The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-13

! lation is needed upon this basis, that
amount is provided for in the bill by the
sub-treasury.'
There is senator Sherman saying that
| we need an increase In the currency of
! something like $50.000,000 every year and
yet, instead of having an Increase of $780,
| 100000 per annum for the last two years
we have decrease of $l55,00O0O0, making
a deficit of about S2o5,OOO,OOO in the cur
rency of the country.
Now, If Senator Sherman was right in
$780, in saying that the people needed
new money every year, then l want TO
ask YOU why 1t is that the republican
! party, in the face of decrease in the
circulation of money, has made no pro-
vision to supply the needs of increasing
population. When we speak about these
ma tiers, our opponents tell US that we
do not understand mathematics. A man
| does not have to understand much about
mathematics to know that a nation that
requires an increased circulation must
know that Ii demands an increase of pur-
chase of silver bullion. Not only does the
republican party make no provision for
| an increase of currency to meet the nee
essites of the people, but the republican
party has been silent with regard to the
manner in which this circulation has con-
| tracted. If the republican party sue
ceeds, we have every reason to believe
that the republican administration will
| follow the example set by the previous adj
ministration, and go on contracting the
circulation, instead of Increasing it," (Ap-
| plause)
Mr.. Bryan reached the Auditorium OF
9:15 o'clock and following an interesting
address by ex-Lieut. Gov. Johnson, said:
| IF the republican party had declared in
| favor of a gold standard, its orators
might have gone before the people and
advocated the gold standard as a good
| thing. To have done so however they
| WOpld have n
| cry of distress which comes up every
| where. But had they declared for a gol1
| standard they would at least have had
| something to advocate But they did not
see 1t. The advocates of gold standard
did not declare for a gold standard Why?
Because those who favored a gold stand
ard never fought an open fight in their
| lives. Gold is a coward. 1t will not meet
| its enemies in an open fight, and those
who advocate gold standard have
never been willing to face their enemies
before the American people. Get
the fact that our opponents are
not willing to take the American
people into their confidence and declare
before the American people the policy
which they desire. This night recalls my
| last visit to this hall a little less than
three months ago. / attended national
i convention held In this hall. 1 saw here
adopted the first platform ever adopted by
a national convention in all the
history of the United States
which declared that the United
| States must depend upon foreign nations
for permission to do what our people de-
sired to do. l saw adopted in this hall a
| platform which pledged the republican
party to get rid of a gold standard and
substitute bimetalhsm as soon as the lead
ing nations of Europe would help us to
| do so. Before an audience that did not
/ I W. tes nix Form do nd
l am delighted that an audience greater
| in size, gathered not from all the union,
but from a single city, has met in this
same hall to pronounce condemnation
upon that platform.
Politics, my friends, is at times serious
| business, and politics this year is more
serious business than in any year through
which we assembled here have ever pass
| ed. Whenever a great party solemnly de-
clares that the control of our financial
policy shall be transferred from the
! American people over into the hands OF
| foreign nations, 1t raises serious issue
which must be settled by the people. Gap
! plause)
why, my friends, in a country like
| ours, agitation is the only means by
which people can secure relief And Il
| these men had their way about 1t, they
would make 1t penal offense for a man
to raise his voice against the financial
system which they would fasten upon the
! American people. (Applause.) They lay
| it to agitation, and what do they tell you?
| Why, in their judgment, If there can be
a correct settlement of the financial dif-
! ficulties, then gold will be free again. in
their judgment. repeat that these men
tell you that everything would be all
right If you would Just have a
correct settlement of the money question,
and then don't tell you what that correct
settlement is. They either don't know
L. q Al.
know they are not willing to tell you. Gap
plause) You will find some of these bank
| ing institutions-I do not say all of them,
because there are in the banking business
men who will respect the constitution and
| the laws of the United States-but ] say
some of these banking institutions tell a
| man they will not lend money to him, or
extend his notes unless he votes as they
ask him to. Yes, and why do they do It?
! 1t is because there are banking
| firms in New York city who tell the
banks here that If they do not do as they
want them to they will not extend credit
to them; and then there are banking es-
Establishments In London who tell the New
| York banking firms that II they do not
run the United States on the European
| plan they win not extend credit to them.
| tremendous cheering) Show me the
man In this city who tells his employees
/ that they must vote as he wants them to
| John Scullin") loud cheerng).
Then, my friends. we have entered into
a contest, the primary object OF which is
20 make free men out Of slaves.
"I wonder II those who are assembled
/ here understand what Is going on under
the financial policy which has cursed this
| country for the last twenty years. Let
me tell you something. They have pre-
sented greenbacks and treasury notes for
redemption, and. instead of the govern
ment exercising the right to redeem those
| greenbacks and treasury notes in either
| gold or silver the administration-the
present administration and the adminis-
trations for several years past-has sur
rendered that right 70 the hands Of the
holders of the note and under that right
the treasury Of the United States has
proved helpless in the hands OF those
who. pretending to uphold the nations
credit, have plundered the nation to fill
their own pockets with the peoples
money"