The herald., 1896-10-06
ALONG THE ROUTE.
Every Hamlet Provides Great Crowds
Of Silver Supporters.

| Of people were at the Poplar street sta
| ton. The famous Chickasaw guards
and Neeley Zouaves escorted Bryan
| and the Memphis committee to q hotel,
where breakfast was taken.
Bryan at 10 o'clock was escorted to the
baseball park by the committee. Ten
thousand people gave him a rousing re-
ception. He was introduced by Senator
Harris. Mr.. Bryan said:
! In Memphis something more than a
| year ago this fight which is being waged
| now was begun; that is, it was in this
city that those in favor of the gold
standard met to begin the work Of cap
turing the two great political parties,
and it was here few days afterwards
| that the silver forces gathered to begin
the organization Of their campaign.
! (Applause.) Therefore. at this time,
when the campaign has progressed SO
| far that we are able to form an estimate
of the result. am glad to come again
to the city which will be known in his
| tory because of the fight commenced
here. We went to work and helped to
| consolidate the sentiment Of the peo-
| Pile of this country, so far as the pres
| idential candidate was concerned on one
| person. I am grateful to those who
| have been earnest in their convictions
| earnest enough to lay aside differences
| upon minor questions until this great
| fight is won While I appreciate the
| honor conferred upon me. not only by
the nomination Of my own party, but
| by the additional nominations of two
other parties, I say to you here, my
| friends, my interest in the cause of BIZ
metallism Is so deep would without a
moments hesitation resign my nominal
| tions in favor of any person in this
country who can better carry this cause
to victory. (Applause)
It is not q time to listen to personal
| ambitious. "a voice-"You are the
Jackson Of teday.")
Mr.. Bryan-It is no time to set per-
sonal interests above the country's
good. 1t is no time to consider the tenn
porary effect of this election upon par.
ty allegiance. It Is time when we are
to consider the effects of the gold stand
ard If perpetuated, not on party organi-
cations, not on this country alone, but
on all mankind. Great applause)
We don't want dollar to look at as
it passes from us. We want a dollar to
handle as it passes among us. I want
bimetallism because it requires all the
gold and all the silver to furnish a safe
basis for the immense commercial af-
fairs of the nineteenth century. 1t re-
quires them both. You talk to me about
a flood Of money when we have free
coinage.
My friends, know people who have
IN fha hof ra
watching for their first dripping of the
flood. (Applause.) am not afraid that
when all the gold coinage and all the
silver available for coinage are poured
into the money volume Of the world
there will be more than enough to form
safe and sound basis for safe and sound
commercial transactions. (Applause.)
Our opponents say we want sound
money. What would you think of car
penter who tried to build a house upon
an invisible foundation? And yet they
want to build UP commercial transac-
tion in this country upon little lump Of
gold, regardless of the fact that for
eigners hold a string to the gold and
can Jerk out the foundation of our come
merce. (Applause.) You ask us how we
are going to bring silver back into use.
1 tell you you cannot do 1t by electiny
people to Office who want it driven out of
use. Applause.) Money is creature of
the laws and laws are made by the peo-
pie. Our opponents said gold was the
only money for civilized country, and
wrote their platform declaring for hi
metallism. Why did they do it =? Because
even the advocates of the gold standard
were not willing to go before the Ameri-
can people on a declaration in favor of
single gold standard, and they put in
the delusive hope for International BIZ
metallism and pledged the party to
| maintain the gold standard until they
could get 1t. The same influences went
to Chicago and tried to do the same thing
there. The minority plank in the Chi
cago platform was so much like the Re-
publican plank that you could not tell
the difference between them with mag
nifylrg glass. The Republican platform
pledged the Republican party to MAIN
tain the gold standard until they could
get international bimetallism and the
minority plank of the Democratic plat
form opposed free coinage for fear 1t
would interfere. with getting interna-
tional bimetallism. The majority rules
and you have an issue this year between.
those who want to continue the gold
standard and those who want to aban-
don it. am not running under any mis-
understanding.
Our opponents tell US that our dollar
will be cheap one We tell them that
they never called the silver dollar n
cheap one until 1t was demonetized
We insist that the opening of our mints
will create a demand which the closing
Of our mints destroyed and that the de-
mand for silver will raise the price of
silver bullion to $1.29 anywhere in the
world. (Applause). But you say it will
be as hard to get silver dollar as it
is now under the gold standard. Ycu
overlook the first principle that must be
understood in studying the money ques-
ton. Gold has gone up because you de-
stroyed its competitor. Restore its COM
petitor and let silver bS used on equal
terms and by increasing the value of
standard money you lessen the strain
on gold and reduce the purchase power
of an ounce Of gold throughout the world.
(Great applause). The silver dollar and
4, the gold dollar will be worth the same
whether in the form of coin or in the
form of melted bullion, but it will be
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