The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-21
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finance. There are some men who think
that the only people who can understand
the money question is the man who lives
in New York city and gets into that Lon
don fog that settles down over Wall
street.
II want to quote from Thurlow Weed.
You will find the language which quote
on page 535 of the second volume of the
life of Thurlow Weed published by his
grandson, Thurlow Weed Barnes. Hers
is what Mr.. Weed said:
"'We are stigmatized as silver infla-
tionists for asking the Government TO re-
establish Il financial basis under which
the country and people were prosperous
and happy for more than eighty years.
This question, stripped OF sophistry and
verbiage, presents Il naked issue of cap
ital against labor Shyiocks, over-rapac-
ious, are struggling to keep up the rate
of usury. In maintaining one stand
ard-thus narrowing our specie basis one
half, they strengthen and perpetuate their
advantages. There has been, as there ever
| must be between the thousands who labor
and the hundreds who enjoy the fruits of
such labor, an irrepressible conflict. But
IL is the duty of the Government to see
that the faces of those who labor are not
held too closely to the grindstone. 4"
III the next speech ut the opera house
Mr. Bryan said:
81 have in the discussion of the ques-
ton used language as emphatic as l
could command to show the people what
the gold standard means My friends, l
think that have exhausted the powers
for discussion in trying to describe what
must be the result not only to the peo-
pie of this city, but to all mankind all
over the world. If this system is to be
chained TO the people of the United
States, if money is to be made the only
thing desirable and all mankind must
gather around the auction block and bid,
lowering and lowering the prices of pro-
ducts of toll in order to get smaller and
smaller proportion of this one thing
which many people seem to dolize; but
come to call your attention to II new
danger. have said that civilization il:
self was involved in the settlement of
this question. l believe what the histor-
ian says. that the dark ages came upon
the world as the result of decreasing
volume of the worlds money and, my
friends, think L can see in the signs of
the times, in legislation that makes the
rich icher and the poor poorer, the en-
trance upon another period of the dark
ages, unless the manhood and woman
hood OF this nation rise to take it from
the grasp of those who have so legislated
that they might rise above their fellow
man y
Mr.. Bryan was then presented with an
immense basket of white and yellow
chrysanthemums in punches of sixteen
white ones to one yellow The presenta-
ton was made by two little girls dressed
in white and yellow
The last speech ut Youngstown was
delivered TO laborng men near the depot
who had congregated there in such num-
bers that the candidate could not make
his way from the platform to the carriage.
He said that the position taken by the
the Chicago platform declaring for free
silver, but because of the declaration for
arbitration and against Government by
injunction. His remarks were enthusi-
astically received and he was often stop
ped in his speech by the demonstrations
of approval of his audience
The next stop was in the county in
which resides the Republican nominee
1t was mt Alliance and there several thou
sand people listened =, to the Democratic
candidate for twenty minutes. 1t was
an appreciatire crowd and applauded the
speaker often. The speech was Il work
ingman's speech and was delivered to an
audience composed for the most part of
workingmen
There was another good crowd ut RAJ
VIENNA, when Mr. Bryan received another
enthusiastic demonstration.
AT Kent there was Il repetition of the
crowd ut Rarenna.