The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-12
GREETING TO BRYAN
TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE OUT TO
HEAR HIM AT MINNEL-
APOLIS.
SILVER ISSUE IN 1900.
REMARKS OF THE NEBRASkAN
RECEIVED WITH GREAT
APPLAUSE.
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after the Dingley bill passed that sec
ton % was in it.
This rally was greeted with general
laughte'I
Sketching the process by which the
silver sentiment had made its way into
political platforms, While the gold
standard was without a single party
as its outspoken champion, and then
the party which received 7,OOO,OOO votes
celegated the gold standard In the place
pf a temporary eXpedient, pending Such
time as the nations of the world could
unite on a bimetallic basis. The only
party that did declare the gold stand
ard was q good thing, polled nearly
) ! per cent of the vote of the American
people And the men who started this
party favored international bimetal-
ism, or protested TO- up TO the t il'
they bolted the Chicago convention.
Their vote showed practically no sentl-
inent in behalf of the gold standard.
lies " that t' ev olr one could Kick at With
out fear of resistance. The first thing
Mckinley did after he got In was 70
write out a confession that the golo
standard was curse 10 the hatloit'
He should not be made the scapeSoaC,
however He stood for his party. =
Republican congress with scarcely a
dissenting vote appropriated $lOO,OOO 10
pay the expenses of the monetary COM
mission, while it Travelled around
Europe crying Help
Mr. Bryan's chatty Introductory style
gave way to q more fiery one as he qe-
Grced from the experiences Of the
monetary commission on the other side
of the ocean the conclusion that labor
ing and producing classes in france,
In Germany, and in England, We're for
bimetallism but the coterie Of bankers
In Lombard street, by a secret resolu-
ton, had turned the faces of the COM
mission back toward America with the
admonition not to le. any encourage
fnent be given to the bimetallists.
Snatching a brand from the embers
of the last campaign, the Nebraska
orator for the first time awakened the
likeness Of
r. OLD-TINIE EXCITEMENT,
when he shouted, dramatically: mo
name, however harsh, that they can
a1ply to me can sWerve me from the
resolve / have made that II l can help
it our nation shall not be dictated to
and controlled by secret meeting Oh
London bankers.
God never created any class so wise
Or so good that they should have the
bower to expand and contract at Will
3 nations money" was another char
acteristic summary of political prem
lses that won the most enthusiastic APP
plause.
Another sentiment that stirred the
Bouls of his hearers was the criticism
Of Secretary Cages purpose to retire
the greenbacks, in the face Of Presi-
dent McKinley's letter Of acceptance
In which he stated that he would keep
In circulation all the moneys then a
part of the United States currency.
Other gems of concentrated philoso-
ply by Mr.. Bryan We're:
1.-THE Republicans had said there was
gold enough in 1896. Why, then. did
they rejoice at the discovery Of gold in
the KlOndike?"
"They said the dollar should be made
to buy as much as it could. Then they
began to rejoice when the price of
wheat began to rise, and that Of the
dollar to fall Off
eff prosperity had come to stay, why
were New England manufacturers re-
ducing wages?
1.-THE Republican party was so anx-
ious to get on the side of rising prices
that they rejoiced in advancing wheat,
even though it was due to a famine
in another country. If rising prices
were a good thing. why did they not
espouse the cause of bimetallism, which
would raise prices without starving
anybody?
"They had attributed the hard times
to extravaganza, and then blamed
economy for their continuing Hard.
How was this consistent?
1.-THE bimetallist did not insult Amer
lean intelligence in singing the same
Dld song. The fault was with the gold
bug, who never sang the same song
twice.
: eve must tell the nations Of Europe
that we have as much right to protect
Dur people and their property as they
have to conspire against us.
81 am willing to set the man who has
studied these questions enough to
know that when one end of a teeter
board goes up, the other end must go
down, I will pit that man against any
hired attorney of any rich corpora
ton"
Mr. Bryan's closing gem was the
tribute to the fair sex previously men
toned.
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