Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1896-10-29
BRYAN I'd CIIEN OF BUSINESS
Monster MONDAY Meeting in Chicago Hears
Silver Doctrine.
TALKS About SCARCITY OF MONEY
Ridiculcs the Lien of u Desire "a hor-
row More While We Are Pro-
claiming that We Have
Enough Already.

the largest house In the city OF chicago
was filled literally to suffocaton with people
to hear william ]. Bryan, outside on the
lake front and streets adjoining, unable
to gain admission. were crowds that would
have filled the hail twice again. Eight
other large meeting were addressed by Mr..
Bryan before midnight in various parts
Of the city. The most important gathering
OF tho series was the big MONDAY meet
ing OF business men at Battery ID armory
on the lake front.
Mr.. Bryan began today's program with
speech IN a Polish hall half way across
the city from the one in which he spoke
last night. Todays initial meeting was a
wcman's gathering at st. Stanislaus hall, on
Noble street. Mr.. Bryan was greeted with
an audience of 5000 persons, the greatest
proportion being ladies. After the en-
thusiastic applause which greeted him on
his arrival had subsidized. Mrs. Jennie
BarZynski, assisted by Miss Francis Kowal-
ski, introduced the candidate to the audi
cnce, and in the course of his speech he
said: "If in this campaign we can con-
vince the women that justice is on our
side, / know that In every household there
will be a wife or mother WIZ will say to
the father of that family: Coercion cannot
be permitted to interfere with the exercise
Of the rights of citizenship Cries of you
are right.'O II we can convince the women
OF the justice Of our cause there is no
campaign fund. however large that can
bride the husband and the brothers and sons
who go forth with the inspiration of these
women behind them" loud and continued
applause)
The big MONDAY meeting OF business men
at Batter ID armory on the lake front
claimed Mr. Bryan's attention as quickly
as he could be hustled through the several
mi nf CT Gtapielans
before the hour for the meeting, Battery
ID was packed. The seats had been removed
from the b5dy OF the hall and the audience
stood shoulder to shoulder. The great
Orders that supported the roof furnished
seats for a number of venturesome admirers
and the galleries were packed The hall
was crowded to its utmost limit. General
c. H. Howard called the meeting to order.
Alr. Bryan received an ovation that lasted
more than five minutes and bid fair to con-
tnue indefinitely. General Howard obtained
the attention OF the audience, however, by
saying that Mr.. Bryan asked one question,
whether these. present were all business
men. a thousand voices answered Yes"
and in the Hull fhat followed one mans
voice clearly rose Cs he said, I'VE mean
business" CChoering)
ENOUGH AND BORROWING.
After stating that the prosperity of the
men engaged in the exchange OF wealth de-
pended upon the prosperity Of the producers,
and that business men were being tyran-
nized over by banks, Mr.. Bryan said:
My friends here is our condition. Here
is great financial system resting upon a
handful of gold and people in "A foreign
land have a string to tnr gold and You
never know when they are going to pull
the foundation out from under your fabric
and let your entire commercial structure
collapse Tell tho people not to be agita-
ted My friends. Solc cannot calm the sea
by words. AS hopeless Is II to attempt to
calm the trouhlcdl society by telling them
to be quiet whdn they. know that Catas-
trophe stands just In front of them all the
time. (Cheering) ] want you to note this
proposition. When We talk about wanting
more money, they tell us there Is money
enough In the country; p.enty OF money
in the country. The moment you begin to
argue that there should be more they will
silence you by pointing to the amount of
money in the banks waiting to be loaned.
enough money i'm this country now let us
have financial system Of our own" and
they say, "Oh. no; we can't do that, be-
cause IL you do that then we cannot bor-
row from abroad" daughter and cheers)
Why do W. want to borrow If we have
enough? prolonged cheering) Now, my
friends, there are two propositions You
cannot escape both of them. II we have
enough money now, then we do not want
any money to come from abroad, because.
then we would have too much and no
body wants too much. daughter and APP
1t is conclusive proof that we have not
enough money now In the country and If
we have not enough now | assert that II
Is better to have an additional supply come
out of our own mountains and he our own
money instead of borrowing and then pay
Ing II back to the foreign nations of the
world. Great anplause.)
The republican platform pledges the re
publican party to use every effort TO PRO
mote International bimetallism. How is it
going to promote II? BY making 1t profta-
BILE for foreign creditors TO object to It.
How are they going TO promote interna-
tional bimetallism? BY making 1t proita-
In ion fin fonia re tn pft1gn
ton. / promise you to promote interna-
tlonal bimetallism and promise to do II
in a more sensible way than by making IL
profitable to refuse our petition.
PAY BONDS IN SILVER
You ask me what your plan is. l will
tell you. We have tried your plan for
twenty years and we are further off now
than we were when we commenced to try
your remedy. Npplause) / propose diff
ferent plan. You have said TO foreign
creditors that If they will object to hi
ing their mortgages more valuable and
their notes more valuable and their dollars
buy more | propose that the United States
shall say that the mints of this country
shall be opened to the free and unlimited
coinage of silver on equal terms with gold
at the present ratio and the money coined
shall be alike a legal tender for all debts,
public and private. Great apolause) And
then | propose that we shall say to our
foreign creditors that we intend to pay
our coin obligations in either gold or sill
Yer. Appause) ] propose that we shall
say 10 tnCm.s 'Genllemen, II you COnSplre
to make that silver dollar worth less than
the gold dollar we shall pay you in that
silver dollar" Great applause and cheers)
You say that H. reputation? / deny II.
They bought our bonds only n short time
ago and they made difference between
coin bonds and gold bonds, charging for
tho risk theytpelsI and now let them have
the risk theyiWeFf paid for. You say that
they have n Tish to charge us more be
cause of the risk they took and then we
have not the oriPft to exercise the option
which they caledIAted on? All my friends
that idea coates simply from those who
think that alissodeiy should be careful to
guard the integestnof the creditor and neg
lect every right that n debtor has. ZAP
" notice thai aso5p9Ie of our critics are very
much excited because tho Chicago plat
form says that W. pledge ourselves to Sc
cure such legislation as will for the future
prevent contracts for particular kind of
money Why obey say that we are not
going to let people contract. We are not
going to let them make contracts that are
against public policy; we do not intend
Rst they %Sat by private
by universal ltw8 Great cheering.)
MY frlendSes-4 urEopponcnts having been
detected in TIA u q forts TO convince the
people that the gold STANDARD ought to be
maintained are seeking to do now what
they have always sought to do, win the
battle on another issue. and having won
the battle carry. the gold standard little
further. Now they are telling you that
my election would be n menace to peace