Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1896-08-15

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81 believe that the toiling masses OF
this country-those who have acnleVed
and who must achieve greatness-are
willing TO risk their all and rise ana
fall with it; and to them we can app I'll
in this campaign with a confident asshr-
ance that when the vote Is counted, an
enormous majority of the American peo-
ple will declare for an American system
of finances for the American people, ad-
ministered by Americans" cloud cheer
ing)
Continuing, Bryan said:
"NoW. my friends, we are not teach
ing a new doctrine, we are not preaching
a new idea. We are simply asserting that
the principles that underhe this ques-
ton apply to conditions as they are, ana
that you can find out what ought to be
done as your governor proposed. Inc
proposition is contained in the declaration
of independence, and by the provisions
of the legislation which are based upon
that declaration. That is all we ask. We
simply mean this that when we go 10
legisate, the government shall know 10
distinctions, that there shall be known
by the government no difference between
men because of position in society, or .Je-
cause OF the manner in which they Wof-
ship God. That is the substance of that
declaration. That is the substance OF the
constitution, and those principles must
underlie our government while it con-
tinues on this platform. You, as citizens
have a right to speak upon this subject
[ care not what your past party conncc-
tons may have been. The party is but
an instrument by which the citizen serves
his country; you tell me that you owe
something TO your party; | say your party
owes a higher duty to you than you can
owe to it. | would not say one word that
would lessen the esteem which any one
of YOU have for the achievements of the
party to which you belonged but [ say
that such parties can't live upon the past
Parties must be prepared 10 meet every
issue as it arises, and the party that
does not care enough to met an issue IS
not good enough to govern the United
States Parties do not make issues. Is
sues make and unmake parties.
can issue has arisen. 1t will be forced
upon the people For 20 years it has been
growing. and during the last six years
IFS growth has been more rapid than in
was presented to the American peop'e.
The republican party met in convention.
It had it's opportunity when Lincoln
came. He was the idol of the republican
party. The party was willing to meet
the issues of the day. The republican
party at St Louis was not willing TO
meet the great issues of the day. The
people are suffering from the gold stand
ard, and the leaders of that party know
it. In the platform they declared the
gold standard is bad thing, because
they said they wanted to get rid Of it as
soon as they could. If any republican
tells you that the gold standard is
good thing, tell him to look at his plat
form. His platform says that the repub-
lican party will substitute bimetalhsm
for gold monometallism whenever some
other nation will help us TO do it. l have
said and l expect to keep on saying,
that there are two questions that will
drive the republicans from the field. The
first is, if the gold standard is a good
thing, why not keep ii? If it is a bad
thing, why should we keep it? If it is a
good thing, why try to get other nations
to help us? Who dares to say that the
people of this country shall suffer from
bad thing? Now, my friends, did not
intend to make a speech. 1 must stop
now"
CA voice-Tell us about 16 to ~ Mr..
Bryan-"There are several definitions Of
1G to /. I will give you some of them.
Some think that Is to l means that the
government will coin 16 silver dollars ev-
cry time 1t coins one gold dollar. Some
think it means that the government will
give 16 silver dollars for every gold dol
Lar. 1t does not mean that Some think
that it means that under free coinage
il will he as eaSv To get 16 dollars as il