The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1896-09-29
HI VICIOUS CLERGY
MR. ERYAN HAULS A GLASS OF
PREACHERS OVER THE GOALS.
He Declares They Are Malisning the Poor
and Degrading the Pulpit When They
Denounce the Common People rs An-
archists-The Church and the Gold
Standard.

archists-The Church and the Gold
Standard.
Raleigh, n. c., Sept. 1S.-Candidate
Bryan completed a great days labor
In Nash's park here last night by
making a speech in condemnation Of
those preachers who are degrading the
pulpit by espousing the cause of the
dishonest money sharks against silver.
He said:
Il could stand any appeal made by
the advocates of the gold standard to
almost any class better than an appeal
made to the preachers and teachers of
religion. If there Is one thing hat the
church people of this country could af-
fore to array themselves against 1t Is
the gold standard as it is being advo-
Gated by the American people at this
time. [Applause.l And yet the Re-
publican party is appealing to church
people to take their place on the sid
of the gold standard.
How things have changed in the last
1900 years! Look at the people who
head the gold standard propaganda in
the United States. Look at the bond
holding class and the money changers
SloSoSop AN DAohSl % VI y
York, who are trying to fasten a gold
standard upon the people of this coun-
try-not openly, but secretly and in
disguise, and then turn back 1900
years, when the meek and lowly Savior
threw the same kind of people out of
his temple because they had made his
home a den of thieves (great applause).
and then hin that these people come
and appeal to the ministers of the gos-
pei and the church papers to save
them from the wrath to come. Laugh
ter and ~applause.1
MY friends, when certain ministers of
the gospel denounce the great mass of
people who stand behind free coinage;
when these ministers ave denounced
these advocates of free coinage and
have taken their places upon the side
Of these. great aggregates of wealth, I
remind them that when the Savior was
here it was the common people who
heard him gladly-these very people
whom these ministers today all an
archists and socialists. [Great ap-
plause.l
My friends, when I find-there are
not many of them, but they are quite
conspicuous-when / inc these men
casting their lot upon that side and ex-
hausting abusive language in their de-
scription of the great masses Of the
people Of this country. l feel like say
ing to them that If they will take their
chances with Dives. I will risk my
chances with Lazarus. [Great APP
plause.l This money question is a
question which concerns every one Of
you and you have a right to consider
what has been lone and what will be
done and then decide whether you
want to support the present financial
policy or not. When prices are fall
ing and money rising a man can better
afford to lock his money up in a vault
and gain the rise rather than invest
his money in property and risk a loss
in the value of the property.
You are making the property not
worth having, and everybody Is trying
to turn property into money. And
while the gold standard lasts that CON
dition must remain and times must be
hard. and hard times mean more die
men, and more die men means more
destitute men, and more destitute men
means at last more criminal men; and
yet the gold standard men appeal to
the ministry to increase crime" [Great
: apDlau use and cheering