Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-09-18
SPOKE 81 P00KE TO TIE PACKERS
THREE MEETINGS Addressed by
MIR. BRYAN.
That the CircuIatfon of Money
Is Decreasing.


nearly a thousand worlingmen from
the car shops and packing houses, who
demanded a speech. From the rear
end of the platform he addressed them
as follows:
Fellow Citizens: 1 am very glad TO
speak to you, even for moment. Some
of our opponents tell us the thing to do
| is to open the mills instead of the minis
| That reminds me of the man who said
his horse would go all right if he could
| just get the wagon started. daughter
and applause)
1T is putting the cart before the horse.
What use is there for the mills unless the
people can buy what the mills produce?
And how can you start them as long as
those who produce the wealth of this
country. particularly the farmers, are not
| able to get enough out of what they
raise to pay taxes and interest? CAP
plause.)
There is no more effective way of de-
stroying the markets for what the mills
produce than to lower the prices upon
the products the farmer has raised SO
| that they win not bring him enough to
pay him for raising them. There was a
| report filed by Mr.. Mckinley in 1890,
along with the Mckinley bill, which de-
clared there was great industrial depres--
sion, and while there was depression in
| agriculture there could be no prosperity
| anywhere. II was true tnen, ana IL is
| true today, that while there is depression
| in agricultural products there can be no
prosperity anywhere. You must com
| mence at the bottom and work up
! through the other classes. You can not
| commence your prosperity at the top and
| expect it to work down through all
| phases of society. (Applause.)
Securing Prosperity.
| You, gentlemen who live in this city,
| surrounded by agricultural country,
| know there is no way of bringing pros
| perity to Kansas City until you first bring
! prosperity to those toilers upon whose
| success Kansas City rests. (Appause.)
| 1t does not require flnanciers, it does not
| require railroad attorneys to tell you
| where your prosperity lies. Great APP
| plause) Nor can these men prevent you
| from exercising the right of sovereignty
| as you please" (Applause)
| voice: "They are trying to do it,"
My friends, l met a railroad man yes
| terday who told me that while he did not
| agree with me on the silver question, an
| issue had been raised greater than the
| silver question, and that was whether he
| lived in a republic where a man had a
| right to vote as he pleased, or whether
| his vote was the property of somebody
| else, to be used as somebody Use
| pleased" (Applause.)
| A voice: Missouri gives you LOG, 900 ma
jority, you bet' Another voice: put
4
| And Arkansas did pretty well herself
Mr. Bryan-That sounds very much like
| one of those meetings where they take
| up a collection. Gaughter)
| My friends there is one characteristic
| about this campaign-that Is, the intense
| earnestness of the people. Unless fll
| signs fail. the people are going to be at
| the polling places before the booths are
| open and stay there until they close and
| there won't be a man who can get to the
polls but who will sure to be there. but
| that interest means this government Is
/ going to be made more nearly what the
| government ought to be- and that is a
| government which will protect the hum
| blest citizen in the land in his right 10
| work and enjoy the fruits of his TOLL.
| Great applause)
The Bryan party and members of the
! reception committee boarded ly-ho
| at the Coates house and were driven to
| Eleventh street and Grand avenue, whore
| fully 1900 people were massed. A tenn
| porary stand had been erected, but the
| crowd was so dense it was deemed best
| to have Bryan address them from the
coach. Standing on the middle seat of the
| tally-ho, with his overcoat collar turned
| up about his throat, Bryan spoke in part
| as follows:
| Bryan's Second Speech.
Ladies and Gentlemen: 1 want to
| suggest a few propositions for you to
1
| money question. Our opponents tell us
We are going in the face of natural laws.
| l assert that the advocates of free COIN
age are the only people in this campaign
who base their arguments upon natural
| laws (Applause.)
| THE law of supply and demand per-
| tains to the money question. say
| when you increase the demand for gold
yol raise its price just as you raise the
Price of anything else by an increasing
demand for it, and when you raise the
price of gold in a gold standard country
you lower the price of all the products
of toll measured by money. Great ap-
plause.) The gold standard then means
falling prices, and falling prices means
hard times to everybody except the men
who own the money or trade in money.
| applause and cheers.)
! Now, if the money owner has a right
to use the ballot to raise the value of
the money he owns, why haven't all the
rest of the people the right to use the bal
lot to keep gold from destroying the prop
erty they own? Great applause.)
Our opponents talk about 50-cent dol
lars. They refuse to recognize the fact
that the moment the minis of the Unit
ed States are opened to the free coinage
of silver 100000 900 people can go out and
secure the silver, take it to the mint, con-
vert it into money and use that money
to pay their taxes and debts with and
| for the purchase of property. They re-
fuse to recognize, say, that the opening
= o. our minis increases the demand fol-
, silver and raises the price of silver as
measured by gold. Is it because they
don't comprehend that fundamental prin-
. ciple which underlies our belief, or dc
S they understand those principles and re-
. fuse to acknowledge that they under.
f stand them? applause and cries
, ! That's what's the matter with them. "
. VIII Take All Surplus silver.
: Now, another proposition. We believ,
= not only that free coinage of silver will
raise the value of silver bullion, as meas
ured by gold, but we believe that the de
e mand created by the opening of thu
United States mints will be sufficient t,
e take all the surplus silver, and there be
ing then no surplus silver upon the mar
ket which can not be converted int
S money at our mints, to use in the devel
is opment of our industries, there will b
$ no silver in the world which can be pur
er chased for less than s129 an ounce il
pr gold. Great applause.)
ls But our opponents say, suppose W
II. have no more money, how are you goin
II. to get any of it? That to them is an al
IN gument which answers everything. LIE
me suggest a question you can ask then
Suppose you have something to sell, hoy
can you get anything for it until you fin
re somebody who has money to buy wha