Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-10-06
THE VICIOUS CLERGY.
Mr.. Bryan Hauls Glass of Preach
ers Over the Goals.
He Declares They Are nIaligning the Poor
and Degrading the Pulpit When They
w Denounce the Common People as
va. Anarchists-The Church and the
~, Gold Standard.

Raleigh, N. c., Sept. 1S. = Candidate
Bryan completed great days labor.
in Nash's park here last night by malS-
ing speech in condemnation of those
preachers who are. degrading the pulpit
by espousing the cause of the dishonest
money sharks against silver. He said:i
II could stand any appeal made by the
advocates of the gold standard to al
most any class better than an appeal
made to the preachers and teachers Of
religion If there is one thing that the
church people of this country could at
ford to array themselves against tits the
gold standard as it is being advocated by
the American people at this time. (Ap-
plause.) And yet the republican party
lis appealing to church people to take
their place on the side of the gold stand
ard.
GLOW things have changed in the last
1900 years! Look at the people who
head the gold standard propaganda in
the United States. Look at the bond
holding class and the money changers
classes, the brokerage classes of New
York, who are trying to fasten gold
standard upon the people of this coun-
try-not openly, but secretly and in dis
guise, and then turn back 1900 years,
when the meek and lowly Saviour threw
the same kind Of people out of His tenn.
pie because they had made His home a
den of thieves (great applause), and
then think that these people come and
appeal to the ministers of the Gospel and
the church papers to save them from the
wrath to come. daughter and APP
plause)
s'My friends, when certain ministers
Of the Gospel denounce the great mass Of
people who stand behind free coinage;
when these ministers have denounced
these advocates of free coinage and have
taken their places upon the side of these
great aggregates of wealth, remind
them that when the Saviour was here it
was the common people who heard Him
gladly-these very people whom these
ministers to-day call anarchists and So
cialists. Great aplause.)
"My friends, when I fnd-there are
not many of them, but they are quite
conspicuous-when I find these men
SdSGiAS eueiH lOU UPON lldU Sue anu Elk.
hausting abusive language in their de-
scription of the great masses of the peo-
pie of this country, feel like saying to
them that if they will take their chances
with Dives, will risk my chances with
Lazarus. Great applause.) This money
question is question which concerns
every one Of you and you have right to
consider what has been done and what
will be done and then decide whether
you want to support the present fnan-
cial policy or not. When prices are fall
ing and money is rising man can bet4
ter afford to lock his money up in a
vault and gain the rise rather than in
vest his money in property and risk a
loss in the value of the property.
'You are making the property not
worth having, and everybody is trying
to turn property into money. And
while the gold standard lasts that condi.
ton must remain and times must be
hard, and hard times means more idle
men, and more idle men means more
destitute men, and more destitute
men means at last more criminal
men, and yet the gold standard men ap.
peal to the ministry to increase crime"
(GreAt applause and cheerfng.l