Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-12
WOULD DESTROY SILVER.
MR.. BRYAN MAKES PLAIN THE OP-
JEOT OF TIE GoLDBUGs,

They Would Compel This and Other
Countries tc Turn From tho Use of
Siiver-A Scheme to Corner The
Worlds Money and Enslave Men.
Thirty thousand people is conser.
vative estimate of the solid acres of
humanity gathered in High School
Square, Toledo, last evening to hear
MIR. Bryan deliver campaign ad-
dress. Forty thousand would proba-
bly, be nearer the correct figure. The
audience was very enthusiastic, and at
times its cheers became q deafenino
up-oar. Mr.. Bryan was introduced by
Judge Lennon, and spoke, in part, as
follows:
Ladies and gentlemen: AsI look
over this vast audience, which is meas
ured by the acre rather than by the
head, L am led to regret that the sill
yer craze is dying out. Great ap-
plause and laughter.) If this is what
the people do when the silver senti-
ment is on the wane, what are they 60
ing to do when the sentiment begins
to increase?
"Between gold standard and BIZ
metallism, whether that bimetallism
be independent or international tcries
OF independently there is an impassa-
BILE gulf. Those who believe in gold
standard cannot politically affiliate
with those WHO believe in bimetallism,
and those who believe in bimetallism
cannot for one hour remain in politi.
cal association with those who would
fasten gold standard upon tho hu.
man race.
upon the action of The United
States may depend the action of other
Nations upon the money question. II
the influences which are at WORK here
for the destroyal OF silver as stand
ard money succeed in this election,
and the influence of this Nation is cast
deliberately upon the success of gold,
you must remember that those same
influences will DO turned against
weaker Natiors, and Nation after Ma
tion will be driven from the use of sill
yer as standard money to the use of
gold alone, and every Nation that re-
joices in the demand for gold may
help to increase the purchasing power
of an ounce of gold, and every time
the purchasing power Of an ounce of
gold shall rise the prices of the pro-
ducts of human labor will fail lap
plause), because dear dollar is sim
ply another definition of cheap prop
erty.
ga dollar cannot buy more unless
property sells for less. If you think
you have hard times what would it be
II these same Influences succeeded in
driving India to gold standard, if
they should succeed in suspending the
free coinage OF silver in India? Wait
until they mako gold the standard in
India. Wait until those 250,000, 600
of people there reach out for their
share of the worlds supply of gold.
Where will they get it? They will get
it from the Nations which now have
it, and they will have less. Wait un-
til these influences have driven China
to gold standard and her $50, 600, 900
of people demand their share OF The
worlds supply OF gold. Where will
they get it? From the Nations which
now have it, and they will have still
less than they have now. Wait until
they hnve driven Japan and South
America and ali the other silver using
Nations to gold standard and then
what? Then you have n little chunk
of gold only Twenty-Five feet each way
when melted into cubes, and thnt lit
tie chunk of gold will measure all of
the property of the gold. applause J
You will then have something like
81, 900, 900, 900 of standard money in
stead of $S,000,000, 600, and those
$4,000, 900, 900 will be in shape where
the money can be cornered by the
great money owners OF the world, and
doled out to mankind at such prices
as the owners shall determine. TAP
plause.) That, my friends, is what
the gold standard means.
Suppose the people of this city
should derive their water supply from
one great spring that furnishes water
for all the neonle. and that one sprino
was controlled by one person, or few
persons, who acted in concert. What
would be the result? No matter how
hard times might be for all the rest of
the people those who own that spring
and furnish that water al what price
they would, would always get along
tolerably well in this world. Zap.
plause.)
81 believe that illustrates just what
will go on if the close crusade in favor
of gold continues to it's legitimate, its
natural, its logical conclusion. twill
mean that those who are able to con-
troll the supply of the gold OF the world
will be able to dictate terms TO the
rest; it will simply mean that while
the people are nominally free they
will simply be hewers OF wood and
drawers of water for those who control
the money supply of tho world" Zap
plause.)