The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-23
Mr.. BRYAN SPEAKS AT TIVOLI
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questions are III their hnal analysis great
moral questions, and it requires no ey-
tended experience in the handling of
money to enable a man to tell right from
wrong, and more than that, this money
question will not be settled until the
co mmon people act upon it.
Some Of our opponents say the gold
standard is good thing, while others
say, What we want is bimetallism, but
we cannot have it until somebody helps
us. 'Uaughter). If the gold standard is
good thing, why should they want BIZ
metallism? And yet if they ever have
two men making speeches the same
night the chances are 16 to Q4aughter)
that one of them will praise the gold
standard as good thing, while the other
will tell you how anxious they are to get
rid of it,
NOne man says the reason why he does
not want free coinage is that he does not
think that the Government should pass
law that will enable the silver miners
to take fifty cents worth of silver bullion
and convert it into 100 cents. Of.course
he may have been in favor of Il system of
taxation that would give two or three
hundred per cent. profit, but that does
not count
"Our opponents do not dare to say that
the gold standard is a--good thing, be-
cause no party in the history of this
country has ever declared in favor of a
gold standard, and they do not dare to
say that the gold standard is a bad thing,
and then tell seventy millions of liberty.
loving people that they have got to suffer
until some foreign nation brings them
relief. Cries: That is rightly What
is the principle that underlies it all? 1t
is that the law of supply and demand
applies to the money as to everything
else Increase the amount of money
more rapidly than the demand for money
increases, and you lower the value of
dollar. Decrease the quantity of money
while the demand for it increases and you
increase the value of Il dollar. When
you understand that principle then you
understand why the great crusade lin
favor of the gold standard finds its home
among. the holders of fixed Investments
who, by such legislation, raise the value
of the property which they hold. Gap
plause).
Il am not giving you my authority for
1T, my friends. 1 have called attention,
and | shall continue to call attention to
remark made by Mr.. Blaine in Con
gress on this subject. He said that the
destruction of silver as money, and the
establishment of gold as the sole unit of
value must have a ruinous effect upon all
forms of property, except those invest
ments which bring fixed return of
money. (Appl ,use).
when you understand the effect of
the policy and then understand that the
desire for it lis manifested most among
those who hold the fixed investments and
trade in money, 1 think you will come to
the conclusion that 1 have C ome-that
the fact that the gold standard is good
thing for them is the principal reason
why they are in favor of gold standard.
(Applause).
your minds that the gold standard is a
bad thing, then the only question that
you have to consider is how can YOU get
rid of it, They can raise objections to
the plan which we propose, but want to
suggest that you are interested not so
much in knowing the objections to our
plan as in knowing what plans they have
to relieve the condition Why don't
they propose something? Is it because
they do not know what ought to be done?
If so they are poor people to lead you out
of bondage Uaughter).
SIS it because they know and will not
tell? If so they have not the candor that
ought to be possessed by those who
would redeem the people from their
suffering and distress. (Applause). They
say that our dollar will be 53-cent dol
lar. Well, now, my friends, they refuse
to apply to the silver that is produced in
the world the law of supply and demand.
1--WE have reason for our belief
They simply say it won't do it., and then
sit back and propose absolutely nothing
Now, my friends, l have known some of
our opponents to use this sort of argu-
ment: Why, they say, if free silver coin
age makes silver dollar equal to gold
dollar, then it will be just as hard to get
n silver dollar as it is to get a gold dollar.
do you know what they overlook
They overlook the fact that when we
bring silver into competition with gold
we increase the supply of standard money
that while the silver dollar will be
worth as much as the gold dollar, it will
be easier to obtain with the products of
toll silver dollar or II gold dollar-than
it is to-day. (Applause)
IF there Is any person here who is
afraid that under the policy proposed by
the Chicago platform we are going to
have a food of money and that YOU will
be drowned in it, we cannot appeal to
you for support; hut if there is ANYBODY
here whose experience is such that he is
willing to risk the disastrous CONSEQUENT
ces of that flood upon him, we ask you to
consider whether we are not entitled to
your vote.
"a voice; care you Democrat?'')
81 think that the principles which I
advocate are Democratic.
"a voice: Are you Democrat?")
Il am myself that, but you can call me
any name you please. You cannot
swcrvc me from what believe to be good
for the people. (Applause). If bimetal-
lism is to be restored the United States
must take the lead. (Applause).
Il assert that the American people
have the ght and the ability to legislate
for themselves on every question, no mat
ter what other nations may think about