The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-09-26
BRYAN IN DELAWARE.
He Quotes Mckinley Against Nc
Kinley and Cities the Words
of Prince Bismarck.

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ent condition is satisfactory then We ought to
leave it alone and not make a change. No
one can advocate any kind of remedial iegls-
| lation except on the theory that there is some
/ thing that needs remedying.
Our opponents confess the condition, and
when | tell you that you cannot remedy the
present condition except by financial leglsla-
ton our opponents tell us that the trouble is
in the tariff question, and that if we could
| Just have more tariff then times would get
| good again.
Extract from a Mckinley Speech.
/ | want to read you an extract from speech
made last Saturday by the Republican eandi-
date for President at Canton. He said:
Under the Republican protective policy we en-
joyed for more than thirty years the most marvel
/ Gus prosperity that has ever been given to any
4 nation OF the world. We not only h individual
| prosperity, but we had national prosperity"
/ Now, there is Il statement made within
week by the presidential candidate on the
| Republican ticket, pointing back for thirty
years, from 1860 and 1890, and telling the
people that during that period we enjoyed
| the most marvellous prosperity of any nation
in the world, and that we had both individual
and national prosperity.
want to show you how distance lends
enchantment to the view. | want to show
YOU BY this same Witness testimony given
six years ago that after thirty years of this
| kind of policy the farmers of this country
were not prosperous.
If YOU will take the report filed with the
| Mckinley bill on the 10th of April, 1890, you
will find the words which ! wish to quote:
That there is widespread depression in this
industry today cannot be doubted, speaking
of agriculture. That is what the presidential
| candidate said when he deliberately wrote the
report and filed it with his proposed legisla
= .fa-r aaI dam i'm
in this industry today cannot be doubted.
! Applause Again, in that same report he
said:
Zone of the chief complaints now prevalent
among farmers is that they can get no price for
their crops at all commensurate with the labor and
| capital invested in their production.
That is what he said after 80 years of the
kind of policy which the candidate Of the Re
publican party says will bring you prosperity.
! Let me read again:
I'VE have not believed hat our people, already
suffering from low prices, can or Will be satisfied
with legislation which Will result in lower prices
No country ever suffered when prices were fairly
remunerative in every field of labor :,
After thirty years OF that KIND OF poiicy he
tells you that the people are suffering from
low prices and that no country ever suffered
when prices were fairly remunerative IN every
] field of labor Now. let me read you again
what he says of agriculture III this same report:
This great industry is foremost in magnitude
| and Importance in our country. us success anu
prosperity are vital 10 the nation no prosperity Is
possible to other industries ifagriculture anguish
That is what he said in 1890. that there was
depression in agriculture after thirty years of
his tariff policy and that without prosperity in
agriculture there could be no prosperity among
the other industries of the country.
| Let me read you Just one more extract:
THE depression in agriculture is not confined to
the United States The representatives oil Inc Agrl-
cultural Department indicate that this distress Is
| general: that Great Britain, France ana Germany
are suffering in larger degree than the farmers OIL
the United States
There he is telling us that there isa depres
sion in agriculture and giving the names of
three prominent agricultural nations OF the
Old World and telling us that agricultural
depression is even more marked over there
than il is here. want you TO remember that
fact when you read in the paper that he sand
that for thirty years we had such marvellous
prosperity in this country. Great applause.
Quoting Bisn,areIt's letter.
Now. my friends, have told you that he
said there was depression in agriculture in
| Germany ] want to read you what Prince
Bismarck saws about the condition of affairs
i'll Germany.
Our opponents are in the habit of telling us
| that all the civilized nations are in favor of
the gold standard. The Germans who live
in this country point with just pride to the
greatness of that illustrious German, Prince
| Bismarck Let me read you what he SAID
within a few weeks in regard to bimetallism,
and then see whether he testifes that the
gold standard has been a good thing for Ger
many. (Applanse.
In - letter written to Governor Culberson,
of Texas and dated on the 9th of August,
1896 Prince Bismarck says
Your esteemed favor of July has been duly re-
ceived. / have always had prediction for BIZ
! in fhaa ia i'm
my views of the matter 10 be infallibly true when
advanced against the views OF experts. | hold to
this very hour that il would be advisable to bring
about between the nations chiefly engaged in the
| worlds commerce mutual agreement in favor of
the establishment OF bilnetallisin Considered from
II commercial and industrial standpoint the United
States freer by far i'll their movements than any
nation in Europe. and hence if the people OF the
United States should find 1t compatible with their
interests to take pendent action in the direction
of bimetalism cannot but believe that such action
would exert most silutary influence upon the
consummation OF international agreement, and the
coming into this league of every European nation.
We have those among our people who have
said that some other nation must take the
lead Prince Bismarck says the people of
the United States are freer by far in their
movements than the nations of Europe. Can
it be that this great German statesman has
higher conception of the abilities of the peo-
pie of the United States than the Tories who
are not willing to do anything until they ask
the consent of other nations? Great applause
and cheering.
Not only does Prince Bismarck say we are
freer to take action than other nations but he
says if we act it will exert most salutary in
fuence upon the consummation of interna-
tional agreement and the coming into this
league of every European nation. Prince
Bismarck testifes, first, that the gold stand
ard is the policy in Germany and he wants
bimetallism restored. He testifes, second,
that the United States are in the best position
of all the countries to take the lead. He tes-
titles, third, that if this nation takes the lead,
it will have a salutary influence, not in pre-
venting bimetallism, but in bringing other
nations of Europe into an international agree
ment. | desire that you shall remember this
testimony, coming from so distinguished an
authority in Germany.
bismarck as an ..AgitatOr.-
Our opponents tell us that we are arraying
one class against another. Let me show you
what Prince Bismarck said in regard to classes
on the questions which concern agricultural
depression.
A little more than year ago he was quoted
as saying 10 a farmer audience in Germany
that the farmers must stand together and pro-
tect themselves from the drones of society who
produce nothing but laws. Remember the
significance of those words-that the farmers
should stand together and protect themselves
from the drones of society who produce moth
ing but laws. Great applause.
My friends, divide society into two classes;
on the one side put the non-prodrcers and on
the other side put the producers of wealth,
and you will find that in this country the
majority of the laws are made by the nom
producers instead of the producers of wealth.
Just as long as the non-producers make the
laws, just SO long ii will be more profitable
to be producer of wealth.
Bismarck tried to arouse the farmers of
Germany to throw out these drones and take
charge of legislation themselves. | suppose
they will call Bismarck an agitator. Laugh
ter and applause. suppose they will say
that he orght not TO array one class of society
anainsf another