The record-union., 1896-09-03
The Democratic Candidate Continues
Speech Making on Free Coinage.
Meets With Hearty Receptions All
Along the Route.
Addresses an Audience of Twenty
Thousand at Springfield - Mrs.
Bryan Narrowly Escapes Injury by
the Giving Way of the Speakers
Stand at Kenton - Meetings at
Other Points.

other Points.
TOLEDO (O), Sept. 2.-When the
train bearing Mr.. Bryan arrived at
Springfield the crush from the steps Of
the car to the platform was simply ter
rible, 10000 people being present. Mr.
Bryan spoke in part as follows:
Ladies and gentlemen: For a few
moments only / shall occupy your at
tention, because a large portion of my
voice has been left along the line of
travel, where it is still calling sinners to
repentance. Great laughter) / am
told that in this city you manufacture
more agricultural implements than are
manufactured in any other city of the
country. / am glad to talk to you who
recognize that the dollars which you re-
ceive are earned by those who convert
the natural resources of this country
into money, those who till the soil, and
from its fertility springs forth this ma
tion's primary greatness. AS a matter
of fact, the farmers and the laboring
men are the foundation of society.
(Cheers.) Upon this foundation is
built the commercial classes, and the
financier acts as sort of roof over the
whole thing. You can take off the roof
and put on another, but you cannot de-
stroy the foundation without running
the whole building. (Applause)
Upon the prosperity OF the great pro-
ducers of wealth, whom we call the
masses as distinguished from the
classes, depends all the prosperity Of
this city. If you have a gold standard
you legislate the value Of money up
and you legislate the value of property
down. The very legislation that in
creases the purchasing power of a dol
lar simply enables that dollar to buy
more of other things. How can dollar
be made to buy more of other things? ?
BY making more wheat sell for a dol
lar, more corn for a dollar more oats
for dollar, more potatoes for a dollar,
more of the products of toll exchanging
for a given amount of money. 1t is a
good thing for the man who owns
money and buys property, but it is a
mighty bad thing for the man who has
to pay money with the property that he
produces. (Applause)
How does the gold Standard affect
you? You make your implements and
you sell them to the farmer. Suppose
the farmer finds his taxes do not go
down, his interest does not go down, his
debts do not go down, but the price of
all that he sells goes down. What does
it mean? 1T means that he has a less
and less amount to expend on agricult-
ural implements, and on the support Of
his family. (Cheers.) If you sell him
agricultural implements he promises to
pay you, and the legislation destroys
his ability TO pay. then you find fault
because you have to take your imple-
ments back and sell them second hand
to somebody else. (Cheers.) That is
the effect Of legislation.
Our opponent is trying to throw
upon Providence the faults for our con-
ditions If farmer complains that he
is not making much out of his potato
crop, they tell him it is due to the po-
tato bug. IF he is not making much out
Of corn, they tell him it is due to the
chinZ bug. If he is not making much
cut Of wheat, they tell him it is due to
the army worm. But let me tell you
the gold bug is destroying more crops
than all of them. Great laughter)
The farmer is the most helpless VIC
tim Of circumstances of all the pro-
ducers of wealth. If a man is engaged
in manufacturing and finds the demand
is decreasing, he can close his factory
and stop the expense Of production, but
the farmer cannot. When he plants his
crop in the spring he does not know
whether there is going to be a flood or
not, whether it is going to be winds
or cold hail. He takes his chances, and
assert when he has taken more
oh 70 r.
wives all the pestilence and calamities
that visit the farmer 1t is not fair to
drive him between the bulls and bears
Of Wall street and let them take from
him what is left" daughter and ap-
plause.J
Mr.. Bryan found large audience at
Urbana who fiocked around the rear
platform of the candidates car and
cheered loudly. Mr.. Bryan was pre-
sented as the next President, and in
response he said that whether or not
this prediction would prove true would
depend to a great extent on what the
people about the car would do this
fall Mrs. Bryan was also introduced
to the gathering, and was given three
cheers as the train drew out
A large number of men, women. boys
and girls, bearing slips of yellow pa
per containing the inscription, "McKin-
ley Club were in the crowd of several
hundred at Bellefontain. But although
the Bryan contingent in the distance
seemed to be in the majority 1t had
plenty of enthusiasm, and with the as
sistance of a brass band succeeded in
making a great noise. This is what
Mr.. Bryan said
our opponents started out by saying
that they We're organized friends of BIZ
metallism, but we have driven them to
the not open but secret advocacy of the
gold standard, so that whenever we
come into town where there are any
Mckinley men they have the name
printed not upon white and yellow
paper, but upon yellow paper. Cap
nlause) We find that is evidence Of a
rev yellow color. 1t differs from the
old yellow fever, in that the yellow fever
killed the men that had it, while the
new ruins the people who do not have
the fever applause and cheering) I
am glad to see courage anywhere and
when l find man who believes that
this nation Is not great enough to gov
ern itself and must appeal to foreign
nations for aid, I am glad to have him