The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-09-24
BRYAN IN NORTH CAROLINA.
The Boy Orator Made Severe. Speeches
Yesterday.

Charlotte, n. c., Sept. II William j.
Bryan began his speech-making early to-
day after a night of rest in his special
train. He left his sleeper here at a.
M, and was escorted to the postotiice
park by the Hornet-nest Rihemen and
local knights of Pythias commandery
of mounted men. There he addressed
several thousand people
Mr.. Bryan spoke as follows:
Ladies and Conference.-The republl-
can party has been legislating to make
Il dollar dearer and then they deny that
legislation has anything to do with the
dollar. | want to call attention to the
conditions of our volume of money. l
want to assert at first proposition that
can not be disposed of, that the money
of the country must keep pace with the
population of the country and with the
Industries of the country (cheerS), and
that unless the money does so we shall
find that Il dollar rises in value. all the
time, Now, when dollar rises in value
it simply means prices will fall and fall
ing prices are an injury to the men VINO
produce the wealth of this country. Fall
ing prices are good for the man VINO mas
money and uses that money to buy the
things falling in price.
Senator Sherman, who stands at the
head and front as the recognized leader
of the republican party and all that por-
ton of the democracy which is trying
10 elect republican for president, used
these words in a speech, which he made
in hebalf of the Sherman bill, ON the 9TH
day Of June, 1890:
"If our present currency SAID Sena-
tor Sherman, is estimated at 81, 4OU,oOo,-
600. and our population is increasing at
the rate of per cent per annum, IL WIN
require S42.000.000 increased circulation
each year TO keep pace with the increase
of population, and as the increase OF pop
ulation is continuing at still greater
rate than the increase of the wealth. Ill
business, it was thought that an imme-
diate increase of circulation might pc
obtained by the larger purchase of sill
yer bullion to an amount sufhcient 10
make good and retire all bank bills ana
keen pace with the growth of popula-
tion. Assuming that S54,OOO,OOO a year
of additional circulation is needed upon
this basis, that amount is provided ior
in the bill by the issue of treasury notes
in exchange for bullion at the market
price ,,, 4ho+
Mr.. Sherman, you see, declared that
money must increase with the popula
tion. and even more than that, says that
wealth. anu buslllcSo 'ho"'' =, -
more rapidly than population, and there
fore he defends the Sherman bill ON the
ground that it gives to the people each
veor about S54 100000 in new money.
instead of having sol 100000 additional
zach wear we have had a decrease.
"Now, my friends, these statements
are not the vaporings of lunatics ana
cranks. These are the statements made
upon the testimony of one of our OPP
moments, so short Il time ago that even
they themselves have forgotten that the
truths they told are still alive. zap
plause.) What provision does the re.
publican party make for the supply OF
money YOU need? None whatever. | am
not surprised that even men who have
been republicans all their lives are now
in favor of free coinage of silver. ZAP
nlause.) | am not surprised when | find
that republicans who recognize their
principles of finance and apply them to
the money question desert the republi-
can party this year until it attempts to
defend the democratic administration,
which was repudiated by the democratic
party itself. (Applause.( You remem-
her here in North Carolina the republic
cans have made more capital by denounc-
ing this administration than in any other
way. What do you think when the re-
publicans of North Carolina become the
sponsors for the democratic administra-
ton? Wild applause) | am not sur
prised that earnest and sincere republi-
cans prefer to stand with the democratic
party in demanding bimetallism. which
even the republican platform of four