The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-10-06

that 10 per cent. of all we owe Eng
land would consume all cur gold:
After that all gone there is 80 per
cent cs our debt that would nave TO
be paid in silver, and I believe Eag.
land would be as much interested IN
keepirg silver and gold at parity
under such conditions as any man II
America. Tnev are more Interested
IN silver than gold, if we only realized
it.
Mr.. Bryan expressed bis pride at
the manner in which the bimetalists
bowed TO the will of the majority last
November. Il showed that they had
the spirit of true Americanism. He
was not so sure that the other side
would have been so graceful. De be
lieved that the president was right in
sending the monetary commission
abroad and was glad the commission
wss trying to scare the foreign na
tons into adopting silver.
The best way to help them, ne
continued with spirit, lis to hold up
their hands. If this falls elections
are CO bled across the ocean as sill
yer victory l predict that the none
tary commission will be successful,
and England will appoint coommls.
sioners to conference. 1t will be all
the same if the message is delivered at
midnight. Enough of them will be
awake to receive the news. On the
contrary, il the news is cabled that
silver sentiment is dying out, the
commission will accomplish nothing.
Our opponents tell us that the rise in
wheat has killed the silver question.
The question has been buried Time and
time again. It is a poor month when
the silver question is not buried half a
dozen times.
Times have really been so bad
since. the election that the people al
most thought I had been elected. l
remenhs-ed seeing in newspaper
last fall, "O1lv four more DAYS until
prosperity arrives. But it did Lot ar
rive. Then the date was changed to
inauguration; then extended until the
tariff law was passed. TIE chairman
of the Republican State Convention
in Ohio, denied that the Repu blicans
ever promised prosperity. a man
wrote congratulating me on my elec:
ton because banks were failing and
business houses were going into bank
ruptcy. Haven't we read the pa
pers and can anybody doubt that Bryan
was electsd2'
This went along until they dis:
covarad ool6 They told us laSI fall
that we had money enough. Yet as
soon as gold WAS discoved they began
to rejoice. If we had enough then,
any more would be too much wouldn't
1t? How absurd. We said, Give
the people more money aud they will
be happier, and the first indication Of
more money brings more happiness. "
(Applause.)
81 noticed in newspaper that in
D ecambe 1894, wheat was So cents,
and it is now something over 80 cents:
The same time corn was 81 cents and
now it is down to about 80 cents. The
Republicans want to claim the glory
for the rise in wheat. They must as
sumo the responsibility for the fall N
corn" Loud applause,)
Mr.. Bryaa closed his address by an
Illus >tration:
Hitch one horse to a slk7 aud
another to lu nbsr wagon aud start
them around Inc race track Waen
the horse dra wing the lumber wagon
Catches up With the s0lky, give hin
the same PRIVILEGES you give the horse
in the su;Sy. How long d. you sup
poss il will take 1h9 lumber wagon
horse TO catch up with the o.her2'