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love of country. (Applause.) I would
not do 1t myself will ask nobody
to do what l would not do. applause
and cheering)
Il believe, friends, that the Chicago
platform represents the policies which
Will be best for the people of this coun-
try. I believe that these policies, put
into law, will bring better times to the
American people, and 1 call your at
tention to the fact that in this cam
palgn the lines are drawn between plu-
tocracy and democracy (great ap-
plause), and in a fight between plu-
tocracy and democracy there is no mid
Ole ground. Cheers and applause)
Il say to you, my friends, that in a
campaign like this, we, on the one side,
are arrayed against the syndicates,
trusts and combinations of money
grabbers Of this country and in E,u-
rope, and on the other side are the toll
Ing masses, and no man has a right to
throw away his ballot (Applause)
THE Chicago platform does not pre-
sent new doctrines. Our platform de-
clares against the issue of bonds in
times of peace and against trafficking
with the syndicate which has been saw
ing our country at SO much per save for
the last few years. Great cheering)
Let me read what one of your citizens
once said on the subject. In 1873 Hon.
John @. Carlisle (hisses and applause)
used the words which / shall quote.
(disses and applause) Let me read
those words: This struggle now going
on cannot cease until all the industrial
interests of the country are fully and
finally emancipated from the heartless
domination of Syndicates, stock ex-
changes and other great combinations
OF money-grabbers in this country and
IN Europe. (Applause.) That, my
friends, was the language Of John G..
Carlisle
Mr.. Bryan here read his oft quoted
extract from Secretary Carlisles re-
marks in 1873 about syndicates and
money grabbers. There We're Kisses
and applause when he mentioned Mr..
Carilsle's name, and cheers when he
concluded the quotation
Il thank God,'' said Mr. Bryan, that
the Democratic party has driven out
OF it's ranks the representatives of
those syndicates."
Great cheering followed this remark.
the Rothschild contract entered into
by the Administration as the most in
famous contract ever entered into by
the United States with a private indi-
vidual."
Concluding, he said: I'VE are op-
posed to the gold standard because it
makes money dear; dear money makes
cheap property, and cheap property
makes hard times. Hard times makes
every producer of wealth taste of dis
tress, and out Of those who would be
employed 1t makes idle men. And out
of idle men it makes destitute men,
and out of destitute men it makes
criminals. The gold standard means
more of crime, and a larger army to
keep the criminal in subsection. Great
applause) We have not all the news
papers with US in this fight ca voice
Give it to the 'Courier-Journal =
and somebody else shouted 1--WE have
the people'O, and I nave known some
editors who had so little influence over
their own conduct that they could not
even control the one vote the law gives
them. daughter and cheering) We
would like to have the newspapers
with us; we would be glad to have
them. While we would like to have the
newspapers with us, we would rather
have the people with US at the polls
than all the newspapers put together
We would like to have the newspapers
with us, because we hate to have our
people get mad every morning when
they read the newspapers (Great
laughter) / do not know Of any one
thing that has caused SO many people
to forget the resolve they made on the
first of the year never to swear again.
do not know Of any one thing that
has made so many break that promise
as the gold standard editorials which
appear from day to day cloud
cheers