The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-10-04

that he had known him since he entered
| tublic Afe. that he was as eloquent as
| Cicero. az brave as Caesar and as wise
| as Socrates lie predicted that it elect
! cd he mad the ability. the honesty the
| courage and the patriotism to keep every
| pledge he had made to the country. lie
predicted that II elected he would so re-
| form the evils of legislation and admins
| trttiou as to start his party and his coun-
| try into the twentie;h century az Jeiter-
| son had started u in tho nincteenth cen
| tury, and that history would place him
| Side 10y side with Jefferson. Jackson and
the most ilmstrious of our country's patri-
| OTIS ami presidents.
Tho remarks OF Mr.. McAlillln were en-
| thusiastically received and lie Was ap-
| planted to the echo.
The names Of William j. Bryan and
| John T.. Altgcld were wildly choered ana
| aprauded ut the meeting In East -,
| Louis. where the nominee spoke to great
! crowd IRON platform erected ON a va
| cart lot.
The special bearing the Bryan party
| arrived IN East 81. Louis at $50 D'tluCk
| this evening and Mr.. Bryan was ;Gken IN
a carriage 10 the grounds. DE was intro
iuctd to an audience. which ccntainei
more people than he could make hear. by
| Colonel John l. Martin of ST Louis ana
spoke at some length on the financial
| question.
He sad; We believe the paramount la
sue of this campaign is the money aucs-
| ton. We believe that the great question
| TO he settled now is whether the Amer
lean peopie are able to have financial
y
| Upon this question the line is clearly d.
! ydci Tho republican Platform declares
| in favor of the maintenance Of the pres-
! eut gold standard for an indefinite period
| The republican platform declares That
we must niaiutain the gold standard until
| foreign nations come to MS ana ioin in Its
| | stand declares In favor o. The rcstora ton
o. hmctallsm and they point tho only
moins NV winch bimetaliism can be re-
| stored, namely, the immediate restoration
Of The free and unlimited coinage OF gold
| ana silver. tIc present legal ratio OF 16
| 10 J, without waiting for the aid or con-
scat OF any other nation. If tho rcpub
lHau parry mad presented some system
approved b, the members Of the party We
might ;hen have discussed the merits Of
their PROMISED system. b. they propose
nothinG, They oaer no plan. III give no
ing to the people who arc dissatisfied
YOU must Sun Ice dissatisfied"
TO those who are suffering they simply
say: ''Nou must suffer on until relief
comes from ubl oad."
am not Wiling my friends, that the
| American people and their dcstlDy shall
An crican people and deposited with for
g gn nations, I care not what nations they
may be. We propose something, our OPP
roneats propose nothing. II YOU arc salts
fed with present financial conditions
then. my friends, the republican party
ought to suit You. because the republican
anc al cord tong,
My friends you have had tho gold
standard, our legislation has been sug-
gcstod. 1t has been Devised, 1T has been
carried out by the advocates of tho gold
standar1 and yet after twenty years OF
mnnlifiaton OF ihe,r odnas we hnd sneh "a. an
standard as this country has never before
, seen.
Here is tho argument which they can
not meet. II IL the argument of conditions.
; They may talk they Ike. about theories.
: but. my friends here are the stubborn
! facis. they have run this government ac-
, M hlN In nd lN
have run II the worse the people have
: suffered from their management. When.
circulation, they tell us to Just have more
= confidence and we win need less money
MY friends. we have run on confidence
, Men can have confidence when they hav,
. food, but when they do they get hungry IN
= spite OF their condolences. Our opponents
4 lieve and you Will be all right. But. my
= friends, how can you believe when arounc
e you YOU md so many things That prevent
| belief? How can you believe that you are
d prosperous when you are nOtY You car
: not have consdcra ton OF that kind.
> Now, my friends, our opponents arc
= | playing confidence game on the Amer
q lean people. The confidence man fouut
a his way into politics. Yon know tina
. less confidence you have, The more money
you have when he goes away. our oppo
y nents say: open up the mills Instead o
o open up the mills as much as you wan
/. | to. but II the people can not buy VIVA
q the mills produce you VIII simply clos,
e the mills again. The gold standard hai
:, | destroyed the consumptvc power Of III,
L people. They are as hungry as they eve
:, | were, but they have not so much money
/ with which 20 buy food. They need cloth
n ing as much as they ever did. but the,
c have not much money TO buy tina
clothing. and, my friends, you can no
e restore prosperity by offering goods fol
Il sale YOU have get to restore prosperity
d by making IT possible for the people TO bus
9 the goods which are for sale Under the
j gold standard the farmer found his incon,
a gclI & down, while his debts ana taxes
n have stubbornly refused to so down, ans
l. the result Ia that he has less ana less " ~
I which to spend In purchasing the things
q his family need. The farmer finds that &c
: him The gold standard cans that he
: must work double time to secure the same
Il | results that he used to secure. But how
u about the laboring man? When the farm
or can not buy, then the manufacturer can
A not employ the lahorine man, and while
i, | the farmer has been compelled TO work
/, double time the laborer does not get n
v chance 10 work half time under the inld
2 standard.
q My friends, when our opponents tell us
I that the gold standard Is good for man
p who earns wages they forget that a larger
i and larger number Of men each year are
d not earning wages. they forget that a
n larger and larger number of men are find
a ing ther services unnecessary mol because
G of overproduction. but because of under
y | cOnsumption.