The herald., 1896-10-25

PEND the 0naHcial pOlcy lor d>h iedst
.GbuR years. We have an unique spec
5acle this year in American politics. We
have had An administration called ON by
9 man elected by the Democrats of the
United States, and when the Democratic
'oouvention met this year it refused t0
ondorse the policy Of the administration
en- the financial policy. The Democrats
Delegates, In fact, repudiated the policy
a their own administration and de-
dared In favor OF reversal of that pol
10y, and then the Republican party
comes to the rescue of a repudiated
Democrat, and they tell you that Grover
Cleveland was right, and that Mckinney
vii continue his policy for four years
more That is what the Republican
platform says. 1t says that the existing
gold standard must be maintained, and
when It says that 1t means that you must
continue the only means by which that
standard can beanaintained. say there
win be more bonds If the gold standard
y maintained. Do you say there Will not
be? 1 ask you why the Republican con-
vention did not denounce the issue OF
bonds by this administration? 1t IS
because the leaders of the Republican
party were approving the bond issue IN
the past and will continue bond issues in
the future. Under this financial policy,
the money in actual circulation among
the people has decreased $150,00O,0OO In
two years. Under this policy the peo-
ple who pay taxes have been burdened
with an increase Of $262, 100000 Of the
national debt, and these bonds, some of
them run for thirty years, so that the
conspirators, not satisfied with taxing
us, reach their hands In the pockets of
the next generation and levy tax upon
people yet unborn
Now, have had my attention called
to statement in which was accused
of saying that the free coinage of silver
would result in a panic. have not said
so. / do not believe so. I believe, my
friends, that the moment this nation has
declared that at certain time the mints
of the United States will be opened to
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
at the ratio of 16 to l, that moment the
value Of silver will be measured by gold,
and that by the time of the opening OF
our mints silver will reach the point
where an ounce of silver will be worth
$120 in gold, and from that time We
pass on. with the parity maintained at
is to l.
After leaving Rock Island there were
stops at Alpa and Alexis, and Mr.. Bryan
went to the rear of the car and acknowl-
edged the reception given him with
few pleasant words. A sharp rebuke
was administered on Bishop Worthing-
ton at Monmouth by Mr.. Bryan.
The nominee replied to a statement
made in an interview with the bishop,
published in a Chicago paper. In the
interview Bishop Worthington said the
trouble with the farmer boy was that
he secured too many advantages under
the free educational system. In his re-
joinder Mr.. Bryan said, in part:
To talk about the education of our
farmers sons and to attribute the diff
culties which surround us today to over
education is, to my mind, one of the most
cruel things that man ever uttered.
The idea of saying that farmers sons,
who are not able to rise in life, get a
taste of education and enjoy the taste
SO much that they follow it up and be-
come dissatisfied with the farm and drift
irto the cities! The idea of saying that
farmers sons!
My friends do you know what that
larguage means? 1t means a reversal
of TIE progress of civilization and a
march toward the dark ages again. How
can you tell which one of the farmers
SONS is going to prove great man until
you have educated them all? Are we to
select a commission to go around and
pick out the ones that are to be educat-
ed? All, my friends, there is another
reason why the people have gone into
the cities and left the farms 1t is be-
cause your legislation has been causing
the foreclosure of the mortgages on the
farmers and the farms. 1t is because
your legislation has been making the
farmers life harder for the farmer. 1t
Is because the producing classes
have been producing the laws, and max
ing it more profitable to gamble in the
farm products than it is to produce
them. The idea of laying the blame for
the present conditions at the farmers
door-the idea of suggesting as rem
edy the closing of the schools in order
that the people may not become dissat-
dissatisfaction while the cause for dis
satisfaction exists. Instead of attempt
ing to prevent people from realizing
their condition all the time. why don't
they try to improve the condition of tn
farmers of this country? l cannot under
stand how man living upon a farm
can be deluded into the idea that the
gold standard has anything but misery
and suffering for him. The gold stand
ard has been tried. 1t has been tried in
this nation for twenty years, and n.
party has declared that 1t was a goou
thing. The gold standard has neve:
been indorsed by the farmers of this ma
tion-aye, more than that the gold
standard has never been indorsed by
the farmers of any nation which has
ever had the gold standard. 1t is only
recently that they held convention
away over at Buda Pesth, and that con-
vention Of farmers sent greeting to the
bimetallists of the United States ant
expressed the hope that the United
States would take the lead in restorins
silver to it's rightful place as money
throughout the world. If the farmer
of Europe can watch this struggle ant
life up their prayers for our success
how can farmer in this country joii
himself with those who want to bow t.
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