Birmingham state herald., 1896-09-13


 an occupant, but at least 5000 people
 crowded the stage, it's ais1es and the spaces back of the galleries. The heat was enervating and several women faint ed. Private John Allen, congressman from Mississippi, entertained the vast au- dience until MT. Bryan arrived. It was intended that MT. Bryan should be fntro- duced by Mr. Virgil Rule, but MT. Rule could not still the tumult of enthusiasm that ragged when the democratic candi- date appeared. Men and women stood on chairs and waived hats, handkerchiefs and fans. The applause lasted ten min- utes and ceased only when MT. Bryan waived the introduction and began his address.
 It was the same story over again at Sportsman park, which MT. Bryan reach- ed at 10:45. The crowd there was equal to that at the auditorium and was quite as enthusiastic.
 The introduction was made by Presi- dent Wickard of the Travelling Mems club
 MT. Bryan's most important speech was that at Concordia park, while that at the auditorium had local significance in MT. Bryan's remarks about a state ment of St. Louis banks published in the afternoon papers as to why they do not pay out gold.
 His Speech at Concordia Park MT. Bryan said that In order for his hearers to understand the question of money he desired to submit few argu- ments in behalf of the restorat ton of the l for your consideration" he continued l two or three propositions, and believe that they are so clear and so plain every l one of you here can recognize the force of them.
 | Tn the first place, the republican party | in Its platform and through it's public | men is making an effort to supply the people of the United States with suff1- | cient amount of money to do business If were to tell you that a grown person 1 could wear the clothes of a child you I would think me foolish. If I told you | that grown person could live on food l necessary to sustain life in a child you l would call me foolish, and yet they call
 these men financiers who assume that a l people growing In popula tion can survive l on money decrease in it's mint. (Cheers) | I want you to remember now, the figures l which I am going to read to you These l figures are taken from government pulp
 lication issued on the 1st of July, 1896. l Now give me your attention, my l friends. In this government publication 1 issued by the treasury department on the l 1st of July, 1896, I find statement of the l amount of money of all kinds in ercula- l tion among the people for the various years. Let me call your attention to the amount here for the years 1894, 1S9S and | 1896. In 1894 the amount of money ilNcir- l culation, according to this report was 1 $1 ,660 000 000 In 1895 the amount of mOn- l ey in circulation had fallen to s1, ,6O1, ,000,- l 900, a decrease in one year of $59,000, 900. On June 9, 1896. the amount of circulation l had fallen to $1, ,506, ,000. 900. It means that l in two years time, according to the treas 1 ury reports, the amount of money in cir | culation among the people had fallen l about $155, 900 in amount. In other words, in this time there has been de- crease of nearly 10 per cent in the amount l of money in circulatio among the peo- l pie. This is according to the treasury re- l port, and this report shows that while l the per capita circulation In 1894 was l $24.28 per capita, in 1896 it had fallen to l $21. .10 a fall of more than $3 per capita. l (Cheers.) Now that have called your 1 attention to this decrease shown by the treasury report, let me show you, my I friends, that instead of being decrease | there !. l Should Have Been an Increase Each Year l Senator John Sherman made a speech | on the 1st of July, 1890, and in the course l of that speech he used these words: If 1 our present circulation is estimated at l $1, 400 900, 900 and our population is in- | creasing at the rate of 3 per cent per an- l mum it would require $62, 900 900 increased l circuation each year to keep pace with | the increase of population, but as the in- | crease of population is accompanied by l an increase of wealth and business it was l thought that an immediate increase of | circulation might be obtained by larger purchase of silver bullion to an amount | sufficient to make new issue of bank l notes to keep pace with the increase of l population. Assuming that $54, ,000,00 l year additional circulation is needed l upon this basis that amount is provided 1 for in the bill by the sub-treasury.' "There is Senator Sherman saying that l we need an increase in the currency of l something like $50, 900, 900 every year, and l yet instead of having an increase of $50,- | O0O0 GOO per annum for the last two years | we have decrease of $155, 100000 making deficit of about $255 00O, 900 in the cur l rency of the country.
 Now, if Senator Sherman was right in | 1890 in saying that the people needed new | money every year, then 1 want to ask | you why 1t is that the republican party l have, in the face of decrease in the 1 circulation of money, made no provision | to supply the needs of an increasing | population. When we speak about these l matters our opponents tell us that we | do not understand mathematics. man | does not have to understand much about 1 mathematics to know that nation re. uuires an increased cfrcula tion. He must | know that it demands an increase of l purchase of silver bullion. Not only l does the republican party make no pro-
 vision for the Increase of currency to | meet the necessities of the people, but l the republican party has been silent with ! regard to the manner in which this cir l culation had contracted. If the republi- l can party succeeds we have every req | son to believe that the republican ad- | min.stration will follow the example set l by the previous administration and go | on contracting the circulation instead of 1 increasing it. (Applause).
 | Both Wired Their Permission. 1 Washington, Sept. 12.--The local demo- 1 cratic committee is having trouble find l ing a suitable place in which to hold the | meeting to be addressed by MT. Bryan 1 on the 18th instant. The plaza at the l east front of the capitol was suggested l and Vice President Stevenson and Speak l CT Reed, the custodians of the grounds under the law, were telegraphed to for 1 their consent. Both these officials today 1 wired their permission to use the | grounds. A number of republicans, fear | ing a refusal, and believing 1t would in- | jure the party, are said to have tele- 1 graphed MT. Reed urging him to give his | consent.
 Massachusetts Democracy Is True. Boston, Sept. 12.-The sentiment of the l democratic caucuses held in the various 1 towns and cities of the state last night u,oo oIponst 11panirnouc n faunr of tho