The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-09-24
BRYAN AT FREDERICKSBURG.
He Spoke at the Monument of Washing
tons Mother.

lie Spoke at the Monument OF NaSnlnS-
tons Mother.
, Fredericksburg, w. Va, Sept 19.-In
Fredericksburg and Potomac railway,
w. J. Bryan continued his trip through
Virginia this morning. He left Rich
mOnd at I o'clock en- route for Washing
ton. At Milford Mr.. Bryan attempted
to make a short address, but the train
pulled out before the crowd quoted.
Mr.. Bryan spoke as follows at Mary
Washington's monument:
Ladies and Gentlemen-Fredericks
burg is small city, but is rich in Incl
dents of great historic value. Here the
ment to Mary. the mother of George
glad to stand on this spot. | am glad to
feel the influence which surrounds her
grave. In Il campaign. especially in Il
campaign like this, there is bitterness
and sometimes abuse levelled against the
candidate for public Office but, my
friends, the mother is the candidate for
the affections of all mankind against
whom no true man can utter word of
abuse. (Applause) There is one name
mother" which never is found on the
tongue of the slanderer: in her presence
all criticism is silent. The painter has
with his brush transferred the landscape
to the canvas so that you can almost
believe that the trees and grasses are
real, rather than limitations. The pain
tiers have transferred to the canvass the
form of the maiden until its beauty and
purity almost speak forth, but this is one
picture which no painter ever has been
able faithfully to portray and that is the
picture of a mother holding in her arms
her babe. Great applause.) Within the
shade of this monument, reared to her,
who in love and loyalty represents the
mother of each, | bow in humble rever-
ence to motherhood. Great applause.)
Il am told in this county were fought
more battles than in any county of like
size in the world: there fell more lead
and wounded than ever fell on similar
Here opposing lines We're drawn up face
to face. Here opposing armies met and
stared mt each other and then sought to
take each others lives; but all those
scenes have passed away and those who
met in deadly array now meet and COM
mingle here as friends. (Arnlause) Here
the plOughShare has been made out of
the swords, and spears have been con-
verified into pruning hooks and people
learn war no more. Here the bands on
either side stir up the tagging zeal with
notes that thrill the hearts of men. These
two bands are now component parts of
one great band and as that band in the
lead plays Yankee Doodle and Dixie
behind it follow the war-scarred vet
Grams who wore the blue and the war
Scared veterans who wore the grey.
each vieing with the other in the effort
to make this the grandest and greatest
applauSe) | am glad to visit this his
tOric place. Here George Washington
once came and threw Il silver dollar
across the river, but remember, my
friends, that when he threw that dollar
across the river, it lit fell and renamed
on American soil. iApplausc.) They
thought it was Il great feat then, but we
have developed so rapidly in the last
hundred years that we have financlers
now who can leave George Washington's
achievements far behind. We have
financiers who have been able to throw
gold dollars all the way across the At
lantic and then bring them back by an
issue of bonds. Great applanseD Would
you believe it, my friends, that a silver
dollar which was good enough to be
handled by the Father of his country, is
not so mean Il thing as to excite the
contempt of many of our so-caed imam
ciers? Cries of No, MOI Well it is.
1t is so mean that they don't like, it.
Why our opponents tell us that they
want a dollar that will 90 all over the
world. We have had dollars which they
can see anywhere in the world if they
travel abroad. | am not so much Wor,
ried about our dollars which travel
abroad. | want a dollar that won't be
ashamed to look farmer in the face.
Great applause) People can have just
as good a dollar as they want because
dollars are creatures of law and you
can determine the purchasing power OF
dollar when you determine the number
! of dollars. If you want them dear make
them scarce and they vii! be dear If
our dollars are not good enough now.
when a dollar will buy 100 bushels of
oats. CA voice: We don't want that
kind of a dollar.) If anybody here has
been selling farm products and complain
ing because they are not cheap enough
you can make them cheaper il you vote
the republican ticket this fall
Mr.. Bryan, in opening his first speech,
announced that the paramount issue i'll
this campaign was the money question,
THAT" said he, SHOULD be settled be-
fore we take up anything else.
The speaker took issue with the But-
folo banker whom he alleges wrote "thC
success of the farmer and laborer de-
pends on the success of the business
man" and asserted that the reverse of
this proposition was true. -,
MY friends. | am no anarchist. There
is not beneath the flag truer friend OF
government and law and order than the
nominee of the Chicago convention, ZAP
plause.) l love government so well that
/ want to make it so good that there
will not he one citizen in the whole worlc
who would not be willing. to die for it,
(Applausc)
HE HAD READ THE RETURNS.
Washington, Sept. 19.-Democratit
Headquarters tonight announced that
Bryan's Brooklyn speech had been post
poned till September %: This will en-