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instructed by the heads Of insurance com
panies? (Applause) Remember these in
surance companies receive premiums far
more than they pay out on losses and, there
fore, a dollar which grows larger all the
time is OF more benefit to the insurance
company than it Is to the policy holder. II
these insurance companies presidents think
the people can be deceived by this pretense
OF unselhshness-on their part. they have a
lower opinion OF the intelligence of the peo-
pie than they ought to have. The people
know the presidents OF these companies are
more interested in their fixed salaries than
in preventing the policy holders from suffer-
ing from the free coinage Of silver. Jap
plause) Another thing, the people know
these insurance companies have a greater
objection to the Chicago platform than
they have stated in their opposition to free
coinage. DO you know why these insurance
companies are so much opposed to the Chi
cagO platform? | will give you one reason.
The Chicago platform expresses a desire
for an income tax, and these insurance COM
panies claim the protection of the govern
ment and are not willing to pay taxes TO
support the government who protects them.
(Applausc.) They secure large incomes; they
prosper much; they go into the Unitsd
States courts and seek their protection and
then they want to turn over to the less for
tunate all the burdens of supporting the
government. n presidents Of these insur-
anCe companies would assume the RESPONSE
bility that belongs to them and consent to
pay their just share of the taxes of this
government they would be more respected
by the common people" Applause)
The nominee quoted from a speech made
by Senator Sherman on January %, 1871. in
defense of an income tax, after which he
spoke of the Indifference OF eastern money
lenders to the struggle of the farmers of
the far west to raise the mortgages hanging
over them.
TNTIIITCI ACN At
The most enthusiastic reception of the
day was that accorded by the citizens of
Bridgeport. When the train rolled into the
station a number of carriages were in wait
ing. Mr.. Bryan and his party were taken
to Washington park in the heart of the
city, where Mr.. Bryan spoke to a crowd of
several thousands. The meeting was pre-
sided over by Judge D.. II. Lockwood of
Bridgeport. After the speech Mr.. Bryan was
driven to the Windsor hotel, where he par
took of a light luncheon. At 1880 the
party LETT for New Haven.
In his Washington park speech Mr..
BRYAN said: I'VE have not raised a sec
tional question. The restoration of BIZ
metalltsm is good not for the west and
south only; it is good for the people of Con-
necticut also. (Applause) The gold stand
ard is a fraud (applause) and is as detri-
mental to the masses of the peo-
pie of Connecticut as it is to the
masses everywhere. Sometimes they have
accused people who live in Connecticut of
making wooden nutmegs and selling them
for the real article. | want to tell you that
a man who palms off a wooden nutmeg as a
real nutmeg is a man Of honesty compared
with the man who advocates a gold dollar
and calls it an honest dollar. (Great APP
plause.) The gold dollar is not an honest
dollar, and the reason why our opponents
insist on using the phrase honest money
instead of gold money is because they reCog-
MIA tho 5;ffarppra bptwepn an honest dollar
and a gold dollar. When they talk about
honest money and then a gold standard at
the same time they remind me of a man who
went to a cemetery and saw an inscription
on a monument: Here lies a lawyer and an
honest man. 0Laughter) And the man who
read the inscription remarked that the grave
did not look big enough for two men.
Gaughter) 1 don't speak of this to SANDER
the lawyer. I am a lawyer myself. Jap
plause.) And | believe that a lawyer can be
an honest man. but l speak of it, my friends,
to show you, or to m rather, upon
the fact that you cannot have honest money
| and a gold standard at the same time"
A voice, "Why?'
Mr.. Bryan: Because the gold dollar under
a gold standard grows fatter every day, and
that is not an honest dollar. Great APP
plause.) Now, what would be an honest dol
lar? why, they say a dollar that when you
melt it loses nothing. According to that
the Mexican dollar is an honest dollar, be-
cause you can melt 1t ana IL does not lose
anything.
4 voice: "How much is it worth?"
Mr.. Bryan: at is worth just the same as
the bullion is worth. Now, if the Mexican
dollar is worth just as much as the bullion
in it and the bullion in 1t is worth Just as
much as the Mexican dollar, / want to ask
If it is not an honest dollar, according to
those who say that an honest dollar is a
dollar that loses nothing by melting? (Ap-
plause.) A Mexican dollar is worth about
50 cents in our money. An American dollar
will buy about two Mexican dollars, and
also about two bushels of wheat at the
same time. (Applause) There was a time
when an American dollar would buy only
one Mexican dollar, and then an American
dollar would only buy one bushel of wheat.
If tho time ever comes when an American
dollar will buy three Mexican dollars, then
it will buy three bushels. You can make
dollars as dear as you want them. The
only question is how dear do you want
them to be? (Applause.)
FREE SILVER AND SEWING MACHINES.
This is a manufacturing city. You man
~ufacture sewing machines here. My friends,
let me ask you how you are going to in
crease the output of your sewing machine
! factories? Are you going to make 1t so that
only a few people can afford to use sewing
machines, or do you want the people pros
porous, so every wife can have a sewing
machine? Under the gold standard the few
people may have sewing machines and the
masses of the people cannot. (Applause)
We want TO bring prosperity to this nation
by commencing at the bottom of the masses
of the people and then prosperity will find
its way up TO all the other classes of society.
l understand that some of your employers
are very much worried for fear their en-
ployes will only get 50-cent dollors. Tney
need not be worried. If they have as much
love for the laboring man after the election
as they have now, even If free coinage means
Il 5O-cent dollar, they could pay their labor
ing man twice as many dollars and save
them from any harm done them. (Applause)
You say they won't do it? If they won't
help you when they have q chance to, why
do you believe them when they tell you
they're losing sleep at night now for fear
you will hurt yourself? Applause) EN-
ployers do not pay wages because
they like to; they pay wages be-
cause they have to, and when
there Is a greater demand for labor, there
will be a better price paid to labor than
there will be when two men are looking for
the same job. (Applause) The gold stand
ard destroys the opportunity to work; the
gold standard makes men work half time
because there Is nobody able to buy the
products Of the factories and the farmer
Is not able to sell his crops for enough to
pay taxes and interest. How is he going
to buy these things, which he needs, my
friends? Tho farmers of this country pro-
duce as much as they ever did and every
year finds them less able to buy those things