The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-25

the government. applause, and yells re-
peated.) If there is anybody who loves that
sort of condition then | shall offend him
by speaking of it, but 1 shall not offend
any man who loves liberty and the right
of free speech in this country. (Great an
plause) The business men have been
told that the free coinage
of silver would ruin them. If
1t can ruin them with more rapidity than
the gold standard has ruined them. then
my friends, it will be bad indeed, because
the gold standard has increased the num-
Der of failures among business men and
every step that has been taken has been
followed. (Yells from the students). |
nave been so USED to talking to young
men who earn their own living that l do
not know. (Great cheering). l say l have
been so used to talking to young men who
earn their own living that l hardly know
what language to lsE9 to address myself
to those who desire to be known not as
creators of wealth, but the distributors of
wealth which somebody else created
(Great cheering). If you will show me a
young man who has been taught to be-
lieve-(more yells and cries for Mckinley
In my travels l have not found crowd
that needed talking to so much as this
crowd does. (Cries Of that's right"O
Il came to this city something more
than year ago, and learned something
of the domination of your financial
classes. l have seen 1t elsew here, but
my friends, the great mass of the peo,
pie, even of this city, will be better off
under bimetallism that permits the nation
to grow than under a gold standard which
starYes everybody except the money
changer and the money owner. Great
applause)
I'VE sometimes out west, are insured
by your insurance companies l carry
insurance in old-line companies, and in
what are known as the mutual and as
Sessment companies. / carry insurance in
fraternal orders like the United Workmen
and the Modern Woodmen (applause)
as well as in the old-line companies
And l am grateful that my assessment
companies are satisfied to take my money
and give me insurance without attempting
to tell me how | must vote Your old-line
companies have seen fit to insult the IN
telligence of the people by attempting to
exercise guardians care while we are
able to look after ourselves without their
instructions.
You have laboring men also in large
numbers in this city. do not know wheth-
er the advocates of the gold standard who
employ men in shops insist on telling their
employees how to vote l have in other
places found employers who put in enyel-
opes the pay for the days work or weeks
work, and then put on the outside of the
envelopes some instructions to the en-
ployes. If the manufacturer, if the en-
ployer, if the railroad president, feels as
if there must be something on the outside
of the envelope as well as upon the inside
let me suggest something which the en-
ployer might put there. Let him write on
the outside; You will ind within your
wages. They are to cover your work. They
are not to pay for your vote Cries of
Good, Good.O We recognize that the
men Who have sense enough to do the
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vote right without our telling them how to
vote. (Applause)
II notice that in some places they have
been organizing sound money clubs, and
they have the applicant sign a state
ment saying that the free coinage of sill
yer would hurt him in his business as a
wage-earner. ] have wondered why our
great financial magnates did not put in
their application a statement similar to
that. Why don't the heads of these syn
dicates, which have been bleeding the
government make application to sound
money clubs and write in the application
that the free coinage of silver would
hurt them in their business as heads of
syndcates? (Applause) They want peo-
pie to believe they are entirely benevolent
that they are philapthropists and what
they do is done merely because they be-
lieve that the people will be benefited by
having them run the government and
they submit to the Inconvenience of run
ming the government to help the people,
who, they say, will be benefited (More
confusion and applause by the students.)
"Why is il that the broker and bond
buyer does not write in his application
that he has personal interest in the gold
standard? Why is it that these men want
to throw upon the wage Garner whatever
odium ther may be in using his vote to
protect his personal interests? l believe
the wage Garner and the farmer and the
business man and the professional man.
all of these, will be benefited by a volume
of money sufficient to do business with II
you make money scarce. you make money
dear. If you make money dear you drive
down the value of everything, and when
you have falling prices you have hard
times. And who prospers by hard times?
There are but few and those few are not
willing to admit that they got any benefit
from hard times. No party ever declared
in it's platform that il was in favor OF
hard times, and yet the party that de
clares for the gold standard in substance
declares for a continuation of hard times
(Here the band accompanying the First
Regiment National Guards of Connect
cut who had been playing on the east
side of the common, marched westward
and very much nearer to the stand where
Mr.. Bryan was speaking, so that it was
impossible to hear him more than a few
feet away from the front of the platform
The students, however, were not making
as much disturbance as they had been
formerly.
Mr.. Bryan continued: 1T is hard
enough to talk when all the conditions arc
favorable and l must ask you to excuse
me from talking any further in the pres
ence of the noises against which we have
to combat to-day"