The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-09-24

tlOn OF an international agreement ana
the coming into this league 0f every
European nation
You have those araong Your people
who have said some other nation must
take the lead. Prince Bismarck says
that the United States are freer.
Not only does Prince Bismarck say
that we are frcer to take action than
other nations, but he says if we act it
will exert Il most salutary Influence upon
the consummation of an International
agreement and will hasten it. The
| Germans want bimetallism restored. He
testifeS, secondly, that the United States
IS i'll the best position to take the lead.
He further testifes that if this nation
must lead, it will have Il salutary intlu-
encc in promoting bimctallism and bring
ing other nations of Europe into an inter
national agreement. | desire that YOU
shall remember this testimony. coming
from so distinguished an authority. Our
| opponents tell us that we are arraying
| one class against another. Lst me
show you what Prince Bismarck said in
| regard to class on questions which con
Germ great depression. 4 little more
than year ago he was quoted rs say
| ing to IL farmer audience in Germany
| that the farmers must stand together
ana protect themselves from the d"oncs
| of society, who produce nothing but laws
Remember the significance of those
| together and protect themselves from the
drones of society. who produce nothing
| but laws. Great applause.)
My friends divide society into two
! classes: on the one side put the nom
producers and on the other side put the
producers of wealth, and you will find
that in this country the ma jOrity of the
laws are made by the non-producers in
stead of the producers of wealth, and
Just as long as the non-producers make
the laws just so long will it be more
profitable to be II non-producer of
wealth. Bismarck tried to arouse the
farmers of Germany to throw out those
droncs and take charge of legislation
themselves.
Il suppose you will call Bismarck IN
agitator. daughter and applauseJ
suppose they will say that he ought not
to array one class of society against an
other. OF course | don't know how
drones feel in bee hive, but if drones
could talk and make speeches | will bet
that you couldn't tell one of their
speeches from the speech of II gold STAN
dard advocate. daughter and ap-
plause) L will venture to say that if
the drones could talk and make speeches !
You could not distinguish their talk from |
the speeches of the heads of the great |
trusts, who call everybody anarchists |
who will not deal with them. laugh |
could write and express his IDEAS III Ian
guage, there is no member of any syndi-
cate that has been beating this govern
ment but who could take the drone's
speech and use it as his own and without
being accused of plagiarism. Great APP
plause) My friends, that is the only
class issue that causes war. and if they
say the people who fight the nations
battles in time of war have a right to
do the legislating in time of peace, is
raising class against class, then l am
willing to be called an agitator my
friends. (Applause.) If to tell the pco
pie who produce the wealth that they
have right to make the laws so as to
secure to themselves Il just portion of
the wealth they produce, instead of al
lowing the drOnes to make he laws and
eat the honey. then | plead guilty to the
charge of stirring up discomfort. Great
applause)
Il will bet you that if the drones
were in politics that party lines wouldn't
weigh very much with him if he had
business interest on the other side. |
Great applause) You show me the
head of Il syndicate or trust and | will |
show you Il man who, whenever his bust
ness interests become involved. grows |
suddenly patriotic and tells you that he
loves his country too much to let any |
body take more money out by legislation
than he does. lApplause) You read in
the gold standard papers how they
parade in great big headlines every
time Il democrat leaves the democratic |
party, but there is not one of them tell
ing the real reason why they leave. They
say they are afraid the laws will not be
enforced. They are afraid that. they
will be enforced and the reason why
these men are willing to contribute
enormously to the campaign fund is be-
cause they know that if the Chicago
ticket succeeds the laws will he enforced
against them as well as against every
body else. Great applausc,) | will |
venture the assertion that not half the
men who are in favor of gold standard |
can tell what 16 to | means. They do
not understand even the terms which
are based in the discussion of the money
question. | will be willing to place the
avaragc farmer against the average
banker and turn them loose to discuss |
the monetary science and financial his
tory and the banker couldn't hold his
own with the farmer. Why Because |
the financicr thinks he Knows so much
that it is not necessary to study, while
the farmer has been suffering so much
that he is trying to find out what is the
matter with the farmer. The farmer
knows that 10y making money scarce he
makes money dear and property cheap.
(Applausc) My friends. our financial
legislation is run by those people who
have made more in an hour or two day !
gambling in stocks than all the farmers
in the Union could make producing their
crops. Great applausc.) You take. for
instance. where they can send large
amount of gold abroad and make stocks
drop and bring II large amount in and |
make stocks rise again. The people who
are able to corner this money are able
to get along fairly well, no matter how
other people may suffer lApplauseD
At the conclusion of his speech at
Dover Mr.. Bryan was driven to the
train and started for Wilmington.
At New Castle half hours stop was
made and he spoke to the crowd as
semblcd about the depot platform for a
few minutes.
DOUBLE DOSE FOR BROOKLYN:
Chicago. Sept. 21.-It was announced
at democratic national headquarters that
William j. Bryan will speak in Brooklyn
on Wednesday, September %. and also
on Monday. September %. The latter
date was vacant and as various labor or
of Brooklyn have urged that
Mr. Bryan address them, it has been de-
cided that he speak there ON both dates.
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