The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-04-16

he reported that he was very little better and that he thought that he might ultimately get we'll. thought he was afraid that it would not happen in his day. People had an idea that re- publican victory would bring prosperi- ty and better business at once. Men whose business was poor thought that a republican victory was going to fix them all right, but they are finding that prosperity will come too late for their day. There were more failures in the first six months of the year af- ter election than in the first six months of the year before.
 q feel humiliated that for ten years I was discussing other questions when the money question was the overshad- owing issue. do not know that have any interest in this subject that is not shared by you. I am not a pauper. I have home. have nothing to gain by ruining my country. I don't think I am more patriotic than you are. But you may not have understood how your conduct has affected others. There are people who imagine the mass of the people can be driven to desperation and yet they will not be affected. The trouble is the people have not thought upon this subject and connected them- selves with it. We can bring a defense of our position from every source. If you take it as a moral question, we will meet our opponents from that side. It is a moral question we have to meet. You can no more defend the r,+, Iofn burglary under the color of law. was pained because so many clergymen op- posed oud doctrine in the last cam paign. But talk about joining the gold standard to the doctrine of Christ! Why, they cannot be joined together. I sometimes wish that was a minis ter for one day, for I have my text se- lected It is this: If man says he loves God and hates his brother, he is a liar
 T am conservative man and never use strong language Perhaps some republicans prefer their doctrine to that of the Bible, and so am going to quote some of their doctrine. l never boasted how early I knew things and yet I cannot remember a time when I did not know that when one end of a teeter board goes up the other end goes down. Money is an end of the teeter board and property on the other. Fall- ing prices are merely another name for hard times. Wheat went up in '97 be- cause of a famine and short wheat crop. If you have a short money crop you raise the price of money. And yet there are some who will espouse the cause of money famine to make mon- ey higher--trying to make money scarcer and therefore dearer. You can do it by law and we indict the gold standard. These people who stand be- hind the gold standard knew what they were doing.
 My friends, if we had had just financial system during the last twen ty-five years we would now be loaning money to people of other nations, but we have driven down the price of cot ton and of our other productions. Do you tell me that we must have the gold standard because we owe so much? The ability of people to pay debts is decreased when we force down the price of things which we must use to pay our debts. I can understand how people who own money and not property do not feel the contraction of hard times, because their money rises in price. We have a right to protest against the depreciation of property. We are seeking to maintain just system, and yet we are denounced and all sorts of names are applied to us by the people who try to take what we have without compensation. The gold standard is taking private property without compensation, because it is less work than highway robbery. Men talk about wanting dollars good. Do you want property good? Dollars can get too good when you can look for them and long for them and not get them.
 When the price of wheat went up after MT. Mckinley took office it was a striking coincidence. Well, you have had some striking coincidences down here in New England. Suppose the wages of man in a factory is cut 10 per cent, and the price of bread raises out of proportion, how is he to know when prosperity has struck his home? |? l had five acres of land near my home in Lincoln which I had set aside as a dumping ground for silver, but later I put that land in to corn, after l was not elected, but when I came to harvest my crop I found that the price of corn had gone down. But I am going next year to put in corn, oats, wheat and potatoes, and then Hanna can't have a famine anywhere but what I will be in it. Iaughter.)
 ''We stand aghast at the blowing up of ship and say it is a crime against civilization, but we hear nothing of the crime of blowing up the value of a dol lar. A ship is an open thing and we cancel it, but the secret power that is working for the destruction of the in- dependence of our nation is no less deadly a crime because it is secret"
 As MT. Bryan finished speaking MT. Troup proposed three cheers for him and they were given with will by the vast audience.
 LUNCHEON AT THE TONTINE.
 While the speaking had been in prog ress John P. McCusker, secretary and treasurer of the reception committee, assisted by Judge Blydenburgh, MT. Wiser, Attorney D. A. McWilliams and other members of the committee, ar ranged a luncheon to be given to Mir. Bryan and prominent visiting demo- crats at the TOntine Mir Bryan was