The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-03

DhRc ~ uO tlllltTcuCe WneUnef his
voice was hoarse or not by making more
speeches than he has for several DAYS. He
made long speeches at Springfield, Ken
ton and Findlay, and to- night made two
more in this city The party left Column
bus at S:15 this morning and arrived at
Springfield at 1870, where the nominee
made twentyminute talk. The next
stop of any consequence was made at
kenton, where Mr., Bryan addressed 900
citizens of that county
The address was made in the park of
the little city and was we'll received. The
crowd was made up mostly of farmers,
who cheered the utterances of the nom.
inee heartily.
HIS SPRINGFIELD SPEECH.
Springfield, o., Sept. Twenty thou
sand people greeted Mr.. Bryan at Spring
field and cheered him from the time he
left his train until the police finally
fought way for him to the train bearing
him to Toledo.
Mr.. Bryan said:
Ladies' and Gentlemen: For a few
moments only l shall occupy your atten-
ton because large portion of my voice
has been left along the line of travel,
where it is still calling sinners to repent
ance. Great laughter.) l am told that
In this city you manufacture more agri-
cultural implements than are manufac-
tured in any other city in the country. I
am glad to talk to people who recognize
their dependence upon the farmers of this
country. l have had occasion to talk to
some who seem to imagine the harder ND
they could get the farmers the better they
would be off. / am glad to talk to YOU
who recognize that the dollars which YOU
receive are earned by those who convert
the natural resources of this country into
money-those who till the soil-and from
its fertility springs this nations primary
greatness. AS matter of fact, the far
mers and the laboring men are the foun-
dation OF society. Great cheering.) Upon
this foundation is built the commercial
classes, and the financier acts as sort of
roof over the whole thing. You can take
OIL the roof and put on another, but you
can't destroy the foundation without
running the whole building.
goldsmith has well expressed it when
he says:
" Princes and lords may flourish or
may fade,
breath can make them us n breath is
made,
But the bold peasantry, nations
pride,
When once DESTROYED can never he SIM
piled. -
The Democratic party in it's platform
at Chicago is pleading because of n ma
tlon's peasantry that cannot be DESTROYED
until you destroy the foundation of our
nations greatness. Upon the prosperitv
of the great producers of wealth, whom
we call the masses as distinguished from
the classes, depends all the prosperity of
this city. If you have n gold standard
you legislate the value of money ND and
you legislate the value of property down.
DO you remember when you were Young
how we used to get on the teeter board,
and when one end of it was up the other
was down? 1t has remained for modern
financiers to declare that you can keep
both ends of the teeter board up at once.
Laughter) Assuming to be states
men, they disregard every law of trade,
every law OF economies, every law of ma
ture and every law of God. There is not
law, human or divine, they respect, be-
cause they think they are bigger than the
government and greater than the
Almighty. Great laughter.)
1.-THE very legislation that increases the
purchasing power of a dollar simply en-
ables that dollar to buy more of other
things. How can dollar be made to buy
more of other things? BY making more
wheat sell at a dollar; more corn, more
oats, more potatoes, sell for dollar;
more of the products of toll exchanged
for given amount of money. 1t is a
good thing for the man who owns money
and buys property, but it is mighty bad
thing for the man who has to buy money
with the property that he produces.
How does the gold standard affect
your You make your implements and
you sell them to the farmer. Suppose the
farmer finds thnt hic 10 l.;
his debts, don't go down, but the price of
all that he sells goes down; what does it
mean? 1t means that he has less and
less amount to eXpend on agricultural
implements and for the support of his
family. (Cheers.) If you sell him agricul-
tural implements,hep promises to pay you,
and the Legislation destroys his ability to
pay. Then you find fault because YOU
have to take your implements back and
sell them secondhand to somebody else.
(Cheers.) That is the effect of legislation.
Our opponents are trying to throw upon
Providence the faults for our conditions.
If farmer complains he is not making
much out OF his potato crop, they tell
him it is due to the potato bugs If he is
not making much out of the corn they
tell him it is due to the chinchbug. If
he is not making much out of wheat they
tell him it is due to the army worm.
But let me tell you the goldbug is de-
stroying more crops than all OF them.
Great laughrer.) The farmer is the most
helpless victim of circumstances of all
producers of wealth. If man is engaged
in manufacturing and finds the demand
is decreasing, he can close his factory and
stop the expense of production, but the
farmer can't. When he plants his crop in
the spring, he does not know whether