Birmingham state herald., 1896-10-03

which are called gold standard clubs. What do you find? Sound money clubs. (Cheers.) Now, why do they use sound money" instead of gold? Because they dare not tell the people what they mean by the term. They are using these words to deceive. My friends, everybody wants sound money but the question is, what is sound money? I will tell you what I understand sound money to be. Sound money is money furnished in sufficient quantities to form a safe basis for the business of the country (Applause.) There is something necessary besides quality in money. Money may be good, splendid, but there may be none of it. (Applause)
 "It is of money as it is of food. You have got to combine quality and quanti- ty You must combine quantity and quality. Suppose that person tried to feed himself on bread of the very best quality and yet not enough of it to sus- tain life. (Applause). Suppose he tried to feed himself on meat of the very high est quality, but so insufficient in quantity that he would die for lack of nourish- ment. Would you call that sound food? Not bit of it. Applause). And yet our opponents are trying to build up finan- cial system on gold alone, when they are not able to find the gold to furnish the basis of their system. The gold standard is of no advantage unless you can find enough gold to furnish the standard
  nished that gold. They cannot furnish it. All over the world today the nations are
 Scrambling to Get the Gold There Is.
 A voice-There's only $14 900 000 900.
 MT. Bryan-Fourteen billions? Only four billions, my friends. (Applause) If the statistics furnished by the treas ury department are correct. But if the statistics furnished by other nations in regard to the supply of gold are as de- captive as the statistics furnished in re- gard to this nations supply of gold, in- stead of there being four billions of gold in the world there are not three billions. (Applause.) In order to make up the four billions they give this nation more than $500, 900, 900. It is not here. The treasury statistics say it is, but if you attempt to find it you find that there is some in the vaults at Washington, some in the national and state banks, and then when you have added this store of gold all together you have only little more than one-half of the estimated amount of gold in this country, and you ask them where is the rest of their gold. They tell you that that is what is known as the in- visible supply of gold. Qaughter.) When they talk about the invisible SUD- ply of gold they talk about the supply which cannot be seen because invisible means not seen, and I will tell you that this invisible supply of gold is getting to be more and more invisible every day. (Applause)
 Now, my friends, there are two req sons which may explain the fact that our opponents do not propose financial sys- tenn to the American people. In the first place they may not know what is best. Will they admit that their failure to tell you what ought to be done is due to ig- norance? If so, why can they ask you to trust those who don't know what the par ty does not know today? Uaughter and applause.) If our opponents do not know
 
 then can we follow them? It will be
 The Blind Leading the Blind.
 If, on the other hand our opponents say they know what ought to be done, then we ask them why they don't tell tha people what they know. (Applause) Our opponents can only excuse themselves on one of two grounds-their failure to elab- crate a financial system must be due to ignorance or 1t must be due to an unwill ingness to let the people know what their plans are before they vote. (Great cheer ing)
 MT. Bryan spoke of bankers who grew rich on the interest of deposits, and ad- ded And yet these men who act in the capacity of trustees are so insolent that they are now contributing to republican campaign funds the money that the peo- pie have deposited with them for secur ity.
 My friends, If the banks want to go into politics let them beware of the re- suits that may follow political banking. If they train to be business men and run their business on business principles they must not come into the field Of politics and attempt to run politics. (Applause)
 q realize that the great corporations, trusts, syndicates and combinations of wealth are against us, but I remember that they were against Andrew Jackson in the same fight that they are making today"
 The rest of the speech was devoted to an explanation of the fifty-cent dollar and to statements about the impossibility of the Mexican dollar in America
 The cavalcade of men who escorted MT. Bryan to the stand fell in line again and went back to the station with him. MT. Brown, Urey Woodson, national commit teeman from Kentucky; Representative McMllin of Tennessee and others left Huntington on the candidates special train for Cincinnati at 1850 central time. The visit lasted an hour and twenty min utes.