The record-union., 1896-08-30

purpose of electing another ticket we
present straightforward, emphatic
declaration which is so clear that one
who runs may read. We demand the
immediate restoration of the free and
unlimited coinage of gold and silver at
the present ratio of 16 to /, without
waiting for the aid or consent of any
other nation on earth. 1 believe you
have right to consider the frankness,
the candor with which these positions
are stated when you come to decide
which side is honestly striving to do that
which is best for the American people.
Now. how can you tell whether these
men who stand at the head of the gold
crusade, and yet do not have the cour-
age to say gold when they talk, how do
you tell whether they are going to help
the laboring man or not? Judge the
future by the past We have good
Scrlptural authority for the assurance
that tree is known by its fruits These
trees have been bearing for twenty
years, and there has not been thing on
single tree which a laboring man
would have in his home if he could get
it. These men who have now become the
great apostles preaching in the interest
OF laboring men, my friends, these men
who stand at the head of the gold cru
sade, ere the men who have prevented
| the arbitration of difficulties between
laborers and their employers.
Now, my friends, the policy of the
enemy is to divide our forces. When
ever there has been an effort on the
part of the laboring man to secure any
legislation in their behalf where have
they found their friends? They found
their friends on farms and not in Wall
street among the advocates of the gold
standard. (Applause) And now they
appeal to the laboring man to come with
the money changers and help them to
defeat these farmers because he want s
a higher price for his produce. They
want the laboring man to believe that
the friend of silver is going to hurt him.
L would rather risk the laboring man
to decide what is a good thing for him
than to leave his interests in the hands
of his enemies. (Applause) The la
boring men know that they cannot sep
arate themselves from the tillers of the
sell They know there can be no pros
perity or happiness in the country until
the farmer is getting for his produce
more than it costs him to produce it.
(Cheers) They know that policy that
decreases the number of home owners
and increases the number of tenants
curses not only the farmer, but every
one who earns his bread by the sweat of
his brow. And they know that the
great toiling masses have got to stand
together or, if | may use one of the early
jokes, they have got to hang together or
they will hang separately.
Now, my friends L have suggested
these things for your consideration, and
l want to submit a few questions for
you to ask your opponents when you
enter into discussion with them, be-
cause conversions are made through
you. More people are converted in
these hand-to- hand contests than are
converted from the platform, and 1
want you as missionaries to go into all
the darkness around you and to bring
converts into the lines. (Applause) If
a man says he is for the gold standard
tell him he is man without a party in
the United States; tell him he cannot
stand on any national platform ever
written in this country. If he says he
is opposed to a gold standard and in
favor of bimetallism, ask him whether
he thinks the best way to get bimetal-
lism is to have a gold standard
Uaughter) And if he is willing to have
bimetallism, ask him how long he is
willing to wait for it, If he says he
needs other nations to help, ask him
what other nations he wants to help
and what chance he thinks there is of
being helped, and ask him whether he
thinks creditor country, whose mana
gers and whose rulers profit by the
restoration in the value of the dollar
are very good people to ask to come
and help us stop this thing which is
doing them no good. Ask him to think
if human nature is any different in a
foreign country from what it is here,
and ask him if he knows of anybody
here trying to hurt himself just to help
some one else. Naughter) If he says
he does not think this nation is largo
enough to have a financial policy of it's
own, ask him what ne thinks this Ma
ton is large enough to have. Haugh-
to legislate for ourselves on the great
est issue that can come before the peo-
pie, ask him what right we had, any
how, to declare our independence a
hundred years ago. More laughter)
If they tell you that they do not want
a fiftycent dollar, ask them if they
have got any of those dollars to sell
now at fiftythree cents. Tell them
that under free coinage the dollar will
be the same as it is now; will be of the
same weight and of the same fineness
and that it will be legal tender better
than it is to-day, unless somebody con-
tracts against it, the new silver dollar
will be q legal tender, no matter if men
hereafter try by law to demonetize
what the Government makes a money.
They tell you that the Government
makes redeemable all it's obligations in
gold Who said so? No law says So
No law is on the statute books to-day
that ever said so.''
A man in the crowd asked Mr.. Bryan
20 say something about the tariff.
What is the use in discussing the
tariff question:" Mr.. Bryan asked, "un-
less We decide whether the United
States has a right to legislate on any
question applause and laughter)
Why not submit the tariff question to
the international agreement, along with
the money question. The tariff ques-
ton, compared with the money ques-
tlon, is absolutely insignificant, and
You cannot force the tariff question
into a campaign where the people are
trying to decide their financial indie
pendence of every other nation on
earth. (Cheers) 1t matters not how
we may differ on other questions, this
is going to determine the allegiance OF
people to party this year, and if the
syndicates can leave the Democratic
party in order to prevent free silver. [
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