The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-10-22

encouraging to meet an audience like
people that | am all right. Applause
and cries of you're all right ! don't
know whether you mean | am all right
"poiiticaiily.'J Wen, if you tell ne that
am all right politically will tell you
that / am all right physically. ZAP
plause.) And if you nave any fear about
my ability TO keep up this canvass till
the campaign closes, | will simply tell
you to watch the papers and you will
find that every working day will be en-
ployed and that on the last day of the
campaign | will do more work than any
day preceding it. Great applause) II
is necessary for us to work. We have
not so many great influences at work,
and, therefore. we have to do more work
ourselves. We have not so many daily
newspapers through which we can talk
and, therefore, we have to do moro
talking ourselves, and we can not afford
to bring all the people to Nebraska, so
! am going around and seeing the people
themselves. Great applauseD Now,
my friends, in advocating free coinage
/ do not mean to claim that | am in
fallible. but | do want you to understand
that | believe what say, and that when
| tell you, in my judgment, there can be
metallism is restored TO the American
people, / am telling you what ! believe:
applause and chccrs) Not only am !
telling you what | believe, but am
telling you what republicans used to be
lieve, who have now changed their CON
victions, permitted their party to act
for them instead of acting for them
selves. Great applause) There is not
proposition which we make today which
can not be defended by what leading re-
publcans have said in the past. am
one of those, my friends, it may be Il
little old-fashiOncd, but am one of those
who believe that Il man is greater than
party and that Il man ought to make
his party suit his convictions and not suit
plausc) | believe that parties are
made for the people, not that the people
are made for parties. Applausc.)
II believe that party is means to
p0dd!VsLoM on o. Su!Ql U lou pUG quo uG
by itself, and when party ceases to be
an instrument through which you can
serve your country, then that party has
no further claims upon you,
'"rhe gold standard means that money
shall be dear, and money can not be
dcarer unless property is cheaper.
Whenever a dollar buys more, property
sells for less; when we have falling
prices we have hard times and no party
dares go before the country declaring
that hard times are good for the people,
although the republican party promises
that if you will put it in power it will
keep hard times by maintaining the finan-
cial policy which has made hard times.
They tell us that now the laborng man
is prosperous because his wages buy Il
good deal, hut there is something that the
laboring man is interested i'll before he
considers the purchasing power of his
wages. He is interested in getting
chance to earn wages before he goes to
the point of knowing what wages will buy,
and the gold standard limits employ
ment, it increases the number of idle men,
and, my friends, there is no way by
which you can put men to work making
things until you have market for things
when the advocates of the gold standard,
that is, those who desire it, hut advocate
bimetallism as delusion and hold it up
as hope, while secretly working for the
gold standard, they tell you that when
things are cheap, dollars will buy more.
There is n man who has spoken on this
subject and his words ought to command
some interest among those who are sup
porting the republican ticket Let me
read you Mr.. McKinley's words on May
Z. 1880. 1t will be found in the Congress
sional Record:
When merchandise is the cheapest,
men are the poorest
THAT is what Mr.. Mckinley said only
six years ago and yet today he stands
for n financial policy that intends to make
money the master and all things else the
servant. He stands for n financial pol
icy that intends to make the property of
the world cheaper than ever before by
making the money of the world dcarcr
than il was ever before. History re-
peats itself. Mr.. Mckinley was right
when he said that not only the expert |
ence of this country, but in all human his |
Tory. Whcnevcr anything had been lowest
and cheapesr. measured by gold, it has
been highest ana dearest, measured by
labor.
"My friends, under the gold standard
this condition is to continue"
There were short stops ut Walton and |
Manton and Mr. Bryan stood on the back |
platform and allowed the people to crafty |
their desire TO see the presidential candi- !
date.
At the latter place the cheers for Bryan
Were led by a little girl, who then turned |
on man who wore hat Indicative of |
his allegiance TO the gold standard and |
sarcastically rcbuked him. Mr.. Bryan |
remarked that probably the little one
could make Il better argument than the |
goldite, to which the republican replied |
that no arguments were needed, hut that |
money talked.
Yes, it does replied Mr.. Bryan. "but |
it does not vote" and the crowd chcercd |
the statement enthusiastically.