The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-09-10

a mistake. (Applause.) Why, my
friends. it simply reverses the process.
Upon the laboring man and the farmer
depend all people of society. They do
| not depend upon the business man. You
have to create wealth before you can eX-
change wealth. The business men are
| the men who exchange wealth, not the
men who produce it. | have had Occa-
sion to describe it, and the farmers and
lnborers are the foundation Of the socie-
| ty. The business man, the cOmmerclal
man and the professional man are the
house built upon the foundation, and
| the fnanciers are the roof of the house,
and yet t1e financiers think they are the
whole thing and all the rest depends upon
| them. (Applause.) AS matter or
| fact, however, you can change roof OF
the house and the house will stand. 1ou
| can change your financial system ana
the government still stands, but if you
destroy the foundation the house goes
down. (Applause) Now, | want to ask
YOU who are the producers of Wealth.
Here the part of the audience on the
other side of the platform called to Mr..
Bryan to speak from their side.
81 am afraid | have been neglecting
our friends over here. Now, if you Will
| be as patient as they have been | VIII
come back here in Il minute
Mr.. Bryan then tried to get to the 9th
err side of the platform, but 1t being I'M
possiljlc. turned to the audience again
and said:
"NOw. Just word in conclusion. |
want YOU to remember. my friends, that
on every question which concerns the
public each man must act for himself,
| and | want to warn you against the Ell
| forts which will be made by some OF the
| employers of labor to vote their en-
| plOycs as if they were cattle instead OF
| free men. ! want to warn you against
the attempts which will be made by the
! fnanciers to secure the votes OF the men
to whom they have loaned money.
1--WE have no objection to the money
| lender. He is part Of society, and we
need of him. When we need money we
90 to him and borrow money, ana When
| need money | borrow money from him,
but when | want to vote | do not go to
him and ask him how am going to vote.
You say you want to hear Il little about
the old soldiers Well, my friends, the
crisis which is approaching now, the
question before the country now appeals
to the old soldier as much as it did in
1861. lApplause.) If the men i'll this
country were willing to march out upon
the field and sustain government OF the
people and by the people. | want to know
why they can not give one day in one
year, and that election day, to stand by
II government of the people and by the
people still applause and cheers.) My
friends. | am not afraid that any man
who riskcd his life in his nation, S behalf
is going to be influenced by the argu-
mcntS that are addressed to the old SOL
dicrs now by the financicrs who, during
the war. were looking out for themselves
Il l,tt bn col Tnr tbnIn-
selves. Great applauSe.) | am not
afraid that the men who were willing at
that time to endure the dangers of war
because they believed that the black man
should be free; ! am not afraid that these
men are going to allow the hosts of the
gold standard to enslave 100000 of
people. whites and blacks, in this great
country. Great applause.)
Let me give you two suggestions, and
then | shall close | want you to re-
member that the value of Il dollar de-
ponds upon the number of dollars.
want YOU to remember that when you
lcgislatc in regard to the number of dol
lars that legislation will affect the value
of the dollars. This principle of none
tary science is understood by our oppo-
nents because they have invoked legisla-
ton to destroy Il part of the cOuntry's
money in order that they might enhance
the rise of the country's money, and
when they tell you that you do not I'M
dcrstand the question of finance, you tell
them that the man who talks money and
ignores the law of supply and demand,
which simply means that when we limit
money we make it dear, tell him that
when we open the minis we increase the
demand and it raises prices. In 1873 we
closed our minis and silver fell. When
we stopped buying silver in 1873, silver
fell. Under bimetallism our laws will
bring demand into existence, and that
demand will fix the price of silver. We
believe that the demand furnished by
100000 of people is sufficient to use
all the silver we can get to our mints.
Great applausc) If that be true, there
is no person in the world who will sell
his silver for less than S1.29 an ounce,
because by bringing it to our mints he
can convert it into money for 81 and use
that money.
"Thcy tell us that Mexico has failed to
do so. Now, we can not have all the
votes. my friends, but | am perfectly
willing that the republican party shall
have the vote of every man who can
look over the United States and then
think it is not larger than Mexico.
(ChcerS.)
II am perfectly willing that any man
who thinks the United States IS unable
to accomplish anything which Mexico has
failed to accomplish should vote the re-
publican ticket. Great applause)
whenever you find man who is go
Ing to settle the question for you and
relieve you of all the care and anxiety.
you find out whether he is on your side
or not. daughter and appause) When
ever | find one of these good natured
men. these self-sacriticing men; when |
find one of these who are willing to take
upon themselves the thinking for all the
rest of the people, | am compelled to
think of one of Acsop's fables. There
was Il farmer who was building fence
to protect his chickens. and Il fox came
up to him and said DO not bother about
that fence: you go on about your blowing
and leave the chickens to us laugh
teri We foxes understand the chicken
business. Continued laughter and APP
plauSe)
"rhcy say that we are arraying one
class of society against another. | deny
it, But, my friends, if a burglar comes
to my house, | have right to call all
my family up to keep him out (applause),
and it does not make me mad if, as he
starts. he turns around and shouts at
me that | am trying to array my family
against him. applause and laughterD
IF men array themselves against So
ciety, society has right to array itself
against them. Whey syndicates are try