The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-08-26


saw that all we need is a restoration of
confidence. Whenever the confidence
man is abroad in community, the
man who has the least confidence gets
off with the most money. (Laughter).
| am very much afraid that the conf
dence man is abroad in this campaign,
preaching have confidence, and all
will be WELL My friends, confidence
must have basis to rest upon. Our
opponents say that unless we shape our
| financial policy to suit the pleasure of
! foreign nations they viii not loan us
I, any money. We reply that as long as
| we shape our financial policy accord
| ing to their pleasure, we will always
/ be borrowers ond can never be money
| lenders ourselves. Confidence must
| rest upon substantial basis.
IF you want to restore confidence
| you have got to restore prosperity to
| the great masses of the people, and
| talk as much about good property as
| they have been talking about good
| money. Money can bee too good. 1t can
be so good that you can long for it and
| pray for it, but cannot get hold of it.
| (Laughter).
! Remember that whenever you make
money dearer, when YOU increase it's
purchasing power, you have simply
/ driven down the value of other things
and if those who own money and who
| hold contracts payable in dollars are
willing to SO legislate as to make their
| property more valuable, how can they
/ appeal to those who own property and
owe debts to join them in that sort
/ of legislation. | assert again that
without aid of the money owing classes
the gold standard would not stand
| for one day in any nation under the
sun. / assert that behind the gold
standard in this country the only po
1 tent force consists of those who hold
| fixed investments and those who, as
brokers, profit the greater by greater
| bond issues. They tell the laboring
men of this nation that they ought
to support a gold standard. The labor
ing men have never found the finan-
eiers of this nation the men who have
| asserted themselves to improve the
condition of the laboring man. AS a
rule the men who have spent their
time trying to break down labor organ
izations-the only protection that the
laboring man has had--these are the
men who now come to ask the help
of the laboring man. | ask You if you
ought to expect blessings from those
from whom you have only received
cursings in the past?' (Cries of mo,
no.")
| My friends, there is this general
| principle that you can use in govern
i ing your course. You may rest as
sured that in the long run any policy
which brings prosperity TO the great
mass Of people, viii be shared by all
the people. If you cannot see just
in what particular way any given
measure is going to benefit you in your
business, If you can satisfy yourself
| that the general public win be bene-
4 fitted by that measure, YOU can rest
| assured that. you viii receive your
| proportionate share of it. But / chal-
| lenge you to search in all the pages
of history for a single instance where
the mass of the people were ever bene-
fitted by Legislation that increased the
| value of the dollar in which debts had
to the paid. (Applause.)
/ My friends, our opponents some
| times tell us that this silver senti-
| ment is a disease. If so ii will run It's
course. like Nthooping cough or The
measles. No, my friends, it is not 4
disease. The silver sentiment is the
| ontgrowth of a condition. and YOU
I@ann0f destroy the sentiment until
you have remedied the CONDITION out
Of which that sentiment arose. I can
retaliate upon our opponents and tell
them that this gold standard idea is
"A disease. 1t is the new yellow fever.
| daughter and applause.t But there
is a difference between the new yellow
fever and the old yellow fever: the
lold yellow fever killed the people who
hssi the fever; the new yellow fever is
death to people who do not have the
fever. (Applause.) <
Now, my friends, my time is up
| must leave you and go TO greet other
people. ] simply appeal to you to
join with US if your judgment snstains
that action in trying TO bring back to
the people monetary system which
they had and would have had until
now but for its being struck down
in the night without discussion before
the American people. When this has
| been accomplished. other Hhngs will
| be possible Until this is accomplished,
no other thing is possible. | thank
You for your very kind attention"
/ tApplause.l
Those 4ssEho have Travelled with
! the candidate since his nomination
say that no demonstration in the cam
paign has excelied this in intensity,
and only those in Chicago and Pitts.
burg in point of numbers.
| AN ACCIDENT AT UTICA.
| Utica, N. Y, Aug. 25-William J.
| Bryan's eventful day ended with an ac-
| cident which narrowly missed being
| disaster. One half of the platform
| from which he was adressing crowd
! of several thousand, in the square in
front of the Baggs Hotel, in Utica, at
| midnight, fell to the ground and, al
| though the Presidential candidate es-
| capped injury, Clinton Becl<with, of
! Herkimer, a member of the reception
committee, had an ankle sprained, Jno.
7 r. Teller had leg broken, and several
| others were badly bruised and cut, but
! no one was seriously injured.
The cracking of timbers and terri
fed shrieks of women nearly created
] a panic. Mr.. Bryan raised his hand to
! quiet the crowd, and after a delay of
ten minutes, during which the police
a,,J I,xyrFa,,Iaru baIyaad ont fhe T11aSs