The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-03

taken the 7:15 train from Columbus
for Springfield, had it been on time. 1
Fortunately, however, the train was an |
hour late and the nominee was able /
to catch it. There was a small crowd |
at the station to see him off. Further /
than a general handshalCing from the |
carriage, there was no demonstration. |
On the train were reception COM |
mittees from Springfield and Canton, |
to escort Mr.. Bryan to these places. |
w. s. Thomas, secretary of the State |
Central committee, Jas. Johnson, Jr.,
and A. J.. Claypool, composed the com
mittee from Springfield, and w. w.
Durbin, the chairman of the State Cen
trail committee, and f. Flanagan, were
members of the committee from Ken
ton.
A short stop was made at London for
the nominee to shake hands with the
crowd. Mr.. Bryan was again asked if
he had anything to say about the Yer
mont election, but he declined to be in
terviewed
Twenty thousand people greeted Mr..
Bryan at Springfield and cheered him
from the time ne left the train until the
police finally fought a way for him
to the train bearing him to Toledo.
Mr.. Bryan said: Ladies' and Gem
tlemen: For a few moments only l
shall occupy your attention, because a
large portion of my voice has been left
along the line of travel, where it is
still calling sinners to repentance.
Great laughter). l am told that in
this city you manufacture more ag-
ricultural implements than are manu-
faetured in any other city of the coun-
try. l am glad to talk to people who
1,os5,. ha
| farmers of this country. / have had
occasion to talk to some who seem
| to imagine the harder up they could
get the farmers, the better they would
| be off. / am glad to talk to g0u who
recognize that the dollars which you
receive are earned by those WHO con-
vert the natural resources of this
icOuntTv into money, those who till the
soil, and from its fertility springs this
nations primary greatness. As a mat
/ ter of fact, the farmers and the labor
| ing men are the foundation of society.
Great cheering). Upon this foundation
| is built the commercial classes and the
financier acts as a sort of a roof over
the whole thing. You can take off the
roof and put on another, but you can
not destroy the foundation without
running the whole building.
Goldsmith has well expressed it
when he says:
| Princes or Lords may flourish or may
fade,
Breath can make them as a breath
has made,
| But tthe peasantry. a nations pride,
When once destroyed can never be
supplied
'"nhe Democratic party in it's plat
| form at Chicago, is pleading because of
a nations peasantry that can0t be de-
stroyed until you destroy the founda-
/ ti0n of our nations greatness. Upon
/ the prosperity of the great producers
/ of wealth whom we call the masses,
as distinguished from the classes, de-
pends all the prosperity of this city.
| If YOU have a gold standard you legis-
| late the value of money up and you leg
| islate the value of property down. DO
| YOU remember when we were young
| we used to get on the teeter board,
| and when one end of it was up the
l other was down. 1t has remained for
modern financiers to declare that you
you can keep both ends of the teetef
/ board up at once. (Laughter).
assuming to be statesmen, they dis
regard every law of nature and every
1 law OF AgOu. L mere Ao liOb Il ASlff AAtlAAetAA
/ of divine, they respect, because they
/ think they are bigger than the govern
| ment and greater than the Almighty.
| (Grcat laughter).
THE PRICE OF PRODUCTS.
"The very legislation that increases
/ the purchasing power of dollar SIM
| ply enables that dollar to buy more
/ of other things. How can q dollar be
| made to buy more Of other things BY
| making more wheat sell atRa dollar,
more corn, more oats, more potatoes
sell for a dollar, more of the products
| of toll are exchanged for given a.
| mount of money. 1t is a good thing
/ for the man who owns money and
buys property, but it is a mighty bad
| thing for the man who has to buy
money with the property that he pro-
| duces.
'How does the gold standard affect
| you? You make your implements and
| YOU sell them to the farmer. Suppose
| the farmer finds his taxes, his inter
| ests, his debts don't go down, but the
| price of all that he sells goes down,
| what does it mean? 1t means that he
| has a less and less amount to eXpend on
agricultural implements and for the
support of his family. (Cheers.)
IF you sell him agricultural imple-
ments, he promises to pay you and the
legislation betrays his ability to pay;
then you find fault because you have
to take your implements back and sell
them second hand to somebody else.
| (Cheers.) That is of the effect of leg
islation.
THE WORST INSECT OF ALL.
''If a farmer complains he is not
making much out of his potato crop,
they tell him it is due to the potato
bugs. If he is not making much out
of his corn they tell him it is due to
the chinch bugs. If he is no making
much out of wheat they tell him it is
due to the army worm. But let me
tell you the gold-bug is destroying
more crops than all of them. Great
applause.) The farmer is the most
helpless victim Of circumstances of all
the producers of wealth. If a man