The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-26

ers do not come to our assistance. Gap
piause)
We believe that the assertion Of American
independence will do more to bring about
international bimetallsm than q serviie de-
pendence upon our enemies to bring it to
us. (Applause.) Our opponents say that all
we need Is restoration of confidence. When
ever the confidence man Is abroad In COM
munity the man who has the least confidence
gets off with the most money. Uaughter.)
And l am very much afraid that the con-
hdence man Is abroad in this campaign,
preaching Have confidence and all will be
we'll My friends, confidence must have a
basis to rest upon. Our opponents say tnat
the pleasure of foreign nations they will not
loan us any money. We reply that as long
as we shape our financial policy according to
their pleasure we will always De borrowers
and can never be money loaners ourselves:
Confidence must rest upon substantlal
basis Suppose that a man In your COM
munity gives out his notes until everybody
has them and then somebody tries to collect
a note and finds that the man has no prop
erty beyond his notes, how can you restore
confidence in that man, how can ne INSPIRE
confidence in the community? Just in one
way, and that Is by putting property Denihu
the notes that he has out. Ny friends, how
are you going, to restore confidence IN t the
property upon which the notes rest? You
have tried 1t and you have found that bank
ruptcies have increased year by year and the
only people who have prospered are those
who own investments payable in dollars or
money they are making out of the extremities
CO aye cot 70
to the great mass of the people. Money
be too good 1t can be so good that you
can long for 1T and pray for 1t. but cannot get
hold Of 1t. (Laughter.) Remember that when
ever you
MAKE MONEY DEARER.
when you increase it's purchasing power you
have simply driven down the value OF other
things and IL 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?
l have asserted assert again-that with
out the aid of the money-owniDg classes, the
gold standard would not stand for one day in
any nation under the sun. ! assert that be-
hind the gold standard in this country the
only potent 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 the nation that
they ought to support gold standard. The
laboring men have never found the financierS
of this nation the men who have exerted them
selves to improve the condition of the labor
ing man. As rule. the men who have spent
their time trying to break down labor or
charlottesville only protection that the la
boring man has had-these the men who
come to the help Of the laboring men.
l ask you if you ought to expect blessings
from those from whom you have only re-
ceived cursings in the past? (Cries of mo,
no.'')
1 notice that one of our opponents the other
day said that the old soldiers would be OPP
posed to free coinage. They gave the i'm
preston that the fnanciers are very much
interested in maintaining a gold standard
for the benefit of the soldiers. but, my friends
these men forget that all of the soldiers
lived during the war and that during the
war the soldiers knew that the financers
made their bonds payable in gold and left
the soldiers to offer their lives upon the battle
field. Applause) More than that, my friends
1 do not believe that the soldiers who are
willing to offer their lives If need be- in
behalf of their country are today going to join
in a conspiracy to enslave seventy millions
of free people by lettering them to a gold
standard.
Our opponents, at least some of them
have been appealing to the ministers. L
have noticed some of these advocates of the
gold standard have said that the preachers
that the teachers in religion. should favor
the gold standard because their salaries were
SO small that they did not want them re-
duced. Oaughter.) Well, now, am willing
to concede everything that Is right to our
opponents, but l must confess that there is
one argument which they might use that
would appeal to some ministers, il there
were any ministers who were in the business
OF ministry merely for the dollars and cents
there were In it. Qaughter.) I say this is
one argument-it is an argument that I
cannot answer-and l give it to you for all
that 1t is worth. The gold standard makes
hard times. Hard times drive men out of
employment Idlng is conducive to crime
Therefore the gold standard by increasing the
amount of crime, increases the demand for
ministers to put down immortality. (Appleuse.)
III there is any other reason why a minister
snould favor the gold standard. I have not
near 1t and even the most astute of our OBJ
ponents have, so far know never urged
the reasons which / have suggested to Won
Inc success of our opponents in this cam
paign simply means four years more of agi-
tation and then the trial of the remedy which
we ask you to give. We propose that this
agitation which has lasted for twenty years
shall eliminate now in the restoration of
the gold and silver coinage of the con-
stitution That is all we ask and there is
no other way by which 70 can stop agitation.
You say you don't believe in the ratio of
10 TO l. | tell you that whether you believe
In that ratio or not, ii you believe in bimetal-
ism, you have got to cast your vote with
Dlmetallists and not with the monometalIists
we Deileve that this nation, without waiting
for the aid or consent of any other nation. is
able, by opening its minis to free and unlinl-
ited coinage at Is to 1, to create demand
for silver great enough to absorb ali tba
silver that will be presented at our minis
and by so doing maintain the parity between
gold and silver at the ratio of 16 to l. Ap-
plause.)
Now, my friends my time is I'M. 7 must
leave you and go greet other people. /
simply appeal to you to join with US IL your
Judgment suSta!ns that action, in trying to
Drlng 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 Amer
lean people. When this has been accom-
plished other things will be possible Until
this is accomplished no other thing is pos
sible thank you for your very kind atten-
ton (applause).
The crowd which followed Mr. Bryan's
escort to the depot rushed through the strong
force OF police, which had been thrown about
the building and yard and closed in upon
the carriage, which was driven into the build
ing, so that the candidate and his wife had
hard struggle to get to the car. Then the
car was invaded and dozen blue coats were
required to clear it, At BIS the train moved
out toward Utica, where the party had de-
cided to spend the night, instead of at SYRIA
cuse. Rockets, the firing of cannon and a
vigorous band sped the parting guest. Those
his nomination saw that No demnnst ratin in