The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-03

money to be. Sound money is money fur
nished in sufficient quantities to form a
safe basis for the business of the coun-
try. (Applause) There is something nee
essary besides quality in money. Money
may be good, splendid, but there may
be none of it, (Applause.) 1t is OF money
as IT Is of food you have to combine quail
lty and quantity. You must combine
quantity and quality. Suppose that a
person tried to feed himself on bread of
the very best quality, and yet not enough
of 1t to sustain life. (Applause) Suppose
he tried to feed himself on
meat of the highest quality
but so insufficient in quantity that he
would die for lack of nourishment Would
you call that sound food? Not a bit of
1t. (Applause) And yet our opponents
are trying to build up a financial system
on gold alone when they are not able to
tnd the gold to furnish the basis of their
system. The gold standard is of no adj
vantage unless you can find enough gold
to furnish the standard money. Our oD-
ponents have not furnished that gold. They
cannot furnish it. All over the world
to-day the nations are scrambling to get
the gold there is.
A Voice-There's only $14000,O0O,O00.
Mr. Bryan-Fourteen billions? Only
4OO0OOO,OOO, my friend (applause), if the
statistics furnished by the treasury de-
partment are correct. But if the statistics
furnished by other nations in regard to
the supply of gold are as deceptive as the
statistics furnished in regard to this ma
tons supply of gold, instead of there be-
ing 4,O0O, 100000 of gold in the world, there
are not 3O00,OOO,OOO. (Applause.) In order
to make up the 100000 900 they give this
nation more than 5000, 10000 1t is not
here. The treasury statistics say it is
but if you attempt to find 1t you find that
there is some in the vaults at Washing
N IN
banks, and then you have added this
store of gold all together you have only a
little more than one-half of the estimated
amount of gold in this country and you
ask them where is the rest. They tell
you that is what is known as the invisi-
BILE supply OF gold. Naughter) When
they talk about the invisible supply Of
gold they talk about the supply which
cannot be seen, because invisible means
not seen, and will tell you that this in
visible supply of gold is getting to be
more and more invisible every day Gap
plause.) Now, my friends, there are two
reasons which may explain the fact that
our opponents do not propose a financial
system to the American people In the
first place, they may not know what is
best. VIII they admit that their failure
to tell you what ought to be done is due
to ignorance? If so, why can they ask
you to trust those who don't know what
ter and applause.) If our opponents do
not know what kind of a system is good
for us, then If we follow them
it will be the blind leading
the blind. If on the other hand
our opponents say they know what ought
to be done, then we ask them Why they
don't tell the people what they know.
(Applause). Our opponents can only ex
cuse themselves on one of two grounds
their failure to elaborate a financial sys-
tenn must be due to ignorance or it must
be due to an unwillingness to let the peo-
pie know what their plans are before they
vote" Great cheering).
Mr. Bryan. spoke of bankers who grew
rich on the interest of deposits and ad-
ded: And yet these men who act in
the capacity of trustees are so insoent
that they are now contributing to repub-
lican campaign funds the money that the
people have deposited with them for Sc
curity.
MY friends, if the banks want to go
into politics let them beware of the re-
suits that may follow political banking.
If they train to be business men and run
their business on business principles they
must not come into the field of politics
and attempt to run politics. (Applause).
II realize that the great corporations,
trusts, syndicates and combinations of
wealth are against US, but 1 remember
that they were against Andrew Jackson
in the same fight that they are making
to-day"
The rest of the speech was devoted to
an explanation of the J0-cent dollar, and
to statements about the impossibility of
the Mexican dollar in America.
The cavalcade of men who escorted Mr..
bryan to the stand fell in line again and
went back to the station with him. Mr..
Brown, Urey Woodson, national commit
teeman from Kentucky, Representative
McMillen of Tennessee and others left
Huntington on the candidates special
train for Cincinnati, at 1850 central time.
The visit lasted an hour and twenty min
utes.