The San Francisco call., 1896-09-24

1he next paragraph was quoted, and
then Mr.. Bryan said:
MI Lincoln says that if ii is meant to be as
Sa,as leu tnat the Supreme Court has right to
ueteIinlne tne policy of the people on great
questions that they will have assigned our
government into the hands of the Supreme
So SEourc our platform is not as. harsh as the
language OF Abraham Lincoln.
quote these authorities, my friends, In
Vroer tnat you may all see how far-fet tched is
Tue critlclsm that is leveled against Iquote
Vlese IN order that you may see that the very
men who used the criticisms against us must,
IN order to do SO, abandon the Republican
Piat1orm upon which Lincoln was elected.
lApplause.l Now our opponents say that we
are opposed to the enforcement of the law. l
oeny 1t. | stand the candidate of three
parties. do not speak of myself as an indi-
palgn In the representative character OF the
candidate. But, my friends, want to say TO
you that the fear that is expressed is not fear
mat IL elected that Will not enforce the law.
have said it before and say 1t again, that II
by the suffrages of my countrymen am placed
In that position which is the highest position
In the gift of the people of the world, every
law shall be enforced against the great as well
as against the small. [Applause.l
1t is not fear of lawlessness, my friends.
Think OF men who have transgressed the law
being afraid that there will be a lax enforce
ment of the law. Think of the men who have
considered themselves greater than the Gov
ernment who are afraid the Government Will
not be great enough. They remind me OF the
man in court-the person who seemed uneasy
and the Judge assured him that he had moth
ing to fear; that ne would get justice in that
court and he said: "Great heavens, Judge,
that's what m afraid Of" tApplause.9 They
say that we have been the peculiar objects OF
these imputations. We pause, therefore, for
moment TO repel them.
We entertain no sentiments diverse to social
order; we seek not to deS troy, but TO preserve
in their purity the institutions OF our country,
whose language is the language OF Samuel J.
Tilden [applausel, used in an address to farm
ers, workin2men and mechanics delivered on
Eornr sod rnfn nrrraar
then of being destroyers of the peace and he
asserted then, as we assert now, that we have
not come to destroy. Let me read from that
speech of Tilden's: "A powerful moneyed cor
poration, engaged in death struggle with the
Government TO whom II owed its existence,
assailed the purity OF our press. mighty
combination OF politicians and moneyed inter-
ests is again in the field to control elections, to
change the administrati of Government and
10 re-establish the supremacy of the great
moneyed corporations over the business OF the
country"
That same moneyed power exists to-day. 1t
is doing this same work to-day that it did in
the days OF Tilden, aud business men are ter
rifed. Tilden said that the patriotism of the
people prevailed in that struggle, ana / be-
lieve it will in this. To think otherwise would
be to despair OF government like this My
friends, we cannot have free government un-
less the people are free to act. / repeat, my
friends, that this government by the few, this
government by asserted wealth, this govern
ment by corporations, is the most tyrannical
government that any people ever suffered
under [Applause.l When you know that 1
am opposed to government by the few; that
/ am opposed 10 a government by the great
corporations, you will understand why they
call me an anarchist
/ want for a few moments to call your atten-
ton to the present financial system, and ex-
plain TO you what we desire to substitute for
II. Now the present financial system is based
upon gold. The present financial system con-
templates the retirement OF greenbacks and
treasury notes and the substitution of bank
paper for those notes. The present financial
~.1,4o -, II
legal tender silver certificates, contemplates
gold only the legal tender money of this
country, and bank paper only as the paper
money OF the country. The financial policy
under which we now suffer, therefore, contem-
plates q condition in which a few men will
control the gold money and the national
banks will control the paper money, and the
people will have nothing to say about 1t. Mr..
Carlisle, in a recent letter, says that it is the
duty OF the Secretary OF the Treasury TO re-
deem silver dollars in gold whenever it be-
comes necessary to do SO, in order to maintain
the parity.
What does all that mean7 1t means that all
this talk about retiring greenbacks and treas
ury notes is farce, and when this farce gives
out they intend TO start another endless chain
as soon as they get through with the present
endless chain.
We have got to have either one kind of
standard money or two kinds. If we cannot
have two kinds then ii must be one, and the
Government must have the right to use silver
dollar. Ii the government cannot use silver
dollar to pay all the debts that 1t owes then
the silver dollar is not as good as the gold dol
lar. believe this Government has right TO
use its silver dollars it its gold dollars;
but our opponents have gone a different
theory, and they have taxed the people OF this
country to pay interest on 1925 900 900 in
bonds in order to buy gold, on the theory that
silver was not as good gold.
My friends. when see bonds worth 81 19
sold for 81 O413 and try TO describe what kind
of a transaction it was I regret that my
parents did not teach me more tongues in
which to express my ideas And yet the peo-
81 19 assume that they are the only people
who understand fnanciering / believe that
instead OF the Secretary of the Treasury get
ting down on his knees and asking these men
to please tell him what he ought TO do he
ought to stand up and with 7O,OO0,000 OF peo-
pie behind him tell them what they ought
10 do and make them do it. You say that it
is not impossible. The great trouble has been,
in my judgment, that our Treasury officials,
instead of being in sympathy with the mass of
the people OF the United Shakespeare been in
sympathy with the syndicates and financiers
of the United States.
Our platform declares for the double stand
ard without discrimination or charge for
mintage Our platform is but reiteration of
the main part of the platform of 1892 without
the steps. [Laughter.l We left the steps off
because the candidate did not care to step
down this time. [Great applause.] Our plat
form is not made simply that they may get in
on it, but it is made TO stand on after election.
am in favor OF Tree coinage whether we
produce silver in this country or not am in
favor OF the use OF silver, not because we
produce, but because we own 1t. lApplause.l
II we need it, and if it is best for us at our
present ratio, am in favor of having it even
if to have it gives the people who produce
silver q chance to do what they did before the
law struck silver down.
They tell you that free coinage helps those
who delye in the mines Admitted. tell you
that when they bring out that metal they
pour it into the channels of trade, ano we are
blessed by its discovery. [Applause.1 Who
will be helped by the gold standard? Not
those who produce the metal and pour it into
the channels OF trade, but those who corner
the money of the world and keep it out of the
channels. [Applause.l
Mr.. Bryan then went over his favorite
argument of Bismarck and bimetallism.
and said:
Shame on the cowardly American who
thinks this Nation is not as big as Bismarck
thinks il isl
When Mr.. Bryan concluded he was
cheered loudly. He presented Senator
Black kburn, asking the audience to listen
to him. Most of the audience remained.
The journey of Mr.. Bryan from Phila-
delphia to Hoboken was marked by
gatherings at nearly every railroad station.
He made number of speeches. one of
forty five minutes at Washington, n. j.,