The herald., 1896-09-06

three Mexican dollars it will buy three
bushels of wheat. You say you want
the dollar good; how good do you want
1t" Do you want 1t so good that you
ca.inot get hold of it, my friends?
daughter) They tell you that the Ia
boring man is interested in the gold
standard because he wants his dollar
to buy as much as possible. There is
something else which the laboring man
is interested in before he becomes inter-
ested in what the dollar will buy. The
laboring man is for the restoration of
silver because he knows that under the
sold standard we have hard times and
falling prices and they are hard on the
iaboring man. They know that there is
only one way to get employment, and
that is to restore the parity between Ia
bor and money which employs labor.
Now they are afraid, some Of them,
that under the free coinage of silver we
will have food of money. If there is
anybody in this audience who'is afraid
Of having a flood of money he should vote
the Republican ticket. That will keep
you from having flood Of money.
daughter and applause.)
We are opposed to gold standard be-
cause the demand for gold has been
pushing gold up and other things down
and when we bring silver into competi-
tion with gold, that will take the strain
off gold and will take that portion of the
purchasing power of the gold secured
to it by the laws, secured by the advo-
Gates of the gold standard in this coun-
try.
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silver has been produced by hostile leg
dslation and that friendly legislation
will close that gap and give us a gold
and a silver dollar of equal purchasing
power, and that neither one of them will
buy as much as either one will today.
That is one of the things that people do
not seem to be able to understand. What
we complain of is that the money own
ing and money changing classes have
been making dollars dearer and there
fore have been making dollars scarcer
and they have done 1t because they are
interested in having money go up and
you people who have property have
right to protect yourselves against the
conspiracy to destroy part of the value
OF your property. (Applause.) + know
banker in Buffalo who wrote an arti-
Gle the other day in which he said that
upon the success of the business man de-
pended the success of the laborer and
farmer Uaughter) Think of that.
There is not a person in this audience
who would make that mistake, because
no man who will stand here in the rain
would make that kind Of mistake. Gap
plause.) Why, my friends, 1t simply re-
verses the process. Upon the laboring
man and the farmer depends all the
rest of society. They do not descend
from the business men. You have to Gre
ate wealth before you can exchange
wealth. The business man Is the man
who exchanges wealth, not the man who
produces it. I have had occasion to de-
scribe it before in this way:
The farmers and laborers are the
foundation of society. The business
man, the commercial man and the pro-
fessional man are the house built upon
the foundation, and the financiers are
the roof of the house, and yet the finan-
ciers think they are the whole thing
and all the rest depends upon them.
AS matter Of fact, however, you can
change roof Of house, and the house
will stand. You can change your f1nan-
cial system, and the government still
stands, but if you destroy the founda-
ton the house goes down. (Applause)
Now. want to ask you who are the
producers Of wealth? (IIere the part
Of the audience on the other side Of the
platform called for Mr. Bryan to speak
from their side.) I am afraid I have
been neglecting our friends over here.
Now, If you will be as patient as they
have been, will be back here in min
ute.
(Nr. Bryan tried to go to the other
side, but it being impossible, turned to
the audience again and addressed them
as follows:)
Now, just a word in conclusion.
want you to remember my friends, that
on every question which concerns the
public, each man must speak for him
self, and I want to warn you against
the efforts that will be made by some
Of the employers of labor to vote their
laborers as if they were chattels in
stead Of free men. I want to warn you
against the attempts which will be made
by some financiers to secure the votes
of the men to whom they lend money.
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lenders. They are part Of society, and
we need them. When need money
borrow from them, but when 7 want
to vote do not go to them and ask them
how I am going to vote.
You say you want to hear little about
the old soldiers. Well, my friends, the
crisis which Is approaching now, the
question before the country now, ap-
peals to the old soldier as much as it
did in 1861. (Applause.) IF the men in
this country We're willing to march out
upon the field and to sustain a govern
ment Of the people and by the people,
want to know why they cannot give
one day in the year, and that election
day, to stand by the government of the
people and by the people still. Gap
plause and cheers.)
My friends, l am not afraid that any
man who risked his life in this nations
behalf is going to be Influenced by the
arguments that are addressed to the
soldiers now by the financiers who dur
ing the war were looking out for them
selves and letting the soldier look out
for himself. (Applause) I am not
afraid that the men who at that time
were willing to endure the dangers Of
war because they thought the black
man should be free, are going to