The morning times., 1896-10-27
SEEKING THE TRUTH.

To find out W hat is best will come the
| nearest to arriving at a Just conclusion anu
that no one " ho desires TO know the truth,
| ho desires to do the best that can be
done. ever objects to hearing from one Who
may differ from him.
You know truth does not exist in Sc
| clusion, but comes from the clash of ideas.
| from the comparison OF views. Error Is
| ,nc only thing Lnsiu Tears puulic discussion.
Truth has y power within itself by
which it propagates itself, and after All
| there is nothing oEInipotenL but truth. And
| now while we differ here as young Ihen,
| upon various questions which arise, 1
| know that you VIII agree with me when
| | say that in the long run that policy hich
proves to be best is going to be adopted,
| .uId that those ho autaCh themselves 10
| a righteous cause are sure to triumph at
| last.
Il never get among young men without
| feeling that ought 10 impress upon them
| Il lesson which was impressed upon me,
and that is that when a man believes he
| is right, he can afford to stand alone; he
can afford To he called anything; because
| ii is not what people calls you that de
ternines character. II is what your are
| Yourself"
STABILITY OF THE DOLLAR.
| In order. as he said, thathiS hearers may
apply these things IN the study of this
question, Mr.. Bryan quoted from Dr. Stur-
| tevant's book and went on to comment:
Now, l say the doctor recognized that
when Il man IN ade Il contract Ire ought 10
| he paid i'll the same way, with the same
quantity or value that it had when it was
| made. and he goes ON To argue that if you
attempt to make contracts i'll any kind OF
| commodity, those fluctuations in value
| would make the contract inequitable.
| After again quoting Dr. Sturtevant, Mr..
| Bryan continued:
Il was glad when began TO study the
| money question. To lind That Dr. Sturtc-
want recognized that the great thing de
| sir;tDle in a dollar was stability, and |
can iind no better Illustration t!Ian the one
| | have read you, where lie speaks of its
being inequitablc to compel a man TO de
| liver one hundred bushels of wheat when
| wheat has doubled in value
| Now, YOU know tne whole bone of CON
| tention III this contest which We are en-
| gagged i'll is as TO which kind OF standard
| gives you tie best dollar There are some
people who talk about honest dollars,
without exactly defining what they mean
| by that, so that You have to take their
| conclusions instead of being able TO form
| your own conclusions.
| We believe that gold and silver, nSed
| together, gives a more stable dollar, n more
| equitable currency, II more just stan.afu
: than could be obtained from the use Of
one with the other eliminated from use:
and the very argument Dr. Sturtcvantm makes
| there, that short crop OF wheat Will
| make wheat rise in value, applies 10
money. because. If there Is short crop
of money, money rises in value.
rERSUASIpNS OF CONSCIENCE.
Tie crops are determined usually hE
| the weather and 10y various things which
! man may not control, hut the volume u
money is determined by law. which man
does control. And 50, If you by law make
your crop Of money short, you raise th"
value of the dollar; and If you raiSe
the value of the dollar, you produce the
same niustIce to the man who owes
dollar that Mr. Sturtevant calls attention
| to in the crop Of wheat that doubles IN
value
Il want you young men to realize that
when sou Lave received great advantages,
| great responsibilities 90 with those adj
| VanlageS. and that you have no right. as
| citizens in Il land like this. to keep i'll dark
ness upon any public question, nor have
you right to listen to any perSudSions
| except the pcrSuasions which come from
your conscience ans your judgment.
Il appreciate the advantages of living
in country like this. You may have had
people tell you that my ideas were antag-
onistic to our form OF government and to
law and order. But | want you to be-
lieve me when l say that there is not a
person in this country who loves our In
stitutions more than | do. or who feels
a deeper interest i'll their perpetuatiOn.
And what young man has more right to
prize our institutions than / have
In what other country is it possible
for n young man 10 accomplish as much
as he can accomplish in this country? In
what other country is it possible for a
young man with nothing to comm an,i him
except his interest in the cause. 10 be Sc
lecled by those who believe in him to carry
out their ideas?
| FOUNDATION OF GOVERNMENT.
Il so much prize the advantages of a
country like this that l want to keep
this government as our fathers intended,
want it to rest securely upon the fOunda-
tions which the Y laid, SO that it will
guarantee equal rights to every citizen
and give special privileges and advantages
to no citizen.''
II want it still to be so that the child
Of the humblcst citizen OF this land may
be able to aspire to any office to which
his abilities or his ideas or his labor and
his integrity fit him. And it is because
that | realize, as | think | do. some of the
influences which in society are tending TO
close the door of opportunity to young
| men, that have felt the Indignation that
| have expressed against great aggrega-
tlons of wealth which have in many in
stances trampled upon the rights of weaker
members OF society, and have attempted
| ny tile power tlltN can NDlIlfldllu, 10
drive out competition, and then prey upon
society after it has been rendered helpless
and lies at their mercy.
But, my friends, l am here more to
greet you than to talk to you, and have
digrcssed only this much because i have
SO little chance to have my side heard in
some OF our institutions of learning that
do not feel that l ought to neglect an
opportunity to say word in tue defense
| of the cause for which | stand
MORE WORK WANTED.
Il read in the papers that in various
institutions of learning they are nearly
all againstm me My friends, if Should read
in the paper that there was not a college
professor, not business man, not a man
prominent in society who believed in what
l am teaching, while would believe it,
would still teach it.
When l hear people say the trouble
with the masses Of the people is that they
don't work hard enough, recall what the
Bible tells us, that Pharaoh, when he heard
the complaint that came up from his peo-
pie, said the same thing. He said; They
are idle, that is what troubles them; make
them make more bricks and make them
furnish the straw
Il know, too, that all the great reforms
of society have come up from the common
people; not down from those who were
weil-to-do, or who were so surrounded that
they did not feel the needs of the people.
| rene cmber that the Bible tells us that " hen
one young man was inquiring what he