The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-19
BRYAN IN THE OLD DOMINION.


placed, and he shall not come back again.
| loud eheers) These assistant republic
| seans whose hearts are willing but whose
| flesh is weak Qaughter may as well I'M
| derstand now that the contest with which
| we are engaged is not a contest for this
| year alone. / believe we shall win now.
| But whether We win now or not, we have
| begun a warfare against the gold stand
| ard which shall continue until the gold
standard is driven from our shores back
| to England. (Cheers) We have been OPP
| posed to the importation of criminals and
paupers from abroad and we shall oppose
| the importation of a financial system
| which is crimianl and which makes pau
pers wherever it goes.
| THE republican platform adopted at
| St. Louis declares not that the gold
| standard is good, but that it must be
maintained. How long? Until the Amer
| lean people are tired of it? No, they are
tired of it now. Until the people desire to
| get rid of it? No. they desire to get rid
| of it now. How long? Why, we must
maintain it until foreign nations desire
US to get rid of 1T, and will let us get rid
| Of it. Great cheering)
| ''In this city where Patrick Henry de-
| livered his famous speech which aroused
| the nation to arms, l am not afraid that
| the people will permit a foreign financial
| control when more than 100 years ago,
your ancestors were willing to give their
lives if need be to release the colonies
| from foreign political control We are in
favor of the immediate restoration of the
! free and unlimited coinage of both gold
and silver at the present legal ratio of 16
to /, without waiting for the aid or con-
sent of any other nation. (Cheers.) We
| are in favor of it because bimetallism is
| needed to give to the people a sufficient
volume of standard money to keep pace
with population and business. The treas
ury reports show a shrinkage of more
| n mn. mr. - 80
pie within the last two years. The repub-
lican party does not propose any plan by
which the volume or the cur
rency shall be replenished from time to
time as the people need money. They
simply desire the people to turn over our
financial system to a few syndicates who
can profit by the eXtremities of the gov
ernment-extremities which those syndi-
Gates have done more to create than any
other cause. (Cheers) We apply the law
of supply and demand to money. We say
the value. of dollar depends on the num-
bre of dollars and that you can raise the
value of a dollar by making the dollars
scarce, and we charge that our oppon-
ents are in favor of making the money
scarce because they are controlled by
those who want money dear. If you are
in favor of dear money, you ought to vote
the republican ticket. If you are in favor
of making money the only thing which II
is desirable to own, and making proper
ty the thing that everybody wants to get
rid of you want to vote the republican
ticket, because the republican party pro-
poses to continue the present fiancial sys-
tenn the object of which is to make 1t
more profitable to hoard money and get
the increase in the rise in the value Of the
dollar than to put that dollar to work
employing labor and developing the re-
sources of this great country. Cheers.
"Our opponents tell us that we must
maintain the gold standard in order TO
borrow money We reply that If we main
tain the gold standard we will never be
able to do anything else but borrow
money, and will soon be at an end in that
because our property will not be mt to
borrow on. Oproarious cheers.) They
tell us that the election of the Chicago
ticket will drive gold from this country.
| want you to remember that the mere
nomination of the candidate for President
on free silver platform has been bring
ing gold to this country for the last few
weeks (Cheers) My friends, il a nominal
ton will start this much of a flow Of
gold to the United Statess what will be
the enormous flow when we actually have
a President who is for free silver? Cheer
ing)
IL we have the free coinage of silver,
foreign nations would get our gold.
want to say that the moment this ma
tion opens its minis to the free coinage
of silver the free creditor nations OF Eu-
rope will have to join us in the mainte-
nance Of silver with a parity to gold in
stead of conspiring to force down that
silver as they do now. Great cheering
You tell me that we must have a gold
standard, because England has, I reply
to YOU that we will have bimetallism and
then let England have bimetallism be-
cause we have bimetallism. Cheering and
applause) But we are notified that we
cannot maintain the parity because Mex
leo cannot. Every man who thinks that
this! nation is no greater than Mexico
ought TO vote the republican ticket. 1t
is the only place he will feel at
home CHEERS and laughter) This nation
can do what Mexico cannot do. This ma
ton can create a demand for silver ten
times as great as any demand that can
be created by Mexico. and If there is a
republican who still doubts that this ma
ton is greater than Mexico let him re-
member that the United States and Mex
leo together may be able to do what Mex
leo cannot do alone. loud cheering) /
want to call your attention to the differ
ence between bimetallist and a goldbIg.
daughter and applause) Now / want
10 explain to you that when I use tho
term goldbug / do not use II any offensive
sense When ! use the word goldbug /
use II in the same kindly spirit that he
uses the WOf0 WHtI ne SpehkS OF
me. daughter and applause) / call your
attention to the marked difference be-
tween the bimetalists and the goldbug.
You ask a farmer why he wants BIZ
metallism and he says he wants 1t
because 1t is good for himself He is not
worrying about other people. He has
troubles enough of his own. daughter
You ask the laborer why he wants bimet-
alllsm, and he tells you he wants 1t be-
cause It is good for himself. lie is not
worrying about others. He. too. has trou-
bles OF his own. daughter and applause
You ask the business man why he wants
bimetallsm and he tells you that he
makes his money. not from the men from
whom he borrows money. but from the
men TO whom he sells goods, and there
fore he wants a financial policy that will
enable people to buy more goods so that
he can make more money. and therefore
he Is for bimetallism because II is good
for himself But you ask an eastern adj
vocate OF the gold standard why he wants
a gold standard, and does he tell you that
he wants II because It Is good for himself
You never heard one Of them say It,
(Cheers) These hnanciers want the gold
l.st,rdard bacatare II Is good for Other uao-