The herald., 1896-08-26

MI SEE-SAW
standard, by increasing the amount of
crime, increases the demand for minis
ters to put down immortality. Cap
plause.) If there is any other reason
why a minister should favor the gold
standard, l. have not heard it and even
the most astute of our opponents, have,
so far as I know, never urged the rea-
sons which I have suggested to you. My
friends, there is the general principle
that you can use in governing your
course. You may rest assured that in
the long run any policy which brings
prosperity to the great masses of the
people will be shared by all the people
IL you cannot see just in what particu-
lar way any given measure is going to
benent you in your business, II you can
satisfy yourself that the general public
will be benAtted by that measure, you
can rest assured that you will receive
your proportionate share of it. But
challenge you to search in all the pages
OF history for a single instance where
the mass of the people would ever b.
benefited by legislation that increased
had to be paid. (Applause.)
My friends, our opponents tell us the
silver sentiment is a disease II so. IT
VIII run its course like whipping cough
or the measles. No. my friends it is
not disease. The silver sentiment is
the outsrowth of a condition, and you
cannot destroy the sentiment until YOU
have remedied the condition out Of which
the sentiment arose. | can retaliate upon
our opponents and tell them that this
gold standard is a disease. 1t is the
new yellow fever. daughter and ap-
plause.) But there is a difference be-
tween the new yellow fever and the old
yellow fever. The old killed the people
who had the fever; the new is death to
the people who do not have the fever.
tremendous applause)
How scan you restore bimetallisrn?
You have got to have a plan if you want
to do it. Our opponents tell youthat our
policy would disturb business. We tell
them that business is already disturbed.
They tell us that If we succeed in this
election there will be an interim Of a
few months before we can put our policy
into operation. We tell you that il they
succeed there will be four years interim
before they can put their policy into
operation. (Cheers.) You say you want
to stop agitation. How are you going
to stop agitation so long as you have
no fixed policy? What is the policy Of
the Republican party upon the money
question? 1t is to wait until some other
nation tells us when we can act for our
selves. How long will we have to wait?
Ah, my friends, if our opponents sue
ceed in this election, will they give us
any assurance as to how long it will
take foreign nations to help us restore
confidence? There is no assurance. The
success of our opponents in this cam
paign simply means four years more of
the agitation and l.en the trial Of the
remedy which we ask you to give. We
propose that this agitation, which has
lasted for twenty years, shall culmin-
ate now in the restoration of the gold
and silver coinage of the constitution.
That is all we ask, and my friends.
thre is no other way by which you can
stop the agitation. You say you do not
believe the ratio of 16 to 1. tell you that
whether you believe in that ratio or
not, if you believe in bimetallism you
have got to cast your vote with bimetal-
lists and not with monometallists. We
believe that this nation, without the
aid or consent of any other nation, is
able by opening its mints to free and un-
limited coinage at 16 to Ito create
lemand for silver large enough to alb
orb all the silver that will be presented
at our mints, and by so doing maintain
the parity between gold and silver at
the ratio of 16 to 1. (Appiause.) Now, my
and go to greet other people. simply
appeal to you to join with us If your
judgment sustain that action in trying
to bring back to the people a monetary
system which they had and would have
had until now but for its being struck
down in the night, without discussion,
before the American people. When
this has been accomplished some other
things will be possible. Until this is
accomplished no other thing is possi-
bic. I thank you for your kind atten-
tion. (Applause.)
The crowd which followed Mr.. Bryan's
escort to the depot rusheh through the
strong force Of police, which had been
thrown about the building and yard, and
closed in upon the carriage which was
driven into the building so that the can
didate and his wife had hard struggle