The age-herald., 1898-03-03

cessful, thereby injuring British invest
 nents in this country. This explained the cause. The only argument reaching the English capitalist is that going through the pocket book. This argument was whis- pered in the ear of the Briton by a. member Of the commission. He wanted to, com mend that commissioner for using the only effective argument. ss--s
 "He went to see RothclMld and the big financiers. That's business. Go to see the big ones. Gst them and you have the At- tie fellows who look up to tipe big ones every morning and say, give us our thaily bread" Laughter.
 Following up the point he dywelt on a meeting of the London bankers. There were so few of them they met in the clear ing house. They declared tn -rnse.yes against .bimetallism, pledged secrecy and adjourned. Then the commission was mo- tified that England was not prepared to beep the pledge the house of commons had made less hhan two years before. The handful of London bankers have decided a question 70,000000 of people should have settled. Applause.
 q have been called hard names but tell you there are millions of people who cannot be prevented by hard names from trying to prevent a. handful .of London bankers from meeting in secret and carv- ing out the futufe," thundered Mir. Bryan, amid tumuituoals applause. "I don't pre- tend to love my children any better than @ gold bug, but I would not turn them over to handful of men who have never sworn allegiance to our flag"
 Meaning of Free Coinage
 The speaker then for half am hour ex- pfained the exact meaning of free coinage, the ideas of many deluded voters. Follow ing this he ironically referred to the gold bug definition of sound money In an illus tration he said that two men were debat- ing the financial question. The one who represented gold declared with much bra vado that if a man had a paper dollar, a silver dollar and @ gold dollar and his house should burn. the paper would be lost, it would cost him something to have his silver recctrred and for his gold it would not. Therefore gold was the on.y hon. est money. With just as much confidence the silver man arose and declared 'tllat in the same case if man ware cn a boat and it should sink all would be lost except the paper, whioh would foat Therefore paper currency was the only honest money The gold bugs claimed that gold was honest because it could be melted without loss.
 Probably the most interesting feature of Mr. Bryan's lecture was his refutaticn of the charge that bimetaalism would er,able the debtor to pay his obligations with a dishonest dol,ar. If the creditor has the option of demanding either metal and gold is worth the .sIaS,t bit more he will demand it. If the debtor has the option and silver is worth less he will pay with this metal. Both are selfish. Now we come to decide. If the creditor has the option he will draw the metals apart. Give the debtor the op- tion and he will keep them together. Sel- fishness should be thrown the side of the maintenance of parity.
 In discussing the means of securing bi- metalMsan, the speaker said there were two plans international and independent. He pictured the abgurdity of waiting for other nations to act.
 According to our p1an," said he, i've shall serlH no ambassadors; according to our. plan the right of persecution was abandoned in '76; according to our plan our ambassador will go to announce and net to petition" Applause.
 MT. Bryan attaclxed Secretary Cages noted plan, and quoted from Sherman and | Carlisle, when they were the advocates ci bimetaLism. In this connection he referred to Senator Morgan, which precipitated9 tre
 mendous applause. Morgan said there wert two kinds of conversion. That of, Saul oi Tarsus, who started out to nersecutt christians and stopped. Then that od Aaron, who started out to serve God, ana l set up a golden calf.
 | In closing he said:
 l q ann as sure of victory as 1 am of t1t 1 sun rising tomorrow. We shall refuse to bt l slaves to foreign countries, but we will as l sert our own independence and free no i only our own laboring classes, but thu 1 farmers and todlers cf England. We wdl | adopt that plan that will. hold up the torci | of progress and lead tfpeN march of all ma l tions."