Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-10-29

dellVeranCe OF the common people from
the money changers. l preached deliv-
cranCe to the business man from the
tyranny of the banks. (Applause and
. cheers) I say that the man who loans
YOU money has no right to control
your vote. C'That is good and cheers.)
I say that a man who. because he
loans YOU money. attempts to rob you
of your citizenship, should be made 10
feel the penalty by an injured people.
lApplause) / know that it is not pO-
lite TO say anything of these tnanclers
who think so we'll of themselves.
(Laughter) But my friends. if they
DO not want to have hard things said
of them. let them be just and cease to
be despOts. (Applause) l want you
business men between now and cleo
tion day TO think over this proposition.
If the gold standard is good, why is
iJ that those who advocate it resort TO
deception? Do YOU have 10 resort to
deception when YOU are selling some
thing of good quality? Do YOU have
to resort to deception when you are
selling something which has merit?
Not at all. You present the merits of
that thing if it has merits. and when
YOU see man resOrting to deception 1t
is a confession that the thinS which
ne is advocating is not fvyP.bbI-w fiji
bee is advocating has not the merit TO
80 upon its own strength. applause
and cheers.)
I say 10 YOU that
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM
adopted this way is a fraud. Cap
plauseD ] say that it was intended as
- hf,
wrote it 20 deceive the people and to
secure an advantage by deception that
they could not obtain in an open fight.
Continuing, Mr.. Bryan said:
That phrase pledging the Republican
party 20 promote international bimet-
u auism was offered as a sOlace to the
q Republicans of the West without any
idea that the Republican party would
ever use any effort 70 change the gold
standard. (Applause) Another
thing. if man comes TO you with
. business proposition. you expect him
TO be able TO point out to you the ad-
| yantages of the plan. You ask him
the details. and if he tells YOU he does
not know just how it is going 10 work,
YOU do not have any confidence in his
plan. Ifhe tells YOU that his plan has
great merits. but that he is not going
tO tell YOU anything about them until
YOU invest your money in the plan, you
would not pay any attention TO him.
And yet. I want YOU 20 understand
that i'm this campaign the Republican
party has not elaborated any financial
policy. It is opposing. not proposing
anything. If the Republican party
knows what is best. why does it not
tell the American people? If the Re
publican party has a plan which will
relieve us from our present financial
condition why does not the Republi-
can party submit that plan to the Amer
lean people for their verdict and if
they have no plan. what presumption
it is for them to ask YOU to trust them
first and let them find ont afterwards
Great applause and cheering) I say
we are advocating q sOunder financial
system than they. because when you
go TO construct anything. whether it
be a house of a financial system, you
have
GOT To HAVE A FOUNDATION
for it 90 rest upon and our opponents
are trying 90 construct a commercial 1
fabric resting Upon gold; when they cam
lion for the fabric (Applause) You
ask them how much gold there is in
The country Why they tell YOU, The
treasury reports say there is six hun
drej millions. You ask them where it is.
They tel YOU so much in the national
bauE vaults. so much in the treasury at
Washington. They estimate so much
I'm S3-e banks and trust companies and
they viii figure up something more than
half 10 the estimate amount in the cOun-
Try ana then YOU ask them where is the
rast2 Ttcy tel, yOu that IL is The inyis-
lo.a supply in the country. (Applause
and a voice: In the s-ock.ngs.O
Nv friends, YOU cannot build house
upon an invisible foundation. neither
can YOU rear q sound financial system
upon foundation which YOU cannot
find. tApp'ause) You 60 10 your
. bankers and ask them where he gold is.
Whey. they tell YOU that silver agitation
has scared it 0u- Oaughter); that gold
has gone into hiding because somebody
has raised some question as 20 whether
there is enough gold TO furnish a found
alton. The very moment YOU question
the quantity OF gold, gold becomes
scared and proves that YOU are right by
getting out of sight. applause and
llughtert
have illustrated il in this way. No
man would want to stand with a rope
around his neck and the other end of
the rope held by some unseen man away
off in the distance, and the man not
know when the man over there was go
ing TO pull the rope. daughter and ap-
D,aussl You could tell tbat man not 10
be ag.tated. but the heart would flutter
as long as he did not know when the
P rope was going TO be pulled. Great ap-
p.aUse)
NV friends. such is our condition.
f Here is a great financial system resting
UPON A HANDFUL OF GOLD,
and people in a foreign land have &
string to the gold. and YOU never know
when they are going to pull the tounda-
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