The herald., 1896-08-11

of this campaign; I have no fear that
your interest Will be allowed to die-not
| a bit.
II believe that the toiling masses of
this country . those who have achieved
and who must achieve it's greatness
| are willing to risk their all in this re-
| public and rise and fall with it; and to
| them we can appeal in this campaign
with a confident assurance that when
the vote is counted, an enormous ma
jority of the American people will de-
| clare in favor of the American system
| of finances for the American people ad-
ministered by Americans. cloud aibl
continued cheering.)
! A SECOND SPEECH.
At the meeting in the Avenue theater
| Mr.. Bryan was introduced by Joseph
| Holley, chairman of the Democratic
county central committee. Mr.. Bryan
was received with great applause and
said in part:
II do not consider the enthusiasm
which has been manifested all along the
road has aught in it of personal ma
| ture. 1t simply proves that respect
which people feel for those who stand
in positions of authority, or stand before
the people as candidates for those posi-
| tions."
! After referring to the spirit with which
Americans enter into their political
campaigns. he added: 1--WE are enter
ing upon campaign which will exceed
in interest and intensity any campaign
through which we have passed. / see
before me the faces of young men
young men who like myself have grown
up since the war We have been fighting
those war questions and too often the
bitterness of quarter of a century has
| fingered to cloud our Judgment and to
darken our understanding But we have
reached new era. We have come upon
period when all war questions are
settled and when the people come face
TO race with great industrial problems,
| when people come face to face with grea t
ecnonmic questions. Every political
question must, If it remains before the
public long, be based upon economic
truths and every economic question is
at last moral question, question of
right or wrong and no question has ever
| been settled until it has been settled
upon the basis of what is right. Thomas
when he said that the art of government
is the art of being honest and that to
! discern right from wrong requires not
| the help of many counselors He was
right. The great principles of right and
| wrong are easily observed and that is
why the people are competent to settle
every question that can arise in a gov
ernment like ours and when find peo-
| pie who say this is a great question. a
| complicated question as they say the
money question is find that they con-
| clude by saying they have made study
of the complicated question. Gaugh-
| ter)
When / see a person who says it is
too deep for the people, l find some one
who says it is just about deep enough
for him. (Applause and laughter) No
| question is too deep for the American
people (great applause), and 10000 900
people are acting as great jury which
must finally decide. and they alone can
decide every public question. applause }
l read the other day a little pamphlet
| sent out by some of the advocates of the
gold standard, who call themselves ad-
vocates of sound money, and it con-
tanned this paragraph, that all of the
financiers and capitalists. the only peo-
| pie who are competent to express an
opinion on the subject, are in favor of
| the gold standard. Great applause and
| laughter) This first appeared in an
| article in the Forum. written by a dis
tinguished Frenchman, and was then
| reproduced and scattered over the coun-
try as literature by the advocates of the
| gold standard, and, therefore, we must
| suppose that it expresses their ideas,
that only capitalists and financiers are
competent to express an opinion on this
subject. And they are not slow to ex-
press and condemn the intelligence and
patriotism of all the rest of the people,
whom they would exclude from partici-
patton in the settlement of this ques-
ton. Great applause and laughter
My friends. it is the principle of the
broadest democracy that these questions
must be settled by the common people
and that this government has never Gre
ated a particular class to legisate fol
others. { Tremendous applause)
"NoW, my friends, we are not preach.
ing a new doctrine; we are not preach
mig a new idea. We are simply assert
ing that the principles that underlie this
government should apply to new condi
tions as they arise, and that you can fine
out what ought to be done by measuring
every proposed public act by the propo
sition contained in the declaration OF
independence and by the provisions o.
the constitution, which are based upoy
that declaration
THAT is all we ask. We simply NEAR
this, that when the governments goes t.
legislate, the government shall know NJ
distinctions; that there shall be known
by the government no difference be
: tween men because of birth, because o
! position in society, or because of the
manner in which they worship God.
, THAT is the substance of that declara
, ton. That is the substance of the con
stitution. And those principles mus
, underle our government while it contin
ues in it's present form. You as citizen!
have right to speak upon this subject
l care not what your past party affilia
tions may have been. Party is but al
. instrument by which the citizen serve:
his country. You tell me you owe some
. thing to your party; tell you that you
! party owes a higher duty to you thai
, you can owe to it. Great applause.
, / would not say one word that woulC
, lessen the esteem which anyone of yol
; may have for the achievement of th