The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-02
J0URNEYING TOWARD HIS HOME
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pie. If our opponents speak truly when
they describe what would in their iudg-
ment be the effect of free coinage. then
the success of the Chicago ticket would
certainly be n calamity to the country
If on the other hand, we speak the truth
when We describe to you the effects of II
gold standard until foreign nations come
to our belief, is an evil which cannot be
contemplated by those who love their
country. We have begun an unceasing
warfare against the gold standard The
Republican party, without declaring the
gold standard is Il good thing, has de
clared that the gold standard must be
maintained. | call your attention to the
fact that no party in the history of this
country has ever, in II national conven-
ton, commended the gold standard. It's
effects are so bad that no party has dared
to uphold it,
Here Mr.. Bryan went from the front
of the platform to the side, first excusing
himself to the audience in front as fol-
lows: Excuse me for one moment, and
perhaps by making them hear me on the
other side, l will be able to bring order
out of confusion. If you people here will
be rs still as you are now for II little
while will come back to you
Mr.. Bryan then spoke from the side of
the platform, saying
Il desire to impress upon your minds
the fact that the enemy we are fighting
in this campaign is an enemy which has
never gone into an open battle. The adj
vocates of the gold standard have never
dared To submit the gold standard to the
arbitrament of a ballot. Every step that
has been taken has been taken by stealth
and without the approval of the Ameri-
can people When silver was demone-
tiled in 1878, the people had not discus
sed and persons who were members of
Congress and who voted on the measure
testified they did not understand that
the bill demonetiZed silver. When the
crime was discovered and the American
people attempted to restore silver To- its
ancient place by the side of gold, the OPP
ponents of free coinage forced the Bland
act upon Congress as IL compromise, and
as soon as the Bland act went into force
the enemies of free silver proceeded to
rereal the Bland act and left nothing in
its place. But the silver sentiment grew
until 1890 and in that year the opponents
of free coinage being afraid of the passage
of a free coinage bill, secured another
compromise, which was known as the
sherman law.
In support of that measure, Sena-
tor Sherman made n speech, and in that
speech he said that we required more
TO keep pace with population and indus
try, and he advocated that measure on
the ground that it gave to the people
more money and yet, in his Recollectons,
published only Il few months ago, you
will find that Senator Sherman there
says that he was in favor of the Sherman
law simply to prevent free coinage and
that he was willing to vote for its repeal
the day after it was enacted if he could
prevent the substitution of free coinage.
There you will find the chief-the chief
supporters of the gold standard policy in
the United States, supporting bill be-
cause it gave money to the American
people and then declaring that he would
have voted for the repeal of it the very
next day"
Mr.. Bryan gave out his itinerary as
follows: He will leave Columbus at ?:15
tomorrow for Springfield, Ohio, where
he will address the citizens of Spring
field, and at II o'clock will take the train
for Urbana, Bellefontaine and Kenton.
He will speak from the car at the two
first places, and ut Kenton will stay an
hour and half At , O'Clock he leaves
for Toledo, by way of Finlay and Bowl
ing Green, arriving in Toledo at $50. At
Toledo there will be n night address, and
the next morning he will start for Elk
hart, Ind, through Southern Michigan.
He will address the ciuizens of Elkhart