The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-04-14
GREAT SPEECH.
Bryan Addresses Thousands at
Detroit.
MUCH ENTHUSIASM RESULTS.
ne eTalks of the Dollar and National Honor
and Has Few Words to Say About
the Income Tax Thinks Wealth
should Bear Burdens.


and Has Few Words to Say About
the Income Tax Thinks Wealth
should Bear Burdens.
Detroit, April 12.--(Special. )-William
J. Bryan spoke here amid scenes OF extra
ordinary enthusiasm. Among other
things he said this, touching the musty
nonsense OF anarchy:
al remember that those who were with
me in 1896 were sometimes called the
mob; they were called socialists aud
anarchists. But glory in the fact that
when the result was announced six and a
half millions of earnest men bowed to
the will Of the majority. They do not
know where the majority came from, but
they bowed to it, daughter and APP
plauss.) Where was the sign of anarchy
then? Where was the advocate of bimetsl-
lism who would rise up to contest the
right of the American people to decide
for themselves He was not found. And
then wondered IL we had succeeded, II
the corporations and the trusts that pour
ed out their money so freely to win Re-
publican victory-I wondered If they
would bow as meekly as our people did.
am afraid they would not (Laughter.)
But, my friends, our cause is growing so
fast that in 1900 we will be so strong
and the majority so great that there wont
be q trust but will bow as meekly as we
did" (Laugter and great applause.)
He next passed to the ever present
question of taxation, and said:
"Other questions may come and other
questions may go, but the question of
taxation goes on forever. daughter
Every city council, every state legisla-
ture, every federal congress, must meet
the question of taxation. We solve the
question by applying to 1t this idea OF
Democracy: Equality before the law,
equal rights to all and special privileges
to none. We tried to secure an approach
TO this ideal equality when we enacted
the income tax, but somehow we could
not get that tax past the supreme court.
We got it through the house and senate,
and by the President refusing to sign the
bill at all we got it past him. We came
within one of getting it through the
supreme colrt. (Appluse and laughter
But we missed it because one man
changed his mind, (Laughter.)'
Mr. Bryan spoke of the great question
of 1896 and what promises to be the
greater question of 1900. He paid his
respects to the colossal money trust engt- |
neering the gold standard in this way:
"What does the gold standard meanY
1t means a rising dollar. And what does
a rising dollar mtaDY 1t means falling |
property. And what does rising dollar
do? 1t enriches the man who owns
money. And what does falling prop rty |
do? 1t impoverishes the man who owns
property. The rising dollar brings wealth |
and undeserved ldvanatge to the money |
lender and the money owner, and falling |
prices bring paralysis to the producers of
wealth. And the gold standard, when it
is understood, means larceny under the
form of law. The gold standard in ten
years has robbed more homes than were
ever robbed by all the grand and petty
thieves that were ever set looCe in all the
history Of the United States (Applause.)
The gold standard in ten years has, with
out moral right, transferred more pro-
perty from the owner to the man who
wanted it than has ever been transferred
in all the history of this nation by the or
dinary forms of theft punishable by
criminal law. And my friends, what
makes me most IN digpant is that the
men who stand behind the geld standard
prate about their honesty, while they love
the gold standard because they know 1t
gives a dishonest dollar and that they get
the benefit of the dishonesty they prac-
tice by law. say that of the great ones
who stand behind it-Got Of the little ad-
vocates Of the gold standard. The great
men who know what it means, and
knowing what it means want it because
they know what it means. These men
war to amend the commandment 50 as
a small scale"
The money trust must be first met and
overcome Nj. Bryan continued. The
Others are small in comparison:
"We are going to commence at the bot
tom trust-the money trust--erd we are
first going to demand that 10000, 900
people and not a handful Of English finan-
nciers shall control the primary money Of
the United States. And then that TO-
OOO,OO people and not a handful of
bankers control the paper money Of the
country. (Applause,l Reforms come
up from the people who have suffered
as necessity is the mother Of invention,