Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1896-09-10
BRYAN AT MILWAUKEE.
Pithy Sentences, Business.
like Statements and LoGt-
cal Argument.
A Dollar That Buys More
Means Property That
Sells for Less.
Following are extracts from Mr..
Bryan's speech at Milwaukee:

The farmers and labOrers are the
foundation of society. The busi-
moss men, the commercial men
and the professional men are the
house built upon the foundation,
and the financiers are the roof of
the house, and yet the financiers
think they are the whole thing
and all the rest depends upon
them. AS matter Of fact, how
ever, you can change roof of the
house and the house will stand.
You can change your financial
system, and the government still
stands, but if you destroy the
foundation, the house goes down.
We have no objection to the
money lender. He is part OF
society, and we need him, but
whom I want to vote I do not go to
him to ask him how I am going to
vote.
ABOUT THE OLD SOLDlEh.
I am not afraid that any man
who risked his life in his nations
behalf is going to be influenced
by the arguments that are ad-
dressed to the soldiers now by the
financiers, who, during tho war,
were looking out for themselves
and letting the soldier look out
for himself. I am not afraid that
these men who were willing at
that time to endure the dangers of
war because they believed that the
black men should be free; | am
not afraid that these men are going
to allow the hosts of the gold
standard to enslave 100000
of people, whites and black, in this
country.
We believe that the demand
furnished by 100000 of people,
is sufficient to use all the silver
we can get to our mints. They
tell us that Mexico has failed to
do SO. We cannot have all the
votes, but I am perfectly willing
that the republican party shall
have the vote of every man who
can look over the United States
and then think it is not any larger
than Mexico. I am perfectly will
ling that any man that thinks the
United States is unable to accom-
plish anything which Mexico has
failed to accomplish, I am willing
that he should vote for the repub-
lican ticket.
If Mexico had been able, with
other nations that are now using
silver, to furnish a use for all the
silver that would 60 to the Mexico
mint, she could have maintained
the parity. If we are able to do
it, taking into consideration the
demand now existing, We can
maintain the parity. We never
can tell until we try, and our op-
ponents will never know, because
they will never try. We are tho
only people who offer any plan by
which you can determine it, be-
cause We offer to try the free coin
age of silver, and we give you the
reasons for believing that we will
be successful.
Whenever you find man who
wants to think for you, or who
wants to act for you, you find out
whether his interests are the same
as yours.
Why will you let men who are
interested pecuniarily in having
bonds issued by this government,
because the bonds are sold to them
at enormous profits; why will you
let those men decide whether bond
issues are a good thing for the
American people; why will you
allow the presidents Of the trusts
and the attorneys for syndicates
to decide whether trusts and syndi-
Gates are good things for the
American people? :,
I want to ask you if tho small
business men who have been
driven out of business by a trust,
il they have not rs good right to
Judge Of what is good for them as
have the great corporations which
have these things in their hands
now and want to keep them there?
They say we are arraying one
class Of society against another |
deny it. But, my friend, it a bur-
glar comes to my house, [ have q
right to call all my family up to
keep him out. And it does not
make me mad if, as he starts