The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-18

higher education of their children in order
that the children might begin the battle
of life with greater advantages than their
parents. but who have been compelled to
keep the children at home in order TO keep
the wolf from the door, you would under
stand what the gold standard means. 1t
means a lower order of civilization and, If
continued we will sink down where the
few own all the wealth and the many are
simply dependent tenants. Our opponents
try to divide the toiling masses and set
the laboring men in opposition to the
farmer. / warn laborers not to desert the
farmers who have been the friends of labor
in every struggle to better their condition.
The very people who to-day are attempting
to use laboring men TO defeat the farmers
in their just cause are the same people
who have oppressed labor from the begin
ming of the world and will do so again the
moment they have an opportunity cap
plauSe.)
At Lexington Mr. Bryan spoke for three
minutes too large crowd, but advanced no
--o ' AT GREENSBORO.
At Greensboro five bands a hundred
equestrians and great crowd greeted Mr..
Bryan. The party dined there and as soon
as the meal was over Mr.. Bryan spoke
from an deliberately decorated stand near
Washington street. THE Democratic
party" said Mr.. Bryan, has taken a posi-
ton against the issues Of bonds in time
of peace and against the traff1icking with
syndicates which save the Nation at so
much per save from the extremites in
which they themselves have placed the
government for the purpose of saving it
again at a high price. Our opponents go
upon the theory that these syndicates are
able to bleed the people without the peo-
pie knowing it, at least they think before
the people find it out the syndicates will
have made so much they won't care to
make any more.
Mr.. Bryan went into a statement regard
ing the bond contracts and continuing,
said: Every lover of his country ought
to feel Inundated that any administration,
no matter what its name. should hire any
syndicate of bankers, foreign or domestic,
to protect a treasury which seventy mill
lions of people stand ready to protect with
out asking for q reward They tell us it
is necessary to make these contracts. /
deny it. If our Treasury Department were
run In the interest of all the people instead
of being managed by Wall-street financiers
in their interests it would not be neces-
sary to make these humiliating contracts.
(ApplauSe.)
Our opponents are afraid if the Chicago
tidslet succeeds law will not be enforced
and order viii not be preserved. That is
what they say, but that IS not what they
fear. They know if the Chicago ticket is
elected that the laws will not only be en-
forced against the little people who trans
gress, but against the big ones who con-
spire against the Nation
Mr.. Bryan referred to the Mexican dol
lar. SO-called object lesson. and spoke at
some length to prove that the theory in
tended to he proven by it was fallacious
and misleading: THE great bankers seem
support gold standard, yet there is no
reason why the Western and Southern
bankers should be in favor of it. If our
bankers in the West and South would think
for themselves instead of taking the opin-
ions ready made from bankers in New
York, who import them from London we
would have more free-silver bankers"
In conclusion Mr.. Bryan said: II am not
acquainted with local matters in your
State You have differences among you
over these issues. But I beg of YOU that
you Will let nothing prevent the consolda-
ton of all those who believe in the money
OF the Constitution. (Applause) I trust you
VIII allow no personal differences or local
matters to prevent you casting the solid
and united vote not only for presidential
will give a President a chance to vote for
a tree coinage law" (Applause.)
AFTER leaving Greensboro there were
snort stops at Burlington and HilIsboro
Where MI Bryan spoke very briefly to the
rev hundred people gathered about the de-
potS- At Durham. the next stop Mr. BRYAN
spoke from platform at the depot and
said, IN part: The price of silver depends
on supply and demand, and no matter how
much the production fails if the supply
does not Increase as rapidly as the demand
for 1t the price of it will rise They tell
you that you cannot legislate two metals
together because Oh their varying prod,1c-
tons but they forget that when the gov
eminent stands ready to take all the gold
for a certain price and all the silver at a
certain price and convert these metals into
immaterial whether you produce one ounce
of one or one of the other or reverse the
There cannot be a change af-
fected in the ratio until the government
fails in ability to consume ra Their to
take and utilize all of both presented"