The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-10-06
BRYAN IN ILLINOIS.
IN HIS EECIHE SCORED 1HE GOLD
STANDARD.


STANDARD.
ae was Enthusiastically Recsirso by the
People and His pefencs OF the silver
C&use Cheered to the Echo.
Hon. W. J. Bryan, the nex. Presi
dent OF the United States. spoke st
Roodhouse, III. recently. He was re
ceived with tremendous enthusiasm
ana the great audience cheered bis
pointed speech wildly. He was IL
fshlog mood, and scored the gold
STANDARD numerically. We give some
of the points be made: The Repuo oli
cans didn't diagnose the disease right
in 1896. They treated the people for
an overloaded stomach when they
needed medicine for an empty stcm
ach. The parry has fulfilled its cam,
paign pledges by creating famine IN
India anc discovering gold in the
British possessions. I would rather
have an English Admiral at the head
OF our navy, or an English general at
the head of our army than an English
ideaed man at the head of our nation
al treasury.
Mr.. Bryan compared the condition
of the country last year with sick
man, asserting that all parties agreed
during the campaign that the country
was sick. 10 that condition." he
continued, 'the voter generally goes
to his own party and asks that 1t ap
ply the remedy. If the wrong medi
cine is prescribed, the voter, if he !,
more interested in curing political
evils than in following his party, will
seek new alliance in other words,
will change physicians. believe the
wrong medicine was applied last fall
Cloud cheers and if the Repu blicau
party will not consent to change the
medicine I think the people will
promptly change the doctors. The
trouble was that the Republicans did
not diagnose the case rightly. Tney
treateu the people for an overloaded
stomach, when the country really
wanted medicine for any empty ston'
ach. daughter and loud applause.
These two diseases require different
treatment. 4 large number Of people
maintained that we should have g
greater volume of money. The Reluo
licsns insisted that more taxation
would cure"
He didn't deny that a raise in taxes
would benefits few, but the many
would be oppressed. He appealed tc
his auditors to listen to Senator Mason
tomorrow, who would point with
pride to the manner in which his par
ty had fulfilled its campaign pledges
by creating a famine in India and dis
covering gold in the British possss'
sions.
Mr.. Bryan asserted that the people
standing behind the gold conspiracy
never fought an open fight. The attl
tude of the parties on bimetalism was
ex bounded this way:
"Wnen we had binstallism no par
| ty ever denounced it as unjust or un
fair. For three fourths OF century
we lived under double standard and
/ 1t was never condemned by any party,
and no party ever dared indorse 1t IN
I'll last year, when the bolting Demo
crats declared it was g good thing.
But look ct the verdict Of the people
IN that election; some six and one
half millions declared for bimetalllsm
pure, without waiting for the aid OF
consent OF any foreign potenta!e, and
some seven millions declared for ol'
metallism By international agr ement
Oa!y about 1S2 900 declared for the
gold Standard Cloud and coatinne ed
applause }
He Q loted the platforms Of 1892 and
1895, and, acknowledging the defea'
of bimetaIlism without waiting fol
the aid of foreign powers, asked If ths
gold standard had won victory. II
was woa under the mask of bimetal
lism," he declared with vehemence
1T was another fraud OF the people,
a victory Oh false pretenses. President
Mckinley had hardly taken his seal
until he ssked congress for com mis-
sion to visit other nations and ash
them to allow Us to have bimetall!sm
to crawl on our stomachs and beg
other nations to have pity on u.s.
And the withering sarcasm with
which he uttered the words struck q
esponsive chord in the audience,
which bowled and waved parsso Dis
lhandkerchlefS, hats-any old thing
that was handy. Their lungs were
working, too.
There was time" and the orator
paused, "wnen this nation did wna'
| it pleased, aud what il believed was tc
the best interests Of q majority of ous
people, without waiting for the con
sent of any otner nation, and six anc
half millions of people last fall be
lieved then and believe now that i
has surrendered none Of its rights. "
He adverted to the fact that Eng
land has bad the gold standard for 81
years, and its farmers have organic I'd
and are demanding bimetallism. Ger
many has had the gold standard fol
% years, and its farmers are demand
ling the bimetallic standard.
Every time the producers OF wealth
attempt to do anything" continued
Mr.. Bryan, the chambers of com
merce, the boards of trade and the f.
nanciers have massed thenselve:
Iagainst the reform. Last year WE
we're chsrg d with arraying one clas:
against another. Nothing was sale
of the class that was arrayed agains
the mass of the people, and bent or
carrying out its own selish aims.
believe that there were four state con
veations last year that declared tha
it was not only wrong 10 nave free
coinage Of silver, but wrong to say
you wanted free coinage; that it is
wrong to agitate the question. There
must be no interference with the
rights and privileges OF certain class
He read an extrac! from press dis
patch detailing the movements of the
monetary commission in England
one sentence closing: But the move
ment meets with the solid opposition
/ of The British capitalists.