Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-09-14

.ticu< fioni tts' p'S'''
-, and pointing to two men
''do,,o, ,,o, tprongh the masses of peo-
rr"o' IA. "Hold on, there are
F'' 'A' ,..,,,,rkcts operating down
rere. Tin nu,led out. and
''s' ,nns,s.tic people, more intent
i'' x.hr,ska statesman than in at
60 '"' +o the worldly goods on their
''nu'"s s followed the car, leaving the
F''Oa,, ,,,.os alone. The light-fngered
,,ridnaIs were not left Den'no aO
I'a',, ',,rr and started in boldly to
Tho 500 people who gathered
''O'A ,ho train when the next stop
a'~'' ,,. made at Huntsville. Mr. Bryan
va. ,hem and pointed out the men
"' ,n,ber of his party, and as a re-
"a :. ,nov were soon in custody OF the
village marshal ...,,,.
W. BRYAN spoke at numerous
80, o,onC the line. At st. Louis
l;OO people gathered at the oepo'
l'','' ~ ,beered wildly as the candidate
n,oceeded TO his hotel.
- three great mass meetings held
here Bryan addressed between 10000
I'd 1900 people. Bryan said in part:
At odles and Gentlemen: We are
.,,irc unon memorable campaign,
campaign which means great oeai
,cood or i'll to the people OF the
.n,trv and in that campaign there
:, ono great over-shadowing issue, and
nDoD that issue people are divided.
There are some who believe that the
maintenance of gold standard until
foreign nations come to our relief is
an absolute necessity for the welfare
ot this country. There are those, on
tbe other hand, who believe with US
tbatthe immediate restoration of the
free and unlimited coinage OF gold
and silver at the present legal ratio OF
lSto1 without waiting for the aid or
consent Of any other nation, is abso-
lutely essential to national prosperity.
IGreat applauSe.l 1 desire to submit
a few arguments in behalf of the re-
stOration Of free coinage. [Applause.
l want to submit for your consider:
alton two or three propositions, and l
believe they are so clear and so plain
that every one of you can recognize
the force Of them. In the first place,
Icall your attention to the fact that
the Republican party, in its platform
and through its public men, is making
no effort to supply the people of the
United States with sufficient
amount of money to do business with.
If l were to tell you that grown
person could wear the clothes of a
child, you would think me foolish. II
we're to tell you that grown person
could live on the food necessary tC
sustain life in child, you would call
me foolish, and yet they call those
men tnancierS who assume that a
people growing in population can sur
vlVe on money decreasing in its
amount.
Senator Sherman, on June 6, 1890
said that we needed an increase of
SOmthing like $4,000, OOO every year,
and yet, instead of having an anual
lncreace of $5O,OOO,OOO a year, in the
laSt TWO years we have a decrease of
about sl55,OOO,OOO Applause u making
adehcite Of about $255, ,OOO, 900 in the
currency Of the country. Now, if Mr..
Sherman did right in 1890 in saying
ouaI tne people needed new money
eoery year, then, my friends, want
va " ask you why it is that the Rep
uollcan party, in the face of the con-
Sa neanC decrease in the cirulation of
money has MAIDEN proposition what
e,er 70 satisfy the needs of an in
yWTSdSed Wed population. [Great applause. |
mnen we talk about those matters,
Jul Uul opponents tell US that we don't
upgefstand fnanciering. Laughter
auu applause. My friends we under
TSsIu Do, ~ mathematics, and a man does
ms,Lye NJ. nave 10 understand much about
tSa. ,.lehatlcs to know that a natio q
tiou Sas requires an increase in circula-
sso s,Uu must suffer If. instead of an in.
ea'e' tioa III mas a decrease in circula.
Pun t1On, IApplanse.l Not only does the
to,p tSpuoilcan party make no proyis ion
tbs n, Sn naIs Increase OF the currency to meet
phI,oSus Mn neeus OF the people but the Rep
Ss,S SO,iSan party has been silent in re.
saiu 10 the manner in which this cur.