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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-09-26
TRUSTS THE OLD SOLDIER.
Sryan Does Not Believe That They viii
Vote For Gold Slavery.

ASAhSv lin neV WIFI
Vote For Gold Slavery.
You say you want a little about the
Old soldiers. Well, my friends, the cri-
als which is approaching now, the ques-
tlon before the country now, appeals 10
the old soldier as much as it did in
1861. If the men in this country were
willing to march out upon the field to
sustain a government 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 a govern
ment OF the people and by the people
atill.
My friends, l am not afraid that any
man who risked his life in his nations
behalf is going to be influenced by the
arguments that are addressed to the SOL
dlers now by the financiers who during
the war were looking out for themselves
and letting the soldier look out for him
Helf. l am not afraid that the men who
We're willing at that time to endure the
dangers of war because they believed
chat the black man should be free-I
am not afraid that these men are goiug
TO allow the hosts of the gold standard
TO enslave 70, 0O0 900 of people, whites
M blacks, in this country.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-09-26
Bryan Would Not Vote For Gold,

More than a year ago, when we were
engaged in a struggle to bring the Dem.
ocratic party to an Endorsement of free
coinage. the question was put to me
whether, in case of failure, I would sup
port the Democratic nominee if he was
a gold standard man running OH a gold
standard platform. l never believed
that such a condition was probable in
the Democratic party, but when those
who questioned me were not content
with probability, but asked again
whether, in the case Of that event, /
would support the nominee, I said, as
you will remember, that under no cir
tumstaDces would I vote for the man
who would in the executive office use
his influence to fasten the gold standard
upon the people.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-09-26
CLEAR AND

That Is What William j. Bryan Says OF
the Democratic Platform.
I learned early in life that a public
officer was but a public servant, and /
think it is an idea which we ought al
ways to bear in mind. 1t is we'll for the
officer himself to remember it. In other
words. a public officer is simply a hired
man, employed at q fixed salary for a
certain time to do certain work.
He is not in Office merely because he
wants to be. His only reason for being
there ought to be that those whom he
serves want him to be there. In other
words, the officer is merely chosen by
the people to do work which they must
have done, and they have no reason for
choosing him except that they believe
that he can do that work for them.
Officers are not elected to think for the
people; the people are supposed to think
for themselves. They are elected to act
for the people simply because the PEG.
pie are so numerous that they cannot
act for themselves in these capacities.
An officer, I might say, is a necessary
evil. 1t would be better for the people
If they could act for themselves, but
that being impossible they must do the
next best thing and act through some
one else, and the beauty about our form
OF government is that instead Of acting
through somebody who rules by right
divine u people act through represent.
atives whom they themselves choose and
whom they a turn out of Office when
ever they get tired Of them. Since the
public officers are elected to carry out
your ideas it is important that you shall
know, first, for what your candidate
stands, and, second, will he carry out
those policies if elected.
I believe in the platform not because
I stand upon i'll believe in it because
1t presents doctrines which I believed
in before they were written in that
platform. And I have reason for the
faith which is in me. It is true of every
platform that it embraces a large mum
Der Of subjects because at all times gov
ernments cover various questions, but
it is also true that in an election there
is generally II issue which rises above
all other issues and which more than
any other engrosses the thoughts of the
people and of the party.
The citizen takes the paramount issue
in any campaign, the thing which he
thinks more important than other is
sues, and by that paramount issue he
determines his allegiance. In this cam
paign we have suffered some assertions.
Why? Because u platform, departing
from what has sometimes peer the GUS
tom, has been straight, clear and en-
phatic on the leading questions.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-09-26
STUDY n U
A Few Words of Advice From the Demo-
cratic Presidential Candidate,

A Few Words of Advice From the Demo.
cratic Presidential Candidate.
1t is not for one man to say how an
other shall think or act Or vote, but ]
believe we have a right to urge upon
you the Importance of studying the
question for yourselves and not allow
ing anybody to think for you.
l do not believe there is any class of
people who can safely be intrusted to the
right to think and act for another class.
The ballot is given to citizens in order
chat each citizen may make his vote his
representative, not what somebody else
may think and wants himself. 1 simply
ask you during the days which inter-
vene between now and election day to
study the issues presented in this cam
paign, and when you have made up
your minds have the courage to vote as
you please, and no one can question
your right to do it.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-09-26
POWER OF THE BALLOT.
IL IL Were Properly Used. There Would
BE Less Complaint of Ipiust,ce

