The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-02
BILLY BRYAN
QUOTES HISTORY
He Reads Extracts from Speeches OF
Major Mckinley.
CONDITIONS OF SIX YEARS AGO
The Boy Orator Thinks, Have Not
Changtd..Hc Believes That Free
silver IL as Necessary as the Bland.
Allison Scheme to Increase Cur.
rcncy Circulation.

Parkersburg, w. Va, Oct. 1.-Bryan
In his speech at Clarksburg said:
Il want to quote to you not from
Democratic authority, hut froT. Repub-
lican authority: ! want to quote to you,
not from one of the lesser Republicans.
but from great one; not from the
rank and file of the Republican party,
but what the great leader, the Repub-
lican candidate for president. said this
year and what he said six years ago in
regard to the necessity for an increas-
ing circulation. You will find in his let
ter of acceptance of this year this
statement: 1T is not more money we
want. What we want is to put the
money we already have at wor;. Now,
remember, my friends, that these words
We're uttered at a time when the cir
culating medium had fallen off $3.50, ,000,-
900 in two years. Remember that he
says we do not need more money but
need to nut what we have i'm circula-
tion and says this at time when the
circulation had fallen off S150.0O,OOO in
two years. Let me compare that with
what he said six years ago, when in
stead of having a decreasing volume of
currency, we had an increase Of about
S24,0OO,OOO every year. AT that time
they were trying to substitute the
Sherman law for the Bland Allison act.
The Bland-Allison act put in circul Ia
ton about $24 900, 900 every year. so that
the circulation was increasing and not
decreasing as now. Let me read you
what the Republican candidate then
In congress said in regard to the neces-
sity for an increasing circulation: Mr..
Speaker, / will not vote against this
bill and thus deprive the people of my
country and the laborers and the pro-
ducers and the industries of my coun-
try of $50 $1,000 annually Of additional
circulating mediums
A voice: He didn't know Mark
Hanna then" daughter and APP
plause)
Mr.. Bryan-"At that time he declared
that he would not vote to prevent his
people, the laborers, the producers.
from the benefits of the Bland-Allson
act, and Yet now with q decreasing cir
rulation he tells you that it Is not more
money we need. but to put what money
We have in circulation. Great APP
plause) My friends. what change has
taken place in the last six years. Then
he desired to increase the amount of
money in circulation, and now he be-
lieves all you have to do is to have con-
iidence; that you have enough and that
You will never notice the loss.
CCheers.)
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
My friends, the Republican plat
form upon which the candidate stands
declares in favor Of the maintenance
0i a gold standard until the leading
commercial nations of the world join
us in abandoning it. Let me read you
what the Republican candidate said six
years ago in the discussion Of this
Sherman bill: L am for the largest use
nf to- . A.
would not dishOnor 1t. / would give
it equal credit and equality with gold.
] would make no discrimination.
would utilize both metals as money and
discredit neither. l want the double
standard and I believe confidence will
accomplish this purpose He wanted
the double standard then. He wants
the gold standard now. What change
has taken place. (Cheers). If the
double standard was good six years ago
1t Is good now. (Cries of good and ap-
plause). The principles which underlie
the double standard have not changed
in six years. The laws of finance have
not changed in six years. The rules
that govern this government now gov
erned 1t then. And yet. my friends, we
find Republicans who were openly, earn
estly, enthusiastically championing
the double standard then, who are to-
day for some reason. known or un-
known, turned completely about and
are opposing today what they advocat-
ed then.
"Now. my friends. they tell us that
we are trying to furnish a market for
silver bullion. They tell us that our
cause is simply the cause Of the bullion
owners. We deny 1t. We insist that
we want silver for money and that we
want 1t, not because we produce silver
In this country, but because we need
silver In the commerce of this country.
(Cheers). And, yet, my friends. the
very people who are accusing us Of
working In the interest Of the mine
owners are supporting Republican
candidate for the presidency, who six
years ago. argued in favor Of the Sher-
man law, and one Of the reasons he
gave was that 1t would furnish a mar
ket for all the silver produced in the
United States. (Applause). Let me
read further: so I say. Mr.. Speaker,
this bill is just to the silver producers
of the United States. for 1t does what
the present law, as administered by
every administration for ten years, has
not DONE.
AS TO SILVER BULLION.
1T takes every dollar Of silver bull
lion that Is produced in the United
States and places It at the disposal Of
the people as money. And yet the man
who used that language six years ago
Is standing upon a platform which re-
fuses to take single dollar OF the sill
yer produced in this country and put
1t at the disposal of the people for
money. My friends. I call your atten-
tion to these extracts from speeches
made by the Republican candidate in
congress and compare them with what