Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-09-10
TALKS TO FARMERS.
AR. Bryan Attends Picnic at
KnowIesviIie, N. z.
Tells His Hearers That the Money
Problem Overshadows All 9th
ers-Quoses CarIisie's Free
SILVER Speech.

Know1esvilIe, y. Y. Aug. 2a.-The
Bryan party reached here at 1910 p. M.
yesterday. During the afteroon Mr..
Bryan attended a Farmers alliance
picnic and addressed a large audience
Mr.. Bryan spoke as follows:
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
Ny voice is so husky that you win have to
help me to speak by being perfectly quiet
This is q very unusual spectacle. I have
had immense audiences in the cities where
a great many people live in small territory,
but this is the largest audience that ever
saw assembled in the midst of an agricult
ural county.
Quotes from Carlisle.
Politics is a practical question. 1t is so
simply because it can be comprehended by
our people. want to talk practical poll
tics to you for little while this afternoon.
I want to read to you an extract from
speech made by John G. Carlisle in 1878. and
want you to mark the political philosophy
therein set forth. He was speaking on an
amendment to the Bland act and he used
these words: If the execution of this meas
TIRE could be intrusted to a public officer
whose opinions on the subject were in ac-
cord with those of great majority of the
American people. and whose sympathies
were with the struggling masses who pro-
duce the wealth and pay the taxes of ne
country rather than with the idle holders of
idle capital, the provision alluded to would
be of little consequence because he
wFuld coin the maximum instead of the
minimum amount allowed by the amend
Enent, but, situated as we are, we ali know,
or at best, we all have reason to believe,
that not dollar beyond the minimum
amount will be coined, and consequently
the process of getting this money into cir
culation will be too slow to afford the full
measure of relief which the people now de-
n.and and need
Analyses the Sentiment.
Mark those words. John G. Carlisle d.
vided society into two classes. On the one
side he put the idle holders of idle capital,
en- the other side he put the struggling
masses, who produce the wealth and pay
the taxes of the country. If the division
existed then 1t exists to-day. More than
that, John G. Carlisle said that a pub
lie officer sworn to do duty would be con-
trolled in his official conduct by his sympa-
thies, and If his syTnpathies were with the
idle holders of idle capital he would coin
As little money as possible, whereas, if his
sympathies were with the struggling
masses he would coin as much as the law
would permit him. This is the language OF
John G. Carlisle.
The Issue To-Day.
MY friends, the issue to-day is an issue
between the iGIe holders of idle money and
the struggling masses who produce the
wealth and pay the taxes of the country;
elsd, when this question is understood,
when men find out about the money ques-
in your community whose interests or
whose sympathies are with the idle holders
of idle money, he will be in favor of a gold
standard, and, not daring to say so, he
will talk about honest money and
sound money and a sound dollar But
if his sympathies are with those who pro-
duce the nations wealth, he will be for the
gold and silver coinage of the constitution,
no matter how many times you call him an
anarchist.
VIII Not Ston RoIf
'They tell US that these financiers are
going to leave the democratic party be-
cause 1t declares for the restoration of sill
yer. We shall not go into court to secure
an order to prevent their going. The dem
Ocratic party has been weighted down by
these miIlstones long enough. 1t is glad
to be rid of those who want to use the par
ty organization for private gain and their
country for public plumber.
Follows Up Carlisle.
What is going to be next? Mr. Car
Isle knew. In 1878 he said: Under its influ-
ence the exchangeable value and the COM
nodities, including labor, will soon begin
to rise That is what he said in 1873 But,
what will be the effect of it? Thus invit-
ing investments, infusing life into the dead
industries of the country and quickening
the pulsattons of trade in all of its depart
ments.' He understood the laws of finance
He understood what was the effect of
adding this money to the circulation, and,
my friends, il he stated the truth then,
that truth has not changed since then, nor
can 1t be changed, though every one who
spoke for it should turn his back upon it.
Truth lives. Tt is the one thing that will
not die. quote these words to you to show
you that by the increase of the volume of
money we expect to stop the constant de-
probation of property.
81 assert that the gold standard could
not live for one day in any other nation I'M
der the sun without the aid of the money
owners and the money changers to keep
. yr 4c&a 7 1oE nr1Il a4a,
ard has never received the Endorsement of
any class of people except those who pros
per as society is destroyed by rising dol
lar.
He Offers Proof.
Now, want to say to you that nv de-
nunciation of the gold standard is sus-
tanned by events which you can see. Let
me give you a proof. If man tells you
the gold standard is good thing, you ask
him why 1t Is that no party in the history
of the United States has ever declared it
self for gold standard in its platform.
Isn't it strange, If the gold standard is q
good thing, that no party has ever seen fit
to say so in platform? And that is true.
1t is true that no national party has ever
q gold standard, and yet there are |
people who favor IL. Why don't they have |
the courage to write platform and risk |
an issue before the people, But no, they |
do not do that. They go to St. Louis and |
adopt platform which says the repub- |
lican party pledges itself to secure BIZ |
tneI&ElSLlp WHICH, OF COURSE Is q Qenuncia- |
ton of the gold standard If the gold /
standard is good, why should we get rii |
of it? If the gold standard is good, why /
did not the republican party pledge itself |
to help keep gold standard? But no,
1t pledged itself to get rid of the gold |
standard just soon other nations will /
help.
THAT is not my language. my friends.
but is the language of the republican plat
form, and that is the construction placed
upon it by the candidate who runs upon it /
IN his letter of acceptance. He says in
MS letter that the American people cannot |
enter upon bimetallism without the con-
current action of other nations. Does ne
say we shall maintain gold standard for
0ne year, No For four years? No. But
he conclusion is that we must maintain
t forever If other nations say we must 1t |
S not q question Of politics, nay friends
Whole parties are divided on this issue 1t |
-iSes above the question of politics. They
nave declared against the right of the peo-
lie of the United States to govern them
selves. They have declared that, while
Ne want to get rid of the gold standard,
We must keep the thing we don't want uu-
We should achieve for ourselves. Zap
OIause.l
A Question of Rights.
II know not what view you may take
Il it. my friends, but, in my humble judg-
ncnL the American people are the only
,eople who have any right to say what the
Americans will have for legislation. They
iaye driven down the price of your prod
lets. They have increased the burden of
'oEr debts They have forecIosed your
mortgages. They are degrading and low
ring the standard Of civilization by dIfV-
TX people who want to work out upon the
treefs. and then idIeness breeds crime,