The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-24

language of Abraham Lincoln. We do
not criticise the court as he criticized
it, and when he uttered those words
he was standing there as a coordinate
part of the government of the United
States. / quote these authorities, my
friends, in order that you may see how
far-fetched is the criticism that is
Ieveled against us. ] quote these in or
der that you may see the very men
who use the criticism against us must,
in order to do so, abandon the Republi-
can platform upon which Lincoln was
elected. But / must apologize for
quoting Abraham Lincoln as a Republi-
can authority. (Applause.) Abraham
Lincoln is no longer Republican au-
thority. Abraham Lincoln believed in
a government by the people, for the
people and that is not Republican
in this campaign. Now our opponents
say that we are opposed to the enforce
ment of law. / deny it. / stand as the
of three parties. / do not
speak of myself as an individual, be-
cause the individual is lost in q cam
paign of this character. But, l want
to say to you that the fear that is ex-
pressed is not a fear that if elected
/ will not enforce the law. (Applause.)
81 have said before, l say again, that,
if by the suffrage of my countrymen /
am placed in that position, which is
the highest position within the gift of
the people of the world, every law
shall be enforced against the great as
well as against the small. Iong ap-
plause)
81 know why these men are afraid
to have the Chicago ticket elected. 1t
is because these great trusts, these cor
porations, these great combinations,
this aggregated wealth is enjoying un-
just provisions. tremendous ap-
plause.)
"They know that the Attorney Cen
eral whom ] viii appoint, if elected,
will not stand there to defend the great
corporations when he ought to enforce
the law. Great applause.) They re-
minds me of the man in court, the pris-
oner seemed uneasy and the judge as
sured him that he need not worry, that
he would get justice in that court and
he said, Great Heavens Judge, that is
what / am afraid Of !" (Laughter.)
TILDEN ON THE MONEY POWER.
Mr.. Bryan quoted from a speech of
Samuel j. Tilden arraigning the money
power and continued:
MY friends, if he had lived to-day
he could not have described the oppo-
sition to free coinage of silver in more
accurate terms than he described the
opposition, in that day, of moneyed in
terests. He said that by their control
over the currency they spread far and
wide dismay, misery and ruin, in or
der to extort a renewal of the powers
and privileges which it then enioye
from the labors and necessities of the
community. That same money power
exists to-day and it is doing the same
work to-day that it did then, and busi-
nessmen are terrified. Men who owe
money are threatened with bankruptcy
unless they sell their citizenship.
Great applause.) If banker dares
have an opinion of his own he is men
aced with ruin, and half of the New
York banks which terrify and intirni-
date their country correspondents
stand with the great London banks
which have padlocks on the safes of the
New York banks. Tilden said that the
patriotic firmness of a virtuous peo-
pie prevailed in that struggle. / be-
lieye that the patriotism and the firm
ness of patriotic people viii prevail
in this struggle. Cloud applause.) To
think otherwise would be to despair of
a government like this. =
"What does MFR. Carlisle's recent
statement, referring TO the. redemption
of silver dollars mean? TT means that
all this talk about retiring Greenbaeks
and Treasury notes in order to protect
the gold reserve is farce and a fraud.
because they intend to start another
endless chain as soon as they pet
through with the present one. (Ap-
plause.)
They have assumed that we are
poor ignoramuses. VIII they admit
that they could not see far enough to
see what the advocates of free coinage
pointed out to them, or will they ad-
nit they saw it and thought it not wise
to take the people into their conf
dence? Do they want to have one kind
OF standard money or two kinds? If
we are to have two kinds then they
must be equal and the government
must have a right to use them both
If the government cannot use a silver
dollar to pay the debts that it owes,
which call only for coin, then the silver
dollar is not as good as the gold dol
lar. / believe this government has a
right to use it's silver dollars just as
1t uses It's gold dollars. (Applause.)
But our opponents have gone ON a
different basis and they have taxed
the people of this country to pay in
terest on $262, ,0O0, 900 of bonds in or
der to buy gold. (Applause and cries
of "Electioneering."0 Well, do not
use harsh terms, my friends. If you
know what great restraint it requir-
ed on my part to speak within the linn
its of parliamentary language, (laugh-
ter and applause e)-'then you would un-
derstand. When / see bonds worth
$119 sold for $1.0415, and try to des-
cribe what kind of transaction it was.
| regret that my parents did not give
me more tongues with which to ex-
press my ideas (Applause.)
''rhe English language does not
adequately express the question And
yet the people who sell for S1.04h
bonds worth 81. 10 assume that they are