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,een destructive of the interests of this

Mr. Bryan went on to repeat parts of
his former speeches, saving that the in
creasing value of gold had been push
ing other things down. The difference
between silver and gold has been pro-
ouced by legislation IN favor of gold.
In answering the question; If a gold
and silver dollar were worth the same
under bimetallism. Row would it be
easier to get a dollar? Mr.. Bryan said:
What we complain of most is that the
money owning and money changing
classes have made dollars dearer by
making them scarcer, and they did it
because they were interested in having
money go up, and you who have prop
erty have a right to protect yourselves
against the conspiracy to destroy a
part Of the value of your property
(Applause.)
A voice: Men here want to know a
little about the old soldier"
Il want to say the crisis we are now
approaching appeals to the old soldier
as much as it did in 1861. If men in this
country We're willing to march upon the
field to sustain Government by the
people and for the people, l want to
know why they cannot give one day in
the year, and that election day. to
stand by Government by and for the
people. Applause and three cheers) I
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 soldiers now by the
firanciers who, during the war, looked
out for themselves and left the soldier
to look out for himself" (Applause.)
EVENING MEETING.
Mr.. Bryan this evening addressed an
audience at Schlitz Park. In spite of
the GOODNESS of the night, six or seven
thousand people had gathered and lis
tened to his speeches both inside and
outside the theater building in the
park. Mr.. Bryan was warmly greeted,
his utterances on the bond question es-
pecially being cheered to the echo.
When he first appeared it seemed as
though quiet would not be restored.
AS soon as order was secured Mr..
Bryan began his remarks. He said in
part:
LAS soon as the last campaign closed
the mOneyed interests of this country
made a combined attack upon what is
known as the Sherman law. They de-
manded the repeal Of the purchasing
clause Of the Sherman law, and they
based their attack upon the platform
of the Democratic party in 1892, but
instead Of taking that platform as a
whole they picked out part of a SEN
tence and insisted upon enforcing a
part of the platform, while ignoring the
rest of the platform. (Applause) The
Democratic platform denounced the
Sherman law as a makeshift. What is
makeshift? Why, it is a temporary
measure; it is a thing used until some
better thing can be secured. And the
very plank in the platform that de-
clared in favor of the makeShift as
serted they would hold to the use Of
gold and silver as the standard money
of the country, and no. only that, but
that platform added: THE coinage of
beth gold and silver without discrimi-
nation against either metal or charge
for mintage" There We're certain
Qualifying words which followed, but
those qualifying words did not destroy
the declaration Of the Democratic par
ty for the coinage of gold and silver
upon equal terms.
And yet, the money interests of this
country combined to attack the Sher-
man law and secure it's repeal, and
leave nothing in it's place to furnish
the money which the people needed.
They said that gold was going abroad,
and If they repealed the Sherman law
that gold would stop going abroad.
After a struggle which has seldom been
equaled they succeeded in repeating the
Sherman law without conditions. And
then what? Did gold stop going abroad?
No; gold went abroad faster than be-
fore. And then what? Then they be-
gan to issue bonds to get enough gold
to furnish to those who wanted it to
send it abroad or wanted to put it
away in their vaults, or wanted to
make an excuse for the issue of more
bonds. (Applause.) They issued fifty
Of bonds and then fifty millions
more of bonds.
And then the Administration entered
into what is known as the Rothschild
contract. Let me dwell just one mo-
ment upon that contract. I call your
attention to the fact that while that
contract was adopted by Democratic
Administration, it was supported by all
the leading members Of the Republican
the Republican party in convention as
sembled did not denounce or criticise
that Rothschild contract. Why? Be-
cause the men who wrote the Republi-
can platform have always justified the
Presidents conduct
Now, l want to say to you in my
humble judgment that contract was
the most infamous contract that was
ever entered into by this Nation. That
at an enormous price employed
certain financiers in NewYork and Lon
don to do what? To look after the
treasury and protect 1t. | want you to
my friends, that if this Ma
tion is dependent on the good will of one
banking firm in New York and one
firm in London, that the very
you confess it you put it in the
power of those two firms to charge
whatever they please for good will to-
wards this Government. (Great ap-
plause) 1 assert that seventy millions
Of people in majesty and strength have
a Government which cannot only live
without the aid of these syndicates, but
can live in spite of anything they may
do. (Great applause)
II am not surprised that members of
that syndicate are opposed to the Dem
ocratic party. (Applause) I am not
at all, because the Democratic
party believes that this Government can
get along without them. And more than
that, the Democratic party believes that
If they imagine that they can injure this
and dare to try it, the
party believes that they
ought to be treated like any other con-
applause, which
drowned the rest of the sentence) To
say that anything less than q majority