The herald., 1896-10-02


on that side guarantees that in any
struggle of the future the north and
south shall stand side by side, prepared
to drive back any invader and to guard
and care for the interests of the great
est country on earth. shall be glad to
place this among others mementos
which I have received as have gone
from section to section, and thank
again those who have been kind to thus
remember me.
1t gives me pleasure to talk to the peo-
pie of West Virginia. l am here, my
friends, to present the issue which is
paramount i'll this campaign. am here
to impress upon your minds the impor-
tance of your responsibility as citizens
this year. Every. hour is of the same
length, and yet there are hours into
which are crowded great results. There
are moments which turn the destinies
fo nations, and when the people go to
the polls this fall and deposit. their
ballots they ought to go realizing that
upon the result of this election much
depends-much for veal or woe, much
for good or i'll; and, my friends, as. the
election may turn upon the electoral
vote of one state, so the electoral vote
Of one state may turn upon. the vote of
one citizen. No one can afford to trifle
with citizenship this year. 1t has re-
joiced me to see that all over this coun-
try people were taking an interest in
this campaign. Sometimes in cam
paigns we find the people lukewarm,
but in this campaign we. have no luke
warm people. They are all for us or
against us.
Let me read further: $50 I say, Mr..
Speaker, this bill is just to the silver pro-
ducers of the United States for 1t does
what the present law, as administered
by every administration for ten years,
has not done. 1t takes every dollar Of
silver bullion that is produced in the
United States and places it at the dis
posal of the people as money"
And yet the man who used that lam
guage six years ago is standing upon
platform which refuses to take a single
dollar of the silver bullion produced in
this country and put it at the disposal
of the people for money (Great ap-
plause and cheering.) My, friends,
call your attention to. these extracts
from speeches made by the Republican
candidate in congress and compare them
with what he says now, not because 1
deny to man the right to change his
mind, but my friends, l insist that when
a man changes his mind, he ought to
have reasons for it, that he is willing to
give to the American people so that they
may judge .(Applause.) 1 am not insist
ing that a man who has an opinion at
one time must always keep it, but do
not like to have men insist that it is an
evidence of wisdom to change their
opinion and then have the evidence de-
pend on the mere change without saying
anything to justify the change. Gap
plause.)
A voice--"Cive i "a Grover'
Mr.. Bryan-No, my friends. I am not
going to say one word against the Dem
ocratic president. 1 am going to leave
history to record that the man who went
into office with an overwhelming major
ity went out of office supporting a ticket
which did not carry single county in
the United States. (Great applause.)
The ticket which has the support of the
administration will not even have the
advantage of having died an honorable
in the field by those who did not intend
to vote for it and was only put before the
people to deceive them and to furnish a
ticket for those few Democrats who OBJ
ject to the Chicago platform and are yet
not quite ready to enter the Republican
party. (Great applause.)
My friends, want you to understand
the necessity for a financial system
which will give the people of this coun-
try enough money to carry on the kusi-
ness Of this country. want to impress
upon your minds this fact that there is
in circulation S150,OOO,000 less than there
was two years ago, as shown by the
treasury statistics. What does it mean?
1t means that with increasing populat-
tion we have diminishing supply Of
money and yet, my friends, when we call
this to the attention of our Republican
opponents they seem unconscious. Since
when have they forgotten that there is
q necessity for an increasing circula-
ton? Since when have they discovered
this new idea that the less money you
have in the country the more money an
individual can get? 1 want to quote to
you, not from Democratic authority, but
from Republican authority. I want to
quote to you, not from one of the lesser
Republicans, but from a great one; not
from the rank and file of the Republican
party, but from the great leader of the
Republican party himself. 1 want to
compare what the Republican candidate
for president said this year with what
he said six years ago in regard to the
necessity for an increasing circulation.
You will find in his letter of acceptance
+, of this year this statement: "It is not
more money we want. What we want is
| to put the money we already have at
work. Now remember, my friends, that
these words were uttered at a time when
the circulation medium had fallen off
$3.50 100000 in two years. Let me COM
pare that with what he said six years
ago, when, instead of having decreas-
ing volume of currency, we had an in
crease of about s24 100000 every Year.
At that time they were trying to substi-
tute the Sherman law for the Bland
Allison act. The Bland -Allisoll act put
in circulation about $24,0O0,O 600 every
year, SO that the circulation was in
creasing and not decreasing as it is now.
Let me read you what the Republican
candidate, then in congress, said, in re-
gard to the necessity for an increasing
circulation:
"Mr. Speaker will not vote against
this bill and thus deDrive the neoDle of