The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-10-27
AMONG THE HOOSIERS.
Candidate Bryan Speaks at Mao.
Places I'm Indiana--Favorable Re
ceptiOns and Effective Work.

| IlaceS HI ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS lie.
ceptions and Effective Work.
A cheerful jam OF humanity to the
extent of several thousand people
welcomed the candidate to Anderson,
when he arrived there. Out on the
opeln prairie stand had been erected
In lstspeech Mr.. Bryan said in part
Now, my friends, they accuse us of
arraylng oRess against class. want to
say to you THAT the division which we
make in societJr 5,at~S,a2 the money
changer and the wealth producer is q
difference that has been madSa by all
the public men who have spoken in
this country in the past and verybody
knows that the man who profits by a
rising standard Is an entirely different
man from the man who prod uces wealth
and exchanges that wealth for money.
| could cite you what Blaine said, l
could quote you from Sherman, might
dote from John G. Carlisle, and so 1
g ght go on quoting any number of
n m. Aye, | might quote from Mr..
Mckinley himself, but l want, my
friends, to read to you from what an
other distinguished Republican has
said. | want to read to you what Ben
jamin Butterwcrth, eX-Congressman
from Ohio, said only last spring in q
letter which was published by order Of
Congress is it not folly to suppose
that the capitalists of England, and
they are the capitalists of the world,
will be easily persuaded to agree or
consent to bimetallism Why should
they? How is it to their interest to do
so while we consent to make it to thei"
advantage to refuse? They have
doubled the value of their credits by
demonetizing silver and thus in effect
double the interest received by them.
The United States blundered into the
million of her citizens, and if we ad-
here to the blunder it will heggar five
millions more and double the burden
of every debtor and every burden
bearer in the land. If it be said the
United States can not act alone, the
answer Is conditions are such that she
must give notice that she will act with
Engla if the latter consents, other
wise she will act alone. We are the
greatest debtor nation on earth, hence
that 1T may be that we must start alone
If at all, and creditor 7 ions will
speedily join Us FOR thci ga prUtec-
tion in re-establshing bimetallism. Il
necessary and the United S ates docs
not start alone, gold monometallists
will be SO firmly entrenched behind
the mass of the people be so helpless
that bimetallism will be postponed a
generation, If not forever. The plain
citizen will be encouraged with the
| pleasing delusion that the bare con-
temptation of the beauty and un.
changeableness of gold dollar beyond
/ his reach is far preferable to the en-
joyment of silver dollar in his own
pocket and that the only honest dollar
is the one that buys the largest quan
tity OF his land, his labor and the pro
duct of both Thus, my friends, you
will find great Republican denounc
Ing the gold standard, pointing to the
fact that creditor nations Of the world
are seeking to keep it because they
make money out of it,"
In his speech at Glen Miller Park
Mr.. Bryan said in part:
The Republican iar'y promises tC
continue the present financial system
which means a continual issue OF bond.
and continual decrease in the volume
OF the currency, and that you may
understand what others have said OF
this subject, | want to quote to yol
| what your own tOwnsman, who became
one OF the great statesmen Of this coun
try, once said In regard to the effect o
contracting the currency. The speecl
can be found In volume 2, part, page
660 of the Congressional Record of tn,
Forty-third Congress. He said MIR
President: An abundance of money
plenty of money, does produce enter
prise, prosperity and progress -ther,
is no sort of doubt about that. Now
put aside all those old theories my
friend Senator Schurz can bring iron
the books. If he has brought authorlt
in favor of the contracting OF our cur
rency one-half of its present volume
| know he can do that. But after h.
has stated all these common places O
! the books. these platitudes of finance
there is no vitality in them. prefe
to take the aotualresults and the actus
condition of the country and let the
J ories go TO the dogs. There is no M Or
; vitality Ia their theories as applied t
the condi tlons OF our country now tina
there Is Pin petrifled snakes. Let u
talk things as we have seem them pas
, under out eyes for the pastte or fiftee