The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-06
gold secured to 1t by the laws secured by
the advocates of the gold standard in this

have property have right to protect your
selves against the conspiracy 10 Destroy
a banker in Buffalo who wrote an article
the other day in which he said that upon
the success of the business men depended
the success of the laDOrer and of the
farmer. Iaughter.) Think of that. There
is not a person in this audience who would
make that mistake, because no man who
will stand here in the rain belongs to the
people who would make that kind of
why, my friends. it simply reverses the
process. Upon the laboring man and the
farmer depend all the people OF society
They do not depend on the business man.
You have to create wealth before you can
exchange wealth. The business men are
the men who exchange wealth not the men
casion to describe it this way:
s.The farmers and laborers are the foun-
dation of society. The business man, the
commercial man and the professional man
and the financiers are the roof of the
house, and yet, the financers think they
are the whole thing and all the rest de-
ponds upon them fApplause) As mat
ter of fact, however, you can change a
roof of house and the house viii stand.
You can change your financial system and
the government will stand but if you de-
stroy the foundation the house goes down.
(Applause) Now. I want to ask you who
are the producers of wealth.
Here the part of the audience the
other side of the platform called for Mr.
Bryan to speak from their side. He said
II am afraid l have been neglecting
friends over here. Now, if you will be
aef here in 'ney 6e RTyan thne
tried to get to the other side of the plat
form, but. it being impossible he turned
follows
Now, just a word in conclusion: I want
you to remember my friends, that on every
question which concerns the public each
man must act for himself, and I want to
warn you against the efforts which will be
to vote their laborers as if they were cat
tie instead of free men. L want to warn
made by some financiers to whom they
loaned money to secure the of the
men to whom they have loaned We have
no objection te the money-lender. He is a
part of society, and we need him. When
we need money we so to him and borrow
money from him. but when want to vote
l do not go to him to ask him how I am to
vote.
APPEAL TO OLD SOLDIERS.
you say you want little about the old
soldiers Well my friends, the crisis which
ais approaching now, the question before the
country now appeals to the old soldier as
much as it did in 1861. Applause) If the
men in this country were willing to march
out upon the field and to sustain a govern
ment of the people and by the people I
want TO know why they cannot give one
day in the year, and that election day. to
stand by a government of the people and
by the people still. applause and cheers)
My friends, I am not afraid that any man
who rfsked his life in his Nations behalf
is going to be influenced by the arguments
that are addressed to the soldiers now by
the financers who, during the war were
looking out for themselves and letting the
soldiers soldiers look olt for themselves Great
who were willing at that time to endure
the dangers of war because they believed
that the black man should be Free | am
not afraid that these men are going to al
low the hosts of the gold standard to en-
blacks, in this country. Great Great APPLAUSE pu anu
Let me give you two suggestions and
Der that the value of dollar depends upon
the number of dollars. I want you to re-
to the number of dollars that n
will affect the value of the dollars. This
principle of monetary science is under
stood by our opponents because they have
invoked a legislation to destroy a part of
the country's money in order that they
money, and when they tell you that you
do not understand the question of finance
.en and .Hf rat t the man an VINO taRs
demand which simply means that when we
limit money we make it dear. tell him that
when we open the minis we increase the
demand and it rises in price.
I'm 1873 We closed our minis and silver
fell. When we stopped buying silver in
1873 silver fell Under bimeta.llism our laws
will bring demand into existence and that
demand will fix the price of silver. We be-
lieve that the demand furnished by seventy
millions of people is sufficient to use all the
silver we can get to our minis. Great ap-
plause) If that be true there is no person
in the world who will sell his silver for less
than ST. an ounce because by. bringing it
to our minis he can convert it into money
They tell us that Mexico has failed to do
so. Now, we cannot have all the votes,
the Republican party shall have the vote
of every man who can look over the United
than Mexico Cheers and applause.) / am
perfectly willin~ that any man that thinks
pIish anything which Mexico has failed to
accomplish, | am willing that he should
vote for the Republican ticket. Great APP
plaUSe.) Bat if there is in this Ma
ton who believes that this Nation, with ten
times the population and seven times the
area, and 1 don't know how many times
the commercial strength, who believes this
Nation can do what Mexico cannot do. 1
may expect him to vote for our ticket NV
friends, it is purely question of supply
and demand. If Mexico had been able
with other nations that are now using sill
would go to the Mexican mint, why, she
could have maintained the parity. If we
the demand now existing we can maintain
the parity. We never can tell until we try
and our opponents will never know be-
cause they never would try.
A FABLE APPLICATION.
whenever you find a man who is going
to settle the question for you and relieve
you of all care and anxiety you find out
whether he is on your side not. 0augh-
ter and applause) Whenever 1 find one Of
these good-ratured men, these self-sacri-
ficing men: when 1 find one of those who
are willing to take upon themselves the
thinking for all the rest of the people am
compelled to think of one of Aesops fables
There was a farmer who building a
fence to protect his chickens, and a fox
came UP to him and said: Don't bother
about that fence. You go about your
blowing and leave your chickens to us
daughter) We foxes understand the
chicken business Continued laughter and
applause.) Why will you let men who
sued by this government because the bonds
will you let those men decide whether bond
issues are a good thing for the American
people? tApplause.) Why will you allow
the presidents of the trusts, the attorneys
for svndicates to decide whether trusts and
syndicates are good things for the Amer
lean people? 1ApplauSe)
II want to ask you If the small business
men who have been driven out of business
by a trust; / want to ask you if the people
who, having been deprived of the ahvan-
tages of competition. are made the prey of
those who control the market; | want to
ask you if they have not good right
to Judge what is good for them as have
the great corporations which have these
things in their hands and want TO
keep them there? Great applause.)
They say that we are arraying one
class of society against another. / deny
it. But, my friends, if a burglar comes to
my house | have right to call all my
family up to keep him out (Applause)
And it does not make mad if, as he