The herald., 1896-08-22
THEY PACKED THE HALL.
Bryan Silver Clubs En-
thusiastic Meeting
MANY UNABLE TO GAIN ADMISSION
Ringing Speeches Made in Be.
half OF Free Coinage
FRIENDS OF WHITE METAL
Col. Messmore Enthuses the Crowd With
a Strong Talk
Judge A. J. UtIey Produces Irreiutabie Facts
and Figures
Every Mention Of the Name CT William J.
Bryan Sets the CrowI Ab!aze-H.
FRIENDS OF WHITE METAL
Col. Messmore Entiluses the Crowd With
Strong Talk
Judge A. J. UtIey Produces Irrefutabie Facts
and Figures
Every Mention Of the Name Ct William J.
Bryan Sets the CrowI Ablaze-H.
II. Savage Delivers
Stirring Address


geles city is not for silver you ought TO
have been at Tureverein hall last night.
The Bryan club held meeting there,
and 1t is safe to assert that at least
500 men were turned away unable to gain
admission.
The hall was literally packed TO the
doors. The aisles were filed. ON the
stairways voters sat and listened TO the
arguments presented in support of silver
and tending to show why William J..
Bryan should be elected as the next
president of the United states.
The enthusiasm became so great that
the spectator and auditors would not
wait for the meeting to open. There
were loud cries for Col. |. II. Messmore.
and finally the colonel was forced 10 re-
spond.
He took the floor at last and made a
strong Bryan speech which was most
generously applauded. che Colonel is
always a good speaker. hut last night
he was at his best. He talked for about
fifteen minutes. presenting the irreiuta-
BILE arguments in favor Of Jhe white
metal and against the single gold stand
ard. W. Bourke Cochran. late of Liv-
erpool was fairly impaled by the colonel
in his own inimitable style. The colonel
also made the point that while the ma
tonal government had paid two-thirds
of its debt, it would now take more of
the products of the soil of the mine aud
OF toll to pay the remaining one-third
than it would have taken 10 pay the en-
tire debt at the time il was created. If
these conditions continued. the colonel
said that the Rothschilds would own the
earth. and California included. IN clos
ing he said that he was younger today
than he was forty years ago, made so by
the hope that Bryan would be elected.
The coloners remarks were vigorously
applauded.
Col. Tobias sang one Of his inimitable
campaign songs. entitled The Hand Up
on the Wall The audience Joined en-
Enthusiastically in the chorus.
JUDGE UTLEY SPEAKS
Judge Utley was the next speaker in
troduced. The judge was received with
apple use and delivered ringing address
advising all true patriots TO vote for
Bryan. The judge took the speech
Sherman delivered in Ohio last Saturday
in opening the Buckeye campaign, and
showed its Inconsistencies. The speaker
took the record john Sherman had made
in the congress of the United States and
by quoting it proved that in 1858 ne stood
DIS IdNpilnS the TeueInptlO'l OF govern
ment bonds in the coin or currency in
use at the time the debt was contracted
and denied that to do so was repudia-
ton. Last Saturday Sherman stated
that "in the dark days of the war" the
government issued bonds payable in
gold, and now not to pay them in gold
tended that the senator from Ohio either
lied last Saturday or in 1868. The judge
said that he believed John lied last Sat
urday, and then he proceeded to prove
it.
OBJECT OF THE GOLDBUGS
The real object of the goldbugs," said
the speaker, is TO make money scarce
Iney are desirous of crowding a $ many
days work, as much cotton. wheat and
pork into dollar as they can. They do
not express this themselves. but it is a
TACT. Gold has no intrinsic value. If
1t did have it could not change or fiuc-
tuate. In 1873 gold and silver were of
value at ratio of Is to l. Now silver is
only worth about half as much as If
was tWenty-three years ago. The value
has iluctuated, and therefore gold has
no intrinsic value.
II silver is restored to free and un-
lhlted coinage, as it should be. there
would be no cheap silver in the world
ana this talk about dumping the CHEAP
SILVER OF the earth upon the United
states is ali bosh, But suppose it all
should come here. There is onlv fo1r
billions of it in the world. III All comes
mere we would have S5S per capita. This
IS not as much of a circula ton as we
| mad at the close of the war. when we had
$b0 per capita. Then we had good times
and every man in the country who de-
| sired work had it.
This country is now in debt forty
! billions Of dollars. At per cent it takes
all that we can produce every year to
| pay the interest and then we are $500
100000 short. The way to remedy this is
to increase the currency.
| IN 1901 Austria and Germany demon
| etized gold for the reason that they
| thought that it would become the most
abundant metal. They wanted to make
money scarce and took this method of
| doing so. Later they found that silver
was going to become the most abundant
| 50 they remonetized gold and demonet
| lied silver.
Supply and demand has nothing to dc
with the value Of gold and silver. 1t is
hXed by law and has'alWays been Spain
| in l49l raised the ratio between gold and
silver from to l to 13 to 1, for the reason
that from its colonies came the gold ant
silver of the world. and the rest of the
| world was forced to accept the bullion
| value set by Spain for this reason. The
| producel had its value increased Spair
did this because it had the worlds sup
| ply and could force the world to come tC
| its terms. Now. that was not the natur.
| al value of gold, yet it stood for LONG
| period of years. Later it was increased
The natural ratio between gold and sill
Yer is myth. There is no such thing
| We can absorb the silver supply of th'
| world and we can do this greatly to on
| benefit.
But we cannot get all the silver th'
| world produces, or all 1t has. Half of /
is in Asia. 1t will stay there, for it cost
s1.37 per ounce and could not be shipped
back into this country without loss o
s per cent.
But suppose we do get the silver sup
ply of Europe offered at the United
States mints for coinage. 1t Is accepted
and coined into American money. Thel
the man must spend it here in this coun
try. He cannot take it away, for th
minute he gets it out three leagues from
shore it again assumes its bullion value