The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-17
BOY BRYAN BEGINS
BEFORE BREAKFAST
10 the Broken Light Of Day His First
Speech is Delivered.
THE BRASS BAND IN EVIDENCE
Ovations rendered Along the Line.
The Money Lender of Benton Har.
bOr Receives a Lashing from the
Spcakcr..A Course Of Action That
Makes Republican Votes.

y
day William j. Bryan began his speech
making before breakfast this morning,
but it was in the broken light of Z
o'clock, and not in the first peep of the
day that the nominee addressed his
first audience. His train lay all night
in Gravel siding. seven miles from
Grand Rapids. and began its journey
ings again at G.. Muskegon, reached an
hour later, was not in the regular itin-
erary, but a detour to that place was
made at the request of people there.
The members of Mr.. Bryans audience,
1000 in number, gave him some very
hearty cheers and heard u short speech
about the silver question. Mr. Bryan
found another big crowd at Holland.
where his train arrived at s o'clock.
Like Muskegon the little town had out
q brass band. Mr.. Bryan made another
speech, and at Fenvillc he talked again.
The raw atmosphere of the morning
had become more intense in its rawness
when Mr.. Bryan got off his special tram
at Bangor to talk to about 1,5Oo people
here. a five minute stop was made.
Arriving at Hartford at $40 Mr.. Bry-
an found an enthusiastic audience. A
banner overhead attracted his notice,
and indicating it. he said: MY friends,
l like your motto, Free silver and fin
ancial independence" There can be no
financial independence until the Ameri-
can people can recognize their own
ability to attend to their own business
without Interference or without the
consent of any other nation on earth.
When I tell you that we must legislate
for ourselves | am not appealing to any
mock sentiment. In our society the
family is the unit. and the family must
be self-supporting. In the sisterhood
of nations the nation is the unit and
the nation must legislate for itself. lf
the creditor nations of the world have
right to use their influence to make
money dear because they collect money
from us, have we not a right to use our
influence to stop it and protect our
people from the robbery that has been
practiced?
DELIGHTED SCHOOL MISTRESS.
When the Bryan special pulled away
from Watervliet at 9,35 after a five
minute stop. it left behind it delight
full young school mistress and her flock
of pupils The train stopped near the
school house and teacher and young
sters came rushing out to see the NOM
inee. Mrs. Bryan noticed the groups
and sent a big bouquet of flowers to
the teacher and the audience of several
hundred people, addressed by Mr.. Bry-
an there, did not cheer louder as the
train resumed its journey than the boys
and girls from the school house.
A score of people only were at st.
Joe when the special arrived there.
Some boy said that the whole town
had gone over to Benton Harbor to
hear Mr.. Bryan there, so the train
pulled out again. after a stop of a
minute.
Five thousand people had gathered
In front of h, hntal OF Jantn,
Harbor to hear Mr.. Bryan deliver a
fifteen minute speech. His train
reached Benton Harbor at 1920 a. m.
and started for Nices at 1910. His
audience was enthusiastic and the
cheering was hearty and prolonged
when $. Jarvis, candidate for congress,
presented him. The text OF Mr.. Bry-
ans speech was a paragraph in local
paper quoting "a leading man" of the
town as saying: IF silver wins this
fall it will be one of the greatest dis
asters that ever befell the farmers. /
have had for over ten years nearly
100000 loaned in this county to farm
crs. In many instances payments have
been met but for few years. | have
been compelled to extend the time, and
! am willing to do so under the finan-
cial basis, but If silver wins this fall
l will do what every other man will
do with his money Out-demand imme-
diate payment. | admit | may lose
some of the interest, but have at least
three years to save myself and during
that time, l will close in every mort
gage l have"
MONEY-LENDER DENOUNCED.
Said Mr.. Bryan:
My friends, l want to denounce the
money lender who 1ttpmpts IN usa bic
mortgages to influence American voters
ana l want TO say that man does not de-
serve to live In the United States and en-
Joy its liberty.
| want YOU to understand that those
men, knowing that they cannot appeal to
reason, attempt to appeal to force; these
meh, knowing that their arguments do not
appeal 10 judgment, uttempt to appeal to
the fears OF men. In this campaign, my
friends, We have arrayed against us an
enemy OF society, and every man who
seeks to make slaves of those with whom
he deals l am glad they are not ON our
side. l am glad have not the support of
man who intends to fOreclose his mort
cages IL men do not vote as he wants
main humble private citizen than to hold
the most exalted office in this land, If l
had to receive my commission from men
who know as little about the genius of our
institutions as the money lender whose
language have quoted. (Applause.)
My friends, this clipping was sent to me
by man VINO had always been Il Repubi-
can, Il man who owed a mortgage of ST. 900
on farm which used to be worth $1,000
and worked in his letter that under the
gold standard he expected to have to give
up his farm because under gold stand
ard farmers cannot pay their mortgages
and simply have to lose what they have
invested and turn their land over to the
man who loans his money and uses his
mortgage to intimidate American citizens.
l say | received this clipping from a Re-
publican, and my friends, it is this at
tempt or the moneyed aristocracy that Is
driving those men out Of the Repubi-
can party to join with us in restoring the
money of the constitution and put this
government back to hands of the people
where 1t belongs. Cheers.)
BRYAN QUOTES BYNUM.
There were large crowds at Niles and
Dowagiac. At the latter place Con-
gresham Bynum was to speak later
in the day, and Mr.. Bryan took occa-
sion to quote an utterance of his and
make some comments on 1t. Here is
what he said:
1t Is because of the shrinkage of value
as well as the detriment of labor that I
raise my voice and utter a protest against
successfully waged in behalf Of the
moneyed interests to the utter and most
complete destruction of the welfare of the
people. The people of the west have been
paying an exorbitant interest into the east
until they are impoverished. They are en-
ergetic. laborious and patriotic. During
the days when the nations body was
bleeding from a hundred wounds and IFS
life trembling in the balance, they poured
out their richest blows and treasure that
it might be saved.
Mr.. Bryan has this to say in COM
ment:
Those words were true then and they are
true today. The people are as laborious
and energetic now as they were when Mr.
Bynum described them and they are suf-
fering today as they suffered then and all
they ask of the government row Is what
they asked then-that IL will not raise its
arm and strike them down with one blow
to want and beggary; and yet when they
ask for this they are called mob l want
you to understand that those who are to-
day Tor SINE reason, which they may be
able [ explain. changed in their Voeityo,,