Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-07-24
A HISTORIC SPEECH.
A SPEECH THAT BROUGHT BRYAN
PROMINENTLY INTO VIEW.

a Declaration of Principles Mad
Before the Trans VI isstssippt CON
else statement of Financial Con
diIiOns.
Mr.. CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GENTLE
MEN, FELI.ow-CITlZENs I'm half al
hour, and half an hour only, am ex
pected to say what is to be said 70
the silver cause to night. The gentle
man who has preceded me has dom
the silver cause favor which l onl,
wish all our opponents would do us
daughter and cheers.) He has bold
ly advocated what few OF them viii
dare to declare to be their purpose
Our great difficulty has been that We
had to face foes in the dark, and have
had to tear the masks from the hypo
critics before we could recognize oul
enemies. (Applause.) We have been
compelled to face men who have pre-
tended love for the cause of bimetal.
lism, while they stabbed it to the
death. But rejoice that tonight we
have heard from an opponent who
holds before you the glittering hope OF
a universal gold standard. He holds
no promise of an international bimet-
allism, no hope for silver, but says
that natura! laws are driving out the
white metal and bringing an intelli-
gent world to the use of gold as the
only real money-unless, possibly, sill
yer can be used as pennies and nickels
are now.
THE UNSELFIsH MONEY CHANGER.
That is the issue, my friends. That
is the issue which gives us this great
Transmississippi Congress; it is the
issue which comes before the people of
the United States; it is the issue
which comes before the whole civilized
world, and men are taking one side or
the other of this great question, the
question OF single or double stand
ard for the human race. / call your
must speak briefly and
very hurriedly-to the fact that there
is difference between the interests of
men on this subject. We sometimes
listen to men who talk as if most OF us
were sordid and base and selfish, but
that God had raised up few unselfish
tinanciers to spread light before the
ignorant. Who are these unselfish
men, who would teach us what q
sound currency is? My friends, there
are differences between the interests
of the people in this world, in this
country, and even in this city.
RUNAWAY BANKERS.
My friend said that if We had q
sound and elastic currency, a bank
currency, that We would be all right
that the banks are safer than they
used to be. 1 wish the gentleman
would 20 to Lincoln, Neb., and tell the
depositors in the Capitol National
Bank that banking is safer now than
it used to be. You can scarcely pick
up newspaper but you find that
some trusted employee has robbed the
bank; and yet, in the Baltimore plan
we are told if we want good sound
currency we must let the banks issue
money to one-half of their capital
stock and let the Government guaran'
tee it.
COMPARE JESSE JAMES.
1 believe you once had man in
this State who undertook at times the
collecting of the fares on the railroads
came along sometimes and stopped
the train and collected the fares.
suppose he thought he could do it bet.
ter than the conductor could. And
my friends, l want to impress upon
you the fact that the underlying pur,
pose that actuated Jesse James is
the same purpose that actuates the
demand for q bank OF issue. (Cheers
and applause.) Now, when say that
do not mean to compare banker TO
Jesse James. (Laughter.) What pur-
pose actuated Jesse James? 1t was
the desire for money. What is the
purpose OF the bank that desires to
issue paper money? 1t is the de-
sire for the profit-that is all. 1t is
the love of money. The love oi
money, we are told, is the root OF all
evil, and it is the duty OF govern
ment to lessen the evil as much as
it can. Jesse James sought money
in violation OF law; the bank of issue
seeks money through the aid ol
friendly legislation.
RINGS IN THEIR NOSES.
I WAS passing through Iowa moi
long ago, and 1 saw some hogs roofing
in a field. 1t took me back to the
time when lived on farm and when
we used to put rings in the noses o.
the hogs-not to keep them from get
ting fat, but to keep them from de
stroying more property than they
we're worth while they were fattening
Now, my friends, an idea is the great
est thing man can get into bis head
and we gather our ideas from every
where. From an urchin upon the
street we may gather an idea thai
will turn the course of life. From
those hogs, roofing in the field, 1 Eo'
an idea that will never leave me a.