The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-18

fails in it's ability to consume, or rather |
to take and utilize, all OF both presented"
SHOWS UP THE REPUBLICANS.
Raleigh, n. c., Sept. 17-This city, like |
all the rest through which the candidate |
passed, drew from the surrounding coun- |
try in order to augment the crowds to |
meet Mr.. Bryan.
Mr.. Bryan's admirers cheered him en- |
Enthusiastically when he appeared on the |
platform. Mr.. Bryan was introduced by |
H. w. Ayers, nominee for State auditor |
on the Populist ticket Mr.. Bryan said |
in part: ~
Ladies' and Gentlemen: am informed |
that the Republican national committee |
has sent out circulars to various religious |
papers and organizations calling attention
to danger which they say threatens
these religious organizations if we have
the free coinage of silver. / want you to
remember that the Republican party and
the Republican speakers and the Republi-
can candidates, most of all these have de-
nounced the Democratic party with trying
to array class against class. 1 want to
say to you that the Republican party is
doing more in this country to-day to ar
ray class against class than any pa ty
that ever existed in the United States.
(Applause.) The Republican party is APP
pealing to every class, or nearly every
class, and attempting to array that
class against others. They appeal to the
laboring man and tell him that the gold
standard gives him a higher priced dollar
for his wages without etfecting him; that
| it also makes it impossible for very
| large number of men who want to labor
| to get n chance to earn one of these high
priced dollar. tApplause) Out in our
| State the Republican committee of one of
| the counties appealed to the school teach
ers, trying to show them that the gold
| standard was Il good thing for them,
| thereby trying to set the school teachers
| against the rest of the people, and now
they have appealed to the church organi-
cations and church papers and ARE now
trying to array them against the free
coinage of silver. Well, could stand any
| appeal made by the advocates of the gold
| standard &c almost any class better than
an appeal made to the preachers and
teachers of religion. If there is one thing
that the church people of this country
could afford to array themselves against
1t is the gold standard rs it is being advo-
Gated by the American people at this'time
| (Applause.) And yet the Republican
party is appealing to church people to
take their place upon the side of the gold
standard. How things have changed in
the last 1900 years. Look Mt the people
1
| propaganda i'll the United States. Look
at the BODYBUILDING class and the money
changers classes, the brokering classes of
New York, who are trying to fasten n
| gold.standard.u upon the people of this coun-
! try, not openly, but secretly, and in dis
guise, and then turn back eighteen hun.
dred years when the meek and lowly Sa-
vlour threw the same kind Of people out
of his temple because they had made his
house den of thieves great applause),
and think these people come and appeal
to the ministers of the Gospel and the
church.papers to.save then, from, thewrath
to come daughter and applause.) My
friends, when certain ministers of the
| Gospel denounce the great mass of the
people who stand behind free coinage,
when these ministers have denounced
these advocates of free coinage and have
taken their places upon the side of these
great aSSregations of wealth. I remind
them that when the Saviour was here it
was the common people who heard Him
| gladly, the very same people whom these
ministers to-day call anarchists and So
cialists. Great applause.) My friends,
when iind-there are not many of them,
| but they are quite conspicuous-when |
| find these men casting their lot upon that
| side and eNhausting abusive language in
their description of the great masses of
the people of this country, feel like say
ing to them that if they will take their
chances with Dives, will risk my chances
with Lazarus. Great applause.) This
money question is Il question which con-
Germs every one of you, and you have the
right to consider what has been done and
what will be done and decide whether YOU
want to support the present financial
policy or not.
when prices are falling and money is
rising man can better afford to lock his
money up in a vault and gain the rise
than invest his money in property and
risk loss in the value of the property.
You are making the property not worth
having and everybody is trying to turn
property into money. And while the gold
standard lasts that condition must remain
and times must be hard, and hard times
mean more idle men, and more idle men
mean more destitute men, and mole des-
| titute men mean ut last more criminals,
and yet the gold standard men appeal
| to the ministry to increase crimes
| Great applause and cheerng.)
SLEPT ON \ SIDING.
Goldsboro n. c., Sept. f7.-Candidate