The herald., 1896-10-06

ity of your great cities depends upo
ers Of this country. Down goes ths
value of cotton when you drive up til,
value of gold. Talk about dollar that
is as good as any dollar in the world. If
you want cotton at least brought to
be as good as Is used to be before gold
got out of reach, restore prosperity to
the cities and to the laboring man wEo
will then be employed in manufactur-
ing things for the farmers who will then
have the money to buy what they need.
I find that as I go about there are
great many bankers who support the
gold standard. My friends, don't
know why a banker in Memphis should
be interested in driving down the value
Of the farm products of those who do
business with him, and if you want to
know. the explanation of that condi-
ton, can give it. will say this, t.ial
when yoN have found a man who has
been SO busy handling money as not
to have had time to study the science
of f1nanciering, 1 will show you the
great controlling force among the bank
ers of the west and south. 4it
They get their news from New York
and instructions from Wall street, and
the bankers of Wall street get theirs
from London, and your bankers here
set UP and call themselves patriots
while they bow to foreign dictation.
Now, my friends, 1 ask you not to be
dismayed at the forces arrayed against
us.
Not a man in this campaign who ad-
vocates free coinage has been more bit
terly assailed than Jefferson was when
he started out to organize the Demo-
cratic party. (Appiause) Not man
in this campaign has been more bitterly
assailed than Jackson was when he was
fighting the same Kind of combina-
tions which we are fighting today. The
battle of Democracy today Is the bat
tie that Democracy has ever fought. 1t
is the cause Of the people, the cause of
the great mass Of people as arrayed
against those who seek special privi-
leges and who attempt to fasten their
hold upon the government by an enor-
nous campaign fund with the hope of
getting back more after the election.
(Great applause.) Against corrup-
ton fund unparalleled in the history of
this country we simply oppose a people,
defenseless except for that defense
which every citizen has when he is
fighting in the cause of truth and JUS
tice. When person relies most upon
the justice of his cause he Is then
stronger than he is at any other time.
(Applause.) We also have to face in
timidation. But, my friends, we have
always had to face intimidation. Those
whom we fight today have used intim-
idation as their weapons at all times.
But in this country we find that as the
people become more intelligent, as they
come more and more to realize the JUS
tice of free government and liberty, the
attempt to intimidate simply reacts.
and men who were not aroused before
become aroused now because they real
ize that they have departed from their
custom. Our opponents simply deny
the right of men to use their ballots as
they please. (Applause.) Intimidation
today is having just the opposite effect
from what was intended.
Mr.. Bryan was Immediately taken to
the Louisville and Nashville depot when
he had finished his speech. There were
hundreds Of people gathered about the
station to see him off, and when he made
his way to the car he was repeatedly
ckeered. The first stop was at Arlington,
and Mr.. Bryan shook hands with few
Of the hundreds Of people who assembled
et the depot,