The San Francisco call., 1896-08-01


yer and wages will go up; give us free sill
yer and business will BOOM Don't you
think, in view of the promises given four
years ago and their default to pay, that it
would be best to ask for little collateral
security on which to back up this new
promise? They say it is nostrum for all
our ills. Nothing sells so well in the
United States as a patent medicine or a
new kind of chewing-gum. The whole
campaign of free silver is based on a prom
Use of something better when free silver
comes.
~ do not want to Mexicanize our Amer
lean dollar or apologize for its cheapness.
Gold means free coinage. Did you stop to
think that if free coinage of silver will in
crease the value of that bullion it will
not bring to the people higher wages or
give them better prices for their product !?
Free coinage will either lower the 4ss.4.-
dard Of our dollar TO the 50-cent Mexican
dollar or else it will double the value OF
our neighbours dollar without expense to
them"
The Senator mentioned that on July IL
the Chicago Chronicle had charged Bryan
with being the paid agent and spokesman
made the silver issue, and that he had not
met the charge.
THAT man." cried the Senator, ''pos ing
as the friend of the downtrodden masses,
holding crown of thorns in one hand and
the bugaboo of cross of gold in the other,
owes it to every man, woman and child in
this country to say whether that charge is
false or whether it is true"
He closed by arguing that cheap money
would not help the poor man.
Mr.. Darrow was then introduced. He
did not think the settlement of the free
coinage question would ever give to the la
borer that which he never had under DEM
ocratic or Republican administrations
full share of the product of his toll. nor
lift from the farmer the great burden of
debt and distress under which he lived.
But it would do something. He repudi-
ated the Sena tors prescription of four
more years of the gold cure, administered
by Mckinley instead of Cleveland. He
accused the Cleveland Democrats of work
ing for Mckinley. and asked the people to
support what was McKiniey's policy until
he became candidate for the Presidency.
1t was the first time that National patty
In the United States had asked that silver
money should be stricken down and gold
alone used by our people. The PROPOSE
ton was so outrageous and unheard OF
that the men who framed it at st. Louis
were afraid to openly advocate 1t, and
added the international agreement clause
as a sop which they and the people knew
to be trick and a lie.
He sternly resen ted the Senator's claim
to be an American when he defended the
proposition to become the bonded slave of
Lombard street and Wall street. He created
a sensational scene when he declared that
if a dollars worth OF American wheat
continued to be sold for so cents the
Englishman will collect his interest from
America as he does from the Egyptian.
with cannon and with sword.
The speaker was vigorously hissed and
several men arose, shook their fists and
cried .snever." The chairman appealed
for order and fair hearing.
Replying to the charge against Mr..
Bryan, he said it came from Mckinley
organ, owned by bank president.
Senator Thurston in closing denounced
the attempt to array class against class and
section against section. There was no such
issue under the stars and stripes. A party
was needed to build up, not tear down.
Finally he said: The man who holds
the KEY to the situation is the officer who
held the line for Sheridan at Shenandoah,
Major Mckinley, and please God he will
he our next President"