The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-27

1t is what you are yourself. In order"
he said, that you may apply these things
in the study of these questions" Mr..
Bryan quoted from DR.. Sturtevant's book
and went on to comment: NOW, l say
the doctor recognized that when a man
made a contract he ought to be paid In
the same way, with the same quantity or
value that it had when 1t was made; and
ne goes ON to argue that II YOU attempt
to make contracts in any kind OF COM
modify these fluctuations in value would
make the contract inequltable."
after again quoting DR.. Sturtevant, Mr..
Bryan continued: 81 was glad when l be-
gan to study the money question to find
that DIR. Sturtevant recognized that the
great thing desirable in a dollar was stabil-
ity, and / can lind no better illustration
than the one | have read you, where he
speaks of It's being inequitable to compel
a man to deliver one hundred bushels Of
wheat when wheat has doubled in value
Now, you know the whole bone of con-
tention in this contest which we are en-
gagged in is as TO which kind of standard
gives you the best dollar. There are some
people who talk about honest dollars, with
out exactly defining what they mean by
that, so that you have to take their con-
clusions instead of being able to form
your own conclusions. We believe that
gold and silver, used together, gives a
N'ActS NSAAaAt gu hpAV NNAA-
table currency, more just
standard than could be obtained
from the use of one with the other elimi-
mated from use; and the very argument
DR.. Sturtevant makes there, that short
crop of wheat will make wheat rise in
value, applies to money; because if there
is short crop of money, money rises in
value. Now, the crops are determined
usually by the weather and by various
things which man may not control, but
the volume of money Is determined by law,
which man does control. And so II you
by law make your crop of money short,
you raise the value of the dollar; and II
you raise the value Of the dollar you pro-
duce the same injustice to the man who
owes a dollar that Mr. Sturtevant calls
attention to In the crop of wheat that
doubles in value. Now, want you young
men to realize that when you have receiv-
ed great advantages, great responsible
ties go with those advantages, and that
you have no right as citizens In a land
like this to keep In darkness upon any
public questions; nor have you a right
to listen to any persuasions except the
persuasions which come from your con-
science and your judgment.
II appreciate the advantages of living
In a country like this. You may have had
people tell you that my ideas were an
tagonistic TO our form of government
and to law and order But l want you
to believe me when / say that there is
not person in this country who loves
our institutions more than / do, or who
feels a deeper interest in their perpetual
tion. And what young man has more
right TO prize our institutions than l
have? In what other country is 1t possi-
BILE for a young man to accomplish as
much as he can accomplish in this coun-
try? In what other country is 1t possible
for young man with nothing to COM
mand him except his interest inethe cause
TO be selected by those who believe In him
to carry out their ideas. / so much prize
the blessings of a country like this that
/ want to keep this government as our
fathers intended. l want 1t to rest Sc
curely upon the foundation they laid.
so that 1t will guarantee equal rights to
every citizen and give special privileges
ard advantages to no citizen.
l want it still to be so
that the child of the humblest
citizen of this land may be able to aspire
to any Office for which his abilities, or his
ideas, or his labor and integrity At him.
And 1t is because l realize, as / think l do,
some of the influences which in society
are tending to close the door of opportuni-
ty to young men that have felt the in
dignation that / have expressed against
great aggregations Of wealth which have,
in many instances, trampled upon the
rights Of the weaker members of society,
and have attempted, by the power which
they can command, to drive out competi-
tion, and then prey upon society after 1t
has been rendered helpless and lies at their
mercy.
But, my friends, am here more to
greet you than to talk to you, and l have
digressed only this much because have
so little chance to have my side heard in
of ottF n nj lfAa rpirur
do not feel that / ought 10 neglect an APP
portunity to say word in the defense Of
the cause for which l stand. i read In the
papers that in various institutions OF
learning they are nearly all against me.
My friends, IL ! should read in the paper
that there was not a college professor,
not business man, not man prominent
In society, who believed I'm what I am
teaching, while / would believe in II,
would still teach 1t. When l hear people
say the trouble with the masses Of the
people is that they do not work hard
enough, / recall what the Bible tells us,
that Pharaoh, when he heard the com
plant that came up from his people, said
the same thing. He said: They are idle
that is what troubles them; make them
make more bricks, and make them furnish
the straw
'I know too that all the great reforms
Of society have come up from the common
people; not down from those who were wei
to do, or who we're so surrounded that
they did not feel the need of the people.
remember the Bible tells us that when one
young man was inquiring what he ought
to do and was told to sell what he had and
give to the poor he went away sorrowing,
because he had great possessions. l know
that great possessions sometimes so mo-
nopolize a persons thoughts, 80 occupy
his time, that he has not time to give to
those needs of society which are felt and
realized by those who suffer l want you,
in the study Of all these questions, not to
take my yiews-because, as / say, my
views may be wrong-no. to take any
body's Views, but to try to find out what
rs best for the people, and be satisfied that
YOU can only lift yourself by lifting up
those who are about you"