The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-01
BRYAN ENTERS IOWA.
struggle to Win the State Regain
Before Breakfast

AOAC DEGakIaSf.
MWA. To-. Oct. 31-Mr. Bryan
entered Iowa on the c., B. e. O at 4
O'Clock this morning, and made his fret
speech of the day at Mount Pleasant
at o'clock before he had had hid
breakfast. The air was cold and crisn
ana seemed to give the candidate ne1u
Vlgor Tor MS last tour across this state
lie appeared in good voice, and spoke
SO distinctly as to be heard with ease
py the large crowd which congregated
thus early in the day. The audience
was an enthusiastic one. and was evil
gently In sympathy with the speaker
Mr.. Bryan's speech at Mount plea III
was devoted largely to a discussion on
efforts olsA
AT Fairfield, where he was met hv
large crowd, Bryan devoted himself to
questlons Which had been propoun6ad
lows: NPohe 0's lol-
Ladies and gentlemen: In going abo,,.
n nort pace 70 place, l have but few mo-
iIents at each stop, and 1 am not able 10
enter into an elaborate discussion of anv
question, but | take these occasions In djs
S G various phases of the money question
sometimes l have questions mt IN me a.
answers to which aid in the discmssion &c
~ Nv.
ms morning have two questions to answer
one OF them is: Granting for a momenf
enat we nave the right to pay the interest
on our bonds in coin and not in gold 10 II
not at least unfair, after having paid continu-
any IN gold, to suddenly switch to silver
without warning and to compel the accent
ance tnereor, when the face value Of the
ponds themselves at the present moment
ana Tor many years has been the same al
tnelr value in gold; in other words, is II fair
70 the holder to suddenly change his gold
how'd
mere silver bonds?''
The bonds issued by the United States call
Tor coin and the Matthews resolution, in 1879
declared acc, re that this nation had the right to
pay lts coin obligations in either gold Or sill
yer ana that resolution has never been re-
sc1nded The president of the United States
mas no right to change the laws of the land
ana Wnen he tries to do 1t the people have
the right to stand about the law instead Of the
foreign syndieates. Mr.. Carlisle In discuse-
ing inns subject before the committee on ap-
preparations on the 21st Of January 1895 said
That II the executive officers had in the he
ginning exercised the right to pay in either
COIN II would have done no harm, but would
have worked well, but his contention was
that having established precedent. il would
be necessary to follow that precedent insfeo5
OF exercising the right to pay in either gold
We say that II the administration las sur-
rendered the rights that the people have fha
sooner another administration resumes those
rights the better for the people who have
been injured by the surrender Of tie rights
Again let me say that we have sold borads
payable IN coin, and the purchasers Of the
bonds have made difference In what they
paid, In some instances, because OF our right
10 pay In silver, and / believe that when fhe
men who bought the bonds made differsncs
between coin bonds and gold bonds, ana
charged US for the risk, that they took tha4
they cannot complain II we exercise the rirht
another question
When Mr.. Bryan arrived at OF
trmwa, he was met at the station bv
a reception committee, who escorted
MIN to the city, where he remained for
more than an hour, addressing the
crowds which had gathered to hear him
in several different places.