The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-03

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railway at Kenton this afternoon, over
which line they will leave Toledo about 3
o'clock.
Springfield, o., Sept. 2.-The trip of the
Bryan party from Columbus to this city
was devoid of noteworthy incidents. On
board the train were reception commit
tees from Springfield and Kenton, the two
places where Mr. Bryan is to speak dur
ing the day. The committee from Spring
field consisted Of Secretary of State Cen
tral Committee W. s. Thomas, James
johnson, Jr., and A. L. Claypool, while
on the car as the committee from Ken
toA were w. w. Durbin and E. FlarG gan.
The only stop made before Springfield
people had gathered to shake hands with
the candidate.
Springfield, o., Sept. 2-The train bear
| ing Mr.. Bryan arrived here at 9:35 a, m.
| The booming of cannon announced his ar
| rival and the crushing around the steps
| of the car to the platform was simply
terrible. 10000 people being present. Mr..
Bryan spoke as follows:
For a few moments only shall oc-
cupy your attention, because a large por-
| ton Of my voice has been left along the
| line of travel, where il is still calling
sinners to repentance. Great laughter)
I am told that in this city you manu-
! facture more agricultural implements
| than are manufactured in any other city
| of the country. l am glad to talk to a peo-
pie who recognize their dependence upon
| the farmers Of this country. / have had
/ fa1lK who 70
| imagine the harder up they could make
/ the farmers, the better they would be off.
I / am glad to talk to you, who recognize
that the dollars which you receive are
earned by those who convert the natural
| resources of this country into money,
| those who till the soil, and from its fer
tility springs forth this nations primary
| greatness.
LAS a matter of fact the farmers and
| the laboring men are the foundation of
| society (Cheers) Upon this foundation
| is built the commercial classes and the
| financiers act as a sort of roof over the
whole thing You cam take off the roof
and put on another, but you cannot de-
stroy the foundation without running the
whole building. (Applause) Goldsmith
| has well expressed it when he says
| princes and lords may flourish or may
fade,
"a breath can make them as breath is
made,
But the bold peasantry, a nations pride,
When once destroyed, can never be sup
Piled
'"The democratic party in its platform
| at Chicago is pleading the cause of ma
| tion's peasantry that cannot be destroyed,
until you sap the foundation of our ma
tion's greatness. Upon the prosperity of
the great producers of wealth, whom we
call the masses, as distinguished from the
classes depends all the prosperity of this
city. If you have a gold standard you
legislate the value of money up, and you
legislate the value of property down. DO
YOU remember when we were young, how
we used to get on the teeter board and
when one end of 1t was up, the other emo
was down. 1t has remained for modern
fnanciers to declare that you can keep
both ends of the teeter board up at once.
0aughter) Assuming to be statesmen,
they disregard every law of trade, every
law of economy, every law of nature and
every law of God. There is not a law, hu-
man or divine, they respect, because they
think they are bigger than the govern
ment and greater than the Almighty.
(Great laughter) The very legislation that
increases the purchasing power OF a dol
lar simply enables that dollar to buy
more of other things. How can dollar
he made to buy more of other things? BY
making more wheat sell for a dollar more
corn for a dollar, more of the product of
toll exchangeable for a given amount of
money. 1t Is a good thing for the man
who owns money and buys property, but
it is a mighty bad thing for the man
who has to pay money with the property
that he produces. (Applause)
How does the gold standard effect
YOU? You make your implements and
you sell them to the farmers. Suppose the
farmer finds his taxes don't go down,
his interest does not so down, his debts
don't 20 down, but the price Of all that he
sells goes down. What does II mean? 1t
means that he has a less and less amount
to expend on agricultural implements and
on the support of his family
II you sell him agricultural implements
he promises TO pay you, and the legisla-
ton destroys his ability to pay, then you
find fault because you have TO take your
implements back and sell them second
ha nd to somebody else. (Cheers) That Is
the effect Of legislation.
''Our opponent is trying to throw upon
Providence the fault for our conditions. II
n farmer complains he Is not making
much out OF his potato crop, they tell
him II is due to the potato bug. If he
is not making much out of wheat, they
tell him Il is due to the army worm. But
let me tell you, the gold bug Is destroying
more crops than all OF them. Great
lauRhter) The farmer is the most help
less victim of circumstances OF all the
producers Of wealth. II a man Is en-
gagged In manufacturing and finds the de-
mand is decreasing he can close his fac
tory and stop the expense OF production,
but the farmer can't. When he plants
his crop in the spring he. does not know
whether there is going TO be a food or
drought, whether II is going TO be hot
winds or cold hail. He takes his chances
and / assert when he has taken more
chances than anybody else and survives
all the pestience and calamities that visit
the farm, II Is not fair to drive him be-
tween the bulls and bears of Wall street
and let them take from him what Is left
Great laughter and applause)
"The democrats Of this state have done