Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-09-26
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THE FINANCIERS.

force their ideas upon others while those
others have fallen down beneath the
weight OF those ideas, and the financiers
themselves have risen 10 prosperity on
the PROSTATE forms OF the fallen. Great
applause and cheers)
NO person can accuse me OF attempt
ing TO deny the financiers. or even to the
money changers. the right to their opin-
ions. the right 20 their votes, the right
10 every legitimate influence What !
deny TO them Is this-the right 20 think
for anybody but themselves, the righr
TO act for anybody but themselves, mo
right to put Themselves above other peO
pie. and go through the world crying.
4 am holier than thou ! am holier than
thou CHEERS and applause)
my friends. let me give you one way
by which you can determine the sincerity
OF men Ii Is not a new rule. II IS as
o.d as the law Of evidence II applies 20
all walks Of life, and to all conditions,
and 10 all subjects. The man who be-
ueves he is right tells you what he be-
leves. and why he believes IT,
"a man who does no. believe that he
Is right is the man who has filled the
dictionary with ambiguous terms, and
fills his speech with words Of double
meaning. Great applause)
SOUND MONEY"
"The man who talks about sound
money and then refuses to tell you what
Sound money means can get ccrtih-
cate Of honesty only from himself.
(Cheers) If the advocates OF sound
money believed that their money was
good. they would tell you that by Sound
money they meant gold standard. |
asked a man why IL was that he was op-
posed to using the word gold in the
platform. Wen he said. we have an
unreasonable prejudice against the word
gold and. therefore. IT was to avoid
that prejudice that they used the phrase.
sound money ApplauseD
MY friends. the people have no pre-
judice against the word gold but they
have a prejudice against q system that
is based upon gold and does not furnish
the gold when the people want il Great
applause) There is one advantage in
being a bimctallist-you can like gold
and silver both while a gold-etandard
man does not dare TO like silver. and ne
does not get much gold TO like Gap
plause) man told me that out of
nearly 100000 collected i'm taxes at Hart
ford. Conn, less than $100 was collected
I'm gold. our opponents tell us they want
sound money. but they want financial
system built upon an invisible founda-
tion. DO YOU call that soundness. my
friends? If you do. YOU have got 10
write new meaning for soundness and
have soundness defined as that which Is
dangerous. Applause)
"Our opponents talk about honest
money, and yet, my friends. they never
touch upon the purchasing power Of the
dollar I'm defining what is an honest dol
lar. They tell us that they want good
No. fri. I.
that we need IN money: We must not
only have money which is good but we
must have money which we can get hold
OF. Applause) II money IS so good
that you can pray for it and long for II.
but can never see It. except when you
have the privilege of gazing through
some grated door and looking at &)me-
body else's pile. then II is too good for
the masses Of the people. Applause)
THE BALLOON DOLLAR.
Money ought not to be built on the
balloon plan. Balloons are built TO 20
up, and the higher they go the higher
they are as balloons; and n dollars are
built on that plan, the higher they go
the greater Is the misery they bring 20
mankind. Npplause)
"Our opponents want a balloon dollar
our opponents want a dollar that gets
higher and higher all the time. If we
are going 10 have a gold standard n we
are going to have a gold dollar whose
appetite is never satisfied. and a gold
dollar which insists upon eating more of
the products Of the toiler. We ought TO
change the dies at the mints and so de-
scribe that dollar that people will under
stand II. Let US take off the emblems
that have adorned IL from the beginning
and put on one side the picture of the
horse-leech. and under the picture LET
IL be written. as in Proverbs. Give. give,
give and on the other side OF the gold
dollar let US put the picture Of an open
grave. and above 1t let us write. as in
Proverbs IT sayeth not: It is enough
Great applause and laughter)
My friends. this is the sort of dollar
that the gold standard has given us
That Is the sort of dollar that the gold
standard will continue TO give us. If
oats get down TO 10 cents a bushel fl
means that 81 will buy ten bushels of
oats; and If that dollar is not good
enough. you can send its value up until
81 will buy twenty bushels Of oats. and
II the farmer is troubled with getting foo
much money for his oats. you can stil
send it up higher. so that it will get 100
bushels of oats. You can make the dol
lar as dear as YOU want to. and the
dearer you make il the worse II is for
everybody. except the owners Of fixed in
vestments, and the men who sell bonds
to the government after having driven
the government into the position where IL
wants to buy the bonds Applause)
when they talk of a gold standard.
always think Of what Lincoln said
when a man once asked him how he liked
his speech. He replied: Anybody who
ba Of D.,
be much pleased with it, applause and
laughtcr)
II find that the people who like the
gold standard are very much pleased
with IT, but | am glad TO say that the
number Of people who like the gold stand
ard is growing less every day. even I'm
New England" Great applause and
cheers)
AT WORCESTER.
WORCESTER. MASS. September 25.-
Between 5000 and 1900 people heard a
short speech from Mr.. w. j. Bryan here
to-day. Mr.. Bryan reached Worcester
shortly before o'clock. and was cheered
10y n throng of people 1000 strong. He
entered a carriage and was driven TO
Salem Square Mr. Bryan spoke from
temporary stand. Behind him was the
big building of William II. Burns. manu-
facturer. who had decorated his establish
ment with emblems showing hostility to
the Democratic candidate. Mr.. Bryan
saw the decorations. but made no refer
ence TO them.
He was presented by Eugene Moriarty,
a member Of the Legislature. Loud cheers
came from the crowd when he stepped
forward.
Returning to the station at the conclu-
sion Of his speech he found there big
crowd. People pressed around the rear
car. shouting for the candidate. The
cheers that came when he went out upon