The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-23

mittee Mr.. Bryan went to luncheon.
At l.S0 p. m. Mr.. Bryan took car
riage and was driven TO the ferry
where he took boat for Washington
park. a resort on the New Jersey side
of the Delaware river below this city.
Arriving there Mr.. Bryan found large
crowd assembled in the grove. He was
escorted to the stand and introduced
by William j. Thompson, the owner of
the park and a prominent Democratic
politician. a burst of cheering greet
ed the nominee as he came forward
and he at once began to speak. Mr..
Bryan said:
WHAT BRYAN SAID.
A speaker went from Philadelphia to
Tennessee and told them the gold stand
ard was the best In the world, ana tnil
we had had 1t for twenty years. and when
he had got through a gentleman said
DO | understand you TO say that the gold
standard Is all right?'
Yes" he said
do | understand you TO say We have
had it for twenty years.
lie said: More than twenty years >,
Then he said: why aren't we all
If the gold standard is good thing
and we have had 1t these many years why
is it so many fail to appreciate its bless
ings? l will tell YOU, because its Dressings
il. (Applause.)
Lincoln was once asked what he thought
of n certain mans speech. He said: u
think a man who would like that sort OF
a speech would be pleased" daughter
That Ia the way with the gold standard.
A man who likes that sort of thing is
very much pleased with 1t, but the num-
her who like ii is growing less each day.
l met u prominent man yesterday who
said that until the Chicago convention act
ed on the subject he had never investi-
gated the money question ana never sup
posed there was anything in it; that the
papers did not seem to consider 1t worth
anything. They regarded 1t as Il craze, and
he did not have time as Il business man 10
pay any attention to crazes But when a
great national party adopted Il platform
making the money question the para
mount issue he began to think about II.
That was only few weeks ago. He got
to be crank. He said to me: IF we
don't win this fight 1t is going on until
We do win, and ! don't care how many
years it takes" (Applause)
PERSONAL HISTORY.
can appreciate the feeling of that man
/ went through the same experience my
self. Until six years ago | thought any
man who talked about money was a
harmless crank J did not listen to his
arguments. They had no weight with me.
Six years ago | began to study the ques-
tion, trying to find out what was right,
because ] was taught TO believe if a man
would ground himself on what was riSht
he could wait for other people to come to
him. I was taught to believe no man
could afford to be wrong no matter how
many he had in his company. | studied
the question. / read books on both sides
and compared them, and the more l read
the deeper became my CONJUNCTION until |
became so firmly of the opinion there
could be no prosperity in this country un-
til free silver was restored that | was
willing to risk all had or hoped to have
on the correctness of that conclusion
world (Applause)
Your people are producing manufactur-
ing products here largely. Where do you
get your consumers? Wipe out the farm
ing population and where will you sell the
goods you produce? You virtually wipe
out the farmers as consumers when you
drive down the price of their products, so
they only realize enough to pay taxes
and interest. tGreat applause) You have
many truck farmers. When they take
what they have to sell into town they
find the market is rather dull. and what
they get is small, compared with what
il used to be. Does it mean the people
of Philadelphia are not as hungry as they
ever were? ] venture the assertion thero
is more hunger today in Philadelphia than
there was i've years ago. Great ,ap-
plause) Is 1t because the people have lost
their taste for the good things which you
produce? No, there Is as much taste as
ever If they could get a change to try 1t
on something. CSreat laughter) How are
you going to increase your markets? BY
increasing the number OF people able to
buy what you produce. VIII you DO that
by making dollars dearer? No. dollars do
not eat. They devour great deal, but
they do not eat Laughter) How are
you going to create markets? BY increaS-
ing dollars in the hands of the few? No,
you have got to restore prosperity by
stopping the fall of prices. so men will
sell what they produce to get money to
buy what you produce. Applause)
ANY KIND OF MONEY
A silver man can almost Ike any kind
Of money. He is like the governor of Ten-
nessce. who was making speech. He
said he was not particular about The
money. He liked gold and silver and pa
per, and, in fact, little counterfeit would
not be objectionable Naughter( Now.
we don't care for any counterfeit, but
we are willing to take gold, or grcenback.f.
And we will take the greenbacks even II
the government exercises the right to re-
deem them in silver dollars instead OF
gold. ApplauseJ
When they tell you they want a dollar
the world they say they want property
as cheap here as it is anywhere in the
world. (Applause)
The gold standard newspapers think we
won't be able to get silver into circula-
ton If we had free coinage. | want to
tell you that they will be mighty glad TO
have subscriptions paid even in silver dol
lars, if these people who they have been
trying to destroy in the interests of for
eign capitalists will continue to take their
papers into their houses.
Bryan then quoted Prince Bismarck
as being in favor Of bimetallism and as
saying that the United States should
take the lead in adopting it. He con-
tinued:
Against this waiting policy with twenty
years of adverse experience behind il, We
offer an aggressive policy. by which the
cod Ctn4a ,x,.iIi lnD1 kp no net En
world to the restoration of gold and sill
yer as money. You say it Is American to
brag about what we can do. reply thai
it is English, you know. TO think we can't
do anything. UIaughterD We have
reached a great crisis and the question
presented to the American people is: Shall
the United States have a financial policy
of it's own, or must the people receive their
finances ready made from some foreign
land? tCries of no, never) 1t is ques-
tion upon which much will depend. / ask