The herald., 1896-09-27
IN TIE HEART OF TIE
ENEMY'S Country
The Silver Champion Still
Finds Friends
No BUILDINGS ARE large enough
To Accommodate the Cheering
Multitudes
ON THE MERRIMAC COMMON
New Hampshire Voters Listen to Good
Democratic Doctrine
The Whole Population Of Bath Roars q
ON THE MERRIMAC COMMON
New Hampshire Voters Listen to Good
Democratic Doctrine
The Whole Population Of Bath Roars Q
Hearty Welcome
Attempts at Interruption Only Give the
Silver Standard Bearer Opportun-
ity More Forcibly to Illustrate
the New Declaration.

Associated Press Special Wire
MANCHESTER. NH, Sept. 26.-Amid
applause interrupted by questions by
Rockwell Clough Of Alton, N. H.. .
prominent wire manufacturer, Mr.. Bry-
an addressed a vary large crowd on
Merrimac common here. Mr.. Bryan
went into discussion Of the silver ques-
ton proper. He shid:
Silver il a legal tender except when
you contract against 1t. We believe it
ought to be a legal tender and that here
after no man ought to be permitted to
contract against any kind Of govern
ment money. But II our administration
would recognize oliver. even Is it Is by
law. we will be relieved Of great dis
advantage. But instead Of recognizing
silver as a standard money. equal with
gold, In the payment of all debts, public
and private, our administration has is
sued bonds to the amount Of s262, o0o. 900
in order to buy gold, in order to furnish
to those who make profit by raiding
the treasury, and then buying the bonds
which the treasury issues to replenish
itself.
At this point Rockwell Clough Of Al
ton, N. H., started to PROFOUND inter-
rogatories. He said: "Is that Repub-
lican Administrations"
Mr.. Bryan-No, sir; but the Repub-
lican administration will continue the
same thing and every prominent Repub-
; lican endorses that system. John Sher-
man says that Grover Cleveland finan-
cial policy is all right and John Sherman
runs the Republican party. Thomas B.
Reed voted for the approval Of the
Rothschild contract when he was in
congress. I am not surprised that Re-
publicans do not like to bear the odium
Of the present financial policy, but they
had chance to repudiate it at st. Louis,
but instead Of doing so they said it must
endure forever unless foreigners helped
US out. They tell us that If we use silver
as a standard money for the payment OF
all debts Of the government gold
will 60 to premium.
Here again Mr.. Clough interrupted
Mr.. Bryan, saying: IF you want the
people to have silver, why don't you give
it to them at the market value?"
Mr.. Bryant viii! answer first, this
way: The men who object to the free
coinage at 16 to and talk about another
ratio are not honest because they would
not have free coinage at any ratio. Let
me show you. there Is not prominent
man in the United States who is advo-
eating free silver by this country alone
but that of 16 to 1. When men find fault
with 16 to 1, they are putting up sham
bulwark and when you knock that down
they get behind another one, because
my friends, these men are not in earnest.
Let me answer 1t In another way. We
are opposed to changing the ratio be-
cause they have driven down the value
Of silver bullion by one bad law, and we
are not In favor of holding 1t down by
another bad law.
My friends, let me give you another
reason for not changing the ratio. If the
ratio we've changed by international
agreement to 80 to 1, instead of 16 to l,
what would be the result? You would
have to recon four billion dollars Of
silver into dollars twice as large, which
would be two billion dollars, and that
would mean a decrease of one-fourth
of the metallic money Of the world and
raise the value of dollar and those
who own dollars would profit by it and
everybody who owed a debt would be
injured by it, and that is why the advo-
cacy Of ratio of so to / is found
among the money owners and money
changers. Our opponents are so afraid
Of 6o-cent dollar, SO much afraid os
1t, that some-the employers of labor
some Of the manufacturing men, are
going to pay their debts with a cheap
dollar; am not sure but that my friend !
Is one of them. but whenever a dollar
gets cheap he can pay, them twice as
many dollars II no loves them q well !