The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-21

the money of the constitution; we
stand for the financial policy which
had the support of all the great men
of this nation of all parties until 1878;
and to-day | want to read the words Of
distinguished Republican-not
Western man. They tell you we are
raising a sectional question; that we
are trying to array the West and
South against the North and East.
Ny friends, we are simply trying 20
array those who love American liberty
against those who want foreign domi-
milton If | should quote you what
the Western man had said, you might
say that he lived too far West to un-
derstand finance. There are some pec-
pie who think that The only man who
can understand the money question is
the man who lives in New orSSCity,
and gets into the London fog thai set
ties down over Wall street.
THURLOW WEED FOR SILVER.
want to quote from Thurlow Weed.
You will find the language which /
quote on page 535 of the second volume
of the Life of Thurlow Weed" pub
l;shed by his grandson, Thurlow Weed
Barnes. Here is what Mr.. Weed said:
eve are stigmatized as silver infia-
tionists for asking the governments TO
re-estaiblish a financial basis under
which the country people We're pros
porous and happy for more than eight
years. This question, stripped Of soph-
istr,y and verbiage, presents naked
issued of capital against labor. Shy
locks. oveI-rapacious, are struggling
to keep up the rate of issuance. In
maintaining one standard--thus mar
rowing our specie basis one-half, they
strengthen and perpetuate their adj
yantages There has been, as there
ever must be between the thousands
Nho labor and the hundreds who en-
ioy the fruit of such labor, an 'irre-
pressible conflict But it is the duty
of the government to see that the faces
of those who labor are not held too
closely to the grindstone.'
In the next speech at the Opera
| House, Mr.. Bryan said:
CIVILIZATION ITSELF INVOLVED.
| / have in the discussion of the ques-
ton used language as emphatic as /
| could command TO show to the people
what the gold standard means. My
| friends I think that / have exhausted
| the powers of discussion in trying
| to describe what must be the result,
| not only to the people of this city, but
| to all mankind all over the world, if
| this system is to be chained to the
| people of the United States, if money
| is to be made the only thing desirable
| and all mankind must gather around
| the auction block and bid, lowering
| and lowering the prices of products of
| toll in order to get smaller and smaller
proportion of this one thing which
| many people seem to idolize, but /
come to call your attention to new
| danger. | have said that civilization
/ itself was involved in the settlement
| of this question. / believe what the
| historian says, that the dark ages
| came upon the world as the result of
a decreasing volume of the worlds
| money and | think can in the signs
| of the times, In legislation that makes
/ the rich richer and the poor poorer,
| see the entrance upon another period
| OF the dark ages, unless the manhood
/ and the womanhood of this nation rise
to take it from the grasp of those
who have so legislated that they
might rise above their fellowman.
Mr. Bryan was then presented with
| an immense basket of white and yell
low chrysanthemums in punches of
/ sixteen white ones to one yellow. The
/ presentation was made by two little
| girls dressed in white and yellow.
/ The last speech at Youngstown was
I delivered to 1abolsing men near the
| depot who had congregated there in
such numbers that the candidate could
not make his way from the platform
| to the carriage. He said that the posi-
ton taken by the railway magnates
! was not because of the Chicago plat
/ form declaring for free silver, but
| because of the declaration for arbi-
| tration and against government by
Injunction His remarks were enthu-
/ siastically received and he was often
! stopped in his speech by the demon
strations of approval of his audience.
STOPS IN MKINLEY'S COUNTY.
The next stop was in the county in
which resides the Republican nomi-
| nee 1t fas at Alliance and there sew
| era1 thousand people listened to the
d. Democratic candidate for twenty min
| utes. 1t was an appreciative crowd
and appEauded the speaker often. The
| speech was a working mans speech
| and was delivered TO an audience COM
| posed for the most part of work
ing men. There was another good
crowd at Ravenna, when Mr.. Bryan
| received another enthusiastic demon
| stration4
At Kent there was a repetition of
the ~7-oxx7d at R4yauua