Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-09-23
CHAMPIONS VIRGINIA STATE LEAGUE, 1897.

people have commenced to study the
money question. What do they find?
They find that the people of the west
and South, who have been asking for the
restoration of blmetallsm, instead of
trying TO ruin the country, are trying
to save IL. Great applause) We are
trying to help our people. That Is true.
But want to tell you that our people
cannot buy of you unless they can sell
what they raise. We must have more than
appetites out there. Qaughter) We must
have money to pay for those things
which crafty the appetite. Because you
have food to sell, don't think you can
sell Il Just because people are hungry.
You must have got to have people who
want Il ard who have the money TO pay
for something TO eat. Great applause)
Your people are producing manufacturing
products here largely. Where do you
get your consumers? Wipe out the
farming population. and where VIII you
sell the goods you produce? You virtually
wipe out the farmers as consumers when
you drive down the price Of their pro-
ducts so they only realize enough TO
pay taxes and interest. Great applause)
you have many truck farmers. When
they take what they have to sell into
town they And the nlaraes Is rather duh,
and what they get is small compared
with what II used TO be. Does 1t mean
the people OF Philadelphia are not as
hungry as they ever were? l venture the
assertion there is more hunger here IN
Philadelphia than there was five years
ago (Great app ause) Is Il because peo-
pie have lost their taste for the, good
things which you produce? No, there Is
as much taste as ever, If they could get
a chance to try it on some. Great ap-
plause)
How are you going to improve your
markets? BY increasing the number OF
people able to buy what you produce.
VIII you do that by making dollars
dearer? No. dollars do not eat They
deyour n great deal, but they do not
eat 0aughter.) How are you going to
create markets. By increasing dollars
I'm the hands of the few? No; you have
got to restore prosperity by stopping The
fall OF prices 80 men will sell what they
produce. to get money 10 buy what YOU
produce. ApplauseD
SHERMAN. BLAINE. CARLISLE.
Mr.. Bryan gave quotations from John
Sherman, James G. Blaine, and John G..
Carlisle, showing them to have formerly
been in favor of the free coinage Of
silver.
Mr.. Bryan continued as follows:
Every one OF them when the utterauces
quoted were made was older than
am now. II they attribute my division
OF people into two classes. the idle
holders Of idle capital and the producers
Of wealth, to the fact that I have not
had as much experience as some others,
how are they going to explain the lam
guage OF Blaine and Carlisle and Sher-
man? i divide classes the same as they
do, except / should say, on the one side,
are the drones and on the other bees that
make the honey. (Applause.)
1.-The gold-standard newspapers think
we won't be able to get silver into cir
culation II we have free coinage. l want
TO tell you that they will be mighty
glad to have subscriptions paid even in
silver dollars. II these people whom they
have been trying TO destroy I'm the in
terests Of foreign capitalists will con-
tlnue their papers into their houses
Great applause) Our opponents. who
are so confident that money can beat
argument I'm a campaign are glad to use
silver dollars for the campaign. (Ap-
plause)
THE EYER-GROWING DOLLAR.
III you destroy part OF our money, you
must be content TO take a lower price
for what you have to sell. When you
drive down the value OF your property.
you do not drive down the value of the
mortgage you have agreed to pay. That
man still asks the same for IT, We do
not ask to reduce the amount OF mort
cages, but / say the man who holds n
mortgage and wants you 10 pay him IN
an ever-growing dollar is the most dis
honest man you can find They have m
idea there is only one kind OF reputation.
IL al debtor wants TO pay in dollar less
valuable than the dollar he borrowed
he is a repudiator. but. II the man who
holds that mortgage wants him to pay
in dollar worth twice ats much as when
II was loaned, that man is a fnancier
and a patriot and you cannot open your
mouth against him. (Applause.) If those
who hold the notes OF the people OF the
United States have a right to insist on a
gold standard to make their dollars de-
YOUR more OF our farm products. / want
10 know why the people OF the :, United.
States have not right in their sovereign
majesty 10 stop the growth o, these dol
lars before they get any>blgger." Gap
plause)
BISMARCK.
Mr.. BRYAN then quoted Prince Bismarck
as being in favor OF bimetailism, and as
saying that the United States should take
the lead In adopting II.
Mr. Bryan continued: Against this
waiting policy. with the twenty years OF
adverse experience behind il. we offer an
aggressive policy, by which the United
States Will lead the nations of the world
to the restoration of gold and silver as
money. You say IL Is American 10 brag
about what we can 90. / reply that II is
English. you know. 10 think we can't do
anything. Qaughter)
I'VE have reached great crisis. and
the question presented to the American