The record-union., 1896-08-23
THINKING FOR THEMSELVES.
THAT Is WHAT BRYAN SAYS THE
PEOPLE ARE DOING.
The United States Must Take the
Lead in the Restoration of
BimetalIiSm.


TARRYTOWN IN ", Aug. %
cal campaign in earnest to-day at Mad
cline, Dutchess County He delivered
the first actual campaign speech since
his nomination. He said, among other
things:
I'VE are entering upon a campaign
which is a remarkable one in many re-
spects. Heretofore, at least in the last
twenty-five or thirty years. each party
has gone into the campaign practically
solid, presenting a united front against
the opposing party; but in this cam
paign there has been practically a bolt
from every convention which has been
called. This means that people are not
sc willing now as they have been to
allow the platform of a party to con-
troll their elections. They are think
ing with more earnestness and intensity
than they have been thinking in recent
years, and the result of this thinking
will be manifested when it comes to
register the will of this great Nation,
and between that time and this hour
we expect to present to those who must
act upon the questions the issues of the
campaign.
II beg you to consider whether the
great toiling masses of this Nation have
not right to make business out of
politics for once and protect their
homes and their families from disaster
Applause) 1 have not been in the
State of New York long; l have not met
many Of your people; and yet in the
short time that have been here 1 have
met enough Republicans who said they
were going to vote our ticket to make
up for every Democrat that ever de-
serted US, and we welcome the coming
guests as we speed those who are de-
parting. (Applause)
1T is hollow mockery to grant to the
people a right in your legislation and
then deny them the privilege of exer-
cising it. / assert that the people of
the United States, those who produce
wealth, as we'll as those who exchange
it, have sufficient patriotism and suffi-
cient intelligence to sit in judgment
uDon every question which has arisen
or will arise, no matter how long our
Government may endure. (Applause
My friends he continued, Il want
you to remember that in the discussion
of this money question there are certain
fundamental principles, and when you
understand these principles you un-
derstand the money question. Out in
our portion of the country where they
irrigate on a large scale | find enor-
nous plants, and in investigating this
the thought occurred to me what prin-
ciple underlies the principle of irrigation.
1t is that water runs down hill. When
You understand that water runs down
hill all you have to do is to dig a ditch
with slant and you can carry water
wherever you want it.
80 it is with the money question
You have got to lind out the funda-
mental principles which underlie the
subject, and when you understand them
you understand the money question
What is the principle that underlieS it
all? 1t is the law of supply and de-
mand, which applies to money as to
everything else. You know that if the
worlds crop next year of a certain ar
ticle Is very much greater than the
crop this year that that article will fall
than this year that it will rise in price
lou know that the law of supply and
demand reaches and controls all sorts
of property. 1t reaches and controls
money as we'll as other forms of prop
erty.
The establishing of gold as a sole
unit of value throughout the world and
the des.ruction of silver as a standard
money means that you shall destroy
the value of all property, except money
and investments that call for a fixed
amount in money. 1t means that you
will give to these investments and to
this form of property-money-an adj
vantage over every other form of prop
erty. When you understand the effect
of the policy and then understand that
the desire for it is manifested most
among those who hold the fixed invest
ments or trade in money l think you
will come to the conclusion that have
come to, that the fact that the gold
standard is a good thing for them is
the principal reason why they are in fa-
vor of a gold standard (Applause)
Now, my friends, when you make up
your minds that the gold standard is a
bad thing then the only question that
you have to consider is how you can get
rid of it. They can raise objections to
the plan which we propose. but / want
to suggest that you are interested not
so much in knowing the objections to
our plan as in knowing what plans they
have to relieve the condition. Why do
not they propose something? 1t is be-
cause they do not know what ought to
be done. If SO they are poor people to
lead you out of bondage. (Applause.)
Is it because they know and will not
tell? If SO they have not the candor
that ought to be possessed by those who
would redeem the people from their suf-
fering and distress. (Applause.)
My friends continued Mr. Bryan,
II want you to study this money ques-
ton for yourselves, and / want you to
understand that if bimetallism is to be
restored the United States must take
the lead. (Applause.) We have waited
for more than twenty years to have the
benefits of bimetallism brought to us
by those whose interests are opposed to
ours. / assert that the American peo-
pie not only have the right. but they
have the ability to legislate for them
selves on every question, no matter
what other nations think about it,
Gong applause.)
IF we need relief from the gold stand
ard, we must secure it for ourselves
And if we must secure this relief for
ourselves, you can only secure it
through a party which believes in the
restoration of the free and unlimited
coinage of gold and silver at the pres