Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-06

! ever seen and the more dishonest II
| becomes the greater Is their affection for It,
What is an honest dollar? An honest dol
lar would be a dollar OF which the pur-
( chasing power would be stable; a dollar
which rises in purchasing power is as dis
honest as one which falls In purchasing
power And that proposition Is recognized
as true by all except those few who re
gard nothing as honest which does not
add to their pocket. and nothing as dis
honest that treats every person as well
as 1t does themselves. Stability in the
value of a dollar Is the important thing
and the only way that you can secure a
stable dollar is to secure dollar OF which
there will be enough to keep pace with
population and industry. (Applause)
GOLD is A BAD METAL.
"The gold dollar is bad, not because the
quality Of the metal is not good. but be-
cause quantity is as essential in money as
quality. You may show me a particular
liad Of food which is excellent In quality,
but If there Is not enough Of 1t to sustain
life | will never call it good food (AD-
plauseJ They say the gold dollar is a good
dollar; that 1t gives us good money. My
friends. we want money good, but how
good? Just good enough; not too good, my
friends. I am not afraid that when all
the gold available for coinage and all the
silver available for coinage is poured into
the money volume OF the world there will
be more than enough to form a safe and
sound basis for safe and sound commercial
transactions ApplnuseD Our opponents
say we want sound money. What would
you think OF a carpenter who tried to build
house upon an invisible foundation? And
yet they want to build UP the commercial
transactions Of this country upon little
lump of gold. regardless of the fact that
foreigners hold a string to the gold and
can jerk out the foundation of our com
merce. hpplause) You ask us how we are
going to bring silver back into use. | tell
you you cannot do it by electng people
to Office who want it driven out of use.
tApplause)
Money is creature of law and laws
are made by the people.
"The minority plank in the Chicago plat
form was so much like the republican plank
that you could not tell the difference be-
tween them with magnifying glass. The
republican platform pledged the republican
party to maintain the gold standard until
they could get international bimetallsm
and the minority plank in the democratic
platform opposed free coinage for fear it
would interfere with getting international
bmetaliism. The majority rules and you
have an issue this year between those who
want to continue the gold standard and
those who want to abandon It,
our opponents tell us that our dollar
VIII be cheap one. We tell them that
they never called the silver dollar a cheap
dollar until 1t was demonetized. We insist
that legislation can undo what legislation did
We insist that the opening of cur mints
VIII create a demand which the closing Of
cur mints destroyed, and that that demand
for silver will raise the price Of silver bull
lion to $1.29 anywhere in the world. CAp-
plauseO But you say 1t will be as hard to
get a silver dollar as it is now under the
gold standard. You overlook the first prin-
ciple that must be understood in studying
the money question. Gold has gone up be-
cause you destroyed its competitor. Re-
store it's competitor and let silver be used en-
equal terms by sip tbn
OF standard money you lessen the strain on
gold and reduce the purchasing power of an
| ounce of gold throughout the wcrld. Great
applause) The silver dollar and the gold
dollar will be worth the same whether in the
form of coin or in the form of melted bull
lion, but 1t will be easier to get either when
you have the chance to get both than it is
now when you have to fight for one The
prosperity of your great cities depends upon
the prosperity of the farmers and planters
of this country Down goes the value of
Gotten when you drive up the value of gold.
Talk about one dollar that is good any
dollar in the world. You want cotton at
least brought to be as good as 1t used
to be before gold get out of reach. Restore
prosperity to the cities and to the laboring
man, who will then be employed in manu-
| featuring things for the farmers, who will
then have the money to buy what they
need.
BANKERS NOT WITH HIM.
lllu as l go ABOUT tNaC lneTe are a great
many bankers who support the gold stand
ard. My friends, l don't know why a
banker in Memphis should be interested in
driving down the value of the farm products
of those who do business with him, and If
you want to know the explanation of that
condition | can give it. | will say this, that
when you have found man who has been
so busy handling money as not to have had
time to study the science of financierlng,
l will tell you the great controlling force
| thn Iat, ,tyn,.- Of tl,A
1t is true they get their news from New
York and instructions from Wall street. ana
the bankers of Wall street get theirs from
London, and your bankers here set up and
call themselves patriots while they bow tc
foreign dctation.
Now. my friends, just word more.
ask you not to be dismayed at the forces
arrayed against us. II you think that you
are called abusive names, just remember
that in all the ages past those who have
arrayed themselves against intense privl-
leges have been abused by those who, not
being able to meet their arguments, have
attempted TO drive them from the field
by cursng and swearing at them and ap
plying abusive epthets to them. (Applause).
Not a man in this campaign who advocates
free coinage has been more bitterly assailed
than Jefferson was when he started out to
organize the democratic party. (Applause)
Not a man in this campaign has been more
bitterly assailed than Jackson was when he
was fighting the same kind Of combination
which We fighting today. The battle Of
democracy today is the battle that democ.
racy has ever fought 1t Is the cause of the
people, the cause of the great masses of the
people arrayed against those who seek spe-
cial privileges and who attempt to fasten
their hold upon the government perpetu-
ally by contributing enormous campaign
fund with the hope of gaining back more
after the election than they spent to secure
the election. Great applause) Against a
corruption fund unparalleled in the history
of this country we simply oppose people,
defenseless, except for that defense which
every citizen has when he is fighting in the
cause of truth and justice; when person re-
lies most upon the justice of his cause he is
then stronger than he is ever at any other
time.
I'VE have also to face intimidation. But
my friends, we have always had to face
intimidation. Those whom we fight today
have used intimidation as their weapon at
all times. But in this country we find
that as the people become more intelligent,
as they become more and more to realize
the justice of free government and lib
erty, the attempt to intimidate simply re-
acts. and men who We're not aroused before
become aroused because they realize that
they have departed from their custom. In
timldation today is having just the opposite
effect from what was intended. We will
be all the stronger because of the unfair
attempt of our opponents to drive men from
voting as they please"
Mr.. Bryan left for Nashville at noon over