The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-07
Will GET THE MONEY 0. <.
Says Bryan if the MINIS Are Opened
to Coinage.


lowing is the conclusion of VIM. J. Bry-
ans speech here, the first part of which
was published in yesterdays dis
patches:
They ask Us how this money (silver
coined free at the mints) Is to get
among the people. Money cannot get
among the people until there is money
to get among the people They tell US to
open our mills instead of our minis. I
remind you Of the fact there Is no use
to open the mills until the people are
able to use what the mills produce
(Applause.) If our people were able to
buy what the mills produce. you could
then open the mills, but you destroy
the cOnsumptive capacity of the people
and YOU close the mills You drive from
the products of the farm and you make
1t so that the farmer has not any more
interest and to pay his debts, and it
leaves him nothing to spend at the
stores, and your stores cannot sell any
thing, and then your manufacturers
cannot manufacture anything for your
storekeepers. (Applause)
I'VE want to improve the condition
of society by commencing at the bot
tom, by increasing the prosperity of
the t0ilfng masses and then there will
be prosperity to all the branches Of
society because If you begin by making
the rich richer and the poor poorer,
You will not get any benefit out of
legislation (Applause.) We have had
one sort Of system in the interests of
the money owner and the money
changer, ana lHG LoCL Ln6I LnGY IKE AZ
is an Indication that they are human.
When think of those who like the
gold standard, I think of what Lincoln
said when some one asked him how he
liked a certain speech. He answered.
Anybody that would like that sort of
q speech would be very much pleased
with it applause and laughter-) A
man who likes the gold standard is
very fond Of it, but. my friends, the
number of people who like the gold
standard is growing beautifully less in
EI-E ---Ar rrn1- =
plause)
Mr.. Bryan spoke from a platform
near the center of the city of New Al
bany, situated in a natural ampithea.-
ter, the stand being IN the center and
the people gathered on the hills from
each side. There was good sized au-
dience to greet him and his speech was
punctuated with applause and cheer
ing.s He said:
mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle
men:-FrOm the manner in which you
have applauded the sentiment that
there was not money enough, I mag
Inc that there are very few in this au-
dience who are alarmed at any pros
pect Of a flood of money. applause
1t is one thing that has excited nay
sympathy to find occasionally man
who had never had too much money
in all his life. sometimes a man not
able to pay his debts, even in so cent
dollars. daughter and applause.) A
man who does not know where his pro-
visions are coming from next winter, /
IS not JTem Dl1nR IN MS boots Tor rear
that under free coinage there viii be
such load of money that he viii be
overwhelmed. (Applause.)
My friends we are preaching a doc
trine which we believe to be sound
and that doctrine is this. That the
only way to stop falling prices is to
increase the amount of money to be |
exchanged for property. A rising dol /
lar is simply a dollar that continues to /
buy more and more. and dollar can
not buy more and more unless the pro /
ducts of toll sell for less and less. Fall /
ing prices mean hard times, and no |
party in its platform ever declared /
that hard times were a good thing. /
(Applause.)
And yet without declaring that hard /
times are good for the people, the Re /
publican platform promises to maintain /
the policy which has caused hard times |
until foreign nations get tired of being 1
benefited by a gold standard and con
sent to let us abandon it. We are con
frOnted by this paramount issue In this /
campaign: Shall the American people /
have a financial system Of their own, /
or shall they import financial system /
ready made from some foreign nation? /
(Cries of Never, never.D our OppO- /
nents say we ought to talk tariff. AS
soon as they viii consent to a prohibit /
tory duty on foreign financial systems /
I Will talk tariff with them. and not /
until then. Great applause) They (
want to arrange our finances by inter
national agreement I viii await until
they have arranged the tariff question
by international agreement before I
will submit our financial question to
them "a voice: You are an Ameri-
can.D
My friends. they say that they have
sound money. and yet il is one of the
evidences of their lack of sincerity that
instead of talking about gold they use
words to conceal their meaning and to
deceive the people. We want sound L
money. too. but we deny that they offer
US a sound financial system There
he
money. Money may be Of excellent
quality, but there may be none of it,
CApplause) And I deny that that is
sound financial system which gives a
fine quality, but does not give you any
quantity. Our opponents want to build
up a financial system with gold as a
base. and then you ask them where