IL IL Were Properly Used. There wouI,
he Less Complaint of Injustice.
n l see a large number of peoplf
like this, who seem to be interested in
the success of the campaign upon which
we have started, / sometimes wonder
"hethef IL Is possible that you people
are deserving of the names that are be-
ing applied to you. If | am an anarchist.
then all that van me to be elected must
be anarchists also.
When look into your faces, / won.
der whether you are all enemies of the
government OF enemies of those who
want to use the government as a private
snap. There is a great difference be.
tween being against the government and
against those who misuse the govern
ment. Andrew jackson said there were
no necessary evils in government; that
Its evils grow out Of its abuse.
Some people do not draw II lines
between government and the abuse of
government, and whenever people speak
out against abuse of governments those
VINO are making money out of the abuse
generally find fault with it. | want to
'" %"S AhoHp Aoy al supporters OF
government are not found in the great
trusts, which think they are greater
thar the government and control it.
They are found among the masses,
who want to ecu the love of every
citizen for the government by making it
SO good it will deserve their love.
Remember you cannot reform evil by
talking; you have got to reform it by
voting. People may complain as much
al they like about a bad law, but the
way to get rid of it is to repeal it, and
the way to repeal it is to vote for those
who believe in repeating the laws that
are bad and not for those who want to
make more bad laws and keep all the
bad laws already in existence.
If the people of this country would
all recognize the power of the ballot and
use that ballot as they should there
would be less complaint against injus-
tlce. If our laws are bad, remember the
people who permit the laws to remain
had are to blame. If our laws are to be
good, those who wan them good have
got to make them good. William J.
Bryan.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-09-26
AN INFAMOUS G
Hryan D~enounces the Observation-Disclosures
Gold Syndicate Contract.

nryan Denounces the RothscliiId-M Morgan
Gold syndicate Contract.
l shall appeal for your support on
higher grounds than party regularity.
l expressly release, so far as 1 am con-
cerned. from the support of the Chicago
ticket every Democrat who believes that
the success of that ticket would imperiI
our country.
l shall not ask any man to violate
his conscience or be deaf to the voice
OF his Judgment. l shall ask no false
fealty to party above love for country.
1 would not do it myself. Twill ask no.
body to do what / would not do.
| | believe, my friends, that the Chica-
go platform presents the policies which
will be best for the people of this coun-
try. l believe that those policies put in
to law will bring blessings to the Amer
lean people, and l ( call your attention to
the fact that in this campaign the lines
are drawn between plutocracy and de-
mocracy. And in a fight between plu-
tocracy and democracy there is no mid
die ground.
Our platform declares against the is
sue of bonds in time Of peace and
against trafficking with the s%yndicates
which have been saving our country at
so much per save for the last few years.
The Democratic party denounces those
syndicates, and l thank God that the
Democratic party has driven out of its
ranks the representatives of those syndi-
Gates.
We denounce the stock exchanges, and
l. rejoice that the stock exchanges are
against us today in the fight that we
are making, because it is a certificate
that We are doing our duty to our coun-
try.
/ denounce the Rothschild- Morgan
contract entered into by the present adj
mi%nistration as the most infamous con-
tract ever entered into by the United
States with private individuals. 1 say
that it is Infamous. Why? Not so much
Tor the amount Of money that the syn
dictate has made. I call it infamous be-
cause the government in that contract
bought the good will of these two bank
ing firms.
Has it come to this, that 70, 900, 900
OF people must purchase their right to
exist from two combinations of money
erabbers-grabbers in this country and
in Europe?
My friends, whenever this government
hires any syndicates to protect it's treas
ury it admits that those syndicates
would not protect the treasury except
tor pay, and it also admits that unless it
bought their aid it might have their op-
position. l am not an old man, nor am I
acquainted with financiering as it is
taught i'll the east, but l have an idea
that am free to express, and it is this
that instead Of hiring those syndicates
to let the United States alone | would
say to them if they did not quit conspir.
ing against the credit of the United
States they would be treated like the
! mailer criminals and punished.
My friends, I speak the words of
truth and soberness when l tell you that
we cross the danger line whenever we
that the existence of this nation
depends upon the good will Of any
banking concern, domestic Or foreign.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-09-26
A DANGEROUS POWER.
Candidate Bryan Calls Attention to the
Coercion of Employees.

