Them.

Milwaukee, Wis, Sept. J.-'Thc plat
form arranged for Mr.. Bryan to speak
from was erected in the midst of the
National park, comprising about ten
acres of ground. This park is situated
on the south side of the city, about three
miles from the heart of the town. Inc
long distance and the lack of facilities
for transportation, as well rs the threat
.ening appearance of the weather. prob
ably prevented the crowd from being as
large as it otherwise would. AS it was,
The area of ground surrounding the four
sides Of the platform was well filled with
people extending as far out rs the voice
of the speaker could be heard. There
WAS a crowd variously estimated at from
5000 10 10000 people. Those who as
sembled to listen to the speech were well
dressed and orderly, among whom were
many ladies who bravcd the impending
,dampncss for an opportunity 10 hear Mr.
Bryan speak and catch a glimpse of the
candidate.
The hour of O'Clock was set for the
speaking to begin. Notwithstanding the
strain which ne had undergone during
his trip from the east, the exercise and
effort of speaking in the morning on the
trip from Chicago to Milwaukee, he
made his address without great effort
He was escorted to the grounds in his
carriage by squad of Milwaukee police
who were compelled to make n way to
the platform through the crowd of curl
uus but goOd-naturcd people.
He was accompanied by Hon. f.. s.
Wall of the national committee, cX-
governor of Wisconsin and chairman of
the state central committee, and w. c.
Silverhorn. candidate for governor of the
state.
Before reaching the platform rain
began falling in little drops. A thou
sand umbrellas at once went up to pro-
tect their owners from the elements. AT
this time the courage of some of those
who came to listen failed them and they
left for home. The speech of Mr.. Bryan
was very much abbreviated on account
,of the rain and to the evident dis
appointment of the multitude, who had
by this time assembled to get their first
opportunity of listening to the address of
abe great apostle of free coinage for the
only time that will come within their
reach probably during the campaign.
Had conditions been different and had
there been more than one line of street
the crowd would have been very much
in excess of that which finally assembled
when Mr.. Bryan began to speak. An
umbrella was held over his head to
shield him from the rain, which was now
falling freely.
Mr.. Silvcrh0rn introduced Mr.. Bryan
80 the audience and he spoke as follows:
Ladies and Gentlemen-Wc are en-
gagged in Il campaign in which you are
interested because the money question is
of such importance that the financial
GLASSES feel like they are justified to
drop party lines and give their entire in
terGst TO this question. believe the
masses of the people are interested
enough To lay aside party lines and look
(Applausc) The republican platform de-
clarcs that the gold standard must be
maintained. not because it is a good
thing. hut because other nations will not
join with us in getting rid of il; in other
words, the republican platform declares
shat the American people must stand by
and undergo gold standard until the
civilized nations take pity upon us and
release us from our predicam2nt. There
may he people who are afraid that this
nation is not large enough to run itself
,laughterl, but ! want to say TO you that
she people who lack confidence in Amcri-
can institutions are not the people who
produce the wealth of America.
If the gold standard is a good thing
then the republican party ought to pledge
Itself to keep it regardless of what 9TH
or nations say or think. If the gold
standard is not good enough to keep,
then il is had enough to get rid of. We
are opposed 10 the gold standard because
il has ruined the commerce of this coun-
try and has been destructive of the in
serests of this country. That is why we
oppose it. and we think that any stan
durd which makes the money owner
great and the man who produces wealth
dependent policy which makes money
owners master and all else the servant,
we believe that policy is bad, and being
bad we are opposed to submitting to il
amy longer.
,copc will tell YOU that the American
dollar is better than the Mexican dollar,
because it will buy two of them. If you
tell these men that if the American dol
lar will buy two Mexican dollars it will
also hay two bushels of wheat, and when
il will buy three Mexican dollars it will
buy three bushels of wheat. You say
you want the dollar; how good do you
want the dollar? Do you want it so
good that you can not get hold of it?
They tell you that the laborng man is
interested in the gold standard because
he wants his dollar to buy as much rs
possible. There Is something else which
the laboring man is interested in before
he becomes interested in what the dollar
will buy. The labOrng man is for the
restoration of silver. because he knows
that under the gold standard we have
hard times and falling prices. and they
are hard on the laboring man. These
laboring men know that until legislation
makes il more profitable to keep his mon
ey up 10 the required standard that it
will not keep up with the resources of
the country. They know that there is
only one Way to get employment, and
hnt is to restore the parity between labor
and the money which employs them.
Now, they are afraid, some of them. that
undcr the free coinage of silver we will
have flood of money. If there is any
body in the audience who is af.aid of
having Il flood of money so large that the
only way to relieve it is to vote the re-
publican ticket, that will keep you from
having flood of money. tApplauseD
What we complain of is that the money
changing classes have been making dol
lars dcarcr and. therefore, have been
making dollars Scarcer, aud they have
done it because s. are interested in
having money to- IN out. and the people
who have property have n right to pro-
tect themselves against the conspiracy
ia Jnstroy mart of tho yolup of their