The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-29

Genus. IL any Oh you -uSIu SIlNSi OUi-
lion, would you sell it to anybody for
half the market price and let the pur-
chaser make the proflt?"
At IL o'clock the party departed for
| New London.
Three Thousand People.
NEW LONDON, Conn.,, Sept. 2S.-Mr.
Bryan reached New London from Provi-
dence at 12:17 p. m.
| A stand had been erected at the Soldiers
and Sailors monument, adjacent to the
railway station, and from this Mr.. Bryan
made an address an hour long to an au-
dience of 5000 people. He was cheered
/; frequently and asked several questions
by people in the crowd. After reference
to the fact that this was the county in
which Lyman Trumbull was born, Mr..
bIyan paId warm tribute to the late
Senator's memory. Continuing he SAID:
To-day l leave Connecticut. L have been
! through several New England states, ana
only one 1 have not been able to visit.
L came TO New England to preach the
cause and 10 DEFEND the principles for
which / stand at this time. (Applause.) L
came because there is no part OF the
country where those who advocate free
coinage are unwilling TO present their
cause. There is no part of this country
winch is excluded from the
BENEFITS OF BIMETALLISM;
there is no part of this country which
we are willing to concede to the gold
STANDARD. (Appiause and cheers.) some
of the Republican Platforms OIL the east
ern states have not only declared against
silver, but have declared against agtta-
ton. When l find a man WAC is opposed
to a discussion of a pubic question ma
man who would feel more at nome UNI
der a monarchy than he would under
republic. (ApplauSe.) Agitation Is moth
ing but discussion (appiause ana cries OF
CO.
means by which the people can IND out
what is pest and remedy the wrong. Gap
piause.)
"a man who denounces agitation; man
who opposes public discussion OF public
questions, would have you suffer and not
permit you to secure the only means by
which reiief can come My rrlends our
opponents think that they can destroy ag-
iIation by commanding it 10 keep stlli.
! They might as we'll try to
SWEEP BACK THE WAVES
of the ocean. 6Applause.) They have in
terjected into the body pol1Cc foreign
financial system and there is agitation,
and there will be agitation until you re-
move it. (Applaase9 say foreign sys-
tenn, because we borrowed it from another
country (applause) not only borrowed 1t,
! but, my friends, we are ANXIOUS to re-
turn it to the land from which we bor-
rev ca t. (S1reaI AppiauSe.) Ii you doubt
it, let me call your attention TO this TACT,
that unJi this campaign no political party
in he United Staes ever declared he god
standard a good thing. The. Republican
parry declares that bimetalllsm is deslr-
aDIe but unuI the leading nations of Eu-
rope also desire bmetallism, we must go
without it. 1 am unwilling to ADMIT that
foreign nations shall determine what kind
OF a financial system we Shall have in
this country. (ApplauSe.) we advocate
an Independent financial policy; we adyo-
cate the adoption OF a system
BY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
for the American people, and, my friends,
one of Tie evidences that we are right,
is that our opponents are not willing to
openly declare that which they are Sc
creLy seeking TO secure. (Applause)
mo RepuDncan is willing TO write upon
card and wear upon his breast that
While he is an American cltlzen ne does
not think this nation is big enough to at
tend to its own business (applause), and
that is what the Republican platform
means.
free silver?
Mr.. Bryan-Are you in favor OF gold
standard?
The voice. am.
Mr.. Bryan-Tel me why.
The. voiee-Because believe it is the
best for the country. Every nation will
accept a gold dollar for a dollar.
Mr. Bryan-Why? l will tell you; be-
cause of its value. The reason why our
gold dollar and gold bullion are worth
the mint
The vo.ce-Weu, how about silver?
Mr.. Bryan-When the laws are so, I'M
der the free coinage of silver that the
holder of silver bullion can convert his
silver bullion into dollars at the mint,
that will
FIX THE MINT PRICE
for silver then. as we have mint price
for gold now, and silver dollars will be
worth as much abroad as our gold dol
lar. Great applause and cheering)
Now, my friends i do not object to
have questions asked, because If l am
wrong on this question there is nobody
more anxious to find it out than l am.
But if L am right, and my friend is wrong,
l hope he viii be as anxious to get right
as ! am Great applause.) Questions do
not hurt my friends. We are glad to
answer questions, because there is not a
question that can be answered by an ad-
vocate of the gold standard that cannot
be answered by advocates of tree coin
age applause and cries of why don't
Mckinley come out and answer some OF
them?')
\ The voice-People here have the impress
sion that when the free coinage of silver
is brought into effect they can take their
silver tea pots and coin them into money.
Mr. Bryan-The gentleman says the peo-
pie have the impression here that under
free coinage the people can take their
silver tea pots and silverWare ana have
il coined into money. 1t is true tnat I'M
4 der free coinage that any man can melt
UP a dollar and a half's worth of spoons
/ and have the silver coined into one dol
! ar and twenty-nine cents, if you have a
man who is fool enough to do it. Great
! applause.) Now
WHY WILL PEOPLE REFUSE
| 10 melt UP their silverware? Because it
will be worth more as silVerware than 1t
! will be worth in silver dollars under free
| coinage (applause) and, my frien9s, you
| can depend upon it that people win not
| do things which are going to hurt # they
| know it. That is one of the things that
! you can base your reasoning upon, and
| in that connection I frequently have Fco-
pie ask me, Would it DE possible for u
man to buy silver for SO cents and have
it coined into a dollar and make the diff
! ference?" daughter and a voice: Who
! is going to sell try The gentleman asks
/ the question as he understands it. He
says. Who would sell 1T? Now, when
you cannot coin silver you Cal buy for
/ So cents the silver that is in dollar, but
when you can have that silver coined for
dollar then you cannot find anybody WHO
( VIII sell you that silver for % cents. Cap
plause) Now my friends, If the farmer
cannot get money for what he produces,
/ how is he going to have the money to
! buy what other people have to sen? CA
voice: start up the mills.'D Suppose
you start up the mills; how are you go
ing to dispose of the things which the
mill produce unless people can buy the
/ produce of your mills? While the Re-
publicans are accusing US of arraying