,Hfhb W W
Coercion of Employees.
The heads of many great corporations
are undertaking to compel their EN-.
ployees 10 support the gold standard.
Ny friends, If the heads of these cor
porations assert the right to control the
votes OF those who work for them, then
we have presented TO the American peo-
pie even a greater question than the sill.
yer question. If a corporation has the
r1ght to control the vote of an employee
on one question, it has the right to con-
troll on every question.
These corporations were not cousti-
.uted for any such purpose. They are
creatures of law. Has the law given
ant these corporations any such power?
No, my friends, and no people who love
their government will ever intrust those
powers to any person or corporation. If
a corporation is not invested with the
legal right TO vote those employees as it
Will, then the corporation that attempts
1t usurps its right and becomes a dan
gerous power in a free country.
If there are those here who are op-
posed To us on the money question, they
dare not approve of the conduct of those
corporations that are attempting to
ooerce their employees. We NAV be the
ones to suffer now, but | warn you, fell
low citizens, that the . ne NAV come
when these very corporations will turn
themselves against you and your fami-
lies with all the accumulated power
that your Endorsement of their conduct
now will give them.
Not only have some Of these cornora
tlons attempted to coerce their en-
ployeos, but the great money power
conferred i'll New York has been at.
tempting to coerce the people who do
business with it. A paper a few DAYS
ago said of IA Montana bank which had
failed that the reason given was that
the managers of the bank were advo-
eating free silver and therefore the New
York banks refused to extend credit anv
longer and enforced the collection of
notes which they held, which suspended
the bank.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-09-26
MIR. Bryan Puts Country Before PARTY.

l want to say to you i'll this cam
paign, as | have said to you in every
campaign, if there is one, Democrat who
believes that the election of the Chi
oago ticket will be injurious to his
country we have no claim OH his vote.
l am one who has never believed that
the citizen should put his party above
his country. | have not, and | do not,
intend to appeal to any man to support
The Chicago ticket if he thinks that
any other ticket will be better for him
to vote for or for the land in which We
all live.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-09-26
Bryan on the Peoples Rights.

When men array themselves against
society, society has a right to array it,
self against them. When syndicates try
to u this government, the people who
are opposed to syndicates have a right
to array themselves against them, and
no abuse that their agents can heap
upon us, no names that they can call
us, can drive us from what we conceive
to be not only our right, but our duty,
to defend our homes and our tiresides
against their invasion.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-09-26

During the past 90 years great orpora-
tions have been willing to provoke strikes
and riots and to invite revolution by re-
ducing the rate of wages to their employ
oes. Now they say that free silver means
q reduction of wages of nearly so per cent,
and yet they are willing to pour millions
into the Republican campaign fond to pre-
vent it.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-09-26
Candidate Bryan to Silver public

1t is not strange that men who had
looked for b~imetallism in the Republic
an party should have given up hope in
despair and turned elsewhere for relief.
these Republicans cannot be criticised
Tor leaving the Republican party. They
have done what every American citizen
has "A right to do. They have done bet
ter than our Democratic advocates of
the gold standard have, because the Re-
publieans, when they left their party,
joined with those who had "a chance to
succeed, while orlr Democratic adyo-
Gates OF the gold standard sought to Sc
oure the election of a Republican can
dldate by nominating a Democratic can
didate.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-09-26
The Maine Election,

The Republican majority in Maine
proves that New England stands by the
party of monopoly, trusts and syndi.
Gates more firmly than it ever did. Moth
ing encouraging for the cause of the
people was to have been looked for frcn
there for the reason that the money
power is too firmly intrenched in that
particular section to be dislodged in a
day or a year.-New York News.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-09-26

Cleverness is a sort Of genius for
instrumentality. 1t is the brain of
the hand. In literature %cleverness
is more frequently accompanied by
wit, genius and ems than by hu-
mor--COleridge.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-09-26
The Moral Side.

The efforts of the ~goldbug orators to
put their cause on a high moral plane
will make their situation worse rather
than better. They merely show the des-
peration of a bad position. The immor-
ality is on the side of those who are try
ing to force the people to a single gold
standard. Cincinnati ENQUIRER.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-09-26

Unskilled laborers in the Swiss
iron works consider themselves for
tunate if they make so cents a day.
Skilled workmen receive from so
cents to 81, according to dexterity
and length of employment.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-09-26

Free silver would benefit the farmers by
raising the price of the silver in silver
Using countries. 1t is that silver price,
out in half when measured in gold, that
lie has to meet. 1t is oriental silver coup-
tries competition and not overproduction
that causes the low price of wheat. A
bushel of wheat in Mexico will buy the
dollar there as easily as it ever did. A
bushel of wheat here will buy only half
rs much of our dollar.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-09-26
So She Says.

