The Atlanta constitution., 1896-09-28
Issue Has Aroused Enthusiasm.

Issue Has Aroused Enthusiasm.
| Il challenge you to find in ali the political
| contests which this country has passed
| through single contest which has aroused
| more earnestness than this contest
| through which we are now passing.
| challenge you to find among all the hosts
| who have defended a cause. more earnest
| men than l find today among the advo-
| Gates OF the right of this government 10
| legislate for itself without regard TO other
nations. Great applause.)
| 1T will not do to say that there Is no
cause for such feeling as is manifested now
| If you read the dispatch which appeared
! in yesterday mornings paper from London
you will find that a great meeting OF Ggri-
culturists was held in Buda-Pesth and in
| speaking of that meeting the dispatch said
! that practically all of those representing
| great societies were in favor OF the res
| toration of bimetallism. My friends our
ouponents sometimes tell us that this move
| ment in favor of s'ee coinage is started
| bv the mine owners and kept UP by the
mine owners.
II want them to understand that they
cannot explain this great uprising OF me
ncople on the theory that IL Is lhsusateu
bv a man who owns bullion ana wants 10
sell it at a higher price. THIS great up
rising comes from the masses OF inc P'OpiS
who do not produce bullion, but tney P'O
OIce property anu lHGg At<Ah<+'
gold standard has been driving Value ou'
of the property which they produce. ZAP
plause) .,,,,,,o
"Mv friends the people have no pre1uaice
against the gold. but they have PreJd-
dice against a system that IS Daseu upon
gold and does not furnish the god "iIii
people want it. Great applause) A"0lV -
one advantage I'm being a bimetalhSt' -
can like gold and silver both. while golu
Ina- pn dare
and he does not get much gold to Ike zap
nIausel A man told me that out OF nearly
81 0G0 600 collected in taxes at HarliuIu'
Co,n less than 500 was collected IN gold.
Our opponents tell us they want souhd
money. but they want a financial system
built upon an invisible foundation. 10 you
call that soundness, my frleho5!
oIf YOU do. you have got to write a new
meaning for soundness ana nave souilu-
ness defined as that which IS dangerous
(Applause) ,-.. ,,o.,o,,
and vet, my friends they never 'V"ci
uron the purchasing power CT doAar III
defining what is an honest dollar 1.gy
toll MS that they want good money Ay
friends. there are two things that we need
IN ,oonev. We must not only have money
which is good but we must have money
With we can got hold OF. tApplauSe) IL
rnorev IS SO good that you can pray i"'
IL and long fer It but can never see i1 ~
cont whom YOU have the privilege OF GaH-
ing through some grated door anu iooNiii1
at somcpoly else's pile, then II Is 100 : lou
for the masses of the people (App'auSe'l
Money ought not TO be butt on tne
hallohn plan. Balloons are buit 20 20
m and the higher they so the hl5her
they are as balloons, and II uoiiais are
built on that plan. the higher thty 50 'le
ereotc~ IS the misery they bring 10 man
baIloSu dollar. Our opponents want dol-
lar that gets higher and higher All the
time If We are going TO have gold st1lid-
ard. If we are going to have a gold coiiar
whose appetite IS never satsittd, anu Il
gold dollar which insists upon eating more
or the products of toll every year We
ought TO change the dies at the mintS ana
so describe that dollar that people VIII
understand r. Let us take Of the emblens
that have adorned il from the beGihhiAS
and put on one side the picture OF Ihe
horse leech. and under the picture let II
be written as in Proverbs. NiVr' Glse'
give ana on the other side Of the gold
dollar let MS put the picture of ln open
grave. and above It let US Write as in
Proverbs. 1T sayeth not, 1t is enough.
Great applause and laughter)
Effect of a Balloon Dollar.
"Nrv friends. that is the sort of dollar
that the gold standard has given us. Ihat
Is the sort of dollar that the gold standard
viii continue TO give 10 US. If oats get
down 10 10 cents a bushel. it means that
81 will buy ten mushels Of oats. ana III
that dollar is not good enough. Won can
send It's value up untn 81 viii buy twenty
bushels of oats. and + the farmer is
troubled with getting too much money Tor
bls oats. Won can still send il mp higher
so that it Will get one hundred bushels OF
oats
''You can make the dollar as dear as you
want 70 and the dcarer you make II the
worse it is for everybody except the own
ers of fixed investments and the men VINO
sell bonds 10 the government after having
drivon the government into the position
where IT wants to buy the bond. CAP
plause)
always think of what Lincoln said when
a man Snce asked him how he liked ms
sncech. lie replied; Anybody who would
lil,a that sort of q speech would be very
,,,ucb nleased with it, applause and
Iaughter9 I find that the people VINO Ike
the gold standard are very much pieaSeu
with it, but 1 am glad 10 say thaI the mum ~,
ber Of PEOPLE who like the gold stanuard IS
Growing less every day, even i'm New Eng
| land. (Great applause and cheersD
Will Accept Populist Nomination.
postou Mass. September 25.-One stop
onl, and that at South Framingham. was
made hv Candidate Bryan on his trip from
| Worcester to Boston. Three cheers We're
given him there by gathering or several
Z hundred Mr. Bryan did not speak. George
ered Williams. Alex Troup. of New Haven,
ana jeremiah T. O'Sullivan. of Lawrence.
one OF the free silver men in the Massa-
| chusetts delegation at Chicago. accompanied
/ Mr.. Bryan to Boston
Concerning a number Of inquiries about
! tho condition of his health Mr.. Bryan said
| this evening that he was feeling strong and
! weu and was reducing eXertion to mini
| mum by resting at every opportunity. Be
| tween stations today he would lid down in
| the drawing room OF his special car and
! managed to recuperate in that wat.
| MIR Bryan has not Yet writtep his let
| ter accepting the populist nomination lie
| told a representative of the Southern ASsO-
| ciated Press today that he had not had time
| to finish it, but would probably 90 SO next
| week.
MAINE GREETS BRYAN.