The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-29
BRYAN'S SPEECH
In CONNECTICUT
The Boy Orator Answers Voice from
the Crowd.
OLD TEAPOTS CAN BE MELTED
Silverwnrc, william Admits, May Be
Cast Into Dollars. but the Ware will
he More Valuable Than Dollars
Under Free COinage..B Bismarck
Quoted.

Quoted.
New London. Conn. Sept. 2S.-Mr.
Bryan in his speech here today SAID:
Ladies and gentlemen: Today 1
leave Connecticut. / have been through
the several New England states, ana
only one. l believe. l have not been
able to visit. ] came to New England
to preach the cause and to defend the
principles for which | stand at TINS
time. (Applause.)
II came here because there Is no part
of this country where those VINO au-
vocate free coinage are unwilling 10
present their cause. There Is no part
of this country which Is excluded from
the benefits of bimetallism, there Is no
part of this country which we are Will
ing to concede to the gold standard.
(Applause and cheerSO There Is no
state in this Union which Will be ben-
efitted by the maintenance OF the pres
ent financial policy and If In some por-
tions of the Union the silver sentiment
Is not as strong as in other portions
1t Is because those portions where the
silver sentiment Is weakest are the por-
tions where there has been the least
agitation and discussion and study OF
the money question. (ApplauSe anu
cries Of you're right.o
Some of the Republican platforms
of the eastern states have not only
declared against silver. but have ae,
c,ared against agitation. When l find
a man who is opposed to the discus
sion of a public question l find q man
who would feel more at home under
monarchy than he would in a re-
public (ADplause.) Agitation Is noth-
ing but discussion. (Applause ana cries
of that's SOD, and discussion Is the
only means by which the people can
find out what is best and remedy q
wrong. (Applause.l
"You have condition.; agitation fol-
lows as consequence, reform comes
as q conclusion, and that Is the only
way that agitation can be stopped, my
friends. (Great applause.)
They have interiected into the body
polite foreign financial system and
there is agitation, and there will be
agitation until YOU remove it.
SHOT AT THE BANKERS.
Continuing. Mr.. Bryan said: Il
want to lay down this proposition that
when you borrow money of bank the
banker has no business interfering
with your political rights and the
banker that does 1t ought not to be per-
mitted to engage in the banking busi-
ness. (Applause.) Is there banker
who will dispute that? If there Is,
then he must be a man who believes
that the right to vote goes not with
the citizens. but with the money lend
er, and the man who asserts that, as
serts that this Is not democracy. not
a republic. but a plutocracy, in which
money nd not brains or heart. rule in
this fy. (Great applause)
-r. r"Where will we be when we
klver?"
n-"Are you in favor of a
vi am"
tTell me why"
Because l believe 1t is
hntry. Every nation will
}dollar for dollar.
<"Why? I will tell you.
Tits value. The reason why
dollar and gold bullion are
The same is because the law
that you can convert that bullion
the dollar at the mint"
|e Voice-"Well how about slver?"
h. Bryan-"When the laws are so,
Ter the free coinage of silver that
holder of silver bullion can convert
silver bullion into dollars at the
INIT, that will fix mint price for
flver then. as We have a mint price
for gold now, and the silver dollars
will be worth as much abroad as our
gold dollars. (Great applause and
cheering) Now, my friends. do not
object to having questions asked, be-
cause If / am wrong on this question
there Is nobody more anxious to find
1t out than ! am. But IL I am right
and my friend is wrong hope he will
be as anxious to get right as | am.
Wreat applause.) Questions do not
hurt. my friends. We are glad to an
swer questions. because there is not a
question that can he asked by an ad-
vocate of the gold standard that can
not be answered by advocates of free
coinage (Applause and cries of
why don't Mckinley come. out and
answer some of them")
n Voice-"PeOple here have an i'm
preston that when the free coinage of
silver Is brought into effect they can
take their silver teapots and coin them
into money"
TEAPOTS CAN BE MELTED.
MIR. Bryan-"The gentleman SAYS that
the people have the impression here
that under free coinage. the people can
take silver teapots and their silverware
and have 1t converted into money, II
Is true. that under free coinage any
man can melt W. a dollar and a half's
worth of spoons and have the silver
coined into one dollar and twenty-nine
cents, If you have a man who is fool
enough to do 1t. (Great applause).
Now, why will people refuse to melt
up their silver plate? Because it will
be worth more as silver plate than II
Will be worth as silver dollars under
free coinage. (Applause.) And, nv
friends. you can depend upon it thai
people will not do things which are go
ing to hurt them If they know It. That
Is one of the things that you can base
your reasoning upon. and in that con-
nection I frequently have people ask
me: Would not it be possible for a
man to buy silver at So cents and have
1t coined into dollar and make the
difference?" daughter and a voice
"who is going to sell it").
The gentleman asks the question
which shows that he understands it
He says who would sell it? Now, wher
you cannot coin silver, you can buy fol
5S cents the silver that is in a dollar
but when you can have that silver
coined for dollar then you cannot fine
anybody who will sell you that silver
for So cents. (Applause). Now, m,
friends. ! want the business men t(
get into their heads this one PROPOSE.
ton. and without knowing that propo.
sition without understanding 1t, the,
cannot expect to reach a corerct con.
clnsion OF the money question.
MIR. Blaine in 1878, said that the de-
struction of silver as money and tn,
establishment of gold as the sole unit