We know a woman Of rare intelll
gence and sturdy common sense who,
just before the death Of any one in her
family, sees her sister, who died years
ago, smiling at her and combing her
luxuriant hair. Boston Journal.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-09-26
Both Veterans,

The Colonel-Why not tako me for
better or for worse, Miss Flighty? We're
alike in respect, at all events.
She-And that is
The Colonel-We'vc Doth figured in
a good many engagements. London
Tit-Bits.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-09-26

The success of the Chicago ticket is not
dangerous to any man who wants to eat
the bread he earns. The success of the
Chicago ticket is dangerous only to tho
man who wants to eat the bread that
somebody else earns.-William J.. BRYAN,
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-09-26

The question for the American work.
ingman is not how he compares with
those of other countries, but how ne
compares with the American working
man OF 80 years ago. Is he going for
ward or backward?-Mew York News.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-09-26
How MIR. Bryan Would Restore Prosperit,

The gold standard means that the
dollar will buy more and more all the
time and the prices will fall, and fall.
ing prices mean hard times. Debts do
not fall, however, and consequently the
living expenses must be decreased, and
as the living expenses decrease so is the
prosperity of the merchant decreased,
and l know of no way to restore pros
perity except by increasing the power of
the people to consI4ae, and the only
way you can do that is to enable them
to get more for what they produce than
they have been getting.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-09-26

Why will you let men who are inter-
ested pecuniarily in having bonds issued
by this government, because the bonds
ere sold to them at enormous profts-why
will you let these men decide whether
bond issues are a good thing for the
American people? Why will you allow
the presidents Of the trusts and the attor-
neys for syndicates to decide whether
trusts and s~yndicates are good things for
theA American peOple2-William j. Bryan.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-09-26

Under bimetallism our laws will bring
demand into existence, and that demand
will fix the price of silver. We believe
that the demand furnished by 5000, o
OF people is s=GioiaAt~to use all the silver
we can get to our mints.-WiIliam j,
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-09-26

Our opponents tell us they want good
money. So do we. We want good money
as much as they do. but we differ as to
what good is. They want a dollar SO good
hat those who have the dollar can buy a
great deal from those who need dollars,
We want dollars that are not SO good
That we can't get hold of them when we
have wheat and corn to selI.-William j,
BRYAN.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-09-26

1t is q curse to have al "honest" dollar
SD dear that you cannot earn it. Tho
more there are who cannot earn it the
less likely are the rest to be able to go on
earning it. Unemployed labor brings
down wages.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-09-26
When Belmont Succeeds,

Baron Rothschild will feel able tc
buy another European kingdom or &C
when Perry Belmont succeeds in con-
trolling the electoral vote of Texas and
putting j. p. Morgan in charge of the
Alamo. st. Louis Post Dispatch.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-09-26

1t is wicked for the poor to be preju-
diced against the rich; but, as for the
rich being ~prejudiced against the poor,
you know how it s.-Dctroit News.
Tribune.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-09-26

4 assert the right of the people of this
country to have their own financial sys-
tenn and to regulate their own affairs,
and II foreign people do not want to loan
money to us under these conditions we
will have the consolation of knowing that
the conditions will be SO favorable that
we soon will have money to loan them.-
William j. Bryan.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-09-26

III you are farmers, 1 beg you remem-
Der that under this appreciation of gold
your products have fallen in vaIue, while
your debts and your taxes have remained
as high AS they used to be.-Wiuiam r.
Bryan,
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-09-26

Gold today limits all production in.toaa
Of being limited by production. 1t 10 the
master, not the measure. Free silver
would benefit the world by weakening
the power of the gold god,
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-09-26

There is nobody will us but the people,
my friends, and they are the ones for
whom this government was instituted
William j. Bryan.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-09-26
ms upon this subject are not

My convictions upon this subject are not
Ghaliow convictions. 1 may be in error
none OF us can claim infailibiIity-but 1
believe that the gold tandard is a con-
Spiracy against the human race.-William
j. Bryan.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-09-26
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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-09-26
The Workers For Silver.

All over this country those who toll
and are engaged in the productive in
dustries are interested in having enough
money to do business with and those
who have money instead of property and
want to make dollars rise in value are
opposed to it. I believe we have more
people Oh II side than we have against
us.-~,W. J. Bryan.