The herald., 1896-09-25

trying to save his voice, that they could
agree with him that 1t needed saving.
He said:
II am glad to see the people down here
at last recognizing the fact that the
money question has something to do
with present conditions. We have
known 1t out west for some time. but
here 1t has not reached you because
the newspapers have been burying the
cause, and your people may not think
it necessary to study cause which
the newspapers say is SO nearly dead.
But it is not dead, my friends"
AT BRIDGEPORT
BRIDGEPORT. Conn.,, Sept. 24.-The
most enthusiastic reception to Mr..
Bryan Of the day was that accorded by
the citizens of this place. When the
train rolled into the station a number
of carriages were in waiting. In these
Mr.. Bryan and party were taken to
Washington park, in the heart of the
city. where Mr.. Bryan spoke to a crowd
of several thousand. The meeting was
presided over by Judge D. H. Lock-
wood of Bridgeport. After the speech
Mr.. Bryan was driven to the Windsor
hotel. where he partook Of light
luncheon. At 1880 the party left for
New Haven.
In his Washington park speech Mr..
Bryan said: .......
"Mr. Chairman. Ladies and Gentle
men:-I am glad to have the opportun-
ity to speak to the people of Connecti-
cut. They accuse us of raising a Sec
tional question. We have not raised
sectional question. The restoration Of
bimetallism is good. not for the west
and south only; it is good for the people
of Connecticut also. (Applause). The
gold standard Is fraud (applause)
and is as detrimental to the masses
as 1t Is to the masses
accused the people who live in Con-
necticut of making wooden nutmegs
| and selling them for the real article.
want to tell you that man who palms
off a wooden nutmeg as real nutmeg
Is man of honesty compared with the
| man who advocates a gold dollar and
| calls 1t an honest dollar. (Great ap-
| plause). The gold dollar is not an hon
est dollar. and the reason why our op-
ponents insist on using the phrase.
honest money instead Of gold money
is because they recognize the difference
between an honest dollar and a gold
| dollar. When they talk about honest
| money and the gold standard at the
same time they remind me of the man
who went to cemetery and saw an in
| scription upon a monument: Here lies
| a lawyer and an honest man. (Laugh-
| teri. And the man who read the inscrip-
| ton remarked that the grave did not
look as If 1t was big enough for two
men. (Laughter).
'"I do not speak Of this to slander the
| lawyer. I am a lawyer myself. Gap
plause) And believe lawyer can be
an honest man. but I speak Of 1t, my
| friends, to show you or to comment,
rather. upon the fact that you cannot
| have honest money and a gold stand
ard at the same time"
A voice-Why? is, ~
Mr.. Bryan-Recause a gold dollar un-
! der gold standard grows fatter every
| day, and that is not an honest dollar.
| (Great applause.)
| Now, what would be an honest dollar? +?
Why. they say dollar which, when you
melt 1t, loses nothing. According to that
the Mexican dollar is an honest dollar,
because you can melt it and 1t does not
| lose anything.
A voice-How much is 1t worth?
Mr.. Bryant is worth just as much as
the bullion is worth. Now, if the Mexi-
can dollar is worth just as much as the
| bullion in 1t, and the bullion in 1t is worth
just, as much as the Mexican dollar. I
| want to ask you If it is not an honest
dollar according to those who say that
Ian honest dollar is a dollar that loses
nothing by melting. (Applause) A
Mexican dollar is worth about IS cents in
our money. An American dollar will
buy about two Mexican dollars, and also
| about two bushels Of wheat at the same
| time. (Aplause.) There was a time
when an American dollar would buy
only one Mexican dollar, and then an
| American dollar would buy only one
| bushel Of wheat. II the time ever comes
when the American dollar will buy
three Mexican dollars. then it will buy
| three bushels OF wheat. You can make
! dollars as dear as you want them. The
| only. question is, how dear do you want
them to be. (Applause.) Our opponents
want them SO dear that a man who has
not o. dollar can't get one and the man
who has dollars can buy q great deal
with them. (Applause.) This is man
ufacturing city. You manufacture sew
ing machines here. My friends. let me
ask you how you are going to increase
tine output of your sewing machine fac
| tories? Are you going to make it SO that
| only O few people can afford to use sew
| ing machines or do you want the people
prosperous, SO every wife can have a
sewing machine? Under the gold stand
ard the few people may have sewing ma
chimes and the masses of the people can
not. (Applause.) We want to bring
prosperity to this ration by commencing
at the bottom with the masses of the
people, and then prosperity will find its
way up to all the other classes of So
ciety. (Applause.) l understand that
some of your employers are very much
worried for fear their employees will only
get 5O-cent dollars They need not be
worried. II they have as much love for
the laboring man after election as they
have now, even if free coinage meant a
50-cent dollar, they could pay their la
boring men twice as many dollars and
save from them any harm done them.