The herald., 1896-08-19


penny out of every penny. He is worth
more to you than the sick Yankee who
comes to breathe your air for a few
months or weeks every winter. The free
and unlimited coinage of silver will not
only help the Pacific coast but it will
help the whole people of the union, the
plain people of this nation, as William
Jennings Bryan calls them (Applause.)
Don't waste your breath. my friends,
upon the Bourbons of either party in
this campaign. Educate the young vot-
er my friends, wherever you find him
a gold bug.
Am an anarchist? asked the speak
er. NO, no." came from all parts of
the hall. You're all right"
Il have studied this coinage question
FOR fifteen years, ever since Stanley
Mathews, a Republican senator from
Ohio, introduced his act making all gov
ernmental obligations payable in coin
gold or silver. You should read the
speeches then made by Senator Plumb
of Kansas and James G. Blaine. CAP
plause.) We are not ashamed of being
called anarchists. We are not ashamed
or the company we're in, which happens
to consist Of such men as Senators Tel
Ter, Dubois. Pettigrew and the rest of
the brave men who sacrificed politics
at st. Louis for principle. I am not
afraid of anarchists. This country is
too great and too big to fear it's over
throw by any man or set of men. If
the miner gets 100 cents for SO cents
worth of silver bullion you and I will
get some of it. Mckinley is always talk
Ing about the untarnished flag and the
dollar. That Is pure rot. Elect Mr..
Bryan and your shops will be open and
business will thrive as it should"
An enthusiastic admirer yelled.
Whats the matter with Murphy for
congress?" which sentiment was greet
ed with some considerable amount of
approval.
SENATOR WHITES SPEECH.
Senator White received great well
come when he arose. He remarked that
the subject of the evening had been so
thoroughly discussed that it left him
but little to say. He had always been
silver man, always while in public life
and when summoned to Washington
shortly after President Cleveland's s in
auguration, he felt in his heart what was
coming. He had seen Congressman By
mum, who had only few years ago at
Denver made 16 to l speech, wearing
an imitation dollar on his breast, fall
by the wayside. Mark Hanna gets red
IN the face every morning before break
fast, shouting that the tariff must be
showed to the front Farm products and
labor had fallen steadily since 1873. The
bankers cry restore confidence and
things will get brighter. But we have
had confidence and nothing else for
years. The banks hoard the gold. The
precious metal is seldom seen in circu-
lation, even in Wall street "A hotel
clerk, when first went to Washington"
said the senator, refused to take a
$20 gold piece from me. He thought it
was counterfeit and made me get iden-
titled. 1t is said that silver is too hard
to carry. l never found it SO. 1t was
with me always harder to acquire
n If x-Il e
is elected there will be some great crisis.
Those who croak in that strain can,
however, give you no reason for their
opinion. 1t is begging the question to
say that silver is not money as much
as is gold although it has been beaten
and pounded until it is almost now un-
recognizable. Ten years ago and ever
since, there were no Republicans or
Democrats in this state who were not
silver men. The Republican state and
congressional conventions of this dis
trict both declared for silver and now
the congressional candidate of that
party has repudiated that platform. Is
that patriotism? Can my Republican
friends today shout fol-. that which they
were so loudly condemning only few
short weeks ago? The constitution Of
this union declares for both gold and
silver as the money metals of this ma
ton. When there is stagnation among
thC idl iiiCi -, yOu lISl II, 81 uOeS tIle IleI-
chant and the housewife and every one
else. Were we to stop the expectation
of cotton today England would exper-
ience the greatest panic the world ever
saw. The man who works is just as
much entitled to his opinion upon this
financial question and SO is the farmer,
as are the banker or the changer. The
former are studying this question as a
matter of necessity and their votes can
not this year be controlled at the polls.
1t is probably inaccurate to say that
gold has appreciated and silver has de-
preciated. We want to bring them to-
gether. Four years ago the Democratic
party was charged with pondering to
England. Now the press of that coun-
try is only equalled by the press of New
York in abusing Mr.. Bryan. The money
lenders in England and those in New
York feel just the same upon this sub
ject.
Theirs is combination of interests
II those who corner the gold of the world
were paid at the treasury Of the United
states in coin. as is provided for in the
constitution, this teaseless flow of bond
issues would cease, and that is what we
intend to bring about. (Applause.)
The present system of prices has
brought financial ruin to the producer
When the bankers tell us they are the
conservators. they simply mean that
the present system is to continue. When
the financial operator who corners the
stock market tells you you must be
honest or he will have no confidence in
you. tell him he has had too much conf
dence in you already.
The National bank procures the issue
of bonds which If 1t keeps up means per-
petual slavery. Today the banking syn
dicates run the government. This gov
ernment should not be at the behest of
any man or men. During the Venezu-
ella trouble we were told by the eastern
financial interests that we must go
slow and do nothing to offend England.
The st. Louis platform condemns the
gold standard but says that this great
nation of 75.000,000 free people can not
have bimetallism without the consent
of other nations. The gold standard is
everything to England. She will never
give 1t UP Until compelled to. This is
no ordinary party question. The great
Chicago convention WAS not an ordinary
political gathering. Some of the best
brains of the nation were there assem-
bled.. When the convention chose w. J.
Bryan, that great man from Nebraska
(applause) it did itself proud. He does
Lord Salisbury's consent to coin silver
They say that he is a boy, but any one
who is boy at 36 will never be man at
72. The hour for great battles is per-
haps past, but the battles of today are
done in the great financial centers Of the
world, hence in this supreme moment let
us cast aside other minor issues. Let us
stand together. Republicans and Demo-