The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-10-08
Bryan's Campaign Speeches.
Al LYNN, MASS.
No Market for the Shoe EInctorics
When the Farmers Are Out of
Money.


MIR. Bryan made II short address on
Monday morning at Lynn, Mass, as he
was returning from the visit to Maine.
Ills remarks were pointed and appro-
pirate as follows:
Mr.. Chairman and Fellow Citizens
Our opponents arc all the time assert
Ing that the business men Ough, to
take an interest in this campaign in
order to protect their business inter-
ests. 1t has always made me indig-
nant that Il few people in each cOmmu.
nifty should assume to be the only bust
ness mon in it, and should always in
sist upon thrusting their business in
terests forward in preference to any
body elsc's business interests. I have
always believed that anyone who con
tributed to nations prosperity, who
added to a. nations wealth or to {. ma
lions greatness, was n business man.
(Applauso.)
The man with small interests has IA
much right to project those small in
terests by his ballot us Tie man with
large business has the right to protect
his interests by his ballot. (ApDlaus,.. J
l want to show you how theumoncv
question concerns the various classes
Of people.
l. want to show you that you cannot
separate the interests OF the wagc.
earning Glasses from the interests of
The farming classes. You don't pro-
ducc shoes Tor ornament, but for wear.
Fcopie cannot wear shoes until thcy
are able to buy them, and they cannot
huy shoes unless they have tho money
TO buy with and they cannot begin to
hnt 1.,Il
they have and get the money.
Now, you sell shoes to the peoD)e
west and south. If you drive down the
prices Of all those things which the
larmcrS produce, SO that when they
sell thclr crops they cannot more than
pay deotS and interests and taxes, what
money will they have to buy shoes
with Are you going toEadd to the
prosperity Of Lynn by making more
people 90 halciOoteG? iCrics OF mo,
nO.")
The wagc-earncrS Of Lynn will lu
1dic until there is demand ior thu
produces OF the factories OF I,vun.
There can be no demand for the prod
uct as iohg as You drive money uD and
property down. Failing prices mcun
nard times and hard times have never
been advocated in a platform nv anv
form Thu year, without directly saving
SO, promises to continue hard times
and make them harder. Do yon denv
Ihat proposition? | want YOU to look
at that platform. 1t declares a gold
standard Is not desirable, because that
party pledges itself to get rid Of it. If
the double standard is not more dcsir-
able than the gold standard, why does
the Kepr5lican party want to make
any change?
II The gold standard is good, we
0ught TO keep 1T, but when the Repub.
llcan party attempts 20 get rid of it, it
ADMITS 1T Is not Us good lis bimctallism
Hut thcy promise, notwithstanding
Ihclr desire to get rid Of the gold
standard, that they will keep it until
other nations have helped us to gct rid
of it. Until thon, they say, We must
maintain the gold standard. Ca voice,
"Ycs, but we won't.')
No, don't think we will myself. IF
we maintain tho gold standard, we
must maj ntaln those things which arc
necessarily attached to it. We must
maintain this system Of issuing bonds
Tor gold whenever we want gold. When
we issue bonds and buy gold we create
Il demand for gold and raise it's pur-
chasing power throughout the world,
but we are contracting our currency
ny piling it up in the vaults al Wash
lngton when 1T ought to be out doing
business among the people.
You manufacturers and merchants
go to the banks for money. The banks
tell you they arc very sorry, but they
cannot loan any more just nov. There
can be no moro money in this country
than people permit. If you make your
laws SO You draw Il part Of your money
out or circulation and lock it up, YOU
can't use IT in your business, and have
1T IN the vaults at Washington, both
at the same time. That looks plain
enough. yet there are Iinancicrs who
go on the theory that the more money
you take out Of circulation the more
You have left in it.
There are iinanciers who actually re.
joice at the issue Of bonds, and said it
would restore confidence. They are
trying to run business in this country
with Il larger per cent. Of confidence
than the amount OF money on hand.
And If they go on, the people viii have
all the confidence and no money. NY
observation has been that if a conf
dence man comes into a community,
Inc man who has the least confidence
nus the most money when the fellow
COOS out.
6, You n say 81 am hungry They say,
nave got a remedy; just have con
ndence, and if you have not had q full
meal you will be just as well OF as if
you mad" You say you can't get work.
lney say, Just have confidence, you
right" WIZ 10 al
toa YOU say, we cannot find a market
Tor our shoes" Just have confidence,
tho people will hn,,
pay" '''0 'i'eS Will
IhGre is only ono place wbero think
aconhdcnce game won't work. Won nr
10 one OF those men who is ali tho timo
talking about confidence and asls L'"iT to
borrow mon"y. He says: 'Wbot co
curity have you You saw. St 'V wiii 81
give you all tho confidence you wort =;
lie will tell you ho is not Yonnin"' ''io, ~,
confidence this year. Why is it. tb ,on ol,
hnanclers arc SO anxious for Won ~
have confidence in them whom o III ~ ~
don't have any confidence in vo,,
they want security and they tell W. vn,
to got good name on your noto or Snt 1nt
up something saleable. r"'