The San Francisco call., 1897-07-04

did not meet the issue squarely. The
Re ublican platform was, to his mind, an
admission OF the fault of the gold stand
ard, because it was trying now to accom-
pIish an international agreement Tor a
double standard. 1t sent commission
abroad to get rid OF it. and why should
any party try to get rid of a good thingI
Mr.. Bryan hoped that the Republicans
would bring back an agreement for inter-
national bimetallism, because then they
would be repudiators, along with the
Democrats. Bimetallism must have good
qualities if Republicans and Democrats
al Ike favor it.
"Why should we wait for other
nations2" asked Mr.. Bryan. ''If We
think we want it ourselves. let's get it
ourselves"
Many, he said, did not know what free
coinage of silver meant. Some thought
every man would have his own mint
and the country would be flooded with
wildcat money. He said:
1t is said that these farmers do not want free
silver because it is not their product Why
not have free wheat? some will say. man
in Iowa argued that free silver meant nothing
to him, because that State raised more wheat
than Colorado produced silver. i told him
that the United States produced more butter
than the valua:io of the gold mined, but the
only connection I could see was that whe ut
and silver were white and gold and butter
were yellow. All we ask is to place silver on
an equal footing with gold. We cannot have
double ana single standard at the same
time, as the Republicans would have US be-
lieve. We don't want silver riding on the
back OF gold. but standing side by side with it
to uphold the Nations commerce. Money is
not tested by the melting pot, as the Republi-
cans would have us believe, but by its pur-
chasing power
He apologized Tor using the term "goid-
bug" AS it was shorter and more ex-
pressive than advocate OF the gold stand
ard" he would use it with that same good
will with which they referred to him as
lunatic. Names did not hurt him, and
therefore would hurt no one. A gold
was 'sound money!" and his definition of
sound money" was an ''honest dollar"
The Mexican dollar would stand the melt
ing test, and it was pleasant to think that
when we descended to the Mexican stand
ard we would have Sound money"
Mr. Bryan wondered why people in
sisted in chloroforming their inteIlecls.
Turkey had gold standard, and why not
say Turkey was as favored as the United
States? The test was whether nation
under certain policy was better or worse
than under another. Honest money was
money whose purchasing power was for
ever the same. Appreciated money meant
deprecated property; stable money, stable
property. Only the creditor class wanted
u
thinner.
The speaker did not believe that an
''honest" dollar would ever be had, be-
cause the human was not perfect, but
we could approximate to that condition..
Gold couldn't keep pace with the demand
for money. When all the countries got
to using gold alone then matters would
be worse because there would be so much
less gold 10 meet the demand.
Japan's adoption of the gold standard
would take the yellow metal from the
United States. The people did not want
balloon dollar, where the financier's
ollar was in the basket and the masses
watched il 60 out of reach, but something
they could get hold of TO pay their deots.
There were two things In money-quality
and quantity. He continued:
was never precocious as child. but a..
ways had sense enough to know that when
one end OF teter-board went up the other
went down. When gold goes up property goes
down.
Carlisle, Blaine and Sherman divided society
Just alike-on one SIDE the capitalist out OF
debt and the man enjoying nxeo income,
and on the other side the struggling mass OF
humanity. Sometimes we are accused OF be-
ing demagogues If we speak in behalt or
struggling masses, yet it must be admitted, as
Carlisle has admitted, that it is the struggling
masses who sus tain our Government and
bear its burdens and fight its wars.
My friends. when the 'gold bugs" say. that
what they are doing Is Tor your own good, tell
them to let you alone and lei you do. yourselI
good The .'gold bug" never says he wants
the gold standard because 1t is good Tor him,
but because it is good Tor the laboring man,
the farmer and the business man. Tell him
that these are willing to risk bimetallism;
does that appease his solicitude? NO; ne rises
to the height OF his normal stature and says:
"Shall l allow them to hurt themselves!'
like man VINO admits he is trying 10 do
something for himself-he Is more natural
and when find one who is always feeling for
me- l want to see that he does not reach me.
Believe me, when this question finds its
solution those whose sympathles are with the
masses will be ior bimetallism, while those OF
The capitalistic classes will be for the gold
standard. The issue is joined. The remedy
lies in outvoting them. There is no use In
irving to convince them.
This is the greatest Nation on earth: 1t is
the only great nation that is to-day sufiiclent.
ly ind ependent to throw off the shackles of
mouey-changers. We are just on the eve of
the one hundred and twenty.hrst anniversary
of National inde ependence, and yet are we
free? What is political Independence without
financial independence? l am willing to trust
the destinies of this Nation of 10000 600 OF
people to the people themselves, but am not
willing 10 intrust it TO the people OF other
nations.
John G. Carlisle once in a speech in the
United States Senate said that the acceptance
of the single standard by the nations OF the
earth would entail more misery to the race
than all the wars, pestilences and tamines in
history. Carlisle spoke the truth. No graver,
fronts the people to-day. l am but plain
American citizen, and my sympathies are
with the reople. Believing as / do on this
question l would rather maintain my right to
proclaim against this iniquity than hold
every Office in Chrlstendom.
At the close of Mr.. Bryan's address
three cheers were given by the assent bled
throng and the meeting broke Hp. Such
a rush was made for the entrance of the
platform by those who desired to shake
bands with the late Presidential candi-
date and apostle of free silver that a
blockade ensued and there was some de-
Law before Mr.. Bryan and the reception
committee were able to reach their hacks
Mr. Bryan finished his speech at 2 80
o'clock and Immediately took his car
riage for the special car. On the way to
the depot he was stopped several times by
enthusiasts who wanted to shake his
hand. The train left for Fresno ct 3
o. clock.
SHORT STOP ar SACRAMENTO.
The Nebraskam Gtrem Hearty Welcome
by Citixens.
SACRAMENTO, CAL, July 3-WilIiam
]. Bryan's greeting to the people OF Sac
ramento was "short and sweet" as the