Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-07-03
WILLIAM. J..BRYAN In EIIKO.
a Full REPORT or HIS SPEECH.
Masterful Presentation OF the Principles of indie
pendent Bimetallism.

US IN Nebraska as it Is for you here in
Nevada. / did not cOme out here to
advocate free silver because thought
1t would be a pleasure for you to hear
it, or because there is much neoes-
sity for my doing so, but because I
have been assured that it would be a
pleasure to the people of Elko to lis
ten to one who has always had their
interests as well as his own at heart
and il You go back on this question of
oimetalism will fight you as hard as
we have been fighting them, the gold
bugs. But after all you have got to
have people reason themselves into
the belief that a certain thing is
good for them If you want the people
to be firm in the support OF that doc
t1ne. l hear a great many people
talking about unselfish devotion to
principles. even though it be to their
detriment; but you do not find peo-
pie working here for a thing which
they believe is not going to belp them
In the long run. I never expect to
convert man to bimetalism until I
have convinced him that his interests
are on that eide. I remember when
was back in Illinois during an cleo
ton the question came up as to
whether cows should be permitted to
run at large. l do not know whether
You have ever had any such election
here or not, but, il go. you viii testify
TO the truth of what I say; that when
one man voted that the COWS should
be allowed to run at large On account
OF the grass going to waste i'll the
streate, you would find he owned q
COW. Another man would say it is
better for the city to have the cows
shut up. you could depend upon il
this man had no COW. When the
votes were cast 1t was easy to deter.
mine who owned COWS and who did
not. II the cost Of keeping COW de.
termines mans vote, larger inter
ests will affect his vote accordingly.
You take it on this money question
society is divided. There are people
who profit by the gold standard and
there are Others who suffer by il
Those who profit will naturally favor
the gold standard and tbos. who sui
fer viii be against it. But I have nc
doubt about the ultimate triumph Of
binetalism, because ! believe it will
be best tor everyone; best for us all
and 1 am contident that the day i
not Tar distant when the majority q
the people viii see it in this light. I
believe the gold standard makes the
rich richer and the poor poorer, and
Ii We have not a majority now II is
only aauestioD OF time when we will
It the gold standard continues. Now
say, society is divided, and I want
TO give you little illustration which
to my mind shows the different inter
ests. When ! was a boy / used 10
hAAO VII VhO vOObCE UOdEuS L 90 uOI
mean to say 1 was precocious child
but / think. can say without egotism
that ! always had sense enough to
know that when one end Of the teeter
went down the other end went up.
The teeter board illustrates the mon
ey question. When you tell me you
want dollar Of the largest purchas-
ing power, / tell you you want
property at the highest
price. Money of tho largest pur-
chasing power means low prices. Now
the test of the dollar is found in it's
stability; the stability Of it's purchas.
ing power. The test OF balloon is
fouEd in its rising properties; the
higher it rises the better the balloon
but it is not 80 of the dollar. We
have been having balloon dollars.
They have been rising all the time,
ahd hey have been good for the peo-