Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1896-08-14
SENATOR THuRsroN
Part of a Speech Delivered /.
Few Days Ago by the
Senator.

My Countrymen: There is dis
turbance in the political world over
the question of money. There have
been disturbances in the political world.
in years gone by over other ques-
tions, but we are meeting new issue
today, so far as the presidential can
vass is concerned.
81 was brought up to believe that
the promise of the man who had al
ways kept his word was better than
that of the man who had always
broken it. Applause. was brought
up to believe that the promises OF
those men whom knew had, in every
great emergency of the nation, stood
for its honor and its glory and its
dignity, were better for me-one
Individual follow than the judg-
ment of those men who had never re-
presented any of the measures, or any
of the things, that had resulted for the
honor and the glory and the welfare
of the American people. (Applause.
II say to you, today, in all sinceri-
ty and candor, believing it to be q
legitimate argument, and knowing
that it is entirely appropriate to say
that if had no other guide to light
me onward in the right path of my
political duty, it seems to me that
justice and honor to my country
would be safer to turn away from the
leadership of Tillman and Altgeld
and Waite to follow the liberty of AL
lison and Reed, and the greatest
among them all William Mckinley.
loud applause. I happened to hear
w. J. Bryan, four years ago. in the
congressional campaign in my state.
I pledge you, my countrymen, and it
is solemn fact. that from the begin
ming of that campaign to the end
that William j. Bryan advocaoed no
than that upon the tariff. Four years
ago I heard VIM. J. Bryan say to a
great audience in my state, ''Give us
free trade and the American working
mans wages will go up" But they
went down; he said, give us free trade
and business will boom, but it busted.
loud applause.
PROMISES OF TODAY.
1.-The same man today comes before
/ you with a new promise. They have
discarded the issue of four years ago
and they say now ''give us free silver
and the wages of men will increase;
1 give us free silver and the prices of
product will rise, give us free silver
and new avenues of employment will
be opened up. give US free silver and
the business of the country will boom.
My countrymen. as a business propo-
sition on which depends your welfare
and mine, in view of their predictions
of four years ago, don't you think it
would be advisable to ask for little
collateral security in aid of that
promise. Loud applause and cheers
''Did you ever stop to think that if
the free coinage of silver will bring
] silver bullion back to it's old time
price, there will be none of this in
crease in the price of products, none
of this increase in the price of labor
that they promise on the other side?
If we open the mints of the United
!, States for the free and unlimited coin
age of silver, our silver dollar on the
American side of the Mexican line
will be worth just the same as the
Mexican dollar on the other side.
Either we double the value of all
the money of China and Japan and
South America, where the silver
standard is, or else we drop our stand
ard measure down to the level of
theirs.
"Today who has carried on this
great silver campaign? On the 18th
day of July, 1896, a democratic paper,
the Chicago Chronicle, published this
in double loaded type on it's editorial
page: The proprietors of the big
bonanzas have found it profitable to
keep large number of lecturers and
other spokesmen on the road preach
ing to the people. Among the many
who have thus been employed, and
carried on the pay-rolls of the big
bonanzas for number of years. is
William J. Bryan, of Nebraska, q
paid agent and spokesman for the
free silver combine. In the city of
Omaha, where William ]. Bryan does
editorial work on the Omaha World
Herald, the Omaha Bee, has made the
specific charge, editorially, time and
| time again. It has never been met.
say as an Ameiean citizen, having
at heart the welfare of the people
that a man posing as the advocate OF
the down-trodden masses OF his coun-