The Monitor-register., 1896-09-25

don,t S'gh''d than Mr.. Whitney.
'Ano" whether he vas short s;oht-
al least he did not know vh.t ~
kn'ofs wanted. Laughter. W. on,
s'O you'd look down into New Yo,k
tna see That Mr.. Whitney misrepresentsd
'ne democratic party of tba s+ato 80
wien ne came. Applause. don't
anu" mat L ought to mention namoa
ueoause they will say 1 am an anarchist
say anything against him ON
like me. "ohS
WIS never had a Convention in this
country which more correot,v r.nr.s.n.
ea The sentiment of the people who sent
''0 ueiegates than that Convention which
me' at Chicago. 1t is honor enough to be
|he nominee of a Convention for Pres;-
uen'' But it is a higher honor vet to be
the nominee of the most Democratic
convention ever held in this country.
Applause.
TALKING TO THE FARMERS,
lou have many truck farmers. When
'hey take what they have to sell into town
'hey md the market is rather dnlI and
what they get is small compared with
what 1t used to be. Does it mean the
people OF Philadelphia are not as hungry
as they ever wereP l venture the assertion
tnere Is more hunger here in Philadelphia
enan there was five years ago. 1Great
applause. Is it because people ha ve lost
their taste for the good things which Won
produce? No; there is as much taste as
ever If they could get a chance to try it
on something. LGreat applause.
o are you going to increase your
markets? By increasing the number of
PEOPLE able to buy what you producer
viii you do that by making dollars
d"arels No, dollars do not eat: They
deVour a great deal, but they do not eat.
Laughter How are you going to
create markets? BY increasing dollars
IN the hands of the few? No, you nave
got to restore prosperity by stopping the
TALL OF prices, so men will sell what they
produce to get money to buy what you
produce. Applause.
A silver man can almost like any kind
of money. He lis like the Governor of
tennessee, who was making a speech. He
said he was not particular about the
money. He liked gold and silver and
paper, and, in fact, a little counterfeit
wouldn't be Objectionable. TLaugh ter. I
Now, we don't care for any counterfeit,
but we are willing to take gold, or silver,
or greenbaoks. And we will take the
greenbacks even if the Government exer.
cises the right to redeem them in silver
dollars lpstead of gold. [Applause.l
Mr.. Bryan gave quotations from John
Sherman, James G.. Blaine and John q.
Carlisle, showing them to have formerly
been in favor of the free coinage of silver.
Mr.. Bryan continued as follows: every
one of them when the utterances quoted
were made were older than 1 am now. If
they attribute my division of people into
two classes, the idle holders of idle
capital apd the producers of wealth, to
the fact that l have not had as much
experience as some others, how are they
going to explain the language of Blaine
and Carlisle and Sherman? l divide
Glasses the same as they do, except l
should say, on the one side. are the drones
L and nm tho othar thu hoo. ShoA .-.- -
honey. Applause
The gold standard newspapers think we
won't be able to get silver into circulation
if we had free coinage. l want to tell
you that they will be mighty glad to nave
subscriptions paid even in silver dollars.
Our opponents, who are SO confident that
money can beat argument in a campaign,
are glad to use silver dollars for a campaign
fund. Applause If you destroy part
Of our money you must be content to take
a lower price for what you have to sell.
When you drive down the value of your
property you don't drive down the val
OF the mortgage you have agreed to pay.
That man still asks the same for it. We
don't ask to reduce the amount of mort
cages, but I say the man who holds a
mortgage and wants you to pay him in
an ever-growing dollar is the most dis.
honest man you can Fl nd. They nave an
idea there is only one kind of reputation.
If a debtor wants to pay in a dollar of less
value than the dollar he borrowed he is a
repudiator, but if the man who holds the
mortgage wants him to pay in a dollar
worth twice as much as when it was
loaned that man is a ~fnancier and a
patriot, and you cannot open your mouth
against him. Applause. Ifthose who
hold the notes of the people of the United
States have a right to insist on a gold
standard to make their dollars devour
more of our farm products, I want to
know why the people of the United States
have not a right, in their sovereign
majesty, to stop the growth of these
dollars before they get any bigger? lar
plause.]
Mr.. Bryan continued: against this
waiting policy with twenty years of
adverse experience behind it, we offer an
aggressive policy, by which the United
States will lead the nations of the world
to the restoration of gold and silver as
money. You say it is American to brag
about what we can do. 1 reply that it is
English, You know, to think We can't do
anything. Laughter.
"We have reached a great crisis and the
question presented to the American people
is, shall the United States have a financial
| policy of its own, or must the people
receive their finances ready made from
some foreign land ? [Cries of no;
never. Il is a question upon which much
will depend. l beg you when you vote to
consider the responsibility which rests
upon you, and 80 vote that you may tell
your children without a blush for which
policy you voted in 1896. Applause.
The Buzzing of the Drone.
EFrom the New York SUM-
"The farmers should stand together